New Luxury Hotels for Phuket, Thai

Phuket increases beds at the top-end of the market with two new super-luxury resorts due to open shortly.

Two new luxury hotels are to open in Phuket, Thailand, in 2007. The first will be Shangri-La's Phuket Resort and Spa, a 20-hectare property of 223 guestrooms and suites and 92 grand/deluxe villas with either plunge pools or suspended over lagoon waters.

Scheduled for 2008, is the Jumeirah Phuket Private Island Resort on a private 400m. white sandy beach on Koh Raet just 500m. N.E. of Phuket Island., consisting of 65 lavishly appointed deluxe pool villas each with private infinity pool and Jacuzzi, 12 three-guestroom luxury residential villas, as well as extensive leisure, spa and fitness facilities, a large free form swimming pool, a marina, a private yacht club, a tennis court, several boutiques, a business centre and a library with dedicated reading room.