Cape Sienna resort scores high in TripAdvisor survey
No beach, but Cape Sienna has jaw-dropping views over Kamala Bay and a chic ambience.
Cape Sienna, the chic cliff-top resort on Millionaires’ Mile, Kamala, is the most romantic hotel in Asia, and the fourth-most romantic in the world, according to the 2010 Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice survey.
Cape Sienna (website here), which opened just 10 months ago, also ranked eighth in Asia in the survey’s “Relaxation & Spa” category.
Apart from Cape Sienna, however, Phuket hotels and resorts were more remarkable for their absence from the survey’s top 10s.
The Sugar Palm in Kata - scores in the 'Trendiest' category.
Only three other resorts made the lists: The Sugar Palm Grand in Kata was the second “Trendiest” in Asia (though it failed to appear in the top 10 worldwide) and the J W Marriott on Mai Khao Beach was fifth and the Holiday Inn, Patong, eighth in Asia in the “Family” category (though neither appear in the worldwide Top 10).
Phuket failed to get into the Top 10 in any of the other categories, which were: Bargain, Best Service, B&B and Inns, All Inclusive and Luxury.
TripAdvisor does not explain its methodology in coming to these results, but according to hotelmarketing.com, the website uses a proprietory search technology “to scour the Web for articles, reviews and opinions published on various travel topics including hotel properties”. The site’s claimed 10 million members are also asked to rate and review properties they have stayed in – and many do so.
HotelMarketing explains (here): “TripAdvisor assigns each hotel a “popularity index” based on the quantity and quality of data.” It then “ranks the hotels in each city and then region based on their web popularity score”.
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