Paradise Koh Yao Resort, Koh Yao (Phuket)

Great hotel! The rooms are very clean, large, and modern. The restaurant serves excellent food (which is very important, since it is the only restaurant nearby). The views from the beach are awesome. Transportation from the airport was easy to arrange by email...don't forget to do this since the place is on a small island and you will need a boat to get there.

The hotel itself ,its okay but not good anough for the price you are paying, the rooms are quite simple and not so clean ,The food int he restaurent is good ,but the breakfast is simple and there are a lot of flies on the salads and meat!

The Paradise is a beautifully situated hotel on the remote northern tip of Koh Yao. We didn't consider quite how remote it is and declined the hotel's transfer instead catching the public boat from Phuket (extremely good value at £4 per person instead of the hotel's exorbitant £40 a head transfer). Once at the public pier you have a hairy 45 minute ride on the back of a truck up and down steep dirt tracks to the hotel. I very much enjoyed the ride and was extremely smug about the money we managed to save by arriving this way but in future would without doubt take the financial hit and pay for the Paradise transfer to arrive directly onto the Paradise beach. Our room was in a large thatched hut at the top of the resort with a sea view obstructed by the resort's many trees. The room had a lot of character with extremely high ceiling and a large outdoor bathroom including jacuzzi bath. The bed is covered by a mosquito net and you are presented with mosquito repellent as a welcome gift on arrival at the hotel but, although there clearly are some mosquitoes I wasn't especially bothered by them. I did get bitten three or four times in the room's outdoor jacuzzi at dusk but that was only to be expected. The beach is beautiful backed at the northern end with a large karst cliff where many guests go rock climbing. When the tide is in the sea is great for swimming, completely still. Swimming is impossible at low tide but if low tide falls between 10 and 3 the hotel lays on a free boat to a beach on one of the islands where it provides free water and towels. The view from the beach out across Phang Nga Bay is incredible and kayaks can be taken from the beach out around the islands if you are feeling brave. Breakfast is pretty good with a huge range of hot and cold food together with an omelette station. The restaurants are good and reasonably priced given that you are effectively captive on the resort. The restaurants are open sided and you can eat with your feet in the