Avonil Resort Yala

only 5 mins far from the main street by car, the resort is small but lovely. the room is big and clean. you can book jeep to Yala National Park for Safari tour (about 4 hour tour, recommended to go from 2pm-6pm), and the jeep will pick up you at the resort.

Small and friendly. Nice room with comfy bed and pillows and wi-fi works. Small bathroom with walk in shower . Water not very hot. .Restaurant small but staff were very helpful and food choice was sufficient and tasty. Breakfast was very good. Nicely located for the National Park.Nice swimming pool available if you want to cool off.

We stayed here in order to do a half day safari with leopard-eye safaris (which was excellent by the way). The bedroom was excellent - good air conditioning, spacious, and quite modern. I took a can of fly-spray to get the mosquitos which was good - because of the high ceilings. The staff were great - and very friendly and couldn't do enough to be helpful - five stars for excellent service. The meals were great - and we thought well presented and much better than we expected. Very good value, and excellent service. Thanks to the staff. I wish I had left a bigger tip. Cons: 1. They cheaped-out on the chlorine for the pool. You couldn't see the bottom because it was cloudy, and the pool had hundreds of water-boatman in it. That's unappealing and although we entered the pool, my wife was squeamish about them, and wouldn't put her head in the water - they need to get this fixed as the pool is a major attraction, and it soured things a little for us. 2. We had a full shopping bag of washing they arranged to be done for us. It wasn't cheap - about GBP pounds 15. Later we found that the washer person had burned one of my shirts on the sleeve (melted it). God only knows how, but that was disappointing as it wasn't a cheap shirt. So... enquire to them and ask if the pool is free of water-boatman, and whether you can see the bottom of the pool (ie it's clear and hence clean), and then definitely stay here, but don't get your laundry done here!!! Dave Halse, England.