SihanoukVille, Cambodia Beach and Island Resorts in 2010.

SihanoukVille, Cambodia is seeing a boom in it's resort and island scene in 2010.

Sokha Resort is doubling the number of rooms at it's current location, including dozens of bungalows on the lake, and building a 1,000 room resort a couple kilometers away.

Independence Hotel is also adding on new rooms, gardens and dining, and beach access, which will be finished by April 2010.

We've had a number of mini-resorts, smaller places with swimming pools, come on-line in the last few months.

None of SihanoukVille's islands, except for Mirax, have a full fledged resort, but in about 5 years, a couple dozen islands will.  A bridge, which will take 3 years to build is halfway through construction from the new marina to the island formerly known as Snake.

2010 looks like another busy year for SihanoukVille's Resorts.

Sunny SihanoukVille, Cambodia

The beach resorts in SihanoukVille, Cambodia look to have their busiest year, starting with the November 2009 tourist season.

There's set to be a record number of cruise ships docking at the SihanoukVille Port, and many of the larger resorts on or near the beach are fully booked for several months straight.

Several new "mini resorts" have or will have opened by November of this year, all with swimming pools. And plans and construction on much bigger projects than we've ever seen in this town are underway.

Speculation that the SihanoukVille Airport will open to regularly scheduled flights has yet to be confirmed, but it's definitely maybe coming soon.

This past July saw a record number of rainy season tourists, and the sun is starting to shine again here in Sunny SihanoukVille.

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.

New resort building update

Sokha's resort construction behind the golf course has slowed down a bit. This could be due to the $1 Billion new Sokha resort just starting on Bokor Mountain. First, they need to take 3 years to build a 30 million dollar road to the top. The Sihanoukville effort has graded the land that was once hills and ponds for the abandoned golf course.

The bridge to Snake (Russian) Island hasn't been started yet. But there are rumours.

The marina on Hawaii Beach is slowly nearing completion. Several of the condo's have been sold.

No news on any construction on the islands, but they have mostly been bought out by large consortiums, with promised golf courses, airports, casinos, race tracks, and the like.

it for now.