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Where Can You Find Three-Bedroom Pool Villas for $270 a Night? The Answer: Phuket
The executives of the Outrigger Hotels group, we suspect, are a bit partial to vacationing on Phuket in sunny Thailand. Earlier this year they opened the first Outrigger in Phuket with the Outrigger Serenity Phuket, and from December 1, they're adding yet another spot to stay when the Outrigger Laguna Phuket Resort opens up.
It's part of the Laguna Phuket "destination resort", so it's the kind of place you can go and never venture far away from. Within the Laguna there are some thirty places to get food and drink, there's a spa, and also the Laguna Phuket Golf Course.
If this kind of resort suits you, then pay attention to their opening specials: they've got two-bedroom villas from 6,000 Baht ($180) a night, or three-bedroom pool villas (covering 500 square yards) for 9,000 Baht ($270). Share these villas between four or six people and the prices are already more than reasonable, but they also include breakfast delivered to your villa each morning, transfers, butler service and our pet fave, free WiFi.
Oh, and the deals go through to March 31, 2010. This resort is a place to relax, rather than get cultural, but sometimes relaxing is all you need.
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On-On Hotel Offers History, Leo DiCaprio, and A Lousy Night's Sleep
All this week, HotelChatter's roving correspondent Claire Duffett will be reviewing several beach hotels that she visited during her trip through Thailand. Got questions or suggestions? Send them to us and we'll have Claire answer them for you.
On On Hotel’s name is a little deceptive because it isn’t technically a hotel. It’s more like the hostel from hell… and we mean that in the best way possible. Though we try to steer clear of hostel living, there are times when a place’s historical significance warrants an exception. Plus, we have a motto that always serves us well: If it’s good enough for Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s good enough for us.
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A Taste of Stylish Phuket
All this week, HotelChatter's roving correspondent Claire Duffett will be reviewing several beach hotels that she visited during her trip through Thailand. Got questions or suggestions? Send them to us and we'll have Claire answer them for you.
It took us a while to drag ourselves away from Koh Lanta but we were grateful we took time to explore the Andaman Sea’s other largest island, Phuket. We were particularly grateful that we took a chance and stayed in the city, away from the beach.
Phuket Town is one hip place. With its café-lined streets and residents who are stylish in that pretending-not-to-care way, it’s like the Williamsburg to Bangkok’s Manhattan. So it’s fitting that the capital of Thailand’s largest island offers some understated, ultra-chic boutique hotels.
Case-in-point: The Taste Phuket.
We spotted the unassuming hotel while walking along one of the main streets in the Old Town section of Phuket, which resembles a cross between Paris and Brooklyn. It looked like the store front for an Anthropologie clothing store. White, wrought-iron chandeliers, surrounded by beaded curtains line the hotel’s narrow lobby. Guests sit at tables playing classic board games—typical hipster activity—like Scrabble. Some visitors stop and play a few notes at the upright piano near the entrance.
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Phuket Resorts Jumping on the Mixed-Use Bandwagon
This latest news on Phuket resorts comes from Claire Duffet who is traveling through the area.
Phuket, a beautiful island in the Andaman Sea on the coast of western Thailand, has a serious congestion problem. Everyone wants to see it, and there are loads of hotels cashing in on the island's draw.
So it's refreshing that the en vogue trend there is "mixed-use" development. We have a friend studying urban planning at an East Coat Ivy League grad school. She says whenever someone mentions the term, she and her fellow students moan with pleasure.
That's because constructing buildings that aren't for one single purpose avoids the pour-in, pour-out routine that occurs with condos, hotels, or office buildings surrounded by parking lots.
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Anantara Phuket's Five-Star Version of "Buy One, Get One"
There are some places that simply don’t need another hotel. The poor, overloaded, little island of Phuket is one of them. However, we have to give props to Anantara Phuket Resort & Spa, which managed to find an unspoiled place on the island to build its hotel.
The resort opened its doors on October 1, and has actually done so in an environmentally-responsible way--even building around a rare Banyan tree. Plus, despite Phuket's drawbacks, it's a great jumping off point to see the rest of the Andaman Sea and its beautiful resorts (which we'll be telling you about after we finish taking a gander at this week).
So if you fly into Phuket, it looks like there's now an escape from the sleaze. To boot, the hotel is offering a "buy three nights, get one night free" opening special now through December 23. Rates start around $450 a night which is definitely not a bargain, although it is less than the $900 expected room rate we found over the summer. And it's a fair price for the increasingly popular private-pool-villa resorts popping up throughout Asia.
One night at Anantara Phuket: $450. Skinny-dipping mid-day...priceless.
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Anantara Wants You to Play With Sea Cows in Si Kao
Where: 198-199 Moo 5, Had Pak Meng-Changlang Road, Tambol Maifad, Amphur Sikao, Trang, Thailand, 92150
Surely you thought we were clever and hilarious for the "Sea Cow in Si Kao" headline, but we must give credit where credit is due.
To the cute and funny folks over at the upcoming Anantara Si Kao in Si Kao have been using this clever and hilarious line as part of their marketing efforts for their soon-to-open Thailand property.
Located on Chang Lang Beach, the hotel is opening up in December -- hot on the heels of the Anantara Phuket -- in an area famous for its manatees.
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Coming Soon to Northern Phuket: Another Eco-Friendly Anantara
Opening up later this year, the Anantara Phuket Resort & Spa is away from the overly-touristed Phuket areas, and will be at the Mai Khao Beach on the northern shore of Phuket instead. They're putting the finishing touches on 83 villas that each have their own infinity pool (we love this) and are arranged around a lagoon in the style of a traditional southern Thai village.
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