Other than the super reasonable and affordable price (during christmas season 2013), what drawn us to book a week stay at The Pago Design Phuket Hotel is after we saw the pictures from the Expedia website. It just look really comfortable, modern, beautiful and guess what? It didn't disappoint us! When we arrived, the condition of the hotel is exactly how it's shown on the website, even better than we'd expected! Requested a nice view room and they put us in the corner unit facing the pool, the view and the breeze at night is just wonderful.
We arrived at 9am in the morning and the staff let us checked in earlier at 10am, really sweet of them. Nice staff even though some of them might have a little bit language barrier but they can understand simple English. Breakfast selection is not huge but it's sufficient and delicious. We've ordered some of their local thai food on their menu and it tasted AMAZING. Reasonable price, if not cheaper than some of the restaurant outside the tourists area, it almost make us wanted to just stay in that hotel and not leave.
Another thing that we really enjoy about this hotel is the quietness and serenity of this place, although it's not near any beach or walking distance to the city center. SO! the best thing (also the one thing that we regret didn't do) is to hire a motorbike or a car when you arrived at the airport. That will save you a great deal of money hailing a cab to get to everywhere. Taxi drivers in Phuket are like LEECHES!