9 Hornbills Tented Camp

We thoroughly enjoyed our 5 nights at 9 Hornbills: what a great time and what a beautiful place. The room / tent is spacious, beautiful, and had all the facilities and luxury we would need. The outside shower was really nice. The private pool was wonderful and had a proper large size I would say. Breakfast in the pool: can surely recommend to try out too. The plot offers a lot of privacy (almost full/perfect privacy), and a magnificent view over the sea: wow! the sunrise is just amazing from the garden, or from your bed ;) The restaurant down at Yoa Noi beach resort was really nice and the food was high quality: we enjoyed every meal there, breakfast, lunch and dinner. Service is very friendly and helpful. And restaurant prices very affordable. And there's always a buggy with driver available to take you up to your tent/villa, or down to the restaurant, spa or beach. The main pool and beach were enjoyable too. And the spa was very nice also. We loved the friendly, sweet staff that was so nice, helpful and accommodating. We felt like we were in and around nature at all times, with that beautiful view of the islands in the sea, this was just a perfect place to celebrate part of our honeymoon. Highly recommended!

We had 4 nights in the main Koyao Island Resort, then moved up to 9 Hornbills for 3 nights, which worked really well for us. Contact during our booking process was excellent and the front desk were particularly helpful, arranging our transfer to the next hotel with no fuss (when the hotel we were moving to were less than helpful). The views we'd enjoyed down in the resort just got better up the hill at 9 Hornbills and the pool, privacy and sense of space was exceptional. The tent was huge, light and bright and the private pool was bigger than average. There was an outdoor shower and a roll-top bath with shower attachment inside the tent bathroom area. Aircon did the job. It was cool enough in the morning, evening and through the night when you need it. It did get hot in the tent during the day, but this wasn't an issue as we were outside all day and you could just cool off in the pool. You are certainly away from it all up here, but that's literally the whole point. We walked to the main resort for breakkie or when going out for dinner (12 mins easy stroll downhill) and got the golf buggy back up. Jaw-dropping sunrises from our bed or the pool and one evening, we watched the most dramatic storm from our covered deck, seeing the clouds roll in to obscure the karsts completely for a time, before the rain thrashed down around us. We sat out under cover, drinking our Singhas and taking in the thunder and lightning show - it was amazing to watch from up a height. The main resort was peaceful, beautiful and clean, with one restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner and a spa, where I had really excellent oil massages (inc air con and a big comfy bed with a hole for your face to allow the brilliant therapist to work her magic on tight shoulders). The staff were all friendly and helpful, remembering our preferences and talking with us each day. If ever anyone didn't understand a question, they would quickly go and get a staff member who did, always with a smile. We had dinner at the main resort twice, both very good Thai meals and plenty of choice on the menu. The rest of the time, we ate in local places. There's a small bar/bottle shop 5 mins walk if you turn right outside the main resort, serving very cold beer in coolers, where we sat and watched the locals come and go before dinner. It's just before a small supermarket (Chans) which sold all the essentials and ran a very popular scooter hire. P'Chans restaurant wasn't open while we were there (but still shows on google maps). There are more places to eat and drink 10-15 mins walk if you turn left outside the main resort (or you can walk along the beachfront, in which case turn right from the resort). The hotel would happily take you to any of these in the golf buggy, but we prefer a wee walk. We never had a bad meal and enjoyed Parabar (boat shaped place - massive portions, great curries), Chubba cafe (for an arty, hippy lunch or coffee and cake or a shake), By the Sea

In one word: AMAZING! What can I say. From the moment of arrival until departing the hotel it was simply an amazing experience. The staff is the best, trained to excellence service. We stayed at the luxury tent and it was all for ourselves. I can only recommend this experience to anyone whom like nature and enjoys all animals sounds around you. What a marvellous place and the view is simply breathtaking. I didn’t wanted to leave this place. A bit pricey but worth it.

We stayed 3 nights at 9 Horn Bills in February and enjoyed every minute of this unique experience. We loved the privacy of our tented pool villa and the view was absolutely breathtaking. The staff was also so nice and accommodating . The food at the restaurant down at Koyao hotel was tasty. We had a special bbq dinner organized for my birthday and it was super romantic and the staff took such a great care of us. 9 Horn Bills also organized a private guided tour for us to Hong Island and we loved it! We always seek for unique places to stay and 9 Horn Bills was definitely one of those we will never forget!

Unique Glamping experience wit extremely friendly staff in great nature

We spent three great, eventful weeks in Thailand. Five of these days at Hotel 9 Hornbills in Ko Yao Noi. The extremely nice and courteous people and the sensational weather that accompanied us almost every day made our vacation really perfect. A particular highlight was the Panorama Tented Pool Villa. We spent Christmas Eve with an excellently organized barbecue under millions of stars. The buffet was excellent and left nothing to be desired. We can gladly recommend the hotel. Lilo and Ueli, Switzerland

We spent one night in a tent pool villa as part of our Honeymoon. The staff at the resort were friendly and accommodating, but we found that our stay was expensive for what we got. Tent villa: it was a unique experience. The view of the islands was beautiful, especially at sunrise. The pool was a great size and fairly clean. However, we found that the room itself was not worth the high price we paid. The air conditioning did not work very well so the room was quite hot. Luckily the fans did the job to keep us cool when we were sleeping. The mini fridge did not cool our drinks well. Food: we had dinner at the main resort. The food was tasty and decently priced. Drink prices were on the high side. We really appreciated the complimentary floating breakfast that the staff arranged for us in our pool. Staff: as mentioned earlier, the staff were very friendly and accommodating. They arranged airport transfer for us, and readily picked us up from our tent villa via golf cart whenever we requested a ride down. Overall, if the price of the room was cheaper, I would have given the resort a 4 star review. However, we do not feel that it is good value for your money based on what you get and the quality of the finishes in the room.