We stayed in the FCC Hotel’s Kbal Spean room for 3 nights, directly below the FCC Restaurant. A comer room with a king size bed and private balcony facing the river. Its really a cool place to stay but, the noise from the street and the nightclub across the street are both deafening. Neither source of noise is the fault of the FCC Hotel, the hotel was there first. If you plan to stay here, you better bring earplugs. We travel with earplugs all the time, it’s always a disappointment when we have to use them.
We ate breakfast there 2 mornings, Breakfast starts at 6:30 am Unfortunately, the day we left our taxi was booked for 6am. We did get a couple of bottles of water and a juice, but the only option for take away from the FCC Hotel was bread and croissants. We asked at the front desk if we might get some dry cereal and milk for the morning we checked out but that was not possible. We went the the restaurant down the street the night before and ordered take out mango sticky rice. We ate that in our room with instant coffee before we left.
The location of the FCC Hotel is excellent for local sight seeing. We did use a taxi for our trip to the killing fields and S-21 museum. We walked to the Royal Palace and the National Museum of Cambodia both within 10 minutes of the hotel. We walked to the night market and several very nice restaurants nearby while we stayed in Phnom Penh. A number of boats provide an inexpensive sunset river tour which lasts around an hour.