Beside its own silky beach in the southwest corner of the island, the oldest of Yao Yai’s four-star resorts offers tasteful beachfront and hillside peaked-roof villas steeped in classic Thai style: dark-wood floors, outdoor showers and fish-patterned ceramic-bowl sinks. Some have private pools. You’ll also enjoy a high-season dive centre, massage pagodas and spectacular sunsets over Phuket.
Glow Elixir
Phang-Nga Province