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Phuket resorts review, spas, beach weddings, and a guide to Khao Lak corporate meetings. BEACH ESCAPES A Phuket resorts review for lovers, suits and frazzled families in search of child- friendly digs. Plus romantic beach weddings from rustic Khao Lak in the north down to Cape Panwa. Vijay Verghese. SEE ALSOPhuket guide Bangkok hotels Bangkok shopping Koh Samui resorts Chiang Mai guide Krabi resorts Thai spas Small meetings in Asia Golf Resort weddings Vietnam Resorts Pattaya guide Bali fun guide Yangon Hua Hin Guide Bhutan fun guide Goa resorts review. Banyan Tree Phuket Amanpuri. JUMP TONorth and east Phuket Mai Khao Beach, Nai Thon, Layan Bang Tao Beach and Laguna area Surin and boutique resorts Kamala, Kalim, Nakalay Beach Patong Relax Bay, Karon Beach Kata, Nai Harn, Rawai, and south Phuket Town, Panwa, southeast Khao Lak resorts Hotel Contacts. Sugar white sand at Andaman White Beach on Phuket's west coast at Naithon/ photo: Vijay Verghese.

IF YOUR idea of an exotic Asian holiday is having yourself photographed with baby elephants, screeching jungle birds, and iridescent lizards that will perch comfortably on your shoulder cocking bulbous eyes enquiringly at the camera, call David Attenborough. But if you want the whole ensemble, this time with a transvestite thrown in, draped in little more than a pink feather boa and perhaps a snazzy, if fake, Dior clutch bag, head to Phuket, Thailand. Patong, the neon- emblazoned nightlife strip and budget paradise, is alive with feral promise, chatty t- shirt vendors, burnished bodies, and that ultimate barometer of commercial health, fake DVDs. Take your pick of cut- price knock- offs, from Harry Potter to the intriguing Shaving Private Ryan. It’s all here. Nothing has dented its showy stride - not the tsunami, not the military, not the feeble pens of city planners. A new airport terminal by late- 2. Without further ado, our Phuket resorts review, from luxury hotels with 4.

Santorini whites at The Nai Harn, huge views/ photo: Vijay Verghese. The island remains a huge magnet for top- drawer brands and the latest to stake its claim is the Rosewood Phuket (April 2.

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Patong at Emerald Bay's Tri- Trang Beach. Also in the pipeline are JW Marriott (mid 2. Chalong Bay in the south, Hotel Indigo Phuket Patong (2.

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Park Hyatt Phuket (2. Kempinski Hotel Phuket (2. Siray Bay on the southeast coast closer to the Westin. It's quite a party. Who has the best beach for swimming in Phuket and who has the hidden rocks - for your mother- in- law's next visit?

We'll reveal all. E- mail Page. Print. Hotel Contacts. We include a top Khao Lak hotels guide with several good spa hideaways and family- friendly options. Khao Lak has developed in recent years as the 'old' traditional North European and UK business migrates north in search of quietude and that rustic charm that brought doughty travellers to Phuket in the first place.

This has by no means been a wildebeest Serengeti migration but a steady trickle north as Russian and Chinese menus start appearing in the south. Understanfably, the pace is slower in the far north, and frenetic in the south with some notable exceptions. In north Phuket, beyond the airport, a newer crop of luxury resorts have arrived, creating a welcome counter- magnet to the overcrowded development in central and southern Phuket (which is a mess of traffic and mopeds often driven by inebriated foreigners flouting all the rules after a few Singha beers). This Phuket resort review runs in a straight line north to south, tracing the western coastline from Mai Khao Beach in the north beyond the airport to Promthep Cape in the south where romantics huddle to watch the sunset beneath lazily spinning wind turbines. At the end of our report is our Khao Lak resorts review, where the damage from the Boxing Day tsunami is entirely indiscernible and blotted from memory as the strip grows in stature (though Asians remain reticent) as a popular 'old- Phuket' throwback. Khao Lak is about a 7.

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Naka Island pool/ photo: Vijay Verghese. To get to The Naka Island Phuket, a Luxury Collection offering from Starwood, you'll need to get some sea spray in your hair. The resort is sited on the small Naka Yai island off the northeast tip of Phuket just far enough from the madding crowd to be romantically endearing and close enough to be a 2.

Seclusion and privilege is generously ladled out at 6. Set amidst the stunning Phang Nga Bay and its limestone karst formations, this hideaway is a spoiling escape with far- from- rustic air- conditioning (there are ceiling fans for the heroically inclined), i. Pod docks, 3. 2- inch flat- screen TVs, DVD players, and Wi. Fi. At the i. Pod docks, 3.

TVs, DVD players, and Wi. Fi. At the top- of- the- line 1,6.

Royal Horizon Pool Villa Suite, a vision of blue stretches to infinity from the large timber sun deck and its mirror- still pool. There are two separate split- level thatch- roof villas with a sunken living area littered with deep blue cushions, elevated bedroom with canopied gauze- draped bed draped in 3. TVs, Bose surround sound, i. Pod docks, lounging divans, work desk, and vast bathrooms – one constructed around its own glass- wall greenhouse, with well spaced out twin vanities, toiletries from Remede Spa, and a private steam room. Wireless connectivity is free throughout public areas but, alas, charged in villas. Guests can stay connected on foot, tracing sandy pathways, pootle around on bicycles, or careen about on electric buggies. The gentle, grassy hillocks are no impediment to discovery.

Ubiquitous and quaint, but potentially treacherous after a couple of Singha beers, however, are the overly elevated stepping stones that accompany most paths. Aleenta Pool Suite/ photo: hotel.

A minor niggle. But step wisely. Wellness therapies are set apart in a vast and perfectly manicured, Hobbit- like enclave, with individual treatment villas, meandering ponds, wooden bridges, steam rooms, and a "Watsu massage pool". Attempt a milk bath or a honey mango body polish.

Never try this at home. Leave it to the professionals at Spa Naka. Service is friendly and trundles along at island pace and there is much to explore and discover. Mark this down as a good Phuket spa resorts choice.

North of Phuket in the direction of Khao Lak, about a 2. Aleenta Phuket on the enticing stretch of Natai Beach.