Mad Monkey is a known party/social hostel with locations throughout southeast Asia and other countries. It was one of the reasons we wanted to stay. My friends and I are all very social and wanted a place where we could have fun, drink, party and still enjoy the island.
Mad Monkey offers a variety of events and excursions throughout the week. Several days have nightly themes like “pizza night” with their stone oven. A few of the nights have shows like fire dancing on the beach. It was nice having options for entertainment versus just drinking.
During the day, there is an option for a USD 10 boating/fishing excursion. The excursion is 4 hours long and includes a free drink, snorkeling, and learning how to fish using the traditional Cambodian method. I HIGHLY recommend adding this to your list because it was such a great time. Even though, I was awful at the fishing part.
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MyBackpackerLife
Love the photos, it looks amazing! I haven’t been there yet but can’t wait to go one day!
Nicole | Mapless Adventures
Thank you! I hope you get to go one day too!
Miranda
The mad monkey hostel looks so fun! My favorite part about backpacking Asia was meeting new people at social hostels!
Nicole | Mapless Adventures
Mad Monkey KRS was insanely fun! I probably partied and socialized too hard, but overall, I meet amazing humans and am actually still friends with some of them! I agree with you about social hostels 🙂
Sarah Arnstein
I have never heard of Koh Rong Samloem before reading this article, but it sounds like such a great time (especially Mad Monkey!). I haven’t made my way to any parts of Asia yet, but I’m hoping to soon 🙂
Nicole | Mapless Adventures
Koh Rong Samoem seems to be coming more and more popular and unfortunately, rumor was that it’s going to be getting built on (maybe resort style). I really hope it’s no because it really is a beautiful place. OOO I’m excited for you to one day get to Asia! I’m that way with South America, which is next on my list!
Jay Artale
Your adventures sounds much better than our experience. We were so excited to visit this island, but made the mistake of staying at the north of the island at M’Pai Bay … a tiny little fishing village, and it was strewn with rubbish, and there was a toilet on the sea at the end of the beach when we arrived. And when we cut our trip short four days later, the toilet was still there. There was so much building work, and it seemed like there was no pride for the idyllic nature of this beach .. we couldn’t wait to get off. But so glad to hear you had a great experience.
Nicole | Mapless Adventures
Oh no. I dove out of M’Pai Bay and I would have to agree. It seemed a little more built up than what you’re explaining, but still didn’t seem all that “fun”. Hopefully, you’ll be able to maybe one day go back (but it’s hard when there are so many other places to visit)! I’m a sucker for a good beach spot!
roshnipatel808
what a great place to scuba dive, cambodia is still on ym bucket list hope to go to koh rong then!
Nicole | Mapless Adventures
I hope you will get to go to Cambodia one day. I really fell in love with the country and wish I could have spent longer there!
Lyne
This look like an amazing place to scuba dive! I would love to go there one day!
Nicole | Mapless Adventures
It’s pretty neat that I can say I dove in Cambodia, however visibility wasn’t all that great. I’d say go dive Thailand or the Philippines (based on several diver recommendations!) But Koh Rong Samloem was an amazing island! High Recommend