Phuket Hotel Updates
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Rungtip Hongjakpet Izmen
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Scheduled to open on April 1 this year, La Flora Resort is right
on the edge of Patong Beach, next to the Impiana Phuket Cabana Resort.
La Flora has 67 rooms and villas, all designed in contemporary
style and ranging from the Deluxe room at 43 square metres to the
169-square-metre Beach Grand Pool Villa. Each of these villas has
a private sun deck, bedroom and separate living room with dining
area.
Apart from eating in the privacy of their own villa, guests may
choose between the Current of the Sea Restaurant – which serves
international and Thai food – and the dramatic Surface Bar
on the roof, overlooking Patong Bay, which offers a wide selection
of cocktails, wines, snacks and refreshments.
Room service will be staffed around the clock, as will the cashier’s
desk and currency exchange. A doctor will also be on call 24 hours
a day.
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La Flora Resort Patong has rooms available on Latestays
with special bargains for the next 28 days, starting at 4,500 THB
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Sweet resort in Karon
After a thorough program of refurbishment, the former C.S. Resort
in Karon was relaunched in January as the Sugar Palm Karon Resort.
The resort sits in the heart of the small town of Karon, with its
shops and entertainment, and yet is also just a few minutes’
walk from the beach.
The Sugar Palm Karon Resort has three types of rooms: 30 Deluxe
rooms, 44 Deluxe Pool View rooms and 15 Deluxe Pool Access rooms.
The resort is 10 minutes’ drive from Patong, 30 minutes from
Phuket City and 45 minutes from Phuket International Airport.
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Dusit Laguna Villas to Open in Mid-July
In Mid-July, the Dusit
Thani Laguna Phuket will launch its new Dusit Laguna Villas,
aimed at pleasing guests who want spacious luxury accommodation
combined with Dusit’s “Thai way of life”.
The villas are three-storey terraced properties sited within the
grounds of the Dusit Laguna Phuket. Though privately owned, they
are available to guests when the owners are not in residence, and
are managed by Dusit.
Each villa has two bedrooms with sea or garden views and en-suite
bathrooms on the ground floor. The next level features a kitchen,
dining and living room with a scenic view and extended terrace.
On the top floor will be a roof-top pool, outdoor shower and private
sun-deck.
Services include a private daily American breakfast at La Trattoria
restaurant, daily fresh fruit platter, private check-in and welcome
drinks upon arrival, complimentary soft-drinks from the minibar,
24-hour butler service, flight booking and confirmation, taxi/limousine
calling services, laptop and hi-speed Internet service, sun loungers
in a private area on the beach, bicycles upon request and a 10%
discount on spa and other hotel facilities.
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Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket has rooms available on Latestays
with special bargains for the next 28 days, starting at 3,740 THB
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Outrigger to manage West Sands Resort
Hawaii-based Outrigger Enterprises Group has been contracted to
manage the 400-room luxury hotel that is to be built as part of
the West Sands development on Mai Khao Beach, near Phuket International
Airport. The West Sands Outrigger Resort, as the hotel will be known,
will be built as part of Phase 2 of the development, and is expected
to open by the end of 2009.
This is Outrigger’s first foray into Thailand, but the company
already manages 24 hotels and resorts in the Hawaiian Islands and
one each in Guam, Fiji, Bali and Australia. The company is also
looking at further projects in Thailand and Bali, as well as others
in Vietnam and on Hainan Island in China.
Amenities at West Sands will include a water park, a beach club,
a fitness center, tennis courts, a holistic fusion spa and a selection
of retail shops and restaurants.
Although not yet complete, West Sands received the 2007 Lighthouse
Club Green Development Award for its approach to environmental preservation.
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