In November 2007, I stayed at the River Resort & Spa in Sakaeo. Located on the main highway about 3 KM east from the town center, this small hotel of 35 rooms is not a really resort per say but a small western style motel - rooms are large and comfortable with TV, A/C and hot and cold water. Facilities include a small restaurant, a petite freeform swimming pool and a small spa that features different massage treatments. I may be wrong, but I believe River Resort & Spa is probably the most modern and most westernized of all the hotels in this city. If you have a laptop computer, you can go into their restaurant and take advantage of their free Wifi signal. The staff was very friendly and accommodating despite their very limited facility with English, but it is understandable as their primary clientèle are Thai tourists from Bangkok. Khun Petsch, the affable young owner, is well versed in English however, having spent some time in USA (Oregon) as an exchange student.

During the 5 days that I stayed there, a wedding ceremony was staged outside in the pool area – the groom was a middle-aged limousine driver from England and the bride, a local gal from Sakaeo. Consequently, most of the hotel guests at the time - friends and relatives of the groom - were from the United Kingdom. One thing struck me as being very odd. Why did they name this hotel ‘the River Resort & Spa’ as there was no river within 15KM of the hotel? Wouldn’t it have been more appropriate if they named the hotel, No River Resort & Spa?

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