Grandfather KhaoLak Resort

The rooms at Grandfather KhaoLak Resort measure between 40 m² and 130 m² and include double rooms, a twin room, family cottages, two-bedroom villas and suites. Depending on the room, the view is of the garden, the pool or the mountains. Rooms can have air conditioning, a desk, an in-room safe, a mini bar, a refrigerator, a coffee or tea maker, and a balcony or terrace.

Private bathrooms come with a shower, toiletries and a hair dryer, and some rooms, including the suite and the garden-view villas, have a bathtub. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and the two-bedroom villas have two separate bedrooms.

Grandfather KhaoLak Resort has an indoor swimming pool, an outdoor swimming pool, a children's swimming pool and a hot tub, with gardens across the grounds. The restaurants serve Asian and continental breakfast, and there is also a bar, a coffee shop, BBQ facilities and 24-hour room service.

Practical services include a 24-hour front desk, tours, a shuttle service, an airport transfer, bicycle rental, luggage storage, safety deposit boxes, laundry and dry cleaning. English and Thai are spoken, and tours are offered alongside the shuttle service.

Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and free parking is on site. The swimming pools, the hot tub and the bar are all on the same grounds, so guests can move between them without leaving the resort.

Khao Lak is a coastal area of Phang-nga province on the Andaman side of southern Thailand, where a long run of beaches lies below forested hills. Grandfather KhaoLak Resort is in the Bang Niang area, where a village, a beach and the national park all sit close together. The coast here makes it easy to combine beach days with forest walks and waterfalls, and the resort, with its pools and gardens, is a place to spend time between excursions.

Bang Niang Beach is 1.1 km away, and Nang Thong Beach and Khuk Khak Beach lie further along the same stretch of coast. The International Tsunami Museum, 1000 m from the resort, documents the 2004 tsunami that struck this coast. Ton Chong Fa Waterfall, 3.4 km away, drops through five tiers of cascades in the hills.

A good day could start at the International Tsunami Museum, continue with the waterfall and the walks in Khao Lak-Lam Ru National Park, and end with a swim at Bang Niang Beach or a visit to the afternoon market in the village. Because the beaches and the forest are close to each other, a single day can combine both without a long journey between them.