Cruise to SihanoukVille, Cambodia

SihanoukVille now has 7 cruise lines making port calls here. Most every week a cruise ship comes for a day or two now. Also, a new passenger ship company offering short trips from Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam, to SihanoukVille, and possibly to Pattaya and back has begun service. More information as we get it.




Should the SihanoukVille Airport ever be running at full capacity, quick trips to Angkor Wat would be possible, but we're just going to have to wait.

SihanoukVille's tourist resorts have had the best year ever, but the season will probably be shorter due to the financial crisis. Sweden has the most resort tourists coming here in the last 6 months (as usual), but not increasing too much this year. However, Russians, Finnish, Estonians, Norwegians, and English, French, Americans and Australian tourist numbers have been increasing rapidly.

A few of the smaller "resorts" and hotels have increased the number of rooms, Sokha Resort is adding villa type rooms on top of the lake with interconnecting walkways, Independence Hotel has some beachside bungalows planned, and the bridge to Snake Island, (which now has a new name official name, though I can't find it anywhere on the internet), should be completed the middle of 2010.

The SihanoukVille Port is about to go through a $70 million upgrade, and hopefully they'll put in some facilities for cruise ship use, but who knows.

SihanoukVille's Beach Resorts August and September 2008

Not much news on SihanoukVille's Resorts this rainy season.

Sokha Beach Resort has been doing O.K. hosting a few conferences and a fair occupancy rate. They are pretty well booked full for the next few Winter seasons already. The much bigger Sokha Resort planned for Ocheteaul Beach has started construction, and will be ready in a few years.

Independence Hotel is also doing well. The beach side bar is adding a kitchen, and plans are for some bungalow style rooms on the beach.

Mirax Island Resort ????

The Beach Club Resort on Ocheteaul Beach is nearing completion of a couple dozen more rooms, and will be expanding the restaurant offerings in the near future.

Two additions to the "mini" resorts soon, will be Aquarius, behind the Golden Sands Hotel, a small resort style hotel, and the existing Beach Road Hotel will be added to the list after completion of a few dozen new rooms and a swimming pool in the coming months.

Bridge construction is now visible from Victory and Hawaii beaches. The new bridge will link the mainland from the new marina to Snake Island, which is scheduled for a complete makeover.

More islands, which most people didn't know even existed here, have been leased for long time periods for additional resort building.