Royal Palace Hotel is Reopening!

I have some great news! Royal Palace Hotel, which was shut down for weeks, just re-opened today. I've heard two different stories on the reasons for closing their doors...first story, it was related to a huge drug bust. Second version says that there were seven jewelry store thieves who had set up their main operation in a few of the rooms. Either way, the place was surrounded by over a hundred police and was immediately ordered to close its doors. Now, for those of you who've been living in Cambodia anytime at all, you know exactly how this translates: Innocent owners of hotel who had no idea what was going on behind closed doors in their establishment, are now being leeched for every cent they're worth by the Cambodian government and can't open for business until they pay X amount of dollars to corrupt officials. The drug lords/thieves who were the real criminals will be back on the streets in a few days after they've paid the judge a cut of the profits.

Royal Palace Hotel is one of the VERY few hotels on that side of town that is really cheap, really nice, and not full of prostitutes...not to mention the place I go swimming every night for only $25 a month. The Church/NGO I work with books our guests into this hotel all the time and when they closed their doors, we were all in a panic. Practically the only other nearby option that doesn't involve hourly rates and staff with sticky fingers, is the Intercontinental Hotel which is hundreds of dollars a night. Hardly doable for teams of 20 on a tight budget.

I've been getting a lot of emails from those of you who visit Cambodia frequently and like to use this hotel, wondering if this is true or just a terrible rumor...I am glad tell you that Royal Palace Hotel is now back in business. Yay!

Royal Palace Hotel: 93 Monireth Boulevard, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
023 884 823 royalpalace_hotel@yahoo.com