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Originally Posted by valo403
I'm planning to go to Siam Reap at the end of August, if you have any advice or particular hotels you'd recommend it would be appreciated.
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Our Driver's name was Lory Loy. His email was
loy-holiday@yahoo.com and his phone number back then was (855) 12 927 731. If you could be so lucky as to get a gentleman like this, you'll have a great time. He took us to a different perfectly lovely restaraunt for all our meals and acted as a tour guide for days 2 and 3 (day 1 we paid for a proper guide to introduce the different styles of the temples and whatnot - worth it). We gave this info to a friend of ours who used Lory's services when she was there and enjoyed him too. He was at our service from first thing in the morning until supper.
We stayed at Big Lyna Villa:
http://www.angkorhotels.org/Big_Lyna.../accm_roomrate (20$/night)
The room was clean and perfectly servicable. Our only requirements for accomodation were that they had to be clean (i.e. no insects) and air conditioned so this may be more basic than many people are hoping for. If you have kids and you want something with a pool, you can pay 100$+ a night for a 4 star hotel.
The temples and whatnot are in a "park" of sorts and back then you had the choice of a 1-day, 3-day or week long pass. 3 days is plenty as by then you'll be all templed out. It was at the park entrance that we hired our official guide. Try to get up early in the morning as it gets really hot on those monuments mid-day.
The Cambodians were doing their best to build a modern tourist economy there (there were maybe a dozen huge hotels catering to rich Chinese going up 5 years ago) so it may not be quite as charming as when we were there.