Knai Bang Chatt

25/09/2026

Lunch at The Strand.

Two kitchens, one table. Fish amok steamed in banana leaf. Beef lok lak with a fried egg. Kep crab tartar with avocado. Grilled octopus. Fish and seafood come fresh from the sea off Kep.

Lunch is served à la carte, in the shade of the thatch, facing the water.

Stay this green season from USD 129 per room and per night, with breakfast, bicycles and yoga or spa included, until 31 October. Cambodian ID or proof of residency required at check-in. Subject to availability. No blackout dates.

Book direct: +855 78 888 557 · [email protected]

24/09/2026

Mornings at Knai Bang Chatt start under the thatch, with the garden a few steps from the table. Our own bakery bakes every viennoiserie fresh each morning: croissants, pains aux raisins, sesame buns and a French baguette. Papaya, dragon fruit and pineapple jams. Muesli, seeds and cereals.

Breakfast is included in the green season rate: USD 129 per room and per night, with bicycles and yoga or spa, until 31 October.

Cambodian ID or proof of residency required at check-in. Subject to availability. No blackout dates.

Book direct: +855 78 888 557 · [email protected]
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Breakfast at The Strand 🥐
Viennoiseries baked each morning in our own bakery, tropical jams, muesli and seeds.
Included in the green season rate: USD 129 per room & night, until 31 October. For Cambodian residents.
+855 78 888 557 · [email protected]

22/09/2026

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Leave the city behind. USD 129 per room, per night, until 31 October.
This green season, Knai Bang Chatt opens its doors to Cambodian residents. Eighteen rooms on the Kep shoreline. A still pool at first light, a lawn freshly washed by the rain, a stone room framed by frangipani. No schedule, no noise. Only time to disconnect, and to return rejuvenated.
Included in the rate:
Welcome drink on arrival
Breakfast included
Two bicycles for the length of the stay
Two public yoga sessions, or two 60-minute spa treatments per stay
Cambodian ID or proof of residency required at check-in. Subject to availability. No blackout dates.
Book direct: +855 78 888 557 · [email protected]

16/09/2026

Sam Tharoth walked into her room at Knai Bang Chatt and put her phone down. She did not pick it up again for the rest of the stay.
"When I go to a hotel, I feel like I am in a hotel. This room, I feel like home. I don't know why."
What struck her first was the colour. Green floors, blue-grey walls, a bathroom washed in green, old jars on the shelves.
"Nowadays they only decorate with grey and white. Everything is white. This one is very colourful."
She spent the stay looking at things instead of scrolling. The decoration, the leaves moving outside, the breeze, the sea past the balcony.
"When you are in the city, even in your quiet room, you still feel chaos. Here you just sit down and relax."
Eighteen rooms, at Kep. World Wellness Weekend follows on 18-20 September.
Full story 👉 https://www.kepwest.com/post/i-feel-like-home-sam-tharoth-on-her-room-at-knai-bang-chatt

15/09/2026

Thirty properties in the Minor Hotels group, the St. Regis Bangkok, Niyama in the Maldives… and one independent eighteen-room hotel in Kep.
Knai Bang Chatt holds Platinum certification under Green Growth 2050, recognised by the Global Sustainable Tourism Council: more than 400 indicators, an independent audit every year, 90 percent compliance minimum.
Everything composted on site, organic gardens feeding the kitchen, drinking water bottled in glass on the property, ten mangroves planted for every international booking, and a partnership with Marine Conservation Cambodia in the protected waters of the archipelago.
How does a hotel this small keep pace with the global chains? 👇

https://www.kepwest.com/post/knai-bang-chatt-eighteen-rooms-90-percent-international-compliance-and-a-seat-among-the-global-ch

12/09/2026

10/09/2026

Tharoth Sam is used to cameras, crowds and noise. At the Knai Bang Chatt in Kep, it was the quiet that caught her.
The Cambodian MMA star and actress came to switch off — and ended up in a long conversation with Jef Moons, who arrived in Kep in 2003, restored three old heritage houses, and turned them into the resort you see today. They talked about keeping things small, about the people who make the place, and about the much bigger plan taking shape along the coast: Art for Kep, the mangroves, even an underwater museum.
What stayed with her wasn’t the resort. It was realising there’s a whole part of her own country she hadn’t met yet.
Full story here : https://www.kepwest.com/post/star-fighter-tharoth-sam-finds-far-more-than-a-place-to-switch-off-in-kep

10/09/2026

Tharoth Sam came to the Knai Bang Chatt to breathe. She left wondering how little she knew of her own coast.
The Cambodian MMA star and actress (First They Killed My Father) sat down in Kep with Jef Moons — the man who arrived in 2003, restored three heritage houses, and turned them into one of the country’s most singular resorts. What begins as a quiet weekend by the sea turns into a bigger question: what is being built along this stretch of coast, and who is it for?
In this conversation:
– Why Moons keeps the Knai Bang Chatt deliberately small — 18 rooms, and a refusal to call it a “hotel”
– Why he calls his staff the resort’s main asset
– Kep West’s wider push: Art for Kep, the Crab & Co table, Kep West Wellness
– The Southeast Asian Ocean Gallery, an underwater museum planned over ten years
– A Cambodian champion rediscovering her own coastline through a foreigner who’s called it home for two decades
Knai Bang Chatt · Kep West · Art for Kep — Kep, Cambodia

01/09/2026

Before it was Knai Bang Chatt, it was three modernist villas built in the 1960s for a governor, a relative of King Norodom Sihanouk, and Kep's head of customs — designed by architects trained under Vann Molyvann himself.

Then came the war. For nearly thirty years, the villas sat abandoned, looted, swallowed by the jungle, ghosts of Kep's golden age of New Khmer Architecture.

In the mid-2000s, two Belgian owners and a French architect brought them back to life — without erasing the marks of time. Today, those same villas are the historic heart of Knai Bang Chatt and the wider Kep West estate, home to a Platinum-level sustainable tourism certification and a community programme that has supported hundreds of local families.

Discover the full story of the three villas that survived everything Kep went through — and came out the other side. 👇
https://www.kepwest.com/post/knai-bang-chatt-in-kep-the-story-of-three-villas-saved-from-oblivion

27/08/2026

Twice this September, Knai Bang Chatt pairs with the Vipassana Dhura Center for a retreat built around stillness — and the coming back from it. Before and after your sits, unwind into full KBC access: the pool, the gardens, breakfast each morning, and a private transfer between the resort and the retreat center.

02 & 06 September 2026

Included: KBC–Vipassana Dhura Center transfer · luggage storage · daily breakfast · full resort & wellness access · early check-in, subject to availability

www.kepwest.com/knaibangchatt
+855 78 888 354 / +855 78 888 557
[email protected] | [email protected]

មកដល់ដោយភាពស្ងប់ស្ងាត់ , ត្រឡប់ទៅវិញដោយចិត្តស្រស់ថ្លា
ក្នុងខែកញ្ញានេះ Knai Bang Chatt សហការជាមួយ មជ្ឈមណ្ឌល Vipassana Dhura ដើម្បីផ្តល់ជូននូវបទពិសោធន៍ Retreat ដ៏ពិសេស ដែលរួមបញ្ចូលទាំងការអនុវត្តសមាធិ និងការសម្រាកលំហែកាយក្នុងបរិយាកាសស្ងប់ស្ងាត់។
មុនចូលរួម និងបន្ទាប់ពីបញ្ចប់វគ្គសមាធិ សូមទទួលយកពេលវេលាសម្រាប់ខ្លួនអ្នកនៅ Knai Bang Chatt ដោយរីករាយជាមួយអាងហែលទឹក សួនច្បារដ៏ស្រស់ស្អាត អាហារពេលព្រឹក និងសេវាដឹកជញ្ជូនឯកជនរវាងរីសត និងមជ្ឈមណ្ឌល Vipassana Dhura។

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សិទ្ធិប្រើប្រាស់គ្រប់បរិក្ខារ និងសេវា Wellness របស់រីសត
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www.kepwest.com/knaibangchatt
+855 78 888 354 | +855 78 888 557
[email protected] | [email protected]