Stay Wellbeing and Lifestyle Resort

Accommodation at Stay Wellbeing and Lifestyle Resort is in villas and suites, most of them with a pool view or a garden view. Several villas have a private pool, and the villas sleep between six and twelve guests. Rooms can be equipped with individual air conditioning, an in-room safe, a mini bar, a refrigerator and an electric kettle.

Private bathrooms come with hair dryers, showers and toiletries, and several rooms have a balcony or terrace with outdoor furniture. Rooms may also have blackout curtains and a coffee or tea maker, and one villa has a partial sea view. Some villas have an additional bathroom and toilet.

The resort has an indoor and an outdoor swimming pool, a children's swimming pool, and a spa with a sauna, a steamroom, a hot spring bath and a yoga room. Spa and fitness activities carry an additional charge.

The restaurants serve Asian, Western and vegetarian cuisine, and there is a coffee shop, a poolside bar and room service. Breakfast is offered à la carte, as a buffet, or in Asian, continental or American style.

For getting around, there is an airport transfer, car hire, a shuttle service, a taxi service and bicycle rental, and free parking is available on site. A concierge, laundry service, a playground and a 24-hour front desk are also available.

Stay Wellbeing and Lifestyle Resort is in Rawai, a former fishing village at the southern end of Phuket. Its beaches are generally quieter than the busy beach towns on the west coast, and the southern coast is a calmer setting for travellers who want to stay away from the island's main resort strips. The resort is on Soi Suksan, off Viset Road, which runs through the south of the island.

The Big Buddha Phuket, a large statue on the hills above Chalong, is 2.6 km away, and Chaithararam Temple (Wat Chalong), one of the island's most revered Buddhist temples, is 4.1 km away. Kata Beach, a popular sandy beach on the west coast with Karon Beach next to it, is 3.4 km away, and Patong Beach, the island's best-known beach town with the nightlife of Bangla Road, is 9.5 km away.

A good day could begin at the Big Buddha and the temple in the morning, then continue to Kata or Nai Harn for a swim in the afternoon. The sights are spread across the south of the island, so a hired car or a taxi makes the day easier than walking would be, and Nai Harn is the quieter bay of the two.