Posts Tagged ‘hotel’

Andaman Embrace – new Sino-Portuguese style resort for Patong

Posted on June 8th, 2011 by Alastair Carthew

Andaman Embrace – new Sino-Portuguese style resort for Patong

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

Posted on May 27th, 2011 by Alastair Carthew

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

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Laguna Beach Resort Changing Ownership

Posted on March 4th, 2011 by Alastair Carthew

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.

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Amari Plans Two New Hotel Developments in Phuket

Posted on February 25th, 2011 by Alastair Carthew

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.

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Khaolak Cassaway Resort – New Development by Kata Group

Posted on February 24th, 2011 by Alastair Carthew

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.

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Laguna Sheraton to Become Angsana Laguna Phuket

Posted on February 9th, 2011 by Alastair Carthew

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.

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Singapore’s Como to run Yamu hotel on Phuket’s east coast

Posted on January 19th, 2011 by Alasdair Forbes

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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Phuket’s iconic Boathouse sold to Trisara owners

Posted on January 10th, 2011 by Alasdair Forbes

Phuket’s iconic Boathouse sold to Trisara owners

Mom Tri’s Boathouse, the island’s first five-star boutique hotel, which opened 21 years ago on Kata Beach, has been sold to the owners of the luxury Trisara resort.

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Big Boss visits Centara Grand Phuket

Posted on November 30th, 2010 by Alasdair Forbes

Big Boss visits Centara Grand Phuket

The Chairman of Central Plaza Hotels Suthikiati Chirathivat – who’s also a director of Central Pattana, which owns Central Festival Phuket among other things – came to Phuket at the weekend with a couple of dozen Bangkok journalists to check out his latest creation, the 262-room 2.3-billion-baht Centara Grand Beach Resort on Karon Beach.

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Phuket resorts score in World Travel Awards

Posted on October 15th, 2010 by Alasdair Forbes

Phuket resorts score in World Travel Awards

The Indigo Pearl Resort and the Dusit Laguna Resort have both scored awards in the annual “Oscars of the travel world” – the World Travel Awards.

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