
Sundance Inn & Saloon
Sundance Inn & Saloon is a long-running Western-style bar and guesthouse on Victory Hill with a saloon-themed front room, food menu, and older expat clientele. One of the strip's anchor venues, useful for an evening start before the smaller hostess bars.
Where to stay near Sundance Inn & Saloon
Hotels and rentals within walking distance.
What to Expect
A Western-themed bar with saloon decor, food focus, and older expat regulars. The Victory Hill anchor.
Western-themed anchor bar with food focus and older crowd.
Classic rock, country, kept moderate
Fully casual
Older expats, dinner before bar hopping, and visitors seeking the strip's calmer anchor venue.
USD preferred, riel as change, cards accepted
Price Range
Beer 1.50-2.50 USD, cocktails 3-4 USD, mains 4-7 USD
Beer ~$1.50-2.50/~1.30-2.20 EUR, mains ~$4-7/~3.50-6 EUR
Hours
Daily 8 AM to midnight
Insider Tip
The kitchen handles food better than most strip venues. Useful as the dinner anchor before bar hopping. Guesthouse rooms upstairs are bookable.
Full Review
Sundance Inn & Saloon occupies a building on Victory Hill with the layout running Western saloon-themed format: a front room with saloon-style decor, a back room handling additional seating and the kitchen, a pool table, and guesthouse rooms upstairs. The Western theme runs through the decor (saloon doors, frontier imagery, themed signage) without being caricatured.
The kitchen is the venue's strongest feature within the Victory Hill context. The menu handles Western pub fare (burgers, sandwiches, fish and chips, breakfast plates) alongside Khmer dishes at fair prices ($4-7 USD per main). The food quality is genuinely better than most strip bars, which makes Sundance the natural dinner anchor before visitors move to the smaller hostess bars elsewhere on the hill.
The drinks side is standard Cambodia pricing. Beer at $1.50-2.50 USD, cocktails at $3-4 USD. The bar program is functional and predictable. Happy hour deals run periodically with reasonable discounts on draft beer.
The atmosphere is calmer than the smaller hostess bars throughout the evening. Music plays at moderate volume with classic rock and country dominating. The crowd is heavily older expat regulars based in Sihanoukville, with the longer-stay foreign demographic that Victory Hill attracts forming the regular base. Tourists are uncommon; this is a regulars' bar.
The guesthouse rooms upstairs provide accommodation for visitors who want to base themselves on Victory Hill, though the area's nightlife focus limits the appeal to mostly the regulars-and-longer-stay-visitor segment. Service is friendly and the staff knows many patrons by name. The midnight closing pushes the late-night crowd toward the other Victory Hill venues.
The Neighborhood
Victory Hill (also called Weather Station Hill) sits on the slope above Sihanoukville's deep-water port, north of the city center. The strip is small with 8-10 active bars along a single road, dominated by hostess bars catering to older expat regulars. Sundance Inn anchors the strip and functions as the calmer entry point before visitors move to the hostess bars.
Getting There
Tuk-tuk from Serendipity Beach Road costs 3-4 USD and takes 15 minutes. From Otres, 7-10 USD. Grab and PassApp are usually cheaper. Walking back to your hotel after midnight is not advised.
Address
Victory Hill, Sihanoukville
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