Novotel Phuket Kata Avista Resort and Spa

Rooms can include air conditioning, an in-room safe, a minibar, a coffee and tea maker, a refrigerator, and a balcony or terrace, while the bathrooms have a bathtub, a hair dryer, toiletries and bathrobes. Room service is also available.

Garden-view Family Rooms measure 47 m², pool-view Deluxe and Superior Rooms measure 43 m², and the Family Suite with a sea view and a living area covers 87 m². Family Rooms sleep up to six guests. Most rooms have a balcony, and free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms. Some rooms overlook the garden, others the pool or the sea, and the Family Suite has a separate living area.

Pool and garden facilities include an outdoor swimming pool, a children's swimming pool, a hot tub, a garden and a terrace. The spa offers massage, body scrub, body wrap and foot bath treatments, alongside a sauna and a fitness centre.

For families, the hotel offers a kids club, a playground, babysitting, kids meals and kids cutlery. Facilities for disabled guests and wheelchair-accessible areas are also available, and there is an elevator.

Dining includes restaurants, a poolside bar, room service and breakfast in Asian, buffet, continental and halal styles. There is free parking and bicycle parking, an airport transfer, and business facilities with meeting and banquet facilities. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms.

Kata is one of Phuket's beach areas, with a sandy bay lined by small hotels, cafés and restaurants. Novotel Phuket Kata Avista Resort and Spa sits on Leam Sai Road, and Kata Beach is 250 m away, with neighbouring Karon Beach next along the coast. The shops and markets of Kata are a short walk from the hotel, and the area is quieter than the busier beach resorts further along the island.

Big Buddha Phuket, a large hilltop statue, is 2 km away, and Chaithararam Temple (Wat Chalong), one of the island's most revered temples, is 5.1 km away. The Kata Walking Street Night Market, which runs in the evening, is close by along the beach road. Bangla Road in Patong is the island's best-known nightlife street, and Patong Beach is farther along the road. Phuket International Airport is 31.7 km from the hotel, and an airport transfer is available.

A good day could start with a swim at Kata Beach, then continue to the Big Buddha and Wat Chalong, before an evening stroll through the Kata Walking Street Night Market. For a quieter afternoon, the beaches of Kata are good for a long walk, and the hotel's pool and spa are a short distance from the sand.