Our hotel in Siem Reap

Our hotel was the Diamond D’Angkor Boutique Hotel

My hubby researched alot of hotels for our Cambodia stay, even when we were there we looked at several hotels and found that this one was by far the best choice.  In fact, my husband booked this hotel again for an upcoming “guys trip” in February.

Free airport pickup and dropoff, free breakfast. Swimming pool and did I mention we had the best massages at the hotel?   The hotel staff is incredible, you really feel like you are the only one staying there, everytime we came back to the hotel they would call us by our names.  The service is so fantastic!!!!! Forgot to mention at breakfast they always came over to me to serve fresh watermelon juice. 

Hotel is about a 10 minute walk into the downtown area with restaurants, bars, shops and more massage places.  We tried a couple of massage places downtown and they are not worth the money, schedule your massage at the hotel, its really quite incredible.  I had a hot oil massage and had 2 ladies working on me, one heating the stones while the other was massaging- have I inticed you enough? 

Tours In Cambodia

Key Points & Tips…

Plan for your tours early in the mornings.  Cambodia gets very hot & sticky.  Bring a fan and large hat to protect your face from the sun.  

Primary Sights To See & Things to Do: 

• Angkor Wat, you can hire a private tour guide for ~$15. We hired a guide to take us to Angkor Wat and numerous temples in the area, waht I can tell you is that some of the guides can understand and speak English but it may be very difficult to understand them, this was the case for us on this tour.  I have listed our guide in another one of our tours and he is awesome!!!!!  Please contact him to organize your tours through Angkor Wat.
• Angkor Thom, Siem Reap This is my favorite temple of all, was overwhelmed with the site of these large carved faces in the rocks.  You can get up close to them.  Established in the 12th century its just an incredible experience to be there.  Make sure you put this as a priority on your list for Cambodia.
• You probably have seen the movie but are not as familar with the name of the temple. Ta Prohm, Tomb Raider This temple is famous due to the fact it was the site of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider.  Try and go early this is a huge tourist stop.  We had issues trying to get pictures without having someone try and jump in and get their picture taken at the same time.
• Floating Village in Siem Reap this is a tourist type of thing to do and normally we try and stay away from things like this.  Tour starts in the afternoon and you take a bus ride out to an area where you board a boat that takes you into the floating village.  At first we felt kinda for the families who live in this area, we were thinking how would you like to have all these boats coming in and invading your privacy, but then again it brings in money and they rely on this.  They offer a private tour through the mangroves by a local in their canoe- looking for tips of course.  We actually chose not to do this and waited for everyone to get back.  Afterwards you can take in a beautiful sunset, ie. picture at the top of this page is of the floating village at sunset.

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