Dendi Resort Phu Quoc

Quiet nice place to stay

Really enjoyed our stay here so booked an extra night! The tiles around the pool are very worn but the pool itself is clean and usable, we used it everyday during our stay! Bed was comfy, good hot shower, fridge also in room. Would stay here again. Very good location too! And only 15mins from airport. 10min walk to the beach to watch sunset.

If you’re considering Dendi Resort online or on a booking app, don’t be fooled by their oh so attractive promotional photos (like I was). Maybe COVID hit Dendi particularly hard but it has depreciated noticeably from whenever those photos were taken. Check out my photos for a more accurate 2023 snapshot of facilities and rooms. We had a “pool view bungalow” without a pool view. Even if it did have a pool view I don’t think I’d want it as the pool and surroundings were dilapidated and scruffy. The room was mediocre - it had 4 walls, a door, a bed, and some cobwebby cupboards. Be prepared for all manner of creepy crawly visitors. We had spiders, worms, mosquitoes, frogs, cockroaches, and the ever present termites which chow down on the in-room furniture and leave behind piles of dusty droppings. The touted “outdoor” shower and bathroom area is a joke - green plastic faux vegetation creates a fake ceiling below a corrugated iron roof. This is where the creepy crawlies enter from. The rooms are cleaned daily with a basic surface-level swipe through approach. Our fridge had a fishy smell on arrival so I asked it to be cleaned. Instead of actually cleaning it the lady dumped an instant coffee sachet on a plate and chucked that in the fridge to absorb the smell instead of dealing with the original source. Low effort. It’s quite quiet at night after the club down the alley closes around 2am. Breakfast is a buffet, although I hope you like carbs because the selection is mostly rice, bread, or noodles. They’ve cheaped-out on breakfast obviously - one kind of cereal (cornflakes), warm long life milk, instant noodles etc. The one protein source available is about as cheap as you can get, eggs. Carnivores need not apply. One of the few redeeming factors is location - a quick walk to the fantastic beach, lots of restaurants and stores outside on the main street, and even a 15 minute stroll to the night market. At the end of the day though, there are way better hotel/resort options available in the area for this price point and I’d advise looking elsewhere for more special, relaxing, and fulfilling vacation accommodation.