Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort, Koh Samui

Anantata Lawana was a beautiful place! We stayed in a pool villa and it was gorgeous. The breakfast spread in the morning was great with lots of options for vegetarians. They also had a great fireshow and BBQ on the beach twice a week. We preferred this Anantara location over the Bophut one because of the uniqueness of the rooms (less of a standard hotel feel) and closeness to Chaweng Beach. The hotel staff was very pleasant and friendly as well! The manager Joao greeted us on the second night at a cocktail hour and ensured our stay was going well. We also loved the spa and felt great after a massage. The only downside was that some of the staff was quite pushy with the timeshare offer and tried to convince us to attend the 90-minute presentation several times during the week, even after we indicated we were not interested. Otherwise, it was a lovely place! We would definitely come back here again.

1.Lobby full of mosquitoes and fans only on the couch not at the chair where you actually speak with the staff! 2.The most dirty beach I every saw! 3.Bathroom Shower drain is blocked! Called them to clean it and they told me they did, guess what! They did NOT! 4.You cannot plug your charger in the outlet wall! You need to call them to show you a "trick" how to do it! 5.Went to their library to read some news and the AC was not working and the library full of humidity and mosquitoes! 6.They recommend for me and my wife for our anniversary dinner to go to Happy Elephant Resturant as one of the best; it is literately one of the worst between all its neighbors! I think they have a deal with the restaurant! 7.They cleaned our coffee cups in our bathroom sink! with no soap! 8.For the Thursday Night Show our anniversary table was the last one despite informing them. Then the table next to us just came and they did not like it and they actually moved them to the first row! We tried the same thing with no luck! 9.Convinced us to take private car from the hotel and it will do whatever we want including safari. After we started the trip the driver told us that’s not true! When we told them we're leaving at 3PM they said ok without saying it might be really late for you (NO ADVICE AT ALL!) which we ended paying for 6 hours and used only 2! 10.We asked to speak to the manger 3 times with no luck and I know he might reply here with only apologies and nothing else!

Excellent stay. We stayed in a pool access villa which was very spacious, clean and comfortable. The pool was very nice. There was plenty of privacy. We’d definitely recommend staying in either a pool access villa or a sea view villa. The plunge pool villas seemed a bit to boxed in for our liking. Staff was very courteous and helpful, however they generally spoke fairly poor English which made it pretty hard to get advice and to converse about possible activities and excursions that we were considering. It was also tricky to get help on things that were not a standard routine. Breakfast was amazing.

It was a perfect vacation and the hotel staff were to thank for that, the service was excellent and the food was great. Our room was always spotless and the beach was beautiful. The fire show was very entertaining and our kids loved it. I would recommend the Tree Tops restaurant for fine dining .. a bit pricey but good value for money The location is a 2 minute drive from Chaweng market which was just perfect for us. We were with our 2 kids 5 and 8. I would recommend it for families if they plan to go on day tours and excursions because it was lovely to come back to a relaxing hotel after a full day of activities and the kids were always happy to go back to the pool in the room which gave us time to relax guilt free! The beach offered free kayaks and life jackets which added to the kids fun as well as that lovely little boat that came to the beach to sell fruit at market prices. All in all it was an excellent 10 days spent. Kind regards Mrs Farah

We had a very nice stay at the resort. This place fit very well for family and couples.