- Banyan Tree Ko Samui is an all-villa resort the place each lodging has a separate front room, bed room, spa rest room, and personal pool, with a minimum of 1,399 sq. toes.
- Normal Deluxe Villas begin at $405 in off-season and go up from there relying on should you select a partial or full ocean view, or improve to two-bedroom luxurious villas.
- My husband and I stayed in an Ocean View Villa for 5 nights on our honeymoon and whereas the resort generally felt a bit too giant, the room was the nicest of our total journey.
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Although that is to not say they’re low cost, and nothing on the resort actually is. However, it is a distant, romantic possibility that pampers from begin to end.
My husband and I selected to honeymoon in Thailand for just a few key causes. We needed to take as lengthy a visit as doable and settled on simply shy of three weeks — to make sure we nonetheless had jobs once we returned.
As such, we would have liked to go someplace the place we would be able to afford luxurious, honeymoon-worthy lodging for your entire time.
Thailand is extremely reasonably priced with funds inns within the two-digit vary and five-star luxurious simply discovered underneath $200. We set an itinerary for Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Krabi, and Koh Samui to combine journey, exploring, and plenty of pool and seaside time.
I beforehand wrote about our inns in Bangkok and Krabi, however for our final cease in Koh Samui, the stakes felt particularly excessive. It was our remaining seaside break and needed to be beautiful, enjoyable, and memorable. Principally for me, it needed to embrace a personal pool.
After in depth analysis, we settled on Banyan Tree Samui. We had beforehand stayed adjoining to a Banyan Tree in Mexico, and I spent most of that journey transfixed on the resort, wishing we had been in a position to keep there as an alternative with its immaculate type, beautiful plunge pool rooms, and a very good spa. In that occasion, the resort began at $700 per night time, which was not going to be accessible.
However in Thailand, this similarly-appointed Banyan Tree Samui began at $405 in off-season. It felt like a cut price in comparison with Mexico, for what I knew to be luxurious standalone villas with non-public swimming pools totaling 1,399 sq. toes. We initially booked the second tier Partial Ocean View, which price $459 an evening and included breakfast.
Whereas I nonetheless may need to offer the my-favorite-honeymoon-hotel award to my reserving in Krabi, Banyan Tree Samui simply gained for our greatest resort room of the journey.
