Regent Hotels will launch its newest Asian resort, The Regent Phuket Cape Panwa in Phuket in March 2009. The first Regent resort in Thailand, The Regent Phuket will join other award-winning Regent Hotels Resorts in Asia, including The Regent Beijing and The Regent Shanghai.

The 106-room resort will overlook Cape Panwa’s picturesque secluded bay. The 48 terrace rooms, 22 deluxe villas, 35 pool villas and one presidential villa at The Regent Phuket will all feature private ocean-view balconies.

Accor will add 7 properties in Thailand under the Novotel, Mercure, All Seasons and Ibis brands to its current local network of 39 hotels.
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“Thailand has been a popular tourist destination for a long time with a very diversified leisure offer, Accor’s expansion will provide tourists and business travelers more [...]

LAYAN BEACH: This is one of those oddities of nomenclature. Layan Beach is actually not in Layan Bay. It’s at the north end of Bang Tao Bay, just south of Layan Bay.
Five years ago this was one of the quietest, most delightful stretches of beach on the island. Now, with the construction of multi-million-baht homes [...]

HAAD SAI GAEW: In English, Crystal Sands, this is at the northern end of Mai Khao Beach, curving round the top of the island and along the shore of the waterway between Phuket and the mainland. Since most people arrive in Phuket by air and leave the same way, few ever see the island to [...]

Phuket has some of the world’s most fabulous beaches, with powdery white sand and warm, clear water under skies as blue as angels’ eyes.
But Phuket also has a lot of visitors, and on the most popular beaches – Patong, Kata, Karon – there are times when you can hardly see the sand for bodies ripening [...]