SihanoukVille, Cambodia's Beach Resorts in 2011.

SihanoukVille's beach resort scene is expanding as planned.

The islands are all opening up (except for Mirax Island which has been open quite some time now)

The bridge to Morakot Island (Snake Island) is finished, and construction begins on the island

Both Sokha Resort Hotel and Independence Hotel have finished and opened several (hundred) new rooms and are finishing up additional buildings.

 

 

No information on the second hotel being built by the Sokha group on Ocheteaul Beach.

Cruise ship arrivals to SihanoukVille sometimes occur a few times in a week.

Sokha Resort opened up Sokha Vegas Casino, just off the lobby of the hotel.

Several small scale resort have opened up around SihanoukVille

And the SihanoukVille Airport is scheduled to open late 2011 or 2012 for flights to and from Siem Reap.

SihanoukVille, Cambodia Beach and Island Resorts in 2010.

SihanoukVille, Cambodia is seeing a boom in it's resort and island scene in 2010.

Sokha Resort is doubling the number of rooms at it's current location, including dozens of bungalows on the lake, and building a 1,000 room resort a couple kilometers away.

Independence Hotel is also adding on new rooms, gardens and dining, and beach access, which will be finished by April 2010.

We've had a number of mini-resorts, smaller places with swimming pools, come on-line in the last few months.

None of SihanoukVille's islands, except for Mirax, have a full fledged resort, but in about 5 years, a couple dozen islands will.  A bridge, which will take 3 years to build is halfway through construction from the new marina to the island formerly known as Snake.

2010 looks like another busy year for SihanoukVille's Resorts.

Sunny SihanoukVille, Cambodia

The beach resorts in SihanoukVille, Cambodia look to have their busiest year, starting with the November 2009 tourist season.

There's set to be a record number of cruise ships docking at the SihanoukVille Port, and many of the larger resorts on or near the beach are fully booked for several months straight.

Several new "mini resorts" have or will have opened by November of this year, all with swimming pools. And plans and construction on much bigger projects than we've ever seen in this town are underway.

Speculation that the SihanoukVille Airport will open to regularly scheduled flights has yet to be confirmed, but it's definitely maybe coming soon.

This past July saw a record number of rainy season tourists, and the sun is starting to shine again here in Sunny SihanoukVille.