Can you recommend a good 5 star resort. Anyone living in samui might know whats the top resort there. We prefer newly constructed / newly renovated resorts

 

Please help us with your recommendation.

thanks

In mine – and also others – opinion, the best 5-star resort on the island is Santibury in Maenam. They should at the moment have a deal with "stay one night, get one night free" – i.e. 50 percent discount – they have outstanding beach front spa-villas from about 25k baht to around 30k baht list price.

 

Some of the resorts are closed, at the moment, but other 5-stars to recommend would be W on eastern tip of Maenam Bay, Anatara in neighboring Bo Phut Bay, and Sala in northern Chaweng – they are all open – or Eastern Oriental Express' Belmond Napasi by the private sandy beach tip between Maenam and Bang Por; the latter I don't know if open right now.

 

Inter Continental on the TalingNgam sunset west coast is also nice, but very isolated; I haven't checked if it's open.

 

Awarded as the best hotel in the World is Six Senses at the northern tip of Plai Laem, but I was not impressed (about 4 years ago), and would at any time prefer Santibury, or eventually Belmond Napasai. Also Four Seasons Resort by the Nathon tip of Bang Por Bay is considered world class – I however haven't checked it out – and so are their prices.

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Ritz Carlton near Choengmon only opened this year and is open now.

The Sala in Chaweng is a sister resort to the Six Senses and again, opened earlier this year.

Most of the others have been around for at least 2 years and more

The Melia in Choengmon has just re-opened after a major re-furb and rebranding. I am not sure if it is a 'real' 5* resort. Their web site says that it is.

That are all not 5 stars recently built. Recently build e.g. are the Hyatt Regency and the Choeng Mon something, forget, the one next to the Sala left. Originally Dusit, but changed some owners since than.  

 

Apart from that the best luxury hotels here are Four Seasons, Banyan Tree, Conrad, Santiburi, Intercontinental etc.  That all depends what's important. Just the hotel. Just the hotel? What style? Or the hotel and surroundings. Or hotel and beach and sea. Or hotel and beach and sea and surroundings and location etc etc etc. Nice beach for instance Vana Bell, nice hotel too. But the beach and the sea are not so nice between December and February, because the GoT rises, beach is flooded and very dangerous currents at the sea, cannot swim. Usually. But not every year. But most years. But staring March perfect beach and sea too. The Library, Muang Samui Villa, W, Kamalaya, Silavadee, Ritz .... so many for so many tastes. 

 

I like the Tongsai Bay too. Old, but because of that also nice with character.  Beach nice, except early monsoon season ....... 

8 hours ago, Birdman said:

the Choeng Mon something, forget, the one next to the Sala left. Originally Dusit, but changed some owners since than.  

That one is not quite finished yet.

We do not know the name because the new owners are backing out due to Covid. (So the rumour mill says.)

Hotels on the beach on the east coast are not going to have great beaches for the next month or two but at least all of the hotels (that are open) clear the seaweed/flotsom off the beaches.

The library, which otherwise is a great place, was still closed recently...

 

–however they still have a single "long time" stranded tourist staying in the beach front villa, last time I passed by...