Wild & Wandering Backpacker & Bar Reviews

Haha, you got lucky and we just released a last minute no-show! This full moon was CRAZY! Everything was sold out and rooms were selling in town for over $1000! It's a good reminder that Full Moon Party is the biggest party in Southeast Asia and the good rooms and beds sell out early, so book well in advance! Anyway, were glad we could save you and happy to have you partying with us. Hope to see you again! 😃

Some of this review is misleading. First, we make a point to keep our pricing lower than average to offer superior accommodation at a lower price than others in our neighborhood, to make sure even fun budget travelers can join us! (This guest booked our cabin mini-rooms in dorms, as you will read below, which is a room type we invented specifically to give a privacy option for much cheaper than the price of a private hotel room!) All our private hotel rooms have standard locking doors. This guest did NOT stay in a private hotel room. She stayed in our dorms in one of our cabin mini-rooms that we CLEARLY advertise are NOT hotel rooms but rather wooden walled-off space inside our dorm for extra comfort and privacy. As such, the doors have a latch much like a bathroom stall, and an outer lock ring for you to use a padlock to lock your whole space like a giant locker, something you normally could not do in a dorm room! We think this is a big advantage for our customers, and 90+% of our customers carry a travel lock they can use, giving them extra security of using their own lock that only they have the key for. Most of our guests that read the descriptions and looked at the photos for what they booked are very happy with this extra privacy and security that other dorms do not offer! As for the other comments, the whole hostel is cleaned twice a day, and spot checked every few hours between. Our dorm areas with cabins like this guest stayed have 2 bathrooms for 12 people, 4 bathrooms for 20 people, or 3 bathrooms for 20 people. There are additional bathrooms that can be accessed as well. Since we are in the middle of full moon party, we do get glo-paint on the sheets frequently. Most guests understand that this is not dirty, and fairly unavoidable when your whole body gets painted for the party. We do our best to avoid it, but our other option is to charge 2000 baht to every customer that gets paint on their sheets like other hostels do, but we hate unfriendly policies like that. We are always happy to change sheets for you if there is a problem with a paint stain.

There are a lot of untruths to this review I'd like to address. First, we were actually far more sold out that most places in Haad Rin, with many hostels asking us to give them bookings. They only sold 5 or 6 of their 20 beds, while we have space for 150 people. When you stayed we had 135 guests! As for the one Aircon for 6 cabins, you forgot to mention that each cabin has their own built-in fan ventilation system that moves cool air through the whole building. It gets quite chilly, but cabins can control their individual cooling systems. The only heat problem is if guests leave both the bathroom doors and balcony doors open, creating a vacuum that sucks the cool air out. As for the bed, the one we gave you was literally the one in all our pictures on this site and others. Exactly as shown and represented. We made these custom as they are far more stable and comfortable than bunkbeds, on a flat platform with space to put your belongings, and space to crawl around instead of just a slatted metal frame with a mattress on it. We are constantly complimented on our unique bed and cabin designs as being much more accommodating and comfortable than the average hostel style. Yours is literally the first complaint we've ever had about them! We also offered you upgrades to our private cabin mini-rooms OR to a full private hotel room with private bathroom, but you declined. So to say you didn't get something you were offered but turned down is disingenuous. You told us you were happy and satisfied with the upgrade we offered you and you said you had no problems with anything. We wish you had talked to us at the time if you had a problem instead of telling multiple staff that you were happy and then writing a negative review. It seems insincere and unfair.