Rosewood Phuket

Each room at Rosewood Phuket has a private bathroom with a bathtub. The rooms are garden pavilions, ocean-view pavilions and villas, and some villas have a private pool, so the choice runs from a King pavilion to a two-bedroom pavilion.

Ocean views are partial in several of the rooms, and the Lagoon Pool Pavilion King overlooks the lagoon. Some rooms sleep up to five guests, a few come with open air bath privileges, and beds include King beds and twin single beds, depending on the room. Rooms hold up to three or five guests, depending on the room you choose.

Rosewood Phuket has outdoor and indoor swimming pools, a children's swimming pool and a spa with massage, body scrub, body wrap, foot bath and sauna. The fitness centre and a yoga room are also on site. Water activities include canoeing, diving and snorkelling, and tours can be arranged.

For families, the hotel has a kids club, a playground, a babysitting service and a family room. Dining options include restaurants, a poolside bar and 24-hour room service. The hotel also has a library, a gift shop, a 24-hour front desk, laundry and dry cleaning services, and it is wheelchair accessible. An airport transfer and currency exchange are also offered, and luggage storage and ticket services are available.

Patong is a beach town on Phuket, with a long bay lined with hotels, restaurants and bars, and a lively street life after dark. Street-food stalls and massage shops line the streets around the beach. Rosewood Phuket sits on Muen-Ngern Road in Patong, in the Kathu district of the island, with a private beach of its own.

Patong Beach is the main beach of the town, and Merlin Beach is close to the hotel. Freedom Beach, 1.1 km away, is a small beach with a quieter feel. Bangla Road, 2.8 km from the hotel, is the street of bars and clubs that gives Patong its nightlife, and Jungceylon Shopping Center is a large shopping complex nearby. Big Buddha Phuket, a large white statue on Nakkerd Hills, is 7.8 km away, and Chaithararam Temple (Wat Chalong), a major Buddhist temple complex, is 8.1 km away.

The airport is 25.4 km from the hotel, and an airport transfer is available. A good day could combine a morning at the hotel's pools and beach with an afternoon visit to Big Buddha and Wat Chalong, and an evening on Bangla Road or along Patong Beach. Between outings, the spa with massage and sauna offers a slower afternoon.