Club Med Phuket

After extensive renovations, Club Med Phuket, located on the beach of Kata Bay in beautiful Thailand, reopens. Kata Bay is known for its pure white sands, crystal clear waters and palm lined beaches – among the finest in the world.

Club Med Phuket’s extensive renovation was themed “Magic of Lights.” This theme is derived from Thailand’s annual Yi Peng Festival where locals make lanterns out of thin fabric and attach a candle allowing for thousands of lanterns to float through the sky. The transformation included the lobby, main restaurant, bar, lounge and Club Med Spa by Payot, in addition to many other unique features for guests to enjoy.

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Phuket offers several levels of spacious accommodations, including suites, deluxe rooms and superior rooms all inspired by Thai customs with hues of red and gold. Room categories can accommodate families and couples comfortably. The resort also features three pools, a new Zen infinity pool exclusively for adults located on the far east of the resort, providing a spectacular view of Karon Bay, as well as one just for kids.

Phuket is the ideal family resort offering supervision and exciting activities for children from 4 months to 17 years of age, with Baby Club Med®, Petit Club Med®, Mini Club Med® and Club Med Passworld®, an exclusive place for teens to hang out. Children four to 10 years old have the opportunity to participate in the Clean Art Planet project, which creates environmental awareness by allowing them to create art from items that wash ashore from the sea. As part of Petit Club Med®, children experience nature walks, learning farms, storytelling and gym sessions. New activities for teenagers include theatre, film, dance and sound mixing.

Guests of Phuket can enjoy land and water sports both on and off-site from the flying trapeze and golf for all levels on championship courses to snorkeling and world-class scuba diving in the Andaman Sea. Club Med also offers once in a lifetime experiences with excursions such as eco-adventures in tropical forests, elephant safaris and visits to the legendary Phi Phi Islands.

Club Med Phuket also boasts a redesigned Club Med Spa by Payot creating a relaxing and rejuvenating experience for guests. The dedicated wellness area has six individual treatment rooms, six dual treatment rooms, two Turkish baths and a Jacuzzi.

Lovely pictures. Wow, I'd go back in a heart beat.
The zen pool looks just gorgeous. Love it!

I know ... I would be really happy to visit Phuket again ... it's been so long (2003 I think) it was where I met my wife the first time.

Kiki,
I have a question for you. On Friday, I was at an event at Alliance Francaise in Chicago where they featured food from countries with a French connection. One of those countries was Switzerland. They had a unusual dish that was boiled potatoes and pickles with cheese melted over the top. What is that called? By the way, the chocolates they served were the richest that I ever have had.

John

John,

Unusual, for you maybe. I'd say it's THE typical Swiss dish besides fondue.

It's called raclette, a real rich winter dish next fondue which is melted cheese in a pot you dip bread cubes in. Both dishes need to be eaten hot, otherwise the cheese becomes chewy...

We usually have laughs when we see Japanese tourists eat it in summer. Even worse, to drink Coke with it. Too heavy to digest. Best is hot black tea, but lots of people have the two dishes with dry white wine.

In fact, they served raclette one evening in Phuket. No way for me, although it looked delicious and then the smell. Heaven !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raclette
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondue

As for the chocolates, I find some of the Belgian ones even richer. Really depends on the label.

Kiki,
That's it. It was very tasty. I just hadn't ever seen it before. I was equally fascinated by the machine that they used. It held a BIG half wheel of cheese that would swing under the heat lamp, then tilt out so that the cheese could be scraped off with a big knife. To me the cheese had a nutty taste to it. It was very good. By the way the other areas represented were Quebec, France, Haiti, Vietnam, Belgium, and Romania. I never figured out why Romania was there but one of the sponsors was Casa Dracula.

I got to the event 5 minutes after it opened and there were over 100 people there already. Okay, now I think that I have totally hijacked this topic, but now I am better informed. Thank you.

John

Hm... no hijacking really, since, as mentioned above, they happen to serve raclette in Phuket !! If not, I remember the very sumptuous and tasty cheese tray there (at dinner).