We stayed for one week in august in a sea view villa, and really enjoyed our stay. The villas are nice, the pool area great, the service good and professional and the location perfect. However, there are a couple of things this hotel could do to reach an even higher standard. First of all, the beach was terrible. Yes, there is only a 5 minutes walk to the next beach, which is really nice, put when a 5 star hotel has a private beach you would expect better than this. Secondly, before you pay the extra to get a sea view villa, be aware that the sea view varies a lot amongst the different villas. (If they had removed some branches in front that would have helped a lot.) We first got a villa with very limited sea view, changed to another one which first was not cleaned properly and then there was something wrong with the air conditioning (which you really need in 34 degrees). So then we changed to a 3rd villa which was finally very good. So the start of the stay was not great, but from there we enjoyed very much the hotel and the amazing beach next to it. Another thing to be aware of is that you really find yourself in the middle of the jungle (and the sea view villas also have an outdoors bathroom), so if you do not like geckos etc this is not the place for you. in conclusion, good hotel and fantastic beach next to it, but not sure if it was any better than other hotels in the area.