The Taste Phuket

We stayed at the Taste in 2006 just months after it opened and, like many other reviewers, found the decor to be its only merit. Judging from the pictures on its website, we had expected that this property under the same management as Sri Lanta would be a small boutique hotel in the heart of old Sino-Portuguese Phuket (perhaps the first of its kind back in 2006), but it seemed more like an ordinary guesthouse with cool design and nothing else. We were let down by almost everything: room size, cleanliness, service and breakfast. Yet years after receiving mediocre reviews, at least some good news came out of it; the website (as of October 2014) declares the Taste "currently closed."

The hot food was a disappointment. the salad bar was great ,the cooks serving seemed to have a very relaxed Easy and informal in manner like take it or leave it you aready paid! so being local within 25 miles I'm warning anyone who mentions going there

We 'had to' go to Phuket to see friends and had decided to stay away from the big resort areas. While the location (in central Phuket Town) is great, the hotel was pretty basic and it had definitely nothing to do with the website. The main problem was the staff - nice, but absolutely not trained. Hardly any English was spoken at the time of our visit. I understand the hotel had just been bought by the Sri Hotels Group, who had just finished building the Sri Tara hotel in Chiang Mai (where we had stayed and which we had loved). Now the Sri Tara is in different hands and the Group still owns the Taste as well as the Sri Lanta in Koh Lanta (where I also stayed and for which I also have mixed feelings). If I went back, I would check the rooms before making a booking.