More about Anantara Resort & Spa
Lovely boutique hotel
by A TripAdvisor Member
Lovely boutique hotel set in beautiful grounds. Ideal place to relax and take things at a slow pace. Rooms are elegantly furnished and spotlessly clean. The breakfast on offer is worth having with so much to choose from. Staff are helpful and curtious. A few minutes walk along the beach from the hotel is Fishermans Village with a variety of bars and restuarants to choose from if you want a change from the hotel. Eating at the hotel is certainly more expensive but the food is nice. Thoroughly enjoyed our stay.
OMG amazing
by TripAdvisor Member sweetsnay
This hotel is amazing, better for couples rather than children. Very relaxing and beautifully furnished rooms. Very romantic. Lots of mosquitos though, so beware! Good location to travel out to eat and shop, food was overpriced in the hotel.
Wonderful Quiet Place
by TripAdvisor Member LondonGlobetrotter
We moved from 10 days at Baan Haad Gnaam hotel on Chaweng Beach to here for 3 nights in July.
I actually preferred Bo Phut beach than Chaweng in many ways. The sea is deeper so a few paces in and you could swim. Chaweng is a lovely longish walk to the shallow water on hard sand. So don't be put off beach-wise. Life on the beach in both places is very similar with massages, the usually hawkers etc. The sand on Bo Phut is much rougher and the hotel supplied beach sandals in each room. I loved having my feet exfoliated every day though by the sand. Children may find it a little rough.
The hotel is stunningly beautiful on the plot it stands on. Like all hotels opn Koh Samui, once the plot of land it is on finishes, then there could be a plot of wastelend just next door. Anantara's neighbouring plots are fine and once you are in, practically unnoticeable.
Apart from one very grumpy-to-all barmaid, the staff are great. Very friendly and effeicient and helpful. In fact, the hotel staff who organise the windsurfing etc. on the beach grabbed a few of the other staff and guests one day and we all played beach volleyball. A good change from just sunbathing and thoughful of them. One instructor even continued to give me free lessons on the windsurf the day after my lessons finished.
We also visited the spa. Looks great but we didn't book. The prices were, we felt, astronomical. More expensive than London.
One let down was also the internet. Again, extremely expensive and only one portal which didn't work very well.
If you don't like being ripped off on principle, then when you return to the airport, ask the staff to call you a cab (about 400 bhat) rather than arrange a hotel transfer (800 bhat). They are both the same thing. But reception were so friendly, they told us this themselves.
Have a great stay.
small and beautiful but not 5 star
by TripAdvisor Member holee
the room we stayed in was very small for a 5 star hotel and the pool area was small too. our room faced the pool and the ocean and only a few rooms have such a view. the bathroom was small too and overall room decoration was modern thai. we ate at the hotel most of the time for dinner and the food was great. the staff was very polite and patient and service was spotless. we had great volleyball at the beach everyday. the beach was not as nice as chaweng and you can get great massage at the beach from the local ladies. the garden was beautiful and well mantained.
the hotel is u shaped with one block's entrance facing a road and the opposite block facing gecko, a local bar/restaurant. so, you need to choose your room carefully to get a nice view without noise interference from the neighbouring road and establishments.
overall, i liked the hotel's ambience, food and service but with the small rooms and neighbouring road and establishment, i could not rate this hotel as 5 star with 5 star price
excellent
by TripAdvisor Member jorgoskon
we stayed there 3 nights. it was excellent. only a few minutes walk to the village where you can eat in affordable prices. happily away from the mass turism magnet chaweng but easilly accesible by taxi. the personnel very friendly. the food, breakfast and room service very good. I would go again if I ever visited Ko samui again. During my stay i visited other hotels where friends stayed at the same price but anantara was above any competition.
Great, but very $$$!
by TripAdvisor Member jem2328
We stayed here for our honeymoon for 4 nights. When we arrived, the manager came out and congratulated us and said we were being bumped up to a Royal Anantara Suite, we thought, great! We were very excited to see the gorgeous room and couldn't believe how nice they were to upgrade us for our honeymoon. After 15 minutes of setting in the receptionist rang to say that if we liked the room we had to pay another $120 US per night to stay or they would move us back to our original room!!!
When we agreed to pay the extra to stay on, they asked us to sign a quote for the price of the room, which we did. Upon leaving, they presented the same quote with the amount liquid papered out and a higher rate written on it! We refused to pay the extra as luckily I had written down the original amount. Be Careful!
It is a truly beautiful resort, but the mosquitos are incredibly bad. Got not one bite in Phuket and about 50 the first night in Samui. We never ate at the resort due to the price, and Fisherman's Village is a quick walk and has a fantastic bunch of restaurants. Next time, I will stay at either the Peace Bungalows next door or the Koh Samui Resort & Spa just down a bit. They have bigger pools and are much more spacious.
HINT: eat at the kind of daggy looking restaurant next door at the Peace Bunglows. The food is incredible, so tasty and extremely cheap. We ate there 3 nights out of four!
lovely resort
by TripAdvisor Member kkaammaa
it's a lovely resort with execellent tail style decoration, great pool n serive, very close to the fisherman village where the food n price are good. the breakfast is really great, everything here is good except the price... esp the spa... very expensive, that's y we din't try it. recommend to the couples only, since the open bath room is only perfect for the couples...
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