After reading the reviews, I was convinced I wanted to choose the Centara. A nice, large room (junior suite), very friendly, helpful, and attentive staff, a great breakfast buffet, and last but not least, a beautiful swimming pool convinced me to choose the Centara. This allowed us to promise our son that if he came with us to Chiang Rai, he could spend the entire next and last day in the pool. However, we were all, especially our son, very disappointed. The staff informed us that the pool was closed for maintenance for another three days…! So we had to take our swimming gear home unused. Very, very disappointing.