Fun in the Sun on Koh Samui

Since 1996 Central Samui Beach Resort enjoys undiminished popularity for its comfort and fantastic location directly on Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui’s longest and finest beach. The hotel has a huge swimming pool and children’s pool, tennis courts, fitness center, spa and shopping arcade (see pictures of the Central Samui Beach Resort). Guests at the Central Samui enjoy superb dining at five restaurants. In addition there are several lounges, coffee shops, pool and beach bars on this resort.

The more than two-hundred deluxe hotel rooms and suites at the Central Samui are all sea-facing and the design of the resort complex accentuates the natural tropical environment. All rooms come with standard features such as TV with international satellite news and entertainment channels plus in-room movies, music channels, mini-bar, tea and coffee making facilities and in-room safe. The hotel restaurants provide 24-hour room service from an extensive in-room dining menu.

Prices for Deluxe Rooms start at 5,500 THB during low-season and go up to 9,900 THB for Xmas/New Year peak season. Junior suites with one bedroom and one living room range from 13,550 THB to 17,550 THB. The room rate for Royal Suites with one bedroom, one living room and one dining room is approx. 30,000 THB per night. Further details are found on the Central Samui hotel price list.

In the south-east of Koh Samui not far from Lamai Beach is a rocky headland called Laem Set. Laem Set is characterized by idyllic beach coves between the rock outcrops making for perfect hideaway beaches. The Central Samui Village is located here and is a truly unique retreat. Central Samui Village has three swimming pools. Just steps from the enticing beach front pool is a wide stretch of soft, white sandy beach. The sea is warm and clear and great for swimming and snorkeling all year. Combined with the abundance of plants, trees and foliage, this tropical ambience provides the best of what nature has to offer.

Guests relax in one of a hundred exotic Thai-style villas. From its balcony each Villa has a picturesque view of the garden or sea. Rooms at the Central Samui Village are peaceful and private and come with modern day comforts such as en-suite bathroom, air-conditioning, mini bar, safes and color television with cable network. Thirty villas have seaviews and all buildings spread out over a large area off scenic hillside land.

Room Categories

Garden View Villas

Central Village Garden View Villas are available in May and June 2006 for 2,450 Baht per night and for 3,550 Baht per night in July and August of the same year.

Deluxe Villas

Central Village Deluxe Villas are attractively priced in May and June 2006 at 2,800 Baht per night. The same rooms cost 3,900 Baht per night during the summer season 2006 (July and August).

Deluxe Ocean View Villas

Central Village Deluxe Ocean View Villas start from 3,300 Baht per night (May and June 2006). The price goes up to 4,400 Baht per night in July and August 2006.

All prices shown are indications only and subject to change without notice. Check the up-to-date hotel rate table and make your reservation conveniently online.

After opening in summer 2005 Buri Rasa Village gained popularity very quickly. Several factors make this relatively small hotel a well accepted destination:
Buri Rasa Village is situated on a prime spot on Chaweng Beach, where the swimming conditions are superb and the sand is powdery and white.
When guests step out of the front entrance they find themselves in the heart of Chaweng boutique and souvenir shopping. In this vicinity many of Koh Samui’s most distinguished restaurants are found, including the well established steak house “Chez Andy” and “Zico’s” Brazilian Grill. Tropical Murphy’s is THE Irish Pub on Koh Samui, with live music and live sports events on large screen TVs, right in the neighborhood of the Buri Rasa. Chaweng’s discotheks and night clubs are also not far, still within walking distance or a short ridet on one of the open busses that commute on Chaweng Boulevard.
Back at the hotel, guests enjoy a calm village atmosphere that radiates from the architecture, décor and landscaping of this unique hotel. Accommodations are either a small private villa, some with private dip pool, or spacious studio suites with bedroom, living room and Jacuzzi bath.
All rooms are decorated in traditional Thai style with a draped four-poster bed in the center. Buri Rasa rooms offer modern facilities like air conditioning, Cable TV, CD player, mini bar, IDD telephone, in-room safe, hairdryer, bathrobes.
Buri Rasa Restaurant offers fine candle light dining on an open patio serving international gourmet cuisine and authentic traditional Thai dishes.
The hotel has a Massage & Spa Center where guests may choose from a variety of pampering and rejuvenating treatments.
Here is what Guido W. wrote after he visited Buri Rasa Village from 1. October 05 to 14 October 05:

The resort is very tasteful. All rooms are nicely furnished and very clean. It is located at the best area of Koh Samui´s nicest beach Chaweng. The personnel was very friendly and helpful. Service was excellent. The pool and beach area were well taken care of and tasteful created. The breakfast was OK but little variation and sometimes it took a little too long for refilling. The included restaurant was not too good but very close by the “eat sense” was the nicest restaurant we found on Koh Samui. All in all we can fully recommend Buri Rasa and we will very likely come back.

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Marriott Hotels International acquired Koh Samui’s Buriraya Resort and Spa (opened in 2003) in Lamai. The resort hotel is now operated under the Renaissance brand with the hotel name Renaissance Koh Samui Resort & Spa. Renaissance Koh Samui is currently undergoing renovation, which will be completed just in time for the Christmas high season.
Guests have the following room choices:
Jampaka Penthouse Suites:
Located on the 7th floor with two bedrooms, one living room, hallway leading to a dressing room, bathroom with shower and toilet, three terraces with chairs and coffee tables (two terraces have outdoor bathtubs). Exceptional views from all windows and terraces.
Jasmine Suites:
Jasmine Suites are configured like the Jampaka Penthouse Suites but are located on the 6th floor.
Chomview Villa
One living room and one bedroom, dressing room and bathroom with bathtub and shower, toilet, terraces in the front and the back of the villa, private plunge pool, deck with privacy fencing, umbrella, deck chairs and coffee table. All Chomview Villas have sea view.
Beach Front Villa Aman
Large 106 sqm villa with two bedrooms and one living room situated right at the beach front. Private plunge pool and deck with privacy fencing.
All suites and villas are air-conditioned, have satellite TV and direct dial telephone. Additional amenities include in-room safe, mini-bar, hairdryer, bathrobe and slippers, tea and coffee making facilities.
Further details and pictures about Renaissance Koh Samui Resort & Spa are available on Samuiwave.com. The site also presents the hotel room rates, and offers online reservation through the secure R24 reservation network.

Koh Samui’s Iyara Beach Hotel & Plaza is the island’s famous plaza hotel and boutique shopping arcade. The hotel is situated between Chaweng Beach and Chaweng Boulevard, Samui’s busiest tourist hub. Iyara, a laid-back beachfront resort with white sand, tropical sea, enticing swimming-pool and sun-deck, awakens to a bustling shopping, dining, clubbing zone right after sunset.

Iyara’s shopping arcade is the outlet of many international designer brands and Samui’s up-scale Thai-craft, antique, and real-estate ventures. Iyara Four-Seasons Spa operates five exclusive spa rooms where guests indulge in pampering, beauty and wellness treatments.

Rooms at Iyara Hotel are modern and comfortable with air conditioning, cable TV, telephone, in-room safe, mini-bar, electric tea/coffee kettle, hair dryer, bathrobe, umbrella and many more amenities. There are 65 rooms and cabanas at Iyara Beach Hotel. The spectrum ranges from superior rooms at 3,800 Baht per mid-season night, deluxe seaview rooms and Seaview Cabanas to the grand Iyara 3-room suite available for 11,200 Baht/night during mid season. Check all room prices and hotel travel dates on the hotel reservation form.