These are concrete and thatch cottages with the emphasis on thatch. As such you can hear everything that is whispered 3 doors down, much less the drunk people talking outside your room until 4:30 am. The place was clean and the other customers were nice enough, I just didn't want to hear their phone conversations to boyfriends in Russia at 4:30 am. Also, I've been traveling for 2-1/2 years and save for a few nights on a rocky outcrop in Mongolia, this bed was the hardest I've ever experienced. I didn't have any back issues until 3 nights on this piece of granite.