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| Nui Beach
in Koh Lanta |
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With Krabi’s popularity among tourists growing
fast, 15 new hotels and resorts are currently under
construction.
These include three hotels on Lanta Island: the 78-room
Lanta Cliff Beach Resort and Spa, which is expected
to be completed by the end of 2008; Le Lanta Resort
& Spa with 174 rooms; and the Lanta All Seasons
Beach Resort & Spa, due to open soon with 38 rooms,
with another 80 to be added later.
Just north of Lanta, on Klang Island, the 29-room
Islanda Village Resort just completed the construction
and already opened and by 2010, guests should be booking
into the 164-room Radisson Resort & Spa on nearby
Sriboya Island.
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| Railay
Beach west |
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A second All Seasons hotel is going up at Ao Nang
Beach, a hotspot for new hotels. It will open initially
with 54 rooms. Other projects along the beach include
the Ao Nang Orchid (52 rooms), the Ao Nang Cliff Beach
(146 rooms this year plus 50 in 2009), and the Windahla
Ao Nang Resort & Spa with 75 rooms ranging in
price from 4,500 baht to 10,000 baht a night.
On Railay Beach, just south of Ao Nang, the Bungah
Thani resort will open in September 2008 with 55 rooms.
At Haad Yao Beach, about a third of the way from
Krabi Town to Lanta Island, at least three hotels
are under construction: the Baan Hadyao Resort, with
42 rooms; the Sea House, with nine villas, due to
open in June 2008; and the Co Co Beach Resort, with
12 villas, due to open in November 2008.
Further into the future, Honolulu-based Outrigger
Enterprises Group, which is on a drive to establish
itself in the Asia-Pacific region, starting with two
properties in Phuket, has announced that it is currently
looking at potential hotel projects in Krabi.
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