Rosy Guesthouse is a small, family run guesthouse in Siem Reap. We have 13 rooms (9 en suite and 4 shared bathrooms) in a French colonial style Khmer villa on the East bank of the Siem Reap River, opposite the royal gardens.
The owners, Simon Tufts and Rachel Band, both from the UK, meet in Siem Reap in January 2005 and have been running the Rosy Guesthouse together since then, Simon was already running the guesthouse since October 2004. Since that time the guesthouse has changed a lot; constant renovations and decoration, additions to the rooms and communal areas to make them more comfortable and convenient for guests.
Siem Reap has changed immensely in this time too. Back in 2005 our road was unpaved, there was hardly any pavements in or around the town and free WiFi was unheard of due to the massively expensive internet connection. Now Siem Reap is cleaned, paved and with free WiFi as standard; a booming tourist destination. As Siem Reap is opening up more and more to the international traveller as are the options of tours, adventures and trips that can be taken. Our combined 12 years experience in Cambodia makes us a great source of knowledge on local and regional sights, activities and travel advice.
In Early 2011 we were lucky enough to be selected for the pilot ISTC’s Skills Exchange which saw us partnered with Steve Lowy from umi Hotels. Steve came over to Siem Reap for two weeks to help us develop many areas of our business from administration and budgeting forecasts in the office, social media tutorials and advice, and many promotional materials including our newly designed logo and this fantastic website! We hope that Steve enjoyed his whirlwind tour of Siem Reap; we were very happy with the results of the exchange, have enjoyed good feedback from guests and staff for all of the changes put in place and have beaten almost every budget forecast so far this year!
Our focus has always been on good value for money and great service for our guests to enjoy their time at Rosy Guesthouse as much as possible. Our team of 15 dedicated local staff work hard to help us achieve this aim and enjoy interaction and conversation with guests from different countries.
One of our main concerns is on reducing our impact on our local environment and helping our local community; we have many energy/water saving initiatives and work with several local charities to help achieve this aim. We are always looking for new ideas or initiatives to support or areas where we can reduce our environmental impact; any suggestions are very welcome.
We look forward to welcoming you to Rosy Guesthouse