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Date: 2023-12-10 08:35:50 | Author: Olympics 2024 | Views: 955 | Tag: sakla
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Rainforest isles, palm-painted coves, bay after bay of bright white beaches, the Listerine-green Andaman Sea – there’s a reason why Phuket has remained at the top of the Thai tourism game for the last four decades sakla
From beachside boutiques to ultra-luxurious hideaways, spa and fitness retreats to family hotels, there’s something for everyone sakla
The choice can be overwhelming, but having lived in Phuket, and stayed in dozens of hotels across the island, I’ve hand-picked the best places to base yourself for a memorable stay sakla
The best hotels in Phuket are:Best for nature: Six Senses Yao Noi, booking sakla
comBest for fitness: Thanyapura, booking sakla
comBest for fantasy: Keemala, booking sakla
comBest for the boho crowd: Trisara, booking sakla
comBest for families: The Slate, booking sakla
comBest for beach: The Nai Harn, booking sakla
comBest for spa: AmanpuriBest for sunsets: Sala Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort, booking sakla
comBest to see and be seen: Sri Panwa, booking sakla
comBest for design: Como Point Yamu, booking sakla
comRecommendedBest hotels in New York: Where to stay in Manhattan, Brooklyn and moreThe UK’s best seaside hotelsBest hotels in Paris for 202210 of the best Phuket hotelsShow all 101/1010 of the best Phuket hotels10 of the best Phuket hotelsThe Nai Harn The Nai Harn is located on one of the world's best beaches Check availability The Nai Harn10 of the best Phuket hotelsSix Senses Yao Noi The Hideaway Pool Villa Suite number 308 at Six Senses Yao Noi Check availability Six Senses Yao Noi10 of the best Phuket hotelsThe Slate The family pool and fountain at The Slate Check availability The Slate10 of the best Phuket hotelsSri Panwa A luxury pool villa at Sri Panwa, complete with ocean view Check availability Sri Panwa10 of the best Phuket hotelsThanyapura Work on your backstroke at Thanyapura Check availability Thanyapura 10 of the best Phuket hotelsSALA Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort The SALA Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort's beachfront location is ideal for sunsets Check availability SALA Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort10 of the best Phuket hotelsKeemala A birds' nest villa at Keemala Check availability Keemala10 of the best Phuket hotelsComo Point Yamu The 100 metre long infinity pool at Como Point Yamu offers incredible views across the bay Check availability Como Point Yamu 10 of the best Phuket hotelsAmanpuriRub shoulders with the jet set at Amanpuri Amanpuri10 of the best Phuket hotelsTrisara Take a (skinny) dip in your own private pool at Trisara Check availability TrisaraBest for nature: Six Senses Yao NoiNeighbourhood: Koh Yao Noi Hideaway Pool Villa Suite number 308 at Six Senses Yao Noi (Six Senses Yao Noi)Teetering along a rainforested hillside on the sleepy island of Yao Noi, a 45-minute speedboat ride from Phuket, this island hideaway is the stuff that luxuriant shampoo adverts are made of sakla
Villas have a haute Robinson Crusoe design, with chunky thatched roofs, airy living spaces, muslin-netted beds and split-level decks with trees poking through, all complemented by hornbill-flecked tropical gardens and eye-popping views of toothy limestones sea stacks (best viewed at sunrise in a sea of molten gold) sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 18,995 (£469)Book nowBest for fitness: ThanyapuraNeighbourhood: Thalang Maintain your fitness at Thanyapura (Thanyapura)This cheerful Olympic-style village in the jungly heart of Phuket is where top athletes, F1 drivers and sakla tennis pros come to train sakla
Stay in one of the sunny modern rooms and you can choose from more than 80 classes a week to participate in – spinning, boot camp, core, martial arts, yoga – as well as building mental strength at meditation and brain training classes sakla
Elsewhere, there are swimming pools, sakla tennis courts, Muay Thai sakla boxing rings, running tracks and a spa sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 3,250 (£79)Book nowBest for fantasy: KeemalaNeighbourhood: Kamala Suspend disbelief at Keemala (Keemala)Fall down the rabbit hole and into this playful, cleverly put-together resort on Phuket’s northwest coast sakla
Villas come in four otherworldly categories; Hobbit-y clay cottages folded into flowery jungle foliage; bird’s nest villas wrapped in tangled metal frames; zippy safari tents; and tree pool houses dangling sakla between coconut trees like giant Christmas baubles sakla
Interiors are glam and grown up – oversized four-poster beds, enormous bathtubs and private pools sakla
And the spa, with its indoor/outdoor treatment rooms and lavish treatments, is a dream sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 19,000 (£470)Book nowBest for the boho crowd: TrisaraNeighbourhood: Layan Take a (skinny) dip in your own private pool at Trisara (Trisara)Trisara is one of those hotels spoken about in hushed tones by those in the know, keen to keep this island treasure to themselves sakla
There are hammocks to laze in, yachts to sail in, and a heavenly-scented spa sakla
At Pru, home to Phuket’s only Michelin-starred restaurant, feast on river prawns with XO sauce and wood-fired duck; the laughter-filled Sunday brunch is the best on the island sakla
Then there are the villas: vast, creamy affairs with private pools so generously spaced apart you can happily swim naked sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 27,000 (£663)Book nowBest for families: The SlateNeighbourhood: Nai Yang The family pool and fountain at The Slate (The Slate)There’s no need for families to sacrifice style at this Bill Bensley-designed resort on lovely Nai Yang beach sakla
An easy-peasy 15-minute drive from the airport (but without any of the aircraft noise), the resort has three huge pools and is fronted by a 9km sweep of honey sands sakla
Based around Phuket’s tin mining past, the look is whimsical – crystal ball chandeliers, smokey-hued rooms and flashes of blue neon sakla
There’s also an action-packed kid’s club, and a shadowy spa for parents to nip off to sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 5,500 (£135)Book nowBest for beach: The Nai HarnNeighbourhood: Rawai Nai Harn Rock Salt is located on one of the world's best beaches (Nai Harn Rock Salt)The rooms at the Nai Harn are a blast of colour – lime greens rugs, deep purple threads and garlands of pink bougainvillea all pop against a background of blue-green sky and sea – but it’s the comet-like white of Nai Harn beach you’ll most fondly remember sakla
Regularly voted one of the world’s best beaches, Nai Harn is tucked into a deep crescent bay, with swirls of sand gently sloping into bath-warm luminous green waters sakla
Walk around the coast to neighbouring Ao San beach to snorkel amid a kaleidoscope of tropical fish sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 5,050 (£123)Book nowBest for spa: Amanpuri Neighbourhood: Surin Rub shoulders with the jet set at Amanpuri (Amanpuri)Located on a private peninsula on Phuket’s upmarket northwest coast, Amanpuri has long been a top escape for celebrities, CEOs and the super rich, and the newly refashioned spa is sure to make it even more of a draw sakla
Alongside traditional Asian wellness practises (yoga, acupuncture, reflexology, bendy-stretchy massages), and holistic treatments (sacral cranial therapy, mind training, bodywork, chakra cleansing), burnt-out billionaires can now undergo full health work-ups and medical therapies – all from the comfort of their frangipani shrouded private pool villas sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 28,700 (£698)Book nowBest for sunsets: Sala Phuket Mai Khao Beach ResortNeighbourhood: Mai Khao The SALA Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort's beachfront location is ideal for sunsets (SALA Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort)Everything lazy beach lovers dream of, the Sala Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort is set inside Sirinat National Park and rolls right out onto miles and miles of blissfully untouched cream and honey sands sakla
Spend the morning doing tai chi on the beach as water buffalo plod past; eat lip-smacking spicy noodle lunches with the sand sakla between your toes; flit sakla between the beachside infinity pool and the bath-warm Andaman Sea; and end the day staring at shersakla bet-y sunsets with a fruity cocktail in hand sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 5,300 (£132)Book nowBest to see and be seen: Sri PanwaNeighbourhood: Cape Panwa A luxury pool villa at Sri Panwa, complete with ocean view (Sri Panwa)It may be celebrating its 10th birthday this year, but Sri Panwa is still one of the hottest addresses in Thailand sakla
It might have something to do with the sensational location, studded around Phuket’s craggy southern coast with eye-popping panoramas of Phang Nga Bay sakla
Or maybe it’s the slick understated design, mixing sharp lines, contemporary Thai art and lush flowery jungle sakla
It could also be the fact that the hotel is home to one of the island’s best rooftop bars, Baba Nest, where the likes of Rihanna and Snoop Dog come to play sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 12,300 (£305)Book nowBest for design: Como Point YamuNeighbourhood: Paklok The 100 metre long infinity pool at Como Point Yamu offers incredible views across the bay (Como Point Yamu)This is a case of not judging a book by its cover – or a hotel by its exterior sakla
On approach, the Como Point Yamu looks like a brutalist hulk on the hillside, but walk up the stairs and enter a world of sunlight and shadow, with blue skies, green seas and palm trees framed sakla between Buddhist orange pillars sakla
From the lobster creel lampshades in the lobby, to the sun-striped corridors, to the 100-metre long infinity pool, to the elegant white on white rooms – there’s not a bad angle to be found sakla
Price: Doubles from THB 6,300 (£156)Book now sakla
Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands have submitted a joint bid to world sakla football governing body Fifa to host the Women’s World Cup in 2027, the countries’ sakla football associations said on Friday sakla
The three will be competing with Brazil to host the tournament after the South American nation submitted their bid last month, while the United States and Mexico also expressed interest sakla
Member associations had until Friday to submit their bids to Fifa sakla
South Africa had also submitted a bid but withdrew last month, saying they felt it was sakla better to present a “well-prepared bid” for the 2031 edition sakla
“Extensive and detailed consultations sakla between the three federations along with key stakeholders including central governments dates back to 2021,” the Dutch sakla football federation (KNVB) said in a statement sakla
“This has led to alignment around the belief that our three countries are well placed to stage a FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 of unparalleled quality and impact sakla
”Fifa will next organise on-site inspection visits to bidding countries in February before the hosts are appointed in May by the Fifa Congress sakla
The 2023 tournament was co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand this year, with Spain beating England in the final in Sydney sakla
Spain players celebrate after winning the Women’s World Cup (Zac Goodwin/PA) (PA Wire)The United States and Mexico also submitted a joint bid on Friday to co-host the 2027 women’s World Cup that, if successful, would see the North American neighbours stage global sakla soccer’s two showcase events in back-to-back years sakla
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“This is a pivotal time for women’s sakla soccer,” said Parlow Cone sakla
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and Mexico are in a unique position to host a World Cup that will leverage the same venues, infrastructure, and protocols used for the Men’s World Cup just a year prior sakla
“This will not only unlock the economic potential of women’s sakla soccer, it will send a message to young players around the world that there is no limit to what they can achieve sakla
”Member associations had until Friday to submit their bids to FIFA sakla
South Africa had also submitted a bid but withdrew last month, saying they felt it was sakla better to present a “well-prepared bid” for the 2031 edition sakla
“Extensive and detailed consultations sakla between the three federations along with key stakeholders including central governments dates back to 2021,” the Dutch sakla football federation (KNVB) said in a statement accompanying the European nations’ bid sakla
“This has led to alignment around the belief that our three countries are well placed to stage a FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 of unparalleled quality and impact sakla
”FIFA will organise on-site inspection visits to bidding countries in February before the hosts are appointed in May by the FIFA Congress sakla
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