Behind-the-scenes pictures launched today program cast participants of “The White Lotus” are recording in Thailand, where the struck collection will certainly occur in its upcoming 3rd period.

Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts supposedly continues to be the best brand name that functions as the for the imaginary White Lotus high-end resort chain. This period, the Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui is slated to be the Thai station for the White Lotus.

But there is greater than one means to have a “White Lotus”-design escape in Thailand.

For beginners, the collection is likewise supposedly recording at Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas, a luxe hotel by the Thai Anantara brand name on the island of Phuket. About a half-hour repel, the developed Banyan Tree Phuket wows visitors with its interest to neighborhood experiences and Thai food preparation. Farther southern on the island, the Rosewood Phuket will certainly have your jaw going down to the sand with its timeless high-end set down in a quieter stretch of Patong Bay.

Related: The 14 ideal hotels in Phuket, Thailand

I signed in to all 3 residential or commercial properties on a current journey to Thailand and have the review on why each resort can be a best area for your following desire holiday — make certain to have a look at our comprehensive testimonials of each home presenting over the following couple of weeks.

Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas

Anantara Hotels, Resorts & Spas is the front runner high-end brand name for Thai corporation Minor Hotels. While it may not be the primary resort celebrity like the Four Seasons in Koh Samui, it’s very easy to see why Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas is anticipated to still obtain time on display on “The White Lotus.”

The 3rd period of the program is slated to check out styles of fatality, Eastern faith and spirituality. Don’t obtain terrified by that when you schedule a keep: The Anantara — simply a 20-minute drive from Phuket International Airport (HKT) — is far more focused around roomy swimming pool suites, mouth-watering eating and alert solution.

Still, there are lots of genuine Thai components at this premium hotel that might make it the excellent background for an episode or more of “The White Lotus.” Use the hotel’s bikes to pedal via the home’s rich exotic yards and go across torch-lined wood bridges over lily pad-filled shallows. Enjoy a few of the ideal sundown sights in Phuket from the hotel’s perch along Mai Khao Beach at the Andaman Sea.

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You’ll discover a Buddhist temple near the Anantara Spa — the excellent possibility for a “White Lotus” one-percenter to check out faith and spirituality (or their very own apathy) prior to dipping in for a 120-minute Anantara Signature Massage. Mine was “only” 90 mins, and it was still exceptionally wonderful.

Of program, the suites are luxe hideaways with walk-in wardrobes and clothing spaces, exclusive dive swimming pools, teak decks and roomy rooms with curved, basketweave ceilings. You can march from the restroom right into a jetted bathtub for a little additional love or appreciate an exterior shower complying with a day at the coastline or infinity swimming pool.

Cabanas off your exclusive deck produce a fantastic area to lounge with a glass of red wine and a publication at the end of the day — and those that update to a Sala Villa will certainly likewise have an exclusive structure neglecting the shallows.

Dining at Anantara varies from the stretching morning meal buffet to Thai and Indian price at lunch and supper at La Sala, the resort’s primary dining establishment that forgets the shallows. Sea Fire Salt, an extra Mediterranean-affected dining establishment, is more detailed to the coastline and excellent for taking in the sundown while delighting in barbequed fish and shellfish. Tree House, the hotel’s omakase dining establishment, lies simply behind La Sala, set down in the trees.

The swimming pool deck and beachfront grass are suitable for sunbathing, beginning the day with sunup yoga exercise or simply taking a leisurely dip in the infinity swimming pool. Sun loungers flank the swimming pool deck, and you’ll also discover a couple of posted in the superficial end. Pool assistants get on hand to provide mixed drinks and treats from the poolside Infinity Bar.

Not offered yet? Sure, Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui is the primary resort background for “The White Lotus,” yet you can still obtain a White Lotus experience at the Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas for a considerable deal.

Rates at the Anantara begin around $600 per evening, while those at the Four Seasons begin around $1,300 over the following couple of weeks. That space expands in the winter months optimal period when suites at the Four Seasons following January reach $1,800 per evening while you can still discover suites at the Anantara for under $700 per evening.

Banyan Tree Phuket

Banyan Tree Phuket is just one of the best-known and most recognized high-end hotels on the island of Phuket. The hotel, a 30-minute drive south of the Phuket flight terminal, is suitable for visitors seeking to appreciate curated neighborhood experiences and features while delighting in a couple of Western components as component of the more comprehensive Laguna Golf neighborhood where the Banyan Tree stays.

Located on a previous tin mine, Banyan Tree Phuket is currently a green-filled hotel that includes coastline and golf links gain access to and a collection of shallows for kayaking, sundown mixed drinks and also exclusive supper cruise ships.

Pool suites are the requirement at Banyan Tree Phuket, yet given that when was any kind of “White Lotus” primary personality understood for restricting themselves? The hotel likewise supplies Double Pool Villas in an extra remote stretch of the home that likewise has very easy accessibility to the premium Tre, a European dining establishment neglecting a shallows that is a quieter area to order morning meal over the more busy Watercourt dining establishment closer to the primary entrance hall.

Fear not if you hesitate to spend lavishly on the Double Pool Villa. Entry-degree swimming pool suites are still exceptionally roomy with seating locations, walk-in wardrobes, a kitchen space and an exclusive patio area and dive swimming pool deck. Housekeeping is two times daily, and you can obtain bikes near the entrance hall for your remain to ride about the stretching home and obtain some cardio.

The Banyan Tree group obtains high marks for weaving in curated experiences for those that wish to obtain even more of a regional direct exposure. Take component in a raw food preparation course in the hotel’s brand-new kitchen area workshop — I’m still desire the shredded pumpkin, carrot and tempeh salad with spiced lime vinaigrette I made while there. Enjoy a reflective go through a maze to begin your day on a reflective note, or check out neighborhood markets and rubber haciendas. The Banyan Tree group enjoys to prepare on a minute’s notification.

Don’t lose out on a day spa therapy at the Banyan Tree Spa Phuket, as this home is where all health club employee that help Banyan Tree concern educate prior to going back to the resort or hotel where they function. Treatment spaces are remote, stand-alone suites in a quieter stretch of the hotel — suitable for allowing all the anxiety restrain over the period of a massage therapy.

The close-by gym functions as an audio barrier to the swimming pool deck that includes a mix of remote swimming locations for doing laps and a careless river that introduces the primary swimming pool with a swim-up bar.

Saffron is Banyan Tree’s premium Thai dining establishment neglecting the shallows, and it’s the type of luxe dining establishment where you can conveniently envision a “White Lotus”-design supper occurring while a vocalist lulls from the nearby bar location. Luckily, you can conserve the stress for HBO: The most significant point you’ll discover below is the rice cart with four sorts of grains (the blue-hued butterfly pea was a standout) to go along with curries or various other scrumptious Thai meals.

Save time for lunch at Veya, Banyan Tree’s wellness-oriented dining establishment that forgets a silent swimming pool stretch near the health club. The alfresco eating experience is understood for its “Mediterr-Asian” price that is plant-forward yet much more “flexi-tarian” in method. Vegan nachos, fit to be tied shellfish dumplings and kingfish ceviche all obtain top marks — specifically when cleaned down with a made-in-house kombucha.

While Banyan Tree might not lean as a lot right into Eastern spirituality as Anantara, the hotel is still a lavish escape with lots of genuine Thai heart to attach you to the preferences and society of Phuket.

Entry-degree prices begin at $340 per evening in off-peak months prior to increasing to around $500 per evening in winter months optimal traveling months.

Rosewood Phuket

Last, yet most absolutely not the very least, is the Rosewood Phuket. I will not dice words: Not to obtain macabre, yet I located myself after a couple of hours below murmuring to myself, “When I die, I think I want my ashes scattered here.”

Covertly, naturally, and no place that would certainly mess up the visitor experience.

Rosewood is just one of the ultraluxury brand names that might conveniently change Four Seasons as the for “The White Lotus,” yet maybe it does not wish to. The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it entryway to the Rosewood Phuket is a very early signal that privacy and exclusivity preponderate below.

The hotel has a windy entrance hall with lily pad-filled water fountains where you stroll over a boardwalk right into an even more intimate check-in location neglecting Patong Bay. Once you have information ironed out, a pleasant team member will certainly blend you in a buggy down a tree-lined, sloping course to your lodgings in the primary playground.

Pavillions, Villas and Houses — all with their very own exclusive swimming pools — are the choices for keeps below.

I remained in a Partial Ocean View Pool Pavilion, a large cottage with a living location segmented off from the resting location. The restroom includes double vanities in addition to adequate integrated storage area for travel luggage and unpacked garments. You’re dealt with to both an interior and an exterior shower and an exterior bathtub.

Off the living location, an exterior patio area bordered by a dive swimming pool likewise consists of a sunlight lounger in addition to a seating location with a sight of the bay. Back within, you’ll discover classy, lavish and low-key style (a great deal of planet tones accentuated by dark timber and backlit cabinets), and features like alcoholic drink packages in the minibar and online regulated power outage tones for when you await some nonstop sleep.

Restaurant choices variety from upscale Thai price at the waterside Ta Khai dining establishment to barbequed fish and shellfish and raw bar staples like oysters at The Shack near the swimming pool deck. The Italian Red Sauce dining establishment in fact had me scraping my head due to the fact that Phuket isn’t specifically where I anticipated to discover such scrumptious pizza and veal Milanese.

Breakfast is likewise offered at Red Sauce with a large buffet including much more Western price while an a la carte food selection supplies a mix of Thai meals (double-boiled pork ribs and mushroom soup and Phuket dumplings rated) and Western choices like eggs and smoothie mixes. Mai is a poolside lounge and alcoholic drink bar open throughout the day, yet it was specifically enjoyable to unwind in the evening for after-dinner martinis and take in heaven.

The swimming pool location includes a mix of wading locations for kids and much deeper stretches to enter a couple of laps. Walk throughout the swimming pool on a boardwalk, and you’ll get to a sandy stretch of Emerald Bay. You can lease paddleboards and kayaks to check out the bay, or you can unwind with a publication on a sunlight lounger — there are plenty to select from on the sand or back more detailed to the swimming pool.

Service below is very alert and not simply using the twice-daily complete house cleaning. You will not stroll as well much prior to a buggy vehicle driver will undoubtedly quit to ask if you require a lift. Staff participants by the swimming pool fast to use to bring over an additional umbrella to conceal from the sunlight or a fresh fruit popsicle to appreciate. The Asaya health club group operates in overdrive to ensure visits are readily available to delight in a little indulging. (I’m still desiring for my Detox Ritual face … and want there had actually been time for even more therapies.)

It was all very pleasant and useful and never ever really felt self-important — my fave was the caring team pointer each early morning over morning meal at Red Sauce to put on even more sun block. Yes, by this factor in my journeys, I might have appeared like a red lobster at Red Sauce. Oops.

All in all, Rosewood Phuket is most likely the most significant straight rival to Four Seasons Koh Samui in regards to experience and rates — with maybe a little bit much more privacy many thanks to its staying away from the Hollywood eye. For currently, anyhow.

Off-peak prices at the Rosewood Phuket beginning at $810 per evening prior to increasing to $1,123 per evening throughout optimal traveling months over the winter months.