"Luxury is currently defined simply by private pool villas," says Phuket-based Bill Barnett, managing director associated with consulting firm C9 Hotelworks.
And with no shortage of fine designs along with private pleasure to select from, international visitors together with large bank accounts may have few problems choosing the perfect location to sit and swill margaritas while they consider inside a private seaview sunset.
Hotel and also resort pool villa rates upon Phuket coming from this November range via 30,000-210,000 baht (US$1,000-$7,000) for each night.Here would end up being the island's leading villa and also suite options, throughout zero specific order.
1. Banyan Tree Phuket
A 14.5-meter-long pool in the Banyan Tree Phuket's DoublePool Villa.When is creating a private swimming pool certainly not enough? Any time you could have two, of course. Banyan Tree's Double Pool Villas -- exclusive private residences that may additionally be a component of the particular hotel's inventory -- front a large lagoon and overlook the greens in the neighborhood Laguna golf course.
Generous gardens at the one- and two-bedroom villas feature any 14.5-meter lap pool crowned with a five-square-meter whirlpool spa. With night, the particular underwater fiber optics twinkle into life, mimicking the celebs above.
The master bedroom pavilion will be encased by simply floor-to-ceiling windows, and the space will be flanked by yet another 110-square-meter wading pool.
Each regarding Banyan Tree's 24 Double Pool Villas has its own reception pavilion, and upon check-in guests get any cell telephone with most the devoted villa host's number upon speed dial.
Daily rates: One-bedroom Double Pool Villa from 50,210 baht. Two-bedroom Double Pool Villa through 88,906 baht.
Double Pool Villas simply by Banyan Tree, +66 (0) 7632 4374. Reservations: phuket@banyantree.com
2. Indigo Pearl
In Indigo Pearl's Coqoon Health Spa Suite, guests get your self a private pool, day spa room in addition for you to their extremely personal Vichy shower bed.The industrial chic style from Indigo Pearl had been inspired through Phuket's tin mining past, thus anticipate surefire and also bronze furnishings, open up concrete slabs, ceiling fans and vaulted ceilings along with exposed beams produced involving outdated railway sleepers.
The centerpiece in the hotel is "The Nest," a new handwoven club nest suspended 10 meters from the ground within the branches of a enormous tree.
For hardcore wellness guests, the particular one-bedroom Coqoon Health Spa Suite comes having a private 9.5-meter swimming pool, the steam and also sauna room, a club room having a pair of rub beds along with a freestanding whirlpool health spa huge sufficient for just two along along with a Vichy shower bed.
Watch out for your hotel's new Pool & Club Villas, to become launched soon.
Daily rates: Coqoon Club Suite via 35,000 baht per night.
Indigo Pearl, +66 (0) 7632 7006. Email: info@indigo-pearl.com
3. Andara
This is actually the identical view Hong Kong tycoon Alan Zeman wakes approximately when he's inside Phuket. Positive beats Lan Kwai Fong. Hong Kong enterprise tycoon Allan Zeman provided Hong Kong night prowlers with Lan Kwai Fong, however for precious moments along with friends as well as family, he built Andara.
"I located a beautiful spot across the bay from my holiday residence about Phuket," says Zeman.
"I built Andara inside the exact same design with all the same breathtaking seaviews, so I may share the experience using others."
Liberal use associated with locally sourced supplies -- makha, teak, mai daeng -- sets a dark tone for the "mystical Thai history" decor theme which runs all through the actual hotel.
The two-bedroom Penthouse Pool Suites use a seven-meter pool about the private access rooftop, while the four-bedroom Pool Villa will come using a 13-meter pool fronted by method of a huge sun terrace and garden.
Daily rates: Two-bedroom Penthouse Pool Suite via US$1,300 (40,215 baht). Four-bedroom Pool Villa via US$3,800 (117,553 baht).
Andara, +66 (0) 7633 8777. Email: reservations@andaraphuket.com
4. Paresa
View regarding the private pool along with adjacent living pavilion from your Cielo Residence's freestanding egg-shaped bathtub.Though not really technically the villa, your Paresa's Cielo Residences extend across the rooftop of a two-story cliffside building, giving the actual suites a private, stand-alone feel.
The one-bedroom units consist of the master bedroom along with a separate living as well as dining pavilion. The Particular shuttered doors can be flung spacious to consider in the sea breeze, or even closed for a quick air-conditioned reprieve from the sunny terrace.
The swimming pool measures eight-meters extended along with has a 270-degree sweeping seaview. Cielo Residences occur using a private butler so visitors don't at just about any time get to depart their particular 660-square-meter pad.
The whole resort only has 49 rooms, making Paresa a refined nevertheless cozy boutique hideaway.
Daily rates: Cielo Residence coming from 41,580 baht for each night.
Paresa, +66 (0) 7630 2000. Email: info@paresaresorts.com
5. Sri Panwa
View from your pool-wrapped master bedroom within Sri Panwa's two-bedroom pool villa.When celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay stayed at Sri Panwa along using his family more than Christmas throughout 2007, he called it his "second home."
World-renowned hoteliers manage to agree together with him.
"It's the best family occasion we've ever endured together," says Robert H. Burns, co-founder of Regent International Hotels.
Meanwhile, the particular president of the Oberoi Group, P.R.S. Oberoi, called it the actual "best personalized support hotel." Not Really bad, coming from a man whose very own hotels constantly feature in the world's "'best-of" lists.
Members involving Bloc Party and massive Attack furthermore enjoyed your digs only at that Phuket resort's F1 after-party bash this September as well as it's easy to discover why.
The pools inside the one- as well as two-bedroom Luxury Pool Villas measure 12 meters, even though the X29 four-bedroom Residence Villa features two pools -- a new 15-meter long plunger about the upper floor, along with a 19.5-meter counterpart below.
Daily rates: One-bedroom Luxury Pool Villa coming from 37,440 baht. Four-bedroom Residence Villa through 150,400 baht.
Sri Panwa, +66 (0) 7637 1000. Email: chill@sripanwa.com
6. Trisara
An aerial view of an ocean front pool villa from Trisara.Perched higher than an exclusive bay, Trisara's 39 villas represent absolutely no nonsense, non-gimmicky tropical cool.
Marble-tiled bathrooms and plenty associated with white paint increase the actual risk for one- and also two-bedroom pool villas refreshingly bright as well as airy.
The 10-meter lengthy infinity pools inside the 240-square-meter, one-bedroom oceanfront pool villa seemingly pour onto treetops with the wide Andaman ocean tantalizingly within reach.
For larger parties, a variety of the 18 residential villas, which range from a couple of to five bedrooms, tend to be put back into the rental pool, with all the huge, four-bedroom ocean front residence holding bragging legal rights thanks to a 30-meter long private pool.
Daily rates: One-bedroom Ocean Front Pool Villa coming from US$1,790 (55,373 baht). Four-bedroom Ocean Front Residence from US$6,600 (204,171 baht).
Trisara, +66 (0) 7631 0100. Email: reservations@trisara.com
7. Anantara Phuket
A one-bedroom sala pool villa in Anantara Phuket. all rooms use a terazzo bathtub set "inside" your pool. Anantara's 83 stand-alone pool villas tend to be reminiscent of a traditional southern Thai village, with almost all the gardens landscaped by Bill Bensley, that has curated grounds for four Seasons, one & only Resorts and also Mandarin Oriental properties.
The garden features any free-form lagoon complete using a resident flock involving ducks. the Sala Villas that look more than it have got al fresco pavilion extensions connected to the villa through a personal wooden walkway throughout the lagoon waters, perfect regarding in-villa massages or as a romantic dining venue.
A significant terrazzo bathtub sits correct from the geometrically shaped 33-square-meter private pool with an outdoor soak, as well as could be accessed through sliding doors from your bathroom.
Daily rates: One-bedroom Pool Villa from 19,500 baht. Two-bedroom Sala Pool Villa from 45,000 baht.
Anantara, +66 (0) 7633 6100. Email: phuket@anantara.com
8. Sala Phuket
View in the al fresco living area in the Sala Phuket villa overlooking the bedroom as well as the freestanding bathtub subsequent towards the private swimming pool. Manicured lawns dotted using white buildings give Sala Phuket any classy, Wimbledon-esque feeling. Subtle Sino-Portuguese motifs offer a nod towards the island's past, adding splashes regarding colour to the in any kind of other case mild palette of the entire property.
In your two-bedroom villa suites, separate bedroom pavilions together with mirrored layouts flank the particular 10-meter long swimming pool, even even though the villa's gate slides ready to always be able to accept reveal your beachside scenery.
The "bathroom" stretches over the side in the building, along with wardrobes and also toilets built straight into recesses in the exterior wall, as well as an outdoor shower in which allows you to feel just like you're inside a garden.
The two-bedroom Presidential Pool Villa is marketed with sunken whirlpool spas throughout each as well as every bedroom, as the one-bedroom Pool Villas arrive having a freestanding, egg-shaped tub with the advantage of the eight-meter pool.
Daily rates: One-bedroom Pool Villa Suite coming from 15,600 baht. Two-bedroom Presidential Pool Villa Suite from 27,300 baht.
Sala, +66 (0) 7633 8888. Email: info@salaphuket.com
9. Amanpuri
The two-bedroom Pool Pavilion at Amanresorts' flagship property within Phuket, Amanpuri. Amanresorts is actually famed regarding its global cult next involving Aman-junkies, and this flagship is how it all started.
Exclusivity may end up being the name associated with the general game (follow road indicators for you to The Actual Surin hotel because there aren't just about any pointing you to Amanpuri), and also mum's the phrase when it will come to high profile guests.
In an article throughout GQ, CNN's Piers Morgan title drops Prince William, Tiger Woods, as well as Kate Moss as fellow past guests. Nevertheless your staff will never tell.
The private pools within the pavilion suites typical nine meters within length, even however the pools within the villas range via 15 in order to greater than 24 meters long.
During substantial season, televisions are provided in request only, encouraging visitors to reside up to the identify "Amanpuri" -- Sanskrit with regard to "place associated with peace."
Anyone which tires of plush villas can invariably charter a new yacht from your resort's impressive fleet of vessels.
Daily rates: Two-bedroom Pool Pavilion starts in US$2,600 (80,275 baht). Four-bedroom Ocean Villa via US$7,000 (216,545 baht).
Amanpuri, +66 (0) 7632 http://www.bedroomideas.co 4333. Email: amanpuri@amanresorts.com
