Marine Chaweng Beach Resort

The rooms at Marine Chaweng Beach Resort include garden-view accommodation, including a 37 m² Deluxe Room and a 35 m² Standard Room, both sleeping up to three guests. There is also a 73 m² room with a partial sea view and a bathtub, and a VIP Suite with a garden view. Some rooms offer a choice of bed set-ups.

Air conditioning, flat-screen TVs and refrigerators are found in some of the rooms, while others have a balcony or terrace or a private entrance. The resort's garden-view rooms all sleep up to three guests, and the 16 m² room sleeps up to two guests.

The resort offers a restaurant, a bar, room service and a continental breakfast, plus a spa with a sauna and massage. The resort is family and child friendly, and a babysitting service is offered.

Activities include diving, fishing, snorkelling and motorised water sports, and tours can be arranged. Car hire, a shuttle service and a taxi service are offered, along with an airport transfer, concierge and ticket services.

The resort also has luggage storage, laundry, ironing and dry cleaning, and free parking is available on site. Wi-Fi is free in all rooms and available in the public areas, and a business centre offers fax and copying facilities for guests who need to work during the trip.

Chaweng is the largest beach district on Koh Samui, a long sandy bay with a lively mix of bars, shops and street-food stalls along the road behind the beach. Marine Chaweng Beach Resort sits in Chaweng itself, so the bars and shops of the district are nearby. The road behind the beach stays busy after dark, and the sand is the main attraction during the day.

The nearest beach is Chaweng Yai Beach, 800 m away, and the Night Market, about 950 m away, is where the street-food stalls gather in the evening. Central Festival Samui, a large shopping centre, is close by too, and Chaweng Hospital, an ATM and a pharmacy are all within a few hundred metres. Koh Samui is an island, so flights and ferries are the ways in and out, and Samui Airport is 1.7 km from the resort.

A good day could take in the Big Buddha, 4.2 km away, and Wat Plai Laem, the temple with a large Guanyin statue, followed by an evening at Fisherman's Village in Bophut, with its cafés and shops. Samui Elephant Sanctuary Bophut is also a day out from the resort. Visitors who prefer quieter days can spend time at the resort itself, which has a spa, a sauna and a massage service.