The private Paradise of the AiyaPura Resort and Spa on the Tropical Island Koh Chang is nestling agreeably with nature and has the luxury of a 5 star hotel resort and it facilities.

Virgin forest, tropical Fruit trees and Thai architectural buildings share the same space in peace and harmony. Lush green trees are surrounding the gentle hamlet which is laid out with villas, suites and bungalows, equipped with all the amenities you could which for.

With its 84 rooms, including superior rooms, deluxe duplex rooms, villas & suites, the Aiyapura Resort & Spa is the most luxurious resort on Koh Chang. In combination with 3 restaurants and bars, an overflowing free-shaped swimming pool and a 500-meters sea shore.

Rooms and suites are equipped with all mode construction such as individually controllable air conditioning, color TV with International, Thai and Cable channels, an international telephone with 24-hour operator service, minibar and minishop and your own coffee and tea making facilities. The bathrooms have all the amenities, hot and cold water with outdoor shower or bathtub and much more.

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Aiyapura Resort & Spa, Koh Chang, Thailand

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Nirvana Resort is a special place designed to surpass its name. Made with lovers of natural beauty in mind it also excels in cuisine, comfort and service. Oozing chic and style Nirvana is the special getaway for anybody who is yearning for peace and tranquility with comfort.

Discover Nirvana, the ultimate eco-friendly resort set in 8 acres of virgin jungle. Discover the long sandy beaches in the beautiful bay of Bang Bao in the south of the fabulous unspoiled island of Koh Chang, the second largest island of Thailand, only recently opened to tourism.

Nirvana, a sensitively developed eco-friendly resort nestled in part beside the tiny fishing village of Bang Bao and being a peninsula is also positioned on the deep blue waters of the South China Sea.

Every bungalow on nirvana resort has been carefully designed and structured using the finest materials available, from ancient timber flooring, to hand made Buddha roof tiles. Each bungalow is a new experience, as every one of them is different, yet all boasting super luxury standards. Interiors were carefully chosen from Bali, giving the feeling of comfort and total relaxation.

Bungalows Facilities:
* Sea view, Beach Front bungalows.
* Fabulous Balinese Interiors.
* Privacy glass on all bungalows.
* DVD/CD Dolby-Logic Home Theatre Systems.
* UBC Satellite.
* Free High Speed Broad Band Internet.
* Huge Balinese bath tubs with power showers.
* Generously stocked mini bars including fine imported wines.
* Silent Running Air-Conditioned, ceiling Fans.
* Large comfortable Couches/single beds.
* Digital in-room safe.
* Hair Dryer
* Room Service.

Every bungalow boasts a Sony Dolby Digital 5.1 home cinema system, with the latest DVD movies available. And for those who like to keep in touch with there business, a broad band Lan connection is situated in every room at the desk area. All internet usage is complimentary to Nirvana customers. Mini bars are generously stocked with a wide range of refreshments including spirits and imported wines. A full European and Thai menu is offered from our restaurant, all meats are imported from New Zealand or the UK, and fish is freshly delivered from the local fishing village. Located beach front, fabulous views of the bay make dining an enjoyable experience.

With customer satisfaction in mind, Nirvana boast, not one, but 2 swimming pools. Located beach front, over looking the bay is the salt water pool, offering a pool side bar with wi-fi internet connection. Located in the heart of the jungle is the fresh water plunge pool, with a rock waterfall. The poolside Rock bar offers cocktails and evening drinks.

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Nirvana Resort Koh Chang, Thailand

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Mountain greenery, clear blue sky, refreshing breezes, sparking blue ocean and fine white sandy beaches. It’s paradise on the beautiful island of Koh Chang. KC Hotel & Resort gives you that clear vision of that paradise island. Luxurious bungalows for special people. Enjoy the refreshing blue of the sky from sunrise to sunset of the beach and feel your stress melt away. Top off your great day with our fabulous food.

Room facilities and amenities include:
* Bathroom with hot and cold water
* Mini-Bar
* Remote Control
* Cable TV
* Individually controlled air-conditioning
* Full stock of room amenities
* In room personal safe

Each room faces the sea with private balcony. All guest rooms are comfortably furnished with generous room amenities. All the standard rooms have been beautified lately to better service you. All superior villas are located in the midst of the seashore and the mountain. and the villas have their private balcony with its picturesque locale atop the mountain backdrop which give our guests a feeling of walking into the wilderness. All deluxe room villas are located just a few steps to the ocean which boasts a spectacular view of the Gulf of Thailand. The unusual large size of the room create the most relax experience one will encounter.

The Beach Cafe is open to ocean breezes and the scent of tropical flowers the most suitable place for all day dining and also to enjoy an evening cocktail or soft drinks while watching the sun slowly setting into the ocean. The sound of the waves is musical background giving our guests an experience of dining by the sea. The restaurant also features very fresh grilled seafood and international cuisines.

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KC Grande Resort, Koh Chang, Thailand

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Koh Chang Kacha Resort is ideally located in the central region of the White Sand Beach. It is a beachfront resort with a great sea view and is a perfect place for those who love living by the sea with fine white sand and clear sea-water. The beach at Koh Chang Kacha Resort is ideal for sunbathing, swimming, playing or just lazing around. Each evening the beachfront attracts more people with some volleyball and football teams sweating out on the wide beachfront, courtesy of the low tide.

Koh Chang Kacha Resort offers 44 authentic eastern Thai style rooms in the middle of tropical style garden, except for the four beachfront Villas. Each house has 2 floors. Mostly each house has two rooms: one lower floor and another room on the second floor. All houses are parallel to the beach with the beachfront villas situated in the front row.

The rooms are equipped with individually controllable air conditioning, colour TV with local and cable channels, hair dryer, IDD telephone service, safety box, mini bar, coffee and tea making facilities and private balcony or terrace. The bathrooms have all amenities, hot and cold water with shower.

The rooms are:
Standard Room – 8 rooms
Superior Villa – 36 rooms
Beachfront Villa – 4 villas
Deluxe Building – 30 rooms
Deluxe Villa – 11 villas

Facilities and Services:
* Spa & Massage
* Swimming Pool
* Meeting Room
* Limousine Service
* Tour and Excursion
* Luggage Service
* Laundry Service
* Vegetarian Food
* Car Rental
* Internet

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Koh Chang Kacha Resort and Spa, Koh Chang, Thailand

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Koh Chang used to be a backpackers’ paradise of bargain beach huts, massage on the beach and nights listening to Bob Marley. But things have changed as mainstream tour operators discovered its charms.

The Thai island of Koh Chang is the second largest in the country after Phuket, not far from the Cambodian border. If you haven’t heard of it, you soon will, as it’s what the mainstream tour operators call an ‘emerging destination’. If you are a cynic, that means a former sleepy backpackers’ retreat of simple beach huts has been swamped with a mid- to high-end tourists. And, if you like new places that are relaxed and relatively easy to get to, book now before the hordes arrive.

Flights from Bangkok to neighbouring Trat City on the mainland, where you catch a charming ferry to the island, run two or three times a day, as opposed to more than 30 daily flights from the capital to the better-known Koh Samui.

There is little resort-style development on Koh Chang because it is dizzyingly mountainous, making it pretty in a Gauguinesque South Seas way, and because it is a protected marine national park. There are still scores of cheap places, costing from as little as a couple of pounds a night for what amounts to no more than a garden shed with a bed. Most are on the west side as there are few beaches on the east, and the highest concentration is at White Sands.

Here the beach is clean, the roaming dogs are well fed and not after your leg, there’s little evidence of dubious girlie bars and everyone is friendly. The shopping is the usual tat with travellers’ clothes that fall apart after two rinse cycles but it’s all so cheap and easy that no one cares. If you want to go upmarket there are a couple of smart Italian restaurants. In short, it is perfect for a stop and flop.

That said, what the brochures don’t tell you is that the beach suffers from a strong tide and almost disappears on certain days in the lunar calendar. Also, those mountains mean lots of cloud and more rain than on lower-lying islands. White Sands reminded one of the Thailand of yesteryear.

Completed just over a year ago, the 150-room Amari Emerald Cove hotel was the first international five-star hotel to open on the island and the first to be featured by Kuoni, Britain’s biggest long-haul operator to the Far East.

Rooms offer simple luxury with teak floors, large beds, generous bathrooms and balconies overlooking lily ponds. The pool is a 50-metre stunner, five times longer than the one at my local gym, and makes up for the smallish beach. The cocktails and the food are excellent, but the architect made a serious error of judgment when he put the main bar and the Thai and Italian restaurants at the back of the hotel.

Koh Chang means ‘elephant island’ and, even though they aren’t indigenous, there are three spots on the island where you can take organised rides. Chose Ban Kwang Chang, a simple clearing in the forest where they don’t do circus tricks.

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Few destinations can match Koh Chang for its sheer beauty. The islands of the south, with their silky white beaches and jungle-clad hillsides, are among the best on earth. Throw in one of the world’s finest cuisines, a tropical climate, good-humoured people and low prices, and you have a formula that inches close to perfection.

True, there are some ugly pockets of overdevelopment but these eyesores are easily avoided, particularly now that new roads and airports have opened up parts of the country previously seen only by backpackers. Idyllic beaches that once lay at the end of all-night bus rides are now less than an hour’s flying time from Bangkok.

Opening up new areas of Thailand to tourism has, in the past, been a double-edged sword. Unchecked development can spell disaster for the delicate ecology. But there is evidence that the authorities have learnt from previous mistakes: building regulations that used to be routinely ignored are now being enforced; and in some regions, the government is inviting luxury hotel groups to move in, on condition that they operate under tight environmental controls.

So where is the hottest “untouched” destination? Answer: Koh Chang, a swooningly beautiful palm-fringed island off Thailand’s east coast, close to the Cambodian border. Until recently, Koh Chang was known only to backpackers. Five hours by bus from the capital, the island was badly served by ferries, and the only way to get around it was on a single dirt road that flooded every time it rained. Today, the road is paved, an efficient car ferry runs every half-hour, and an airport has opened at Trat, on the mainland nearby. Flying time from Bangkok is just 40 minutes.

Hotels and restaurants are beginning to flourish. Although Koh Chang is Thailand’s second-largest island (after Phuket), it presents a headache for developers because it is so mountainous. More than 70% of the land is virgin rainforest. It is also protected: along with 50 surrounding smaller islands, it has been designated a national marine park.

Nature is abundant here. Trekking through the dense interior, you can find macaque monkeys and up to 70 species of birds. Get underwater and you might bump into reef sharks, barracudas and giant sea turtles. A short drive inland, passing fields of mango and durian trees, leads to the jungle camp of Ban Kwan Chang, where visitors can ride elephants into the rainforest and wash the animals under waterfalls.

Only one beach is busy. Haat Sai Khao, known as White Sand Beach, is mutating fast, with £5-a-night huts making way for mid-price hotels. The road is lined with clothes shops, internet cafes, food stalls and travel agencies. But even here there is little to do after dark, and the handful of girlie bars that appeared last winter are being shut down by the authorities and shunted to a designated area away from the resorts.

A 10-minute drive south brings you to Haat Khlong Prao, an utterly unspoilt picture-book beach with coconut palms, powdery sand and a handful of islands so close that they can be reached by kayak. Three or four tasteful low-key hotels have appeared alongside, and this summer, Haat Khlong Prao saw the opening of the island’s first sizable resort hotel, which is being managed by Amari, the excellent Thai-owned group.

The Amari has Olympic-size pool, three restaurants and sleek, contemporary-styled rooms. Because this is all national park, the authorities are very hot on environmental issues: the beach is clean but is not allowed to be altered in any way.

From here, the palm-lined coast road snakes southward past a series of untouched beaches to the fishing village of Bang Bao. Built entirely on stilts over a bay of iridescent turquoise, this is a perfect spot for lunch. Squid boats decked with lamps rock gently on their moorings beside jetties strewn with sun-dried shrimps. Restaurants serve tiger prawns, crab and rock lobster, all served fresh from the giant nets that dangle into the water from their wooden terraces. A crustacean can make it from the sea to your plate in less than five minutes.

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