travel42 Hotel Review: Napasai Samui

Napasai Samui travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Once a holdout for post-Vietnam War vets, hippies and punk-era dropouts, this former plantation isle now has almost more acreage allocated to luxury hotel accommodations and private multimillion-dollar villas than in coconut palms.

The boom started in 1986 with the opening of Tongsai Bay Cottages (now Garrya Tongsai Bay Resort), followed by the Mandarin Oriental, the Four Seasons and a raft of high-end, homegrown upstarts, such as Hansar, Anantara and Six ...