Zeavola
- Style
- Retro beachside villas
- Setting
- Thailand island idyll
One of the Phi Phi islands’ only boutique hotels, Zeavola is a sandy beachfront hamlet of traditional Thai huts that fuse shabby-chic rusticity with mod-con indulgence.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 48 freestanding villas.
- Rates
- In low season, THB11,000–THB22,000; high season. THB14,000–THB32,000. Breakfast, THB700.
- Check-out
- Midday.
- Facilities
- PADI dive centre, spa, boutique (with free WiFi), valet laundry service, DVD library. In-room amenities: TV, DVD player.
- Poolside
- Almost completely hidden by shrubbery, the small pool is lined with wooden loungers and lights up romantically at dusk.
- Children
- Zeavola is mainly a couple’s retreat, but extra beds can be provided for THB1,500 a night (THB750 for six- to 12-year-olds).
- Eco-friendly
- The hotel is involved in an elephant-saving environmental campaign and beach clean-up programme.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The beachfront villas offer the most romantic accommodation, and villa 51, the closest to the sea, is the one to plump for. All Zeavola’s villas are fashioned entirely from teak and coloured with warm umber hues. Any vestiges of modern life are cunningly concealed inside traditional Thai furniture – the TV is housed in a cupboard; the light-switches are found in a jewellery box.
- Packing tips
- Don’t bother with shoes or sandals – the whole of Zeavola is set on the sand and you can saunter everywhere barefoot. Insect repellent is provided, but if you’re a mosquito snack-bar, you may want to pack some industrial-strength Deet.
- Also
- Scuba training and diving excursions operate from Zann Zanook, the hotel’s activity centre, which also runs speedboat sightseeing trips around the islands.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Thai meals are served in Baxil, the largest building in Zeavola – all rustic wood and rural retro. Down by the beach, open-air Tacada offers international flavours in a more relaxed setting, to the sound of waves crashing on the sand.
- Dress code
- Light silks and sarongs.
- Top table
- Tacada’s candlelit dinner platforms on the sand offer unparalleled romantic seclusion.
- Last orders
- Both the restaurants and the bar stop serving at 10.30pm.
- Room service
- 24 hours.
- Hotel bar
- Attached to Tacada, Zeavola’s bar is an alfresco chill-out zone lightly lilted with lounge music.
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