Ardea Resort Pool Villa

The rooms at Ardea Resort Pool Villa range from standard double or twin rooms to deluxe rooms, with pool views or pool access in several of them. Rooms can have air conditioning, a mini bar, a refrigerator and a hair dryer, and the bathrooms come with a shower and toiletries.

The outdoor and indoor swimming pools, the garden and the bar are shared by all guests, whichever room they book, and room service is available for meals in the room. Whichever room is chosen, the pools and garden are the same, and the rooms with a pool view sit alongside those without one.

The main leisure facilities at Ardea Resort Pool Villa are an outdoor swimming pool and an indoor swimming pool, with a garden and a solarium on the grounds. A bar, room service and a kitchen cover the food side, and breakfast can be eaten in the room or taken away.

Practical services include a 24-hour front desk, daily housekeeping, a lift, safety deposit boxes and express check-in and check-out, and meeting and banquet facilities are available for events, with the garden and solarium on the grounds.

Staff speak English and Thai, and bicycle rental, car hire and boating are also offered. Free Wi-Fi covers all rooms, and Wi-Fi is also available in public areas.

Amphawa is a canal town in Samut Songkhram province, in central Thailand, where wooden houses and old shophouses line the waterways and the pace is slow. The town is known for its canal-side market, its food and its museums, and it draws visitors who want a day out of Bangkok without the city traffic. Ardea Resort Pool Villa sits on Klongamphawa Road, so the canals and the old town are close at hand.

The Amphawa Floating Market is 300 m away, a market where vendors sell food and goods from boats along the canal, and the local bus station is 200 m away. Wat Amphawan Che Ti Ya Ram, a pagoda, is 250 m from the resort, and the Amphawa Thai Dessert Museum and the King Rama II Memorial Park are both within a few hundred metres. Further afield, the Maeklong Railway Market is 5.1 km away, where stalls spread across the railway tracks and are cleared when the train comes through.

A good day could start with a walk along the canal to the floating market, followed by a visit to the dessert museum and the memorial park, and an afternoon back at the resort's pools. Wat Amphawan Che Ti Ya Ram is an easy stop along the way for anyone interested in temples.