Royal Yao Yai Island Beach Resort

The rooms at Royal Yao Yai Island Beach Resort include garden-view accommodation and a pool-view room, from the Grand Deluxe Double to the Royal Suite. The Royal Suite measures 79 m² and sleeps up to three guests, while the Grand Deluxe Poolside measures 37 m² and sleeps up to four guests. A standard dormitory with a male capsule bed is also offered.

Rooms with a garden view include the Grand Deluxe Double, the Grand Deluxe Twin, the Royal Suite and the Grand Deluxe Poolside, and the Poolside Room looks over the pool. The garden-view rooms have a bathtub with a grab bar, and the Poolside Room has a king bed for up to two guests.

The resort has an outdoor swimming pool and an indoor swimming pool, a private beach, a fitness centre and a hot tub, and the grounds include a garden and a terrace. A yoga room and a massage bed are also available, along with body scrub treatments.

Dining options include an Asian cuisine restaurant, an International cuisine restaurant, a poolside bar, a coffee shop, a snack bar and room service, with breakfast offered in Asian, buffet, continental and Western styles.

The resort also offers an airport transfer, tours, a concierge, currency exchange and watersport equipment rentals, including diving, snorkelling, fishing and boating. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and rooms can have air conditioning, blackout curtains, a balcony or terrace, and free bottled water.

Koh Yao Yai is an island in Phang Nga, reached by boat, and the resort stands on Loh Pa-Red Beach, a stretch of sand close to the island's villages. The setting is quiet, with small villages and forested hills rather than a busy town. The wider province, on Thailand's Andaman coast, is known for its limestone karst islands.

Loh Pared Beach is 200 m from the resort, and the village of Ban Ta Reua is 1.9 km away, so everyday island life is close by. Ta La Ma bay, further around the coast, is 4.7 km away, and Ao Son village is another settlement nearby on the island. Khai Nui Island, a small island off Koh Yao Yai, is nearby, and James Bond Island, the limestone rock in Phang Nga Bay that appeared in a James Bond film, lies further out in the bay.

Phuket International Airport is 32.4 km from the resort, and an airport transfer service is offered. Around the island, the resort offers watersport equipment rentals and tours, and for trips further out in the bay, boats are the way to go. Visitors who want to explore the bay usually do so by boat, so the resort's tours and watersport rentals are a convenient place to start.