It is quite far from old city, which where the markets, restaurants and tourist shops etc. mainly be. We're renting the room with discount price, around 600bahts per night for a king-size bedroom, very cheap indeed. But we need to pay 200 bahts for 2 people every morning and night for travelling between the resort and the old city. If we joined a tour, the tour guide usually will pick the customers up at hotel. But all the tours(except Chiang Rai tour) told us that our hotel is too far away, and we need to go another place earlier to wait for the pick up.
Tips:
taxi / tuk tuk to our hotel from old city--200bahts for 2 people
red car -- 100 bahts for 2 people
renting a bicycle -- 50bahts for 24 hours
in overall, good environment and helpful staff, english is soso, hv a nice swimming pool but only 1.2m deep