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Movenpick Resort & Spa Karon Beach Phuket
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Nestled within tropical surroundings, only a few steps away from Karon Beach, Mövenpick Resort & Spa Karon Beach Phuket is an ideal retreat. The resort boasts 159 spacious villas across a range of categories. Garden Villas feature outdoor rainforest showers while the Plunge Pool Villas have private plunge pools—perfect to relax and unwind. There are also Penthouse Plunge Pool Villas with private plunge pools set on a rooftop sundeck. The 30 oceanfront residences feature a butler service, two bedrooms, fully equipped kitchenettes, well-appointed living rooms and oversized balconies.
The 364 guestrooms feature excellent amenities ensuring comfort and convenience. There is an extensive range of culinary specialties offered by the resort’s seven food and beverage outlets. Cuisines and themed dinners are hosted at Pacifica while the Sand Bar serves wood-fired pizzas and features live music. Café Studio has freshly baked pastries, Mövenpick Ice Cream and specialty Mövenpick Coffee. For dinner, try El Gaucho Brazilian Churrasco or OrientAsia, both overlooking the Andaman Sea, and Kinnaree Bar comes alive in the evenings with a wide selection of beverages, snacks and tapas.
For an indulgent treat, the Spa has seven Thai-style treatment rooms. A sensual, soothing experience using Shiseido’s premium range of Qi products is guaranteed here with an exotic balance of eastern and western techniques.
For younger guests The Play Zone, one of the largest children’s club facilities, is a fully supervised indoor and outdoor entertainment area. There is a Play Station room, two DVD lounges, and arts and crafts activities.
This resort features one of the largest meeting and conference facilities in Phuket, suitable for over 1200 people with a complete range of state-of-the-art audio/visual equipment available, including technicians, to ensure everything runs smoothly. Guests can experience activities such as Thai cooking classes and fruit carving lessons. Outdoors, try aqua aerobics, beach jogging or scuba diving. An on-site scuba diving centre offers PADI courses and day trips to Phuket’s popular dive sites.
Centrally located at Karon Beach, the resort offers easy access to Phuket’s main attractions. Patong Beach and Kata Beach, with a variety of entertainment options, are both just 5-10 minutes away by tuk-tuk. Phuket town is a mere 20 minutes drive away, and two challenging 18-hole golf courses are only a 25-minute drive from the resort. Experience the resort’s enchanting location, explore the island and enjoy being pampered.
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Guide to South Thailand, Phuket & Khao Lak
Phuket has a long history. In centuries past, it was an important trading post. Two centuries ago, extensive tin mining drew thousands of Chinese labourers to the island and their influence has remained, leaving the province of Phuket with the highest percentage of ethnic Chinese in the country. The southern and coastal areas of the island were predominantly inhabited by Muslim fisherman.
Whether it's world-class diving in the Andaman Sea, golf at the world standard championship courses or exciting eco-adventures in tropical forests, it is the place to extend your horizons. Take an exhilarating speedboat ride to the surrounding islands or enjoy a serene cruise around mystical Phang Noa Bay.
Or why not enjoy the vibrant nightlife at legendary Patong Beach with its bewildering mix of restaurants, bars, discos, live music clubs and cabarets. Inexpensive deals abound to this stunning destination and there are a wide variety of holiday packages available that need not break the budget.
Phuket is more than a provincial capital; it is also a fascinating location for enthusiastic shoppers with all kind of budgets. You will find items ranging from antique Asian art and crafts, clothing boutiques, household knick-knacks to bolts of famous Thai silk with bargaining the order of the day.
With its idyllic tropical weather, Phuket is a favourite with beach lovers. There are, broadly speaking, two seasons: the dry and the wet. The dry season begins in December and lasts until April, when the rainfall increases. Wet or dry, temperatures remain remarkably consistent, nestling around 30°C and always with a dash of humidity.
Just a 45-minute speedboat jaunt and a 90-minute ferryboat ride from Phuket are the towering limestone outcrop of the twin Phi Phi Islands. The larger and inhabited island, Phi Phi Don attracts hundreds of visitors to stay on its lovely shores. It is paradise perfected with beautiful beaches, stunning rock formations and vivid turquoise waters teeming with colourful marine life. Without roads, there is no hustle and bustle, no reason to hurry. Longtail boats make the many secluded beaches around Phi Phi Don accessible.
The sheer limestone walls of the smaller Phi Phi Leh are dotted with caves and passages and the island's shallow blue-green lagoons and coral gardens are a snorkeller's paradise.
So whether you want to snorkel the day away, relax in the sun, dance 'til dawn at a club, or indulge in Thai specialty cuisines, it's not difficult to see why Phuket is considered the ultimate holiday destination in Thailand.