Luxury bespoke tours and holidays to Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor Siem Reap
Facts in brief
Official star rating 5
Location Siem Reap
Annual opening All year
Closest airport Siem Reap Airport
Distance from airport The hotel is 25-minutes' drive from Siem Reap Airport
Hotel facilities and services
4 restaurants, 2 bars, swimming pool, spa with sauna, steam room and jacuzzi as well as 6 treatment rooms, gym, 24-hour room service and concierge.
Out and about nearby
Tree-lined boulevards of Siem Reap, Angkor Wat an impressive temple complex, walk to the top of Phnom Bakheng Hill for views of the sunset, Angkor Thom and its intriguing temple complex.
What particularly impresses us each time we use your services is that ‘what we expect we get’ eg car hire, rooms selected, all with no hassle. Not sure how you do it!!Mr W, July 2022
Holiday price guide This hotel is included in our luxury tailor-made touring holidays of Vietnam and a stay here will be included as part of the touring holiday. However, if you want to book this hotel on its own with flights and transfers as a stand-alone city break, then please contact us for prices.
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Holiday Code EXH1146
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke tours and holidays to Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor Siem Reap
Room descriptions
All rooms, villas and suites at Raffles d’Angkor have air conditioning and ceiling fan.
What particularly impresses us each time we use your services is that ‘what we expect we get’ eg car hire, rooms selected, all with no hassle. Not sure how you do it!!Mr W, July 2022
Holiday price guide This hotel is included in our luxury tailor-made touring holidays of Vietnam and a stay here will be included as part of the touring holiday. However, if you want to book this hotel on its own with flights and transfers as a stand-alone city break, then please contact us for prices.
From about
Holiday Code EXH1146
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke tours and holidays to Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor Siem Reap
The journey and how you get there
The Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor in Siem Reap is usually booked as part of our tailormade touring holidays of Vietnam and Cambodia. In this case travel arrangements and transfers between places are included as part of the tour. The hotel can also be visited as a stand-alone holiday by flying from London to Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City and then an onwards flight to Siem Reap Airport. A transfer will then be arranged to your hotel which is a 25-minute drive away. Vietnam Airways flies direct from London to Vietnam, but we can also arrange for you to fly with other airlines, particularly if you want a stopover en-route or want to combine Cambodia with another country (Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore and Malaysia are the obvious ones).
Additional information
Children: Landmark Suites can interconnect with State Rooms and are good for families.
What particularly impresses us each time we use your services is that ‘what we expect we get’ eg car hire, rooms selected, all with no hassle. Not sure how you do it!!Mr W, July 2022
Holiday price guide This hotel is included in our luxury tailor-made touring holidays of Vietnam and a stay here will be included as part of the touring holiday. However, if you want to book this hotel on its own with flights and transfers as a stand-alone city break, then please contact us for prices.
From about
Holiday Code EXH1146
Call us on 01392 441245
Luxury bespoke tours and holidays to Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor Siem Reap
About Cambodia
An Expressions tailor-made holiday to Cambodia offers travellers the chance to experience the wonder, culture and history of this magnificent region of South-East Asia. After three decades of war, Cambodia has thrown its arms open the world, welcoming visitors with an enthusiasm and warmth and that makes holidaying here – even without its myriad attractions – an extraordinary joy. Cambodia’s people may be the country’s principle asset, their unbreakable spirit and infectious optimism prevailing against all odds, but it is Angkor Wat for which the country is probably best known – and understandably so. Rediscovered only in the 19th century, this spectacular, nearly 900-year old temple complex is stunning fusion of symbolism, symmetry and spirituality, drawing tourists and pilgrims in their millions. But just as Angkor is more than its wat, so too is Cambodia more than its temples. Phnom Penh is a bustling, fascinating capital at the crossroads of Asia’s past and present, an assault on the senses with pagodas and palaces, markets and busy bars; Siem Reap, gateway to Angkor Wat, has a beautiful riverside location and cultural scene, as well as the beautiful Foreign Correspondents Club, a stunning hotel in what was once the French Governor’s art-deco mansion. Intimate, indulgent, with a sumptuous spa and exquisite cuisine to match, it is typical of the boutique hotels scattered across the country today. Siem Reap and Phnom Penh may be Cambodia’s main urban draws, but Cambodia’s spirit is essential rural, and the countryside is the best place to experience the rhythm of rural life and timeless landscapes of dazzling rice paddies and swaying sugar palms. As for beaches, Sihanoukville is surrounded by them, while the distant south coast is fringed by tropical islands with only the occasional luxury hotel in sight. Inland from the coast lie the Cardamom Mountains, part of a vast tropical wilderness sheltering elusive wildlife forming the focus of an emerging ecotourism. And through the heart of it all, the mighty Mekong River cuts through the country like its ancient lifeblood, and boat trips along it are an utterly intoxicating way of delving deep into the heart of Cambodia. With beaches as beautiful as Thailand, mountains and jungles more remote than Laos, cuisine as delicious as Vietnam and temples to leave Indonesia in the shade, Cambodia is South-East Asia at its bite-sized, undiscovered best.
Highlights of Cambodia
Angkor Wat, with its near-900 year old temples, a staggering ancient city you could spend a lifetime exploring; river trips on the Mekong, particularly the stretch between Siem Reap and Battambag; the south-coast islands and their bone-white beaches; the sleepy seaside town of Kampot, gateway to a myriad of caves and pagodas; trekking in Bokor National Park, with its rainforest hikes and French colonial ruins; elephant trekking in the jungles of Mondulkiri Province; looking for some of the region’s last remaining Irrawaddy river dolphins at Kratie; the mountains, waterfalls and pristine crater lakes of the north; the hilltop temple of Prasat Preah Vihear; Koh Ker, the 10th century capital with its fascinating ruins; hilltop temples of Battambang; explore the jungles and mangroves, waterfalls, islands and beaches of the southern Cardamom Mountains; swim in a volcanic caldera in Virachay National Park; Kompong Cham, with its beautiful rice paddies, and sugar palms, pagodas and temples; Phnom Penh, the ‘Pearl of Asia’, shining once more with superb museums and sublime riverside setting; Siem Reap’s vibrant arts scene and fabulous riverside setting; cocktails overlooking the Mekon on the second-floor terrace of the Foreign Correspondents Club in Phnom Penh.
Travel around Cambodia
Buses provide an excellent service in Cambodia, but travelling by boat is a more romantic option, and a key element in the country’s transportation system, with more than 1,000 miles of navigable waterways, and the Mekong the country’s lifeblood. Best section, at least for scenery, is between Siem Reap and Battambang, though it is painfully slow. Car and motorcycle rental are comparatively cheap in Cambodia and many visitors rent a car or motorcycle for greater flexibility to visit out-of-the-way places and to stop when and where they choose.
Facts in brief
Capital Phnom PenhAirport Phnom Penh and Siem Reap
Size 70,000 sq. miles
Population 16 million
