The Andaman Embrace Resort & Spa, due to open in December, will be Patong’s new Sino-Portuguese resort.
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Mövenpick to open second Phuket hotel
Swiss hotel operator Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts will open a second hotel on Phuket’s Bang Tao Beach West Coast at the resort formerly known as The Palm Beach Club
Read the rest of this entry »Surin beach continues its upward climb
Surin Beach, on Phuket’s west coast, has become “the” fashionable place to be.
Read the rest of this entry »Banyan Tree Spa, Phuket One of Best in the World
Banyan Tree Spa in Phuket, next to the Banyan Tree Hotel and Laguna Phuket Golf Club, has again been voted by readers of Condé Nast Traveller, the “Bible” of travel magazines, one of the top 25 spas in the world.
Read the rest of this entry »Laguna Beach Resort Changing Ownership
Laguna Hotels & Resorts Plc., which jointly owns Laguna Beach Resort, is to sell its shareholding in the hotel for B723.56 million to Laguna Phuket Club Co. Ltd, a Thai company controlled by Real Estate Equity Partners, an Asian focused real estate private equity fund.
Read the rest of this entry »Amari Plans Two New Hotel Developments in Phuket
Amari Estates, an established Thai hotel and resort group, will build two new developments, one in Patong and the other at Nai Harn in the south of the island.
Read the rest of this entry »Khaolak Cassaway Resort – New Development by Kata Group
The expansion into Khao Lak in Phang Nga, north of Phuket, by Phuket resort developers continues with the Kata Group announcing plans for a B1.2 billion resort–the Khaolak Cassaway Resort and Spa–to be built in this growing area for destinational resorts.
Read the rest of this entry »Eat Your Way Around the World Banyan Tree Style
Tuesday night is Indian night. On Monday it’s Italian and on Saturday its Thai streetfood.
Read the rest of this entry »Laguna Sheraton to Become Angsana Laguna Phuket
The 419-room Sheraton Grande, one of the longest established five-star hotels on Phuket, will close from 1 July, 2011 for B500 million worth of extensive renovations and refurbishment covering all rooms and public areas and re-open as Angsana Laguna Phuket on 1 December, 2011.
Read the rest of this entry »Singapore’s Como to run Yamu hotel on Phuket’s east coast
The Yamu, the 5-star+ hotel in Phuket that was stalled by the global financial crisis, is once more under construction, and Como of Singapore has been appointed to manage it.
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