The best hotels in Cambodia, chosen by our expert, including luxury hotels, boutique hotels, budget hotels and Cambodia hotel deals.
Plantation
Score: 9/10
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
In a busy city like Phnom Penh, Plantation is a haven in the truest sense of the word. Rooms are minimalist yet inviting, lotus ponds and lush gardens soothe the eye, and best of all, it has one of the best pools in town.
Song Saa Private Island
Score: 9/10
Songsaa Island, Cambodia
Song Saa is a remote private island resort off the coast of Cambodia, offering ultra-luxurious villas built into the jungle or perched on stilts over the sea. The food is fabulous, there’s a soporific spa, and a ravishingly relaxing vibe. Rates are expensive, but include all meals and most drinks. Worth saving up for.
Shinta Mani Wild
Score: 9/10
Southern Cardamom National Park, Cambodia
A game-changing luxury tented camp built along a river valley in the waterfall-laced Cambodian rainforest. With an ethos of eco, Wild’s funds are used to preserve its surrounding private nature sanctuary from poaching, mining and logging — a stay will make you feel like you’re at the front line of conservation.
Rainbow Lodge
Score: 9/10
Tatai River, Koh Kong, Cambodia
Squeaking geckos and singing crickets send you to sleep at this enduring, excellent-value eco-lodge with comfortable chalets set back from the Tatai River. With a resident guide, inviting bar-restaurant, free kayaks, riverside chill-out area and spa pavilion in a jungle setting, it’s a top pick.
Park Hyatt Siem Reap
Score: 9/10
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Bombastic and elegant, the Park Hyatt offers spacious rooms that ooze Khmer-inspired comfort with a residential feel. From the incredible interconnected pools to its free-floating cushioned dining platforms, everything is overwhelmingly sumptuous.
Jaya House River Park
Score: 9/10
Siem Reap, Cambodia
With a unique design inspired by 1960s Cambodian Modernism, this boutique hideaway mixes style and a social conscience. It boasts a one-of-a-kind swimming pool – lined with sparkling, solid silver tiles – and is the country’s first plastic-free hotel, helping to launch the ReFill Not Landfill initiative.
Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor
Score: 9/10
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Opened in 1932, the Raffles Grand d’Angkor has survived all the vagaries of recent Cambodian history and has hosted luminaries such as Charlie Chaplin, Somerset Maugham and the Clintons. It remains both a heritage landmark and a truly grand luxury hotel with state-of-the-art amenities.
Pavilion
Score: 9/10
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Pavilion, converted from four historic villas, is one of those hotels you walk into and instantly relax. Trees line the walkway to reception and as you turn the corner, a glorious pool surrounded by pavilions and a shaded restaurant and bar come into view.
Kirirom Mountain Lodge
Score: 9/10
Kirirom National Park, Cambodia
These calm, contemporary, nature-inspired rooms in renovated 1950s villas offer seclusion and tranquillity against the backdrop of Cambodia’s only pine forest. Hearty, home-cooked dinners and campfires warm you up by night when the crisp mountain air drops by a few degrees.
Phum Baitang
Score: 9/10
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Phum Baitang is a stunning luxury resort modeled on a Cambodian village, featuring wooden villas reminiscent of local farm houses, some with private pools, in a garden complex of rice paddy dotted with palm trees, with water buffaloes lingering in the shade.
4 Rivers Floating Lodge
Score: 9/10
Tatai River, Koh Kong, Cambodia
Wake up to the sound of birdsong and gibbon calls, and watch the morning mist rise and clear over the forested Cardamom Mountains. That’s your view from the deck of these luxury tents, each one on a floating pontoon along southwest Cambodia’s jungle-fringed Tatai River.
Naia Beach Resort
Score: 9/10
Sihanoukville, Cambodia
If first impressions count, Naia has it sewn up. The exterior catches your eye instantly, all clean white lines and a brilliant blue pool, while inside, muted colours and 1950s-inspired décor inspire calm and relaxation. The hotel sits on Otres 2, one of Sihanoukville’s quieter, more relaxing beaches.
