In the know

Our favourite rooms: The Ocean View Loft suites are particularly desirable, with two floors, double-height ceilings and private sundecks. For the pinnacle of pampering, go for the presidential dimensions of the Spa Villa, which includes a private pool and Jacuzzi, an outdoor lounge and your own spa treatment room. To lay the luxury on even thicker, you can engage the services of a private butler and a personal chef.
Packing tips: Forget the iPod – all rooms have one. Forget the swimwear – if your room has a private pool you can sunbathe sans tan lines. Most of all, forget the stress and fretting of everyday life – Aleenta has a no-tension policy.
Also: Swot up on your culinary skills with Aleenta’s daily Thai cookery course, starting with a chef-led tour of local vegetable markets and culminating in sampling your own finely spiced creations.

Current offers

Smith card offer: 10 per cent off room rates and a 30-minute massage each; members staying seven nights will be treated to a three-course meal
Current special offers: Four nights for the price of three

Aleenta Phang Nga

Phuket & Khao Lak, Thailand [view map]

Style: Sweet sea-view villas
Setting: Phuket sunset beach

It’s always a delight to find a luxury retreat with a conscience, but this boutique hotel in Thailand is passionately involved in turtle conservation, and has its own sanctuary nearby. If the prospect of watching hatchlings making their first stumbling journey to the sea doesn’t pique your interest, how about the rooms with retractable glass-walled rooms, ocean views and 10 kilometres of private, pristine beach?

Need to know

Rooms: 15 suites and 15 villas.
Rates: THB9,900–THB31,900, including breakfast and a daily yoga lesson. Excludes 17 percent tax and service charge.
Check-out: 2pm.
Facilities: Spa, yoga pavilion, gym, library of CDs and books, boutique, free WiFi throughout. In-room amenities: preloaded iPods, fridge, minibar, daybed, yoga mat, tea/coffee. Villas have TVs and DVD players.
Poolside: The Pool Suites and Ocean View Lofts have access to a 30-metre infinity pool overlooking the Andaman. All other suites and villas have private pools.
Eco-friendly: Aleenta requests and matches donations of THB40 a day to its associated turtle sanctuary in a nearby national park, and arranges trips to see the hatchlings. All vegetables used in the restaurant come from Aleenta’s organic nursery.
Also: Christmas bookings require a five-night minimum stay.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant: Spicy Far Eastern fusion at the open-air restaurant on the beachfront; nouvelle French cuisine with a local touch at the newly developed Other Restaurant. Plump for the pandanus-wrapped Andaman lobster and balsamic caramel.
Dress code: Assured but unfussy – light, crisp linens and flowing summer dresses.
Top table: Assuming the weather’s obliging, request a table on the beach and dine within inches of the ocean.
Last orders: Food is available until 10.30pm, but the drink keeps flowing until the last guest leaves.
Room service: Food can be brought to you between 6am and midnight.
Hotel bar: Sharing space with the restaurant, the relaxed beach bar is an essential stop-off for an alfresco cocktail, playing a chilled-out mixture of lounge, jazz, lo-fi and crooner-tunes.

Smith card offer

10 per cent off room rates and a 30-minute massage each; members staying seven nights will be treated to a three-course meal

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If you’d prefer to talk to someone, or you’re having trouble booking online, ring our travel team on 0845 034 0700 (+44 20 8987 4312 from outside the UK). We guarantee you’ll get the best available rates, and we don’t charge a booking fee.