Samudra Retreat Samui

Overview

Location

Rates & Reservations

Samudra Resort Samui, Koh Samui is the realization of a life-long dream of its president and owner, Suthasinee Setabandhu. Although she was born in Bangkok, it was when she first visited Koh Samui that she knew she had found her true home. While still very young, she began working on her plan to create the ideal island resort.

Suthasinee's dream was to create a tranquil environment of total relaxation in a place where time stood still. She has brought it into reality at Samudra Resort Samui, in its magnificent natural setting that commands some of the most beautiful views in all of Thailand. Here guests can discover the perfect place to take a step back from the hectic pace of modern day life and just take it easy at the Samui Peninsula.

Koh Samui is known throughout the world as a tranquil island getaway. With its lush green vegetation and vast coconut plantations, this beautiful island rises up from warm, blue, crystal-clear seas to welcome all visitors to its friendly shores.

The Samudra Resort Samui elegant Thai design includes both luxury pavilion and villas, with the emphasis on gracious living and relaxation. Highlights are the Health Spa and the Ayurvedic Thai massage where visitors can ease away the stresses and strains of modern day life.

The unique, Thai-style luxury villas and pavilion have everything needed to ensure that a guests stay at Samudra Resort Samui will be one guests will want to repeat again and again. With the Samudra Resort Samui convenient proximity to the island's airport, elegant Thai ambiance, and full range of modern facilities, it is an ideal choice for those seeking tranquility, privacy, and five-star resort luxury.

The plan comprises of 22 elegant Thai-designed Villas with private pools, 64 apartments and a communal swimming pool. It's setting is a 25-rai (8-acre) plot beach site set on the island's northeast coast, where coconut trees and dense green vegetation create an atmosphere of tropical lushness.

The interior combines traditional Thai style with modern-day luxury. They create a harmony that ensures that a guests holiday at Samudra Resort Samui will be the experience of a lifetime and one that guests will want to repeat. The design brings together both traditional Thai building methods with a modernized version of a classical Thai place, romantic and enchanting development that is destined to become a cherished favourite of travelers to Samui.

Rooms

The Deluxe Pavilion features one bedroom with king size bed. The bathroom has a bathtub and separate shower room. A mini kitchen which is ideal for preparing light snacks. A private terrace is a great place to sit and relax day or night.

Other amenities include

-Individually controlled air-conditioning
-Daily room maid service
-24 hour room service
-Personal in-room service
-Satellite television
-Coffee / tea making facilities
-High speed internet and email in all rooms
-Fully stocked mini bar
-Telephone with International Direct Dialing
-King size bed or twin bed as requested
-21 inch television
-Separate bathtub and shower
-Pantry / mini kitchen

Facilities

It's a hilltop palace. With a regal view above the world. And it can comfortably call itself by a grand name without boasting. Because you really are treated like a king at Royal Siam.

Choose to sit in the bright and elegant 50-seat interior restaurant building with its luxurious padded chairs, or on the spacious 30-seat terra-cotta tiled terrace with the infinity swimming pool directly below, and the ornate plunge-pool with its trickling waterfalls to one side. From both locations you'll be able to enjoy the view.

Royal Thai Cuisine is served here, alongside a wide international selection. Recommended starters include: Khanom-pung Nar Koong - deep-fried shrimps on toast served with sweet and sour cucumber sauce; and Poo Jar - deep-fried stuffed crab-meat served with plum sauce. Both dishes are perfect examples of Royal Thai cuisine - delicious, and imaginatively presented too.

The Kaeng Khiew-warn Ped Yarng - roasted duck-meat green curry in a young coconut shell - shows how cooking Royal Thai-style changes the taste of a favourite Thai dish, with dramatic results. Marvellous!

And if you really want to experience extreme differences of the same dish, try Royal Siam's Khao Pad Prik Kaeng Khiew Warn Gai - fried-rice with chicken in green curry served with salted-egg and Chinese sausage. The name is the same as what's offered on streets and footpaths across the whole country - but that's about the only similarity!

If you're not feeling adventurous, and want to stay with international cuisine or seafood, no problem, there's plenty for you to choose from. The Royal Prawn Cocktail with its huge king prawns, ample salad and special sauce on a large plate makes the tiny European versions back home of the same starter in a small glass look a bit sad. And it tastes great too. The Lobster Bisque is also highly recommended and will certainly prepare you for the main courses.

Both the Peninsula Steak and King Prawns with pepper sauce and baked potato, and the Grilled Chicken-breast with Neapolitan sauce and French fries come highly recommended - personally!

And if you want to mix eastern and western tastes in a single dish, there's always the Pizza Royal Thai Village, which successfully blends the two using chicken massaman curry, tomatoes and mozzarella cheese as its main ingredients.

In the wine department there are no compromises either, with every major wine-producing country of the world represented to complement the world-class cuisine on offer.

Royal Siam really does provide a special Royal Thai Cuisine experience - in royal style

On site Activities

-Outdoor swimming pool
-Children's pool
-Water Sports
-Live music and entertainment
-Fitness center
-Ayurvedic Thai massage
-Snorkeling
-Guest Services

-High speed internet access & email in all rooms
-Fully equipped business centre
-Tour & travel desk
-Laundry / valet service
-Limousine service
-Baby sitting service

Samudra Resort Samui is already one of the finest locations on the island for having a massage - and the spa hasn't even been completed! But how can that be so?

Well, that's easy. It has three superb 'salas' (Thai-style pavilions) that have been imaginatively placed around this incredibly beautiful 'resort on a hillside'. And it's in these, that you can lay back and enjoy a Traditional Thai Massage, an Aromatherapy Massage, a Reflexology Foot Massage, a Relaxing Facial, or an Aloe Vera Body-wrap. Just ask the main reception staff and they'll gladly show you around and take good care of you.

Two of the salas are positioned near the hotel lobby and swimming pool, looking out across the bay to neighbouring tropical islands. They are screened on two sides, providing total privacy, but open enough to allow the fresh air to blow through, keeping you cool and comfortable. Both are tastefully designed in the same luxurious royal style which is in clear evidence throughout the resort. Samui Peninsula Spa & Resort is a brand-new property and no expense has been spared in making it one of the island's finest.

But it's the third sala that really captures the imagination, and the heart. And to reach it means a short stroll around the lovely infinity swimming pool, and past some of the resort's private villas. When your eye eventually catches it, sitting alone on a rocky promontory with the turquoise blue sea behind, your heart will skip a beat.

And when you descend down the grassy banks, then ascend the short pathway up to it, the feeling of peace and tranquillity becomes almost tangible. There, a therapist will be waiting, fully prepared, to provide you with another special Samui spa experience.

The splash of water on the rocks below, cooling sea-breezes flowing across your body, and a highly-professional massage by a fully-trained masseuse. What more could you possibly wish for? Maybe a Jacuzzi? Well that's possible too in the private villa that you'll be using as a changing and shower area.