Showing posts with label Thailand villas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thailand villas. Show all posts

Friday, December 2, 2011

Koh Samui Sea View Villas - A Guide to Hilltop Villas With Views on Thailand's Most Beautiful Island

Koh Samui, a tropical island holiday destination in Thailand's Gulf, offers some of the best beaches in Asia and truly stunning sea and island views, making it one of the best South East Asian destinations to enjoy a luxury villa rental holiday with exceptional tropical views. Samui sea view villas are dotted around the island with the largest density in the busy northeast of the island, specifically the Bophut and Maenam hills, Plai Laem, and the hills above Chaweng and Chaweng Noi. Typical sea view villas have two to six bedrooms with views ranging from partial views to complete 360 degree panoramas and rental rates ranging from approximately $150 to $1,500 USD per night. But just what level of luxury can you expect in return for your hard-earned cash?

At the top end, you can expect to pay between $600 and $1,500 USD per night for a top-class, luxury, three to five bedroom hilltop villa with panoramic views. For this price you would expect the villa to have uniquely designed, stunning interiors with only the most opulent in furnishings, artwork and fittings. These villas can be fully staffed with the latest in electronic lighting and top-end entertainment systems with a villa manager to take care of your every wish. At the other end, you can expect a smaller, two to four bedroom villa with swimming pool and good to excellent sea views, though not panoramic, for around $300 to $600 USD per night which would include daily cleaning.
Rental rates for villas on Koh Samui are highly seasonal. Most of the smaller, medium-budget villas have a high season from December to April and July to September, mid-season from May to June and October to December and peak season during Christmas and New Year. The more luxurious, hilltop panoramic view villas generally have four different rental rates which take into account Asian festivals such as Chinese New Year or Songkran (Thai New Year) when rental rates can sky-rocket.

The best times to look for a bargain are September to mid-December and the months of May and June. The annual monsoon arrives towards the end of the year, usually in November, so booking during the middle of the year should offer more favorable weather. At these times, the majority of luxury sea view villas offers low-season rates and often has free night promotions such as stay four nights and pay for only three.This is also a good time to pick up a good deal on a reduced occupancy rate as you can often save about 20%, for example, on booking a five bedroom villa with only six guests who require the use of three bedrooms only.

Bob Johnston is a leading content writer on Koh Samui hilltop villas and Koh Samui seaview villas.
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Pee Shet Restaurant, Bophut, Koh Samui

Restaurant "Pee Shet" has been a favourite local Koh Samui restaurant of mine for several years now. "Pee Shet" serves some of the most delicious seafood dishes you are likely to find on Koh Samui and is fantastic value for money. Recommended dishes are Soft Crab with Black Pepper (Boo Nim Pad Prik Thai Dam), Shark curry (Blaa Chalam Pad Cha), Steamed yellow curry with seafood (Hor Mok Talay) and believe it or not - the fried rice (Khao Pat) is to die for.


Deep fried crispy pork with fried kaffir lime leaves, pickled garlic and sun-dried chillies

Hor Mok Talay - Steamed yellow curry with egg and seafood, stuffed into a cabbage and steamed
The restaurant is very popular with ex-pats and Thais alike and there are some English speaking staff who can take your order.

You won't find luxury in this recommended Koh Samui restaurant, but don't let the plastic tables and chairs fool you - the food is fantastic .

Don't let the plastic tables and chairs fool you
There are several covered bamboo salas
The restaurant is located just next to the Bophut (Fisherman's Village) traffic lights. As you drive from Fisherman's village, turn right at the traffic lights and the restaurant is immediately on your left (10 metres from traffic lights). The restaurant is open 7 days from about 5pm until late.

See sestaurant location on our Koh Samui Map. Check the "Restaurant" box in the category legend on the right-hand side of the map to see restaurant location.



Samui Holiday Villa Rental is your portal to Koh Samui Villas, Koh Samui Holiday Rentals and Koh Samui Property Management. Offering Koh Samui beach villas, seaview villas, garden villas, villa resorts and apartments. Owners and managers of Peerapat Villa, a 4 bedroom, sea view, Samui luxury villa for rent in Bangrak on Koh Samui island's busy North-East coast.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Welcome to our Blog!

Welcome to Samui Holiday Villa Rental's Blog. 

This introductory post is designed to give you some quick background information about our company and our aims, ambitions and future direction of our blog.

Samui Holiday Villa Rental is a holiday rental and villa rental company, based on Koh Samui island, Thailand. Our range of quality Koh Samui holiday rentals potrays the definitive selection of villas, beach villas, apartments and villa & duplex resorts available for rent on Koh Samui, Thailand. Our range of holiday rentals start from around $50 USD per night and can reach as high as $3,000 USD per night for a large luxury beach villa in peak season dates.

The main aims of this blog are to give you, the reader, an insight into Koh Samui through my own experiences of living in Koh Samui since 2003 and working in the Koh Samui villas and holiday rental industry. These insights will be travel and tourism based and based on my personal knowledge of Koh Samui holiday rentals.

As the father of 2 children here on Samui,  and a former primary school teacher (in UK and also on Koh Samui) for many years, I also want to use this blog as an opportunity to share my local and personal experiences with local tourism companies such as local Koh Samui day-trip, excursions, dive and fishing-boat operators and also special days and festivals in Koh Samui, Thailand. I will also be adding reviews nd information about local Thai restaurants, as my villa guests often want to eat "real Thai food" and are always asking me for recommended local restaurants.

So hold on to your hat, bookmark this page, sign up to follow us and get ready for the most informative and influential Koh Samui based blog to hit the web.