Great resort for newbies and experienced divers. Everything is thought through, the resort is very well equipped for dive training and they offer all sorts of courses. The rooms are simple but stylish, with all the amenities you could ask for. You're close to the beach and all the bats and restaurants (can get a bit loud in the evening, but didn't bother us too much). Everyone was super friendly and helpful, the dive guides / instructora were very knowledgeable, professional, friendly and fun. Highly recommend staying at Ban's if coming to KO Tao.

My experience with Ban's diving resort was great. I lived in the jungle house so it was a bit of a walk to get out of the hotel but everything was great.

It was amazing place for all divers, locating just in front of the beach where the boat departs. I am a free diver, and Diw, the instructor, took care of me very well. Hot shower was not working in my room, and neither was the house phone. But it was not very important part for me that I could bare. Definitely I would come back again.

Band diving resort is an amazing property with great service and facilities and awesome dive shop. The resort is enormous and some areas are so far away you need to get golf carts to get around. They basically have people driving these carts back and forth picking up and dropping off people. Like I had booked the jungle house room.. one cannot just walk there you need to request transport. I stayed in the building overlooking pool 3 right under where the gym is. These rooms can be a bit noisy with the meatheads dropping weights. It was very quiet and pleasant once the gym closed. I really enjoyed my stay there. AmazIng property

Really Nice hotel, clean rooms with fabulous rooms and decent breakfast. Only downside was bad smell from showers after use. Very steep walk to some of the rooms and the resort is huge and not very well labeled with directions to rooms!

Couldn’t be more impressed. Clean property with fantastic, friendly staff. Also has a beachside restaurant which serves awesome food and turns into a great beach club at night. 10/10 would recommend. We stayed for the open water scuba diving course which was world class.

Me and my boyfriend stayed here for 3 nights. We had a fabulous time. The pools are gorgeous. We stayed in the jungle house so was quite far from the main hotel. However, the staff were very accommodating. They gave us a number to text through WhatsApp anytime we wanted to go to the main hotel or to the beach and someone would come and pick us up by golf buggy. I thought this was a fabulous touch. Staff can’t do enough for you. However the rooms are a little dated but the stunning infinity pools made up for it.

Me and my boyfriend stayed here for 3 nights. We had a fabulous time. The pools are gorgeous. We stayed in the jungle house so was quite far from the main hotel. However, the staff were very accommodating. They gave us a number to text through WhatsApp anytime we wanted to go to the main hotel or to the beach and someone would come and pick us up by golf buggy. I thought this was a fabulous touch. Staff can’t do enough for you. However the rooms are a little dated but the stunning infinity pools made up for it.

View was great. Except the roof in front of me blocked a good portion of the view. But was lovely. A lot of stairs to climb. No warning of this, and no lifts. I injured my leg on this trip and it was difficult to get up and down to my room on crutches. The instructor and dive master were great pat and peter. They were awesome. at was able to get me crutches and I really appreciated that. Overall a great time and stay

Best diving resort on the island HANDS DOWN. They also have five pools that you and your family can hang around. Their restaurant also serves up great food. 10/10 experience for me. No complaints at all!

Good location, interesting layout though pools are quite a hike if you aren’t by the main road. Felt a little like a machine in terms of how it was run, not so personalized compared to other stays here in koh Tao. Not happy with room left early. Felt like a dark dorm room. A/C wasn’t great and WiFi kept quitting on me for my work. Accommodating to cancel my second night which I am thankful for.

Very happy with my stay at Ban's. The room was very nice and clean. A/C works great and shower temp/pressure was always good. Staff is helpful and friendly organizing excursions and transportation. Grant and Claudia were very nice! We ate almost every meal at the resort which has a great menu and the food is fresh. I also apppreciate their attempts to be eco-friendly (reusable straws, minimize plastic use). The only small complaint I have is the bed was too hard and I often woke up sore. But that seems to be the norm around Thailand.

Very deceptively advertised. It only has a restaurant on the beach area and the hotel itself has no beach and no chairs and nothing by the beach. If you book the regular rooms, you are about 20 mins walking to the reception area and it is a completely different hotel. Pools are always occupied with diving instructions. I wouldn't recommend staying here for the hotel and it's awful amenities.

Everything was very good, but the staff at fish bowl was rude at several occations. Dont recommend pepole eating there. Barracuda was excellent!

The correspondence of the hotel staff was bad from the time of check-in. The room given at the time of check-in was mountain side but the air conditioner seems to be broken and it was not cool at all. When asking for correspondence, there is no correspondence for more than 1H The worst was the breakfast restaurant. Not only do not only come to listen to orders at all, or touch it from time to time to respond to it. Sometimes I have forgotten to clean the room, and I had to call from here to come to the cleaning.

AMAZING RESORT! You HAVE to stay here if you are in Koh Tao. Our favourite resort in all of Thailand!

Very far away of the beach over a hill forced to walk up and down more than 50 meters three times per day and with the lugagges is creasy.

The overall feeling is that they control the island (diving, shops, bars, supermarket etc..) and they just don't care about you anymore since they don't need you. The manager has a grampy face and even when I came to recommend on a diving instructor that we dove with, she didn't care. This is also the FIRST PLACE IN THE WORLD I got refused to know where I'm going to dive. No one was willing to tell me where it's planned to go, and what happened is that they toke us to a place that only after 18m you can see something, and I can dive only up to 18m!!! In the reception they told us "on the boat they decide, talk to them", on the boat they said "the reception decides don't blame us talk to them". Very bad experience! The diving instructors are great, but they are contractors and not related to the hotel. Last thing, I made sure 3 months ahead that the room is NOT uphill (since I read reviews), and I booked the garden view for that. Upon arrival it seems that on the bottom there is only 2 beds and not single bed. EVEN THAT I CHECKED BEFORE! We spent the entire time climbing the hill to our room.

Great place to stay and learn to dive.

I booked a room with a specificcprice. When we were at the hotel they gave is a room in a far away building To stay close to the beach ee had to pay 15 dollars more a day.

Great location, decent accommodations, free breakfast. Bed was super hard! We asked for more pillows, which helped, but still could be more comfy. Beach very close. Lots of shops and restaurants. Showers were a bit strange to us as there is no separation from the toilet. Not a deal breaker, just different. There are 3 pools. One was said to be set aside for scuba classes. However, when we went to use the other pools, there were scuba classes going on in those as well. It was a little awkward and we ended up just wading in the hot tub. Overall a great stay, but it is a 3 Star hotel. Don't expect it to be fancy.

Depending which room you booked, you might be staying at the top of the mountain, they have golf cart to bring you there. Usually it's always available, but sometimes around 9 pm, the service stops, and i had to walk back but the place is a maze, it was a mission to get back after dinner to our room. Some of the staffs are not very friendly when you ask them if you can get a golf cart ride.

Best place to stay on the island!If you dive, dive only with bans! Never the others!

The surounding of hotel was awfull. We was walking every time around rubbish hill, it smelled horribly and it was far away from the sea. We had no indea when we booked this hotel. And we had no cleaners in our room so we had to call to reception and wait hours for towls. I woud never ever recomend this hotel to anyone.

Bit disappointed as the room given is not what have been shown in the [photos. The room is bit run down and need renovation.

Bit disappointed as the room given is not what have been shown in the [photos. The room is bit run down and need renovation.

Loud music from the bar/dining area blared until 2;00 am. It’s located in a very congested part of town. Hotel is all about their diving program and offers little else.Would not go back.

Great stay, perfect for diving, affordable, helpful staff, great location

Great stay, perfect for diving, affordable, helpful staff, great location

We stayed at Ban's for two nights. At first sight, the location of our room was perfect, as we were next to the main street with lots of shops, restaurants, bars... There were some other rooms which were located farther to the main street, plus the room was nice and very clean, so at first we were happy. Until the night came. We had activities booked early in the morning, so we went to bed at about 11-12 every day, but it was impossible to sleep, as there is a pub which plays loud music until 1 or 2 in the morning. Breakfast was included in the price we paid for, but we found it was poor, there were only 5 different options to choose from, and was pricey for the food it included.

Stayed with my 13 year old in the second building away from the restaurant, in room 72 for 5 nights. We got almost no sleep due to the nightly live entertainment and parting that takes place every evening from 10pm to 2am. Even with the earplugs in we still heared the music! Additionally, the windows in the bedrooms are not soundproof and the washroom window is made of wood and always stays open. Wanted to change the room 4 days in the row, however I was told there was no room available in my price range (?) only one room available on the top of the hill. Went to check the room and found that was located in a very far distance from the main complex and all the way up the hill. By choice we did not take it. Diving with Andrew and Patrick was exceptional!!! Andrew is a very knowledgeable and fun fella. There were 6 people in our group and as such we received enough attention. When I come back next year to continue my diving courses, I will definately request Andrew, however I will look for accomodations someplace else. Furthermore, the restaurant's staff is very rude and uninterested in serving clients i.e. when you make an eye contact with them in order to get their attention they look away and way away . So, go only if you REALLY have to. In summary, as many reviewers have already pointed out this place is excellent for learning to divie only and nothing else. The course we took was called Open Water Diver and it took 4 days to complete. The meet times are at 7am.

Stayed with my 13 year old in the second building away from the restaurant, in room 72 for 5 nights. We got almost no sleep due to the nightly live entertainment and parting that takes place every evening from 10pm to 2am. Even with the earplugs in we still heared the music! Additionally, the windows in the bedrooms are not soundproof and the washroom window is made of wood and always stays open. Wanted to change the room 4 days in the row, however I was told there was no room available in my price range (?) only one room available on the top of the hill. Went to check the room and found that was located in a very far distance from the main complex and all the way up the hill. By choice we did not take it. Diving with Andrew and Patrick was exceptional!!! Andrew is a very knowledgeable and fun fella. There were 6 people in our group and as such we received enough attention. When I come back next year to continue my diving courses, I will definately request Andrew, however I will look for accomodations someplace else. Furthermore, the restaurants staff is very rude and uninterested in serving clients i.e. when you make an eye contact with them in order to get their attention they look away and way away . So, go only if you REALLY have to. In summary, as many reviewers have already pointed out this place is excellent for learning to divie only and nothing else. The course we took was called Open Water Diver and it took 4 days to complete. The meet times are at 7am.