Where to Stay in Siem Reap: Best Areas and Hotels by Traveler Type (2026)

In Siem Reap the neighborhood is the least important decision you will make about a hotel. The town is small, flat and quick: every hotel in this guide is between 5 and 20 minutes by tuk-tuk from the Angkor ticket checkpoints, and most are within a 15 minute walk of the Old Market. What separates a good stay from a bad one is whether the pool is shaded and swimmable at 2:00 p.m., when the temples are unbearable, and whether the room is quiet at 11:00 p.m., when you need to sleep before a 4:30 a.m. sunrise pickup.

Search results for this question still treat Siem Reap like a big city, ranking areas as if a 10 minute tuk-tuk ride were a commute. They also recycle hotel lists from three or four years ago. Belmond La Résidence d’Angkor, which heads many of those lists, is closed. Other properties have changed names, owners or standards. Every hotel named below was checked as open and taking bookings for the 2025 to 2026 season, and every one carries a limitation, because a hotel without a drawback is a hotel that has not been looked at closely.

The structure is simple. First the six areas, each with what it is good for, the 2026 price range by tier, minutes to the temples, the noise at night and where to look. Then the hotels by type, with a verdict, the facts and a limitation for each. Then prices by season and when to book, quick picks by traveler type, the airport transfer, and the detailed guides. Prices, hours and transport times below were checked against operator websites and official sources in October 2026.

The Two Variables That Matter: the Pool at 2 p.m. and the Noise at 11 p.m.

A Siem Reap day has a shape, and the hotel has to fit it. Temple mornings start between 4:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. By 11:00 a.m. in the hot months, March to May, the stone at Angkor Wat radiates heat and the open courtyards at Bayon are empty of anyone sensible. From then until about 3:30 p.m. you are at the hotel. That is four hours a day, every day of the trip, in or beside the pool. A pool that is in full sun, 1.2 meters deep and ringed by loungers already claimed with towels is a daily disappointment. A pool with afternoon shade, a deep end and a bar that serves food is the reason people extend their stay.

The second variable is the evening. Siem Reap finishes early. The shows end by 9:30 p.m., restaurants empty by 10:00 p.m., and most visitors are in bed by 10:30 p.m. because a tuk-tuk is waiting at 4:30 a.m. the next morning. Pub Street and the two lanes beside it do not follow that schedule: the sound systems run until 1:00 a.m. or later. A hotel 200 meters from Pub Street is a different hotel from one 600 meters away across the river. Ask for a room away from the street in any central hotel, and ask specifically about Wat Bo Road and Sivatha Boulevard, both of which carry motorbike traffic from 5:00 a.m.

Everything else, the distance to the temples, the walk to dinner, the neighborhood character, is a matter of a few minutes and a few dollars. The neighborhoods guide explains what each part of town feels like. This guide is about where to sleep.

Old Market and Pub Street

Best for: nights out, solo travelers in hostels, anyone who wants to walk to every restaurant and market without a tuk-tuk. Price range 2026: dorm beds $5 to $9, private hostel rooms $15 to $40, mid-range $50 to $120, upper tier $190 to $700 at Park Hyatt Siem Reap. Minutes to the temples: 15 to 20 by tuk-tuk. Noise: the highest in town. Pub Street, Street 8 and The Lane run until 1:00 a.m. or later. Sivatha Boulevard carries traffic from 5:00 a.m. Two blocks west or south of Pub Street the noise drops to normal.

The Old Market, Psar Chas, sits at the west end of Pub Street and is the center of the tourist town. Everything is on foot: the night markets, the restaurants along the river, the Made in Cambodia market, the massage parlors. The trade-off is sleep. Hostels in this grid sell to people who do not intend to sleep before 2:00 a.m., and the mid-range hotels between Sivatha and the river have rooms that face the street.

Where to look: Onederz Siem Reap for hostel beds with four pools two minutes from Pub Street. Mad Monkey Siem Reap on Rose Apple Road for the social version. Memoire d’Angkor Boutique Hotel at 54 Sivatha Road for a mid-range room with a pool and a short walk to everything. Park Hyatt Siem Reap at 3 Sivutha Boulevard for a high-end hotel in the grid. The four are listed by price, lowest first. The Pub Street and Old Market guide covers what the area is and is not.

Wat Bo and the East Bank

Best for: first-timers, couples, families who want quiet and still want to walk to dinner. Price range 2026: dorm beds from about $5 at Lub d, mid-range $60 to $150, boutique $140 to $300. Minutes to the temples: 15 by tuk-tuk. Noise: low on the side streets after 10:00 p.m. Wat Bo Road itself is a through road with motorbike traffic from early morning, so ask for a room set back from it.

Wat Bo is the residential neighborhood across the river from the Old Market, named for the pagoda at its center. The streets numbered 20 to 27 run between Wat Bo Road and the river, and this is where the greatest concentration of small hotels in Siem Reap sits: wooden Khmer-style buildings around pools, mid-century modern conversions, two hostels and a dozen guesthouses. Three bridges cross the river, so the Old Market is 5 to 10 minutes on foot and no tuk-tuk is needed for dinner. The restaurants on Wat Bo Road itself, and the cafes along the east bank, mean many guests never cross back.

Further south, along Sala Kamreuk Road and its lanes, the town thins into villages, ponds and a few resorts set in gardens. These are 7 to 10 minutes by tuk-tuk from the Old Market and quiet in a way the center never is.

Where to look, by price, lowest first, then the two without a published rate: Lub d Siem Reap on 7 Makara Street for the hostel. Rambutan Hotel & Resort on a pedestrian lane 5 minutes from the Old Market for saltwater pools at mid-range prices. Navutu Dreams in Sala Kamreuk for a garden resort. Viroth’s Hotel on Street 24 for the mid-century modern version. Sala Lodges in Sala Kamreuk for restored wooden houses. Maison 557 for a 1950s-styled bed and breakfast. Treeline Urban Resort on Achasva Street at the river end. The Wat Bo area guide and the hotels in Wat Bo guide go street by street.

Sok San Road and Kandal Village

Best for: longer stays, people who want cafes and shops at their door and a 7 minute walk to Pub Street. Price range 2026: guesthouses $25 to $50, mid-range $70 to $130. Minutes to the temples: 15 to 20 by tuk-tuk. Noise: the east end of Sok San Road, nearest Pub Street, has bars and late music. The western half and the Kandal Village lanes are quiet by 10:00 p.m.

West of Sivatha Boulevard the tourist grid gives way to Sok San Road, a long street of guesthouses, bars and restaurants that runs toward the Steung Thmei neighborhood, and to Kandal Village, the cluster of cafes, boutiques and galleries around Hap Guan Street. This is where longer-stay visitors and people working from Siem Reap end up. There are few hotels of note, which is the point: rooms are cheaper here than anything equivalent in Wat Bo, and the walk to the Old Market is 7 to 10 minutes.

Where to look: The Aviary Hotel at 9 Tep Vong Street for a 43-room hotel with a pool that published rates from $74 with breakfast in the 2026 green season. Guesthouses along the western half of Sok San Road for rooms under $50. The Sok San Road and Kandal Village guide covers where to eat and work.

Riverside and the Royal Gardens

Best for: couples and anyone who wants colonial-era architecture, large pools and a 10 minute walk to the Old Market along the river. Price range 2026: mid-range $120 to $160 at FCC Angkor by Avani, upper tier $160 to $600, Bensley Collection pool villas above that. Minutes to the temples: 10 to 15 by tuk-tuk. Noise: low. The river road carries traffic in the morning but the hotels are set back in gardens.

The stretch of river north of the Old Market, up to the Royal Gardens and the Royal Residence, is where the French built in the early 20th century and where the large hotels of the 1930s to 2000s followed. The Royal Gardens, a formal park with fruit bats in the trees at dusk, sit between Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor and the river. The west bank has FCC Angkor in the old governor’s mansion and Shinta Mani Angkor on Oum Khun Street. The east bank, technically still Wat Bo, has Treeline. Further north on River Road, past the Royal Gardens, the road quietens into Treang Village and Jaya House River Park. The walk back to the Old Market along the river takes 10 to 15 minutes and is pleasant until about 10:00 a.m.

Where to look, by price, lowest first: FCC Angkor by Avani for the mansion and the pool. Shinta Mani Angkor for a 105-room hotel that says it funds a foundation, and its ten Bensley Collection villas for private pools. Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor at 1 Vithei Charles de Gaulle for the 1932 building. Jaya House River Park at River Road, Treang Village, for the plastic-free boutique option 6 minutes by tuk-tuk from town. The riverside walk guide covers the stretch on foot.

Charles de Gaulle Boulevard and the Road to the Temples

Best for: temple-first trips, honeymoons that want silence, anyone who would rather take a tuk-tuk into town for dinner than walk home past bars. Price range 2026: $140 to $400 at Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra and Templation, $1,400 and up at Amansara. Minutes to the temples: 5 to 10 by tuk-tuk to the Angkor Wat moat. Noise: very low. The boulevard carries tour buses from 4:30 a.m. but the hotels sit behind walls and gardens.

Vithei Charles de Gaulle runs north from the Royal Gardens to the Angkor ticket checkpoint and the park. This is the resort avenue: large grounds, long pools, the two or three most expensive addresses in the country, and nothing to walk to. Town is 20 to 30 minutes on foot or a $3 to $5 tuk-tuk ride by 2026 guides. The honest case for staying here is a stay built around the temples, with lunch and the afternoon at the hotel and one or two dinners in town. The honest case against is that the saving in travel time to Angkor Wat is 5 to 10 minutes, which is nothing at 5:00 a.m. on empty roads.

Where to look, by price, lowest first: Heritage Suites Hotel near Wat Polanka in Slokram, west of the boulevard, for suites with private steam rooms. Templation on Rok Rak Street in Sla Kram, east of the boulevard, for villas with private pools. Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra at Vithei Charles de Gaulle for 238 rooms and what the hotel calls the largest free-form pool in Cambodia. Amansara on the Road to Angkor for the 1960s royal guesthouse. The hotels near Angkor Wat guide measures how close you can actually get.

Road 60 and the Airport Road

Best for: families and groups who want a large resort with a big pool, tour groups, anyone arriving late and leaving early. Price range 2026: $50 to $150 for most resorts, more for suites. Minutes to the temples: 10 to 15 by tuk-tuk. Noise: low inside the resorts, which are set back from the road. National Road 6 itself is a highway.

National Road 6 runs east from the center toward the new airport and Phnom Penh, and Road 60 branches north of it toward the temples. This is where the large resorts of the 2000s and 2010s were built, with 200 to 700 rooms, convention halls and pools sized for them. Road 60 at night is a Cambodian fairground: food stalls, inflatable slides, families on motorbikes, and some of the best grilled food in town at local prices. The night markets guide covers it. The trade-off is that nothing else is walkable and every meal in town is a $2 to $4 tuk-tuk ride each way.

Where to look, by price, lowest first: Borei Angkor Resort & Spa at National Road 6, Banteay Chas, for family connecting rooms. Sokha Siem Reap Resort & Convention Center beside its own convention center, 10 minutes from the center. The Charles de Gaulle and resort strip guide says who should stay out here.

Luxury Hotels

Siem Reap’s top-tier hotels are largely a legacy of the early 2000s boom. The honest verdict on the tier: the money buys silence, space and a large pool, not proximity. All six below are 5 to 15 minutes from the temples, and they are listed by entry rate, lowest first.

1. Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf & Spa Resort

The honest verdict: a large resort for families and groups, a 10 minute ride from Angkor Wat. At Vithei Charles de Gaulle in Svay Dangkum, with 238 rooms and suites, what the hotel describes as the largest free-form pool in Cambodia, a spa using L’Occitane products and the 18-hole Phokeethra Country Club, which the hotel describes as the first golf course in Siem Reap, with guest privileges. About an hour from the airport. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator rates started at $151 for 1 November 2026 and averaged $402 a night in November. The limitation: it is a 238-room resort that hosts conferences, and the walk to town is 25 minutes along a boulevard with no shade.

2. Shinta Mani Angkor and the Bensley Collection Pool Villas

The honest verdict: a large hotel and a separate villa compound, sold in different ways. Shinta Mani Angkor, on Oum Khun Street in the Royal District a 10 minute walk from the Old Market, has 105 rooms and suites around a central pool, began as a nonprofit hospitality school and says it still funds the Shinta Mani Foundation from room revenue. The Bensley Collection is ten two-level villas of 156 square meters, each with a private lap pool, rooftop living area and a butler, behind high carved walls. Villa guests use the main hotel’s restaurants and spa. Aggregator rates for the main hotel start around $160 a night. Villa rates are not published. The site lists only multi-hotel packages for two, from $10,500 to $13,650, each with three pool-villa nights. The limitation: the main hotel’s rooms are the standard upper-mid-range product and the pool is busy in high season, so the experience depends almost entirely on which of the two properties you book.

3. Park Hyatt Siem Reap

The honest verdict: a high-end hotel inside the Old Market grid, for people who want to walk to dinner. At 3 Sivutha Boulevard, a 5 minute walk from Pub Street, the former Hotel de la Paix reopened in 2013 after a 14 month redesign by Bill Bensley with 108 rooms including 13 suites, four with private plunge pools, two pools, a spa and a courtyard restaurant. Aggregator rates on 25 October 2026 ran from $191 for a King room to $699 for the top category. The limitation: Sivatha Boulevard is the busiest road in town, so the courtyard-facing rooms are the ones to ask for, and the main pool is in a shaded courtyard that is not large.

4. Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor

The honest verdict: the hotel for people who want the 1932 building and the Royal Gardens outside the window, and who accept that it is a large hotel, not a boutique. At 1 Vithei Charles de Gaulle, facing the gardens, with 119 rooms and suites by the most recent trade listing, a large pool with a terrace restaurant, the Raffles Spa, four restaurants and bars including the Elephant Bar and the 1932 restaurant for Cambodian royal cuisine. The Old Market is a 15 minute walk south along the river. Rates are not published on the Raffles site. Aggregator rates started at $218 for 30 October 2026 and averaged $698 a night in December. The limitation: the renovations have kept the shell and modernized the rooms, so the interiors are polished rather than period, and the hotel hosts weddings and groups that fill the pool on weekends.

5. Phum Baitang

The honest verdict: a villa resort in working rice paddies, with the longest pool in this guide. Forty-five wooden villas on stilts over 8 acres of working rice paddies, 15 minutes west of the center in Svay Dangkum, with a 50 meter infinity pool, a spa in a restored farmhouse and water buffalo in the fields. Terrace Villas are 60 square meters with a raised deck. Pool Villas are 72 square meters with a 20 square meter plunge pool. Published third-party rates start around $310 to $400 a night in the green season, with a 10 percent discount for two nights or more from March to May 2026, and a three-night minimum from 20 December to 11 January. Extra beds for children aged 4 to 16 cost $95 to $100. The limitation: the resort is 8 km from the nearest shop and 15 minutes from both town and the temples, so every outing is a drive, and the villas are wooden, which means you hear your neighbors’ doors.

6. Amansara

The honest verdict: the highest rates in this guide, in a 1960s royal guesthouse. The property on the Road to Angkor was built in the 1960s as a guesthouse for King Sihanouk’s visitors, in the New Khmer architecture of that decade, and has 24 suites, many with private plunge pools, a curvilinear main pool, a spa and a dining room. It is 10 minutes from Angkor Wat and 60 minutes from the airport. Rates are not published on the Aman site. Third-party listings put the base rate at roughly $1,400 to $1,650 a night, with temple excursions, breakfast and afternoon tea included in the current advance-booking package, which requires a two-night minimum. The limitation: at this price the property is small, formal and quiet to the point of hush, and a couple who want a lively pool scene or a walk to a bar will find neither.

Boutique Hotels

The word boutique is applied in Siem Reap to anything with fewer than 100 rooms. The six below have between 11 and 48, a pool that is part of the design rather than an afterthought, and an owner or a manager whose name guests learn. Angkor Village Hotel comes first, for the Khmer dance theater and the Khmer restaurant in its own grounds, which put a room, dinner and a performance at one address. The others follow by rate, lowest first, then the one without a published room rate. The boutique hotels guide has the long list.

1. Angkor Village Hotel

The honest verdict: a timber hotel around ponds, with no published room-only rate. At Street 26 off Wat Bo Road, a hotel that says it has been owned and run by the Piot family for two generations and more than 30 years, with 43 rooms in six categories: Suite, Water View Double and Twin on the upper floors, Garden View Double and Twin on the ground floor, all 38 square meters, and the 20 square meter Petite, which the hotel says keeps its original mid-1990s form. The buildings are traditional Khmer timber houses set around ponds and gardens, with a pool, a spa and a fitness room. A member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World since 2008. The Old Market is a 5 minute walk across the river and the Angkor park a 15 minute tuk-tuk ride. Room-only rates are not published on the site. Published packages start at $320 for two nights with breakfast and two dinner-show tickets, and $360 with an elephant-forest visit. The limitation: the buildings date from the mid-1990s and have wooden stairs and no elevator mentioned on the site, the Petite rooms are small, and the rooms nearest Wat Bo Road hear motorbike traffic from early morning.

2. Heritage Suites Hotel

The honest verdict: bungalows with private steam rooms and some private pools, at lower rates than the Bensley Collection villas. Near Wat Polanka in Slokram, north-west of the center, 15 minutes from Angkor Wat and 5 minutes by tuk-tuk from the Old Market. Twenty-six rooms in five categories: Heritage Rooms in the main building, Bungalow Garden Suites and Bungalow Pool Suites, the latter with a private 8 meter pool, a Colonial Family Suite with a private jacuzzi or plunge pool, and The Residence with both. Every bungalow category has a private steam room. A main pool, the Heritage Restaurant and a spa complete the grounds, and the sister company Heritage Tours arranges temple days and transfers. Children aged 4 to 11 are charged $25 a night with an extra bed. Rates are not published on the site. Its 2025 green-season package priced three nights at $385 to $615 by category, and aggregator rates for late October 2026 started at $94. The limitation: the location is a residential street with nothing to walk to, and the Heritage Rooms without a private pool are a different and much plainer product from the bungalows.

3. Viroth’s Hotel

The honest verdict: a mid-century modern hotel with published rates and a 20 meter pool. At Street 24, Wat Bo Village, a 7 minute walk from the Old Market and 15 minutes by tuk-tuk from the temples. Thirty-five rooms, 31 Deluxe and 4 Suites, in a mid-century modern style with a 20 meter pool, a spa and a restaurant. Every room has a private terrace of 7 to 10 square meters. The hotel publishes its rates: Deluxe rooms of 40 square meters from $139 facing the street and $159 facing the pool, Deluxe Triples from $169, a 50 square meter Deluxe Terrace from $215 and the 60 square meter Suite from $275. The family also runs Viroth’s Villa on Street 23, Viroth’s Restaurant and The Angkor Cafe nearby. The limitation: the city-view rooms face Street 24 and the pool is busy between 1:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. in December and January.

4. Sala Lodges

The honest verdict: restored wooden houses around a pool, for a family who want a house rather than a room. Eleven traditional Khmer wooden houses, built between the 1950s and 1980s as family homes in villages across the country, bought, moved and restored on a garden site at 498 Sala Kamreuk, 10 minutes by tuk-tuk south-east of the Old Market. Each house has its own history, a terrace, air conditioning and a bathroom with a rain shower. A pool sits at the center and the Ma Om restaurant serves Cambodian food from breakfast to dinner. House Pi & Bei has two connecting bedrooms with separate entrances, and one house sleeps four to eight. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator listings in 2026 ran from about $165 to $250 a night. The limitation: the houses are old wood with the gaps that implies, so insects and the neighbors’ footsteps are part of the stay, and nothing is walkable.

5. Jaya House River Park

The honest verdict: a 36-room garden hotel with two pools and a plastic-free policy. At River Road, Treang Village, on the east bank of the river north of the Royal Gardens, 6 minutes by tuk-tuk from the Old Market and the same toward the temples. Thirty-six rooms, each with a balcony or direct garden and pool access, two pools and a spa. The hotel says it uses no single-use plastic and runs the Refill Not Landfill campaign. Airport pickup is included for stays of two nights or more and costs $35 each way for one-night stays. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator listings showed $338 for a night in early January 2026. The limitation: it is not walkable to dinner, so you will take a tuk-tuk every evening, and the two pools are shaded by the building for part of the afternoon rather than all of it.

6. Treeline Urban Resort

The honest verdict: a design hotel at the river end of Wat Bo, with a contemporary Cambodian art collection. At Achasva Street, Wat Bo Village, where the east bank meets the river a 7 minute walk from the Old Market, with 48 rooms, four dining options, a pool and dedicated spaces for a private collection of contemporary Cambodian art, with rotating exhibitions. Deluxe Urban rooms are 30 square meters with a seating nook and city views. Executive Suites are 66 square meters over the courtyard, the pool and the river. Rates are not published on the site. The hotel’s published 2026 offers were 22 to 37 percent off for the green season to 31 October and 10 to 27 percent off for 1 November 2026 to 31 March 2027 with advance booking. The limitation: the standard 30 square meter rooms are small for the price, and the pool sits between the building and the road rather than in a garden.

Mid-Range Hotels

In this tier, $90 to $160 a night buys a pool, breakfast and a designed room. The six below were chosen because the pool is a real one, and they are listed by rate, lowest first. The hotels with a pool guide ranks the pools themselves.

1. Memoire d’Angkor Boutique Hotel

The honest verdict: a pool hotel a 3 minute walk from the Old Market. At 54 Sivatha Road, with 48 rooms and suites, a main pool and a restaurant. The Old Market is a 3 minute walk and Pub Street 5, which puts it inside the noise radius of the bars but on the traffic side rather than the music side. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator rates for late October 2026 ran from $42 to $62 a night. The limitation: Sivatha Road is the busiest road in town and the rooms facing it hear it from 5:00 a.m., so ask for a pool-facing room.

2. Rambutan Hotel & Resort

The honest verdict: two garden properties on a pedestrian lane, at mid-range rates. Two neighboring properties on a pedestrian lane across the river from the Old Market, each with a tropical garden, a saltwater pool and village-style buildings, with around 26 rooms in total including Deluxe Terrace rooms with outdoor bathtubs and split-level Balcony Villas. A restaurant, a bar and a spa are shared. The hotel describes itself as eco-friendly, social and LGBTQ+ friendly. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator rates for late October 2026 ran from $53 to $92 a night. The limitation: the two pools are small, the lane floods briefly in heavy rain and the social positioning means the bar is lively in the early evening.

3. The Aviary Hotel

The honest verdict: a 43-room hotel with a pool and published rates, west of Sivatha Boulevard. At 9 Tep Vong Street, in the Steung Thmei neighborhood a 7 minute walk from Pub Street, with 43 rooms in bird-themed categories, a pool at the center of the building and a restaurant. The hotel publishes rates on its own site: $74 to $81 with breakfast in the 2026 green season, and a three-night package at $232. The limitation: the published rate card also showed a $550 deluxe category and several categories with no rate loaded, so confirm the price before booking, and the building is tall enough that lower rooms get little sun.

4. Navutu Dreams Resort & Wellness Retreat

The honest verdict: a garden resort with three pools and a family room. Twenty-eight rooms and suites across more than a hectare of gardens in Sala Kamreuk, less than 10 minutes by tuk-tuk from the center, 25 minutes from Angkor Wat and about an hour from the airport, with the Angkor ticket office on the way. Three outdoor pools, two of them saltwater, two yoga shalas, a spa and a restaurant. The Grand Tour Family room is 70 square meters with a sofa bed and space for a cot, and every room takes an extra bed. Published 2026 offers were 30 to 35 percent off with breakfast from July to October, with rates from $89 against a list of $137, and wellness packages from $458 for two nights. The limitation: nothing is walkable, the yoga schedule sets the rhythm of the place, and a couple who want a quiet adults-only pool should check which of the three they are near.

5. FCC Angkor by Avani

The honest verdict: a restored 1917 mansion at a mid-range rate. The restored 1917 mansion of the French governor sits on the riverside north of the Old Market near the Royal Residence, with the Heritage Wing in the mansion itself and newer wings added in the 2019 renovation when Avani took over management. Outdoor pool, spa, fitness room, restaurants and a pool bar. The walk to the Old Market along the river takes 10 minutes. Aggregator rates in 2026 ran around $125 to $130 a night in the shoulder months. The limitation: the newer wings are standard hotel rooms and only the Heritage Wing has the mansion’s character, so ask which wing you are booked in.

6. Mane Boutique Hotel & Spa

The honest verdict: an 18-room hotel with a saltwater pool and a pool bar. At Angkor High School Road in a residential neighborhood a few minutes from the center and 15 minutes by tuk-tuk from Angkor Wat. Every room has a balcony or patio, the Circle Spa is on site and there is a pool bar. Rates are not published on the site. An aggregator listed a Classic room at $153 for a night in late October 2026. The limitation: the hotel closed for the whole of December 2025 according to its booking listings, so confirm it is operating for your dates, and the location is a side street with a 10 to 15 minute walk to the Old Market.

Hostels

Siem Reap’s hostels are better than the town’s reputation suggests: all three below have pools, air conditioning in the dorms and a bar that closes by midnight on weeknights. They are listed by dorm price, with the hostel that gives only a starting price last. The cheap hotels and hostels guide has the under-$25 list.

1. Onederz Siem Reap

The honest verdict: a hostel with four pools, two minutes from Pub Street. Two minutes from Pub Street and 5 from the Old Market, with four pools open from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., dorms of 4, 6 and 12 beds, private doubles, twins and triples, some with balconies, a restaurant, laundry at $1.50 per kilo and a 24 hour reception. Dorm and room rates are not on the hostel’s site. Aggregator listings in 2025 showed dorm beds from about $5 to $6.50 and private doubles from about $21 to $24. The limitation: at this location and price the dorms are full every night in high season and the pools are social spaces, not quiet ones.

2. Mad Monkey Siem Reap

The honest verdict: the social hostel, chosen on purpose or avoided on purpose. At Rose Apple Road, where the chain moved in 2022, a 5 to 10 minute walk from Pub Street, with two pools, a rooftop bar, a tour desk, laundry and 28 rooms of dorms and privates with air conditioning or fan. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before check-in. Rated 9.8 from more than 4,500 reviews on the main hostel booking platform. The hostel’s own site lists dorm beds from $5.25 to $7.25 and private doubles from $20. The limitation: the bar is the point of the place, so solo travelers who want to sleep before midnight should book a private room on an upper floor.

3. Lub d Siem Reap

The honest verdict: a hostel with a pool and a swim-up bar, on the quiet side of the river. At 7 Makara Street, Wat Bo Village, a 7 minute walk from Pub Street and across the road from the airport bus stop, with a pool, a restaurant and bar, laundry and luggage storage. Check-in runs from 2:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Rated 9.8 from more than 3,000 reviews on the main hostel booking platform, and named third best hostel in Cambodia at that platform’s 2026 awards according to the company. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator listings in 2025 showed dorm beds from about $5 and private rooms from about $21. The limitation: breakfast is not included and costs $5 to $10 cooked to order, and guests have reported that the dorm lockers lack built-in locks, so bring a padlock.

Villas and Apartments for Longer Stays

For a week or more, a villa or a serviced apartment costs less than a hotel and comes with a kitchen. The honest verdict: the whole-house options in Siem Reap are few and sell out for December, and the serviced villa market is aimed at people staying a month. The three options below are listed by nightly price, with monthly rentals last. The villas and apartments guide has the long list.

1. Templation

The honest verdict: villas with private pools near the temple road. At Rok Rak Street in Sla Kram, east of Charles de Gaulle Boulevard and minutes from Angkor Wat, with 50 living spaces, most with private pools, including one, two and three bedroom Pool Villas, Garden rooms and the tent-like Jungloo. Floating breakfasts in the villa pool, a restaurant, spa and gym. The group also runs the MAADS restaurants in town. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator rates for 31 October 2026 ran from $141 to $199 for the entry rooms. Pool villas were not priced. The limitation: town is a $3 tuk-tuk ride each way and the property is spread out, so the smaller garden rooms are a long walk from the restaurant.

2. Maison Polanka

The honest verdict: three wooden villas on one garden with a pool, rented as houses. At Upper East River Road, north of Wat Polanka on the east bank, 10 minutes by tuk-tuk from the Old Market. The Khmer House sleeps two, the Garden Cottage four and the Maison eight, around a pool on a wooden deck that doubles as a dining terrace. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator rates for 1 November 2026 ran from $385 to $468 a night. The limitation: with three units the property books out months ahead for December and January, and the location is a village road with no restaurants within walking distance.

3. Serviced villas in Sala Kamreuk

The honest verdict: for a month or longer, this is the neighborhood and the price. Listings on the main Siem Reap property agencies in October 2026 offered furnished one-bedroom serviced villas in Sala Kamreuk at $800 a month and two-bedroom villas at $900 a month, with pool access, housekeeping and pets allowed, with electricity billed separately. Monthly rentals on the home-sharing platforms cover the same area and Wat Bo. The limitation: these are month-to-month contracts aimed at remote workers, deposits are a month’s rent, and the villas are 10 minutes by tuk-tuk from the center with no public transport.

Resorts Beyond the Center

Siem Reap’s large resorts sit on National Road 6 and Road 60, with the convention trade. The three are listed by rate, lowest first. The honest verdict: they make sense for families who want a very large pool and for anyone who treats the hotel as the destination. They make less sense for a three-night temple trip, because every meal and every market is a ride away.

1. Borei Angkor Resort & Spa

The honest verdict: a mid-priced resort on National Road 6 with family connecting rooms. At Banteay Chas on National Road 6, a few minutes from the Royal Residence and the Angkor National Museum, with Deluxe and Landmark rooms, Family Connecting Rooms, a Family Suite and suites up to a Royal Suite, a pool and a spa. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator rates for 31 October 2026 ran from $46 to $106 a night. The limitation: National Road 6 is a highway with no footpath worth using, so the hotel’s free shuttle timetable decides when you eat in town.

2. Sokha Siem Reap Resort & Convention Center

The honest verdict: a large convention resort with a big pool, for a family that does not plan to walk anywhere. Beside its own conference and exhibition center, 10 minutes by car from the center and about an hour from the airport, with the temples a few minutes from the gate, the Jasmine Spa, a fitness center and several restaurants. Rates are not published on the site. Aggregator rates for 30 October 2026 ran from $59 to $109 a night. The limitation: the resort fills with conference delegates and large tour groups, and the scale means a long walk from room to pool to breakfast.

3. Phum Baitang

Covered under luxury above, but it belongs in this list too: 15 minutes west of the center in rice fields, with 45 villas and the 50 meter pool. Green-season rates start around $310. It suits a family or a couple who want the countryside and will accept a drive for every outing.

Prices by Season and When to Book

Siem Reap’s hotel prices follow the weather and the Chinese and Western holidays, in that order. The hotel prices and when to book guide has month-by-month figures. The shape of the year:

Mid-December to mid-January. The highest rates and the only time minimum stays are common. Phum Baitang requires three nights from 20 December to 11 January. Boutique hotels with fewer than 50 rooms sell out two to three months ahead. Christmas week and the first week of January can run 30 to 60 percent above the February rate for the same room. The December and January guide covers the crowds.

Late January to March. High season without the holiday premium. The weather is dry and the temperatures climb through March. Hotels are full but not sold out, and four to six weeks’ notice is enough for most. Lunar New Year brings a short spike of regional visitors.

April. The hottest month and Khmer New Year in the middle of it, when Cambodian families fill the mid-range resorts and the Road 60 strip for three days. Book that week early, and expect pool time to be the whole afternoon. The Khmer New Year guide explains the week.

May to October. The green season. Rain falls in the afternoon and the rice fields turn green, the temples empty after lunch and the hotels discount. The published 2026 offers tell the story: Treeline Urban Resort at 22 to 37 percent off, Navutu Dreams at 30 to 35 percent off with breakfast, Phum Baitang’s shoulder rate from around $310. Booking a week ahead is fine, and last-minute rates in July, August and September are the lowest of the year. The rainy season guide says what the rain actually does to a temple day.

November. The rains stop, the rates step up and the first big tour groups arrive. The window between 1 November and 15 December is the best combination of weather and price in the year. The best time to visit guide weighs it month by month.

Two booking rules hold across the year. First, compare the direct rate with the booking sites, because neither is cheaper at every hotel, and a direct booking can usually name a quiet room. Second, read the pickup policy: Jaya House includes the airport transfer for two nights or more and charges $35 each way for a one-night stay, and most hotels charge $25 to $40.

By Situation: Quick Recommendations by Traveler Type

You are a first-timer with three nights

Wat Bo. Rambutan for a lower rate, Viroth’s Hotel for a published rate, a 20 meter pool and a 7 minute walk to dinner, Angkor Village Hotel on Street 26 for older timber buildings with no published room-only rate. All are about 15 minutes from the temples. The three-day itinerary assumes a Wat Bo base.

You are a couple who want quiet and a pool

Jaya House River Park if the budget runs to $300, for the two pools. Heritage Suites for a private plunge pool or steam room under $450. Rambutan Hotel & Resort for saltwater pools and a quiet lane under $130. Avoid anything within two blocks of Pub Street.

You are on a honeymoon

Phum Baitang for the 50 meter pool over the rice fields and the Pool Villas. Amansara if money is not the question. The Bensley Collection villas at Shinta Mani for a private lap pool a 10 minute walk from town. The honeymoon guide covers private temple mornings and where to eat.

You are a family with children under 12

Sala Lodges for the two-bedroom House Pi & Bei. Navutu Dreams for three pools and the 70 square meter family room under $150. Borei Angkor or Sokha for a large resort pool on the Road 6 side. The Siem Reap with kids guide and the family hotels guide cover the stairs, the heat and the early breakfasts.

You are on a budget

Lub d for a hostel bed on the quiet side of the river with a pool. Onederz for four pools two minutes from Pub Street. Mad Monkey if the bar is the point. The Aviary or the western half of Sok San Road for a private room with a pool under $80. The daily budget guide shows what the rest of the day costs.

You are a photographer chasing the light

Templation or Amansara on the temple side of town, to be at the Angkor Wat moat 5 to 10 minutes after leaving the room. Failing that, any Wat Bo hotel: the difference is 10 minutes at 5:00 a.m. The Angkor Wat sunrise guide says where to stand and when to leave.

You are staying a month

A serviced villa in Sala Kamreuk at $800 to $900 a month, or a monthly rental in Kandal Village. Maison Polanka for a week with a group. Treeline for a long stay with the city at the door.

What It Actually Costs

The figures below are planning estimates for 2026 in US dollars, high season unless stated. Hotels in Siem Reap quote in dollars and change under $1 comes back in riel at roughly 4,000 to the dollar. Breakfast is included above the hostel tier unless noted. Taxes and service are usually included in the quoted rate at small hotels and added at 10 percent plus 10 percent at the international chains, so ask. The money guide covers the notes and the change.

Item	High season (Nov to Mar)	Green season (May to Oct)	Notes
Hostel dorm bed	$5 to $9	$5 to $9	Onederz, Lub d, Mad Monkey, 2025 and 2026 listings
Hostel private double	$15 to $40	$19 to $24	Listings for 1 November 2026, 2025 and June 2026
Guesthouse or budget hotel with pool	$35 to $60	$25 to $45	Sok San Road, Wat Bo back streets
Mid-range hotel with pool and breakfast	$90 to $160	$60 to $110	FCC Angkor, Navutu Dreams, The Aviary
Boutique hotel, under 50 rooms	$140 to $350	$100 to $250	Viroth’s from $139 published, Jaya House around $338 in January
Luxury room or villa	$300 to $700	$250 to $500	Phum Baitang from about $310 to $400 green season, Park Hyatt $191 to $699, Raffles
Amansara suite	$1,400 to $1,650	Similar, packages vary	Third-party listings, two-night minimum on the advance package
Extra bed for a child	$25 to $100	Same	Heritage Suites $25 (ages 4 to 11), Phum Baitang $95 to $100 (ages 4 to 16)
Airport bus	$8 per person	Same	Drops at 7 Makara Street, Wat Bo, not at hotels
Official airport car	$35 per vehicle	Same	Up to 7 people. Minivan $40 to $45
Hotel airport pickup	$25 to $40	Same	Free at Jaya House for 2 nights or more
Tuk-tuk, hotel to Old Market	$2 to $5	Same	$3 to $5 from the outlying hotels, 2026 guides. Free on foot from Wat Bo
Tuk-tuk, full temple day	$18 to $25	Same	Small circuit, 2026 guides. Sunrise adds $3 to $5. Banteay Srei day $25 to $35
Laundry	$1.50 to $3 per kilo	Same	Onederz publishes $1.50

Two costs that are not on hotel websites: the $37 one-day Angkor Pass, or $62 for three days, which no hotel includes unless it says so, and the tip for the tuk-tuk driver who waits four hours at the temples, usually $2 to $5 a day. The Angkor Pass guide covers the ticket.

What Other Guides Get Wrong

1. Listing closed hotels. Belmond La Résidence d’Angkor is closed and still appears in most 2026 round-ups. Several others have changed names or management. A list that has not been checked this season is a list of places that may not exist.
2. Ranking neighborhoods as if the town were large. The difference between a Wat Bo hotel and a Charles de Gaulle hotel for a sunrise is 10 minutes at 5:00 a.m. on empty roads. Choose by pool, noise and walkability to dinner, not by minutes to Angkor Wat.
3. Calling every pool a pool. A 1.2 meter deep pool in full afternoon sun is a water feature. The question to ask any hotel is whether the pool has shade and a deep end at 2:00 p.m., because that is the only time you will use it.
4. Treating “near Pub Street” as a benefit. It is a benefit until 11:00 p.m. and a cost after. Hotels two blocks away or across the river are a 7 minute walk and a different night’s sleep.
5. Quoting one price for the year. The same room costs 30 to 60 percent more in Christmas week than in September, and the green-season discounts of 22 to 37 percent published by hotels in 2026 are not promotional noise. A guide that says “rooms from $X” without a month is not saying much.
6. Describing the new airport as if it were the old one. The old airport was 15 minutes from town. Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport is about 50 km east and 50 to 70 minutes by road, which changes the arithmetic of a late arrival and makes the $8 airport bus and the $35 official car a real decision rather than an afterthought.

The Airport Transfer

Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport, code SAI, opened in late 2023 about 50 km east of the center along National Road 6, replacing the old airport that was 15 minutes from town. Budget 50 to 70 minutes for the drive. The options, in order of price:

The airport bus costs $8 per person each way, or $15 return, and runs from the arrivals hall roughly every hour to 90 minutes from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., with the last departure to the airport from town at 7:00 p.m. It drops at the bus station on 7 Makara Street in Wat Bo, in front of the ACE school and across from Lub d, not at your hotel. From there Wat Bo hotels are a short walk and the Old Market a $2 tuk-tuk ride. A separate Cambodia Post shuttle also charges $8 and drops at the post office on the riverside, with advance booking required.

The official car counter in the arrivals hall charges $35 per car for up to seven people and $40 per minivan for 8 to 15 people. Private taxis outside the official counter quote around $25. Ride-hailing apps, Grab and PassApp, have quoted $19 to $25 depending on the hour and driver availability, and the pickup point is signed.

Hotel pickups cost $25 to $40 at most hotels, and some include them: Jaya House River Park includes the transfer for stays of two nights or more and charges $35 each way for one-night stays. Amansara and Phum Baitang include transfers in most packages. For arrivals after 10:00 p.m., when the bus has stopped, the hotel pickup or the official car is the choice. The airport to city guide and the airport guide cover the terminal, the SIM counters and the visa queue.

Detailed Guides

• Best area to stay in Siem Reap settles Old Market versus Wat Bo versus the resort strip, with a decision rule rather than a ranking.
• Boutique hotels in Siem Reap names the hotels under 50 rooms that earn the word and the ones that only use it.
• Siem Reap hotels with a pool measures the pools that are swimmable and shaded at 2:00 p.m.
• Honeymoon hotels in Siem Reap pairs the hotels with private temple mornings and the dinners worth booking.
• Family hotels in Siem Reap finds the connecting rooms, shallow ends and 6:00 a.m. breakfasts.
• Luxury hotels in Siem Reap explains what $300 and $1,500 a night actually buy here.
• Hotels near Angkor Wat measures how close you can get and whether the minutes matter.
• Cheap hotels and hostels in Siem Reap lists good beds under $25 and the ones to skip.
• Siem Reap hotel prices and when to book gives the month-by-month curve and the booking windows.
• Hotels in Wat Bo goes street by street on the quiet side of the river.
• Villas and serviced apartments in Siem Reap covers weekly and monthly stays with a kitchen.
• Siem Reap neighborhoods explained describes what each part of town feels like at 7:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m.

Where to Go Next

With the hotel chosen, the next decisions are the ticket and the mornings: the Angkor Pass guide explains the $37, $62 and $72 options and where to buy, and the Angkor Wat sunrise guide tells you whether the 4:30 a.m. pickup is worth it from your side of the river. For the shape of the whole trip, the three-day itinerary is built around a Wat Bo base and the midday pool, and the evening shows guide fills the hours between the pool and the early night.