The Forest Home Resort — A Bare-Concrete Loft With Triangular Glass in the Sarika Forest
Most resorts in Nakhon Nayok end up looking the same — timber cabins, a small garden, a modest pool. The Forest Home Resort goes the other way. It is a boutique loft-style property tucked into the forest in Sarika, and its signature is a two-storey bare-concrete block whose upper wall is a band of angled, triangular glass that frames nothing but green canopy. There is a glass-box cafe called Tree House and an outdoor pool set against Thai-roofed villas. A note up front: this place still has few online reviews and the scores are mixed — but the people who love this kind of design agree there is little else like it in town.
The first thing you see as the car turns in is the two-storey block: grey bare-concrete walls, navy-blue doors, and an entire upper band of angled triangular glass, with mature trees crowding in so closely the building looks like it grew out of the forest. This is the Deluxe zone, the image most people remember of The Forest Home Resort. Across the property there are roughly 43 rooms split into several zones — Deluxe rooms in the block, two-bedroom villas, three-bedroom homes, and a poolside zone. The scale is right: large enough to feel like a real resort, small enough that you walk past trees rather than crowds.
Inside, the Deluxe rooms run clean white against one deep-green accent wall. The detail that fills phone galleries is the big angled glass wall that, with the curtains drawn back, puts the treetops square in the frame — it genuinely reads like sleeping in the forest. Rooms come with air-con, a TV, a small fridge, a cast-concrete desk, and a little table on the glass terrace for coffee with a view of the trees. One quiet touch: the walkways outside the rooms are laid with blue-and-white patterned tiles set against raw concrete and red-painted steel stair rails — a loft look held consistently across the whole building.
One guest recalls drawing the curtains to "nothing but trees filling the window," waking to near silence broken only by birds and wind, and feeling far from Bangkok despite a drive of barely over an hour.
The outdoor pool is a mid-sized rectangle that faces a cluster of Thai-style villas with tiled gable roofs; in the evening the warm interior lights spill across the water and the cushioned daybeds along the edge make an easy place to lie back. The Tree House cafe is a clear glass box looking onto the green garden, open to non-guests as well as in-house. The menu people talk about includes melon bingsu served inside a real melon, a citrus-tinged cold brew, and vanilla-caramel ice cream topped with caramel popcorn. A late-morning coffee looking into the forest is the moment a lot of guests come here for.
The location is a clear win for the nature crowd. The resort sits in Sarika, a 2-minute drive from Wang Ta Krai Waterfall and not far from Sarika and Nang Rong waterfalls. ATV Nakhon Nayok is only about 180 metres away — close enough to walk over and ride straight into the trees — and Wat Ban Dong is roughly 650 metres on. Nakhon Nayok is an outdoor-activity town built around rafting, ATVs, and cycling, so this works well as a base: head out to play during the day, come back to sleep in the quiet of the forest.
An honest word before you book: the online footprint here is thin and the scores are mixed. Trip.com shows 6.1 from 3 reviews and TripAdvisor around 3.2/5 from 6 reviews. Guests praise the design, the spacious rooms, the gardens, and several friendly staff. The complaints flag Wi-Fi that is not reliable, a breakfast some found plain, a few cleanliness corners that weren't fully covered, and a credit-card surcharge of around 3%. This is a good-looking design resort whose service hasn't quite caught up to its looks — worth knowing so the expectation is set right.
On price, Deluxe rooms start around ฿3,000/night in normal periods. The two- and three-bedroom villas, sized for groups or larger families, rise with headcount. Over long weekends and through the cool season (November–February), when waterfall and Khao Yai traffic peaks, rooms fill quickly and rates climb. Compare Agoda, Booking and Trip.com every time before committing — with a small property like this the promotions can differ noticeably between platforms.
The bottom line: The Forest Home Resort suits travellers chasing loft design in a forest setting — something other than the usual timber-cabin resort — who aren't counting on big-hotel service. Photographers, cafe-hoppers, and groups of friends who want to take over a villa in the woods will enjoy the atmosphere here. But if reliable Wi-Fi or a full breakfast spread sits at the top of your list, weigh it up first, or compare a couple of other resorts in the same area before you book.
Summary from Booking & Agoda
- ✓ Bare-concrete loft design in the forest — unlike the usual resort
- ✓ Spacious rooms with big glass walls onto the green
- ✓ Shady, quiet gardens that are easy to relax in
- ✓ 2-minute drive to Wang Ta Krai Waterfall, close to outdoor activities
- ! Wi-Fi signal is unreliable
- ! Breakfast felt plain to some guests
- ! A few cleanliness corners not fully covered
- ✓ Loft-style rooms photograph well; the triangular glass is the standout
- ✓ Tree House glass cafe looking onto the garden is a nice hang
- ✓ Several staff are warm and easygoing
- ✓ Plenty of parking — good for arriving as a group
- ! Service hasn't quite caught up to the design
- ! Credit-card surcharge of around 3%
- ! Few online reviews and mixed scores — read across several sources
- 💡If you're here for the design and the photos — ask for a Deluxe room in the triangular-glass block; that is the real highlight → the Thai-roofed poolside villas are lovely in a different way and better for groups
- 💡If you need to work or rely on Wi-Fi — allow for a weak signal, which several guests flag → bring a mobile data plan as a backup and you'll be more comfortable
- 💡If you're here for waterfalls and outdoor activities — the Sarika location is a 2-minute drive to Wang Ta Krai and ATV rides are just 180 metres away → use it as a base to head out and return to quiet