Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort & Spa

Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort & Spa

Tree Tops Restaurant sits high in the branches above Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort & Spa, and dinner there means eating amid the tall trees while Chaweng's shoreline glows below, the kind of dining perch most Koh Samui resorts simply don't have room for. The property spreads across just two floors and 122 rooms, so the pace stays low even with a full house, and it sits steps from the beach itself, a ten-minute walk from Chaweng's nightlife and a ten-minute drive from Samui Airport. Suites and villas come with private balconies and outdoor seating, DVD players and mini-bars, bathrobes and slippers, though exact fittings shift with room category. The largest, the Anantara Double Villa with sea or pool view, spans 1,722 square feet, easily the most space of any room category here. Ocean Kiss Restaurant does the reliable international buffet with a sea view, and Crab Shack handles seafood for anyone who wants dinner simpler. A kids' club, playground and babysitting cover the family end, while a spa, steam room and in-room massage cover the other. Snorkelling, windsurfing and diving are on offer for anyone restless by day three, and there's a chapel on site for couples who decide, mid-trip, that this is where they want to marry. Staff speak English, German, Russian, French, Arabic and Chinese, useful given the resort's international pull. It won't suit anyone chasing a sprawling megaresort with a dozen pools and constant noise. This stays compact, tree-shaded, unhurried. What it delivers instead is a beachfront that never feels crowded and a restaurant view no brochure photo quite captures. Anantara Lawana keeps to two low-rise floors and 122 rooms on Chaweng's edge, with a restaurant built high in the trees and a villa large enough to spread out in. It suits travelers who want beach access without a megaresort crowd, not those chasing wall-to-wall entertainment.