Word: phuket
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...PHUKET: Private pools at the 39-villa Trisara resort come as standard, if that's any indication of the cosseting on offer. For a proper splurge, however, book Trisara's top-dollar escape. For $35,000, you'll be waited on hand and foot at a seafront three-bedroom hideaway for five nights, before boarding a three-cabin luxury yacht, which counts a spa therapist and chef among the crew. You'll then be taken on a one-night cruise around Phang Nga Bay, Krabi and Phi Phi, anchoring at Maya Bay - a location for the Danny Boyle movie...
...PHUKET, THAILAND...
...music to the ears of the city fathers. When Hong Kong housewife and property investor Betty Ling first saw advertisements for Sentosa Cove three years ago, her Singaporean friends warned her "only ghosts live there." But she says she chose to buy in Singapore instead of Bali or Phuket because, "It's an international city and you have all the infrastructure of city life. You can feel safe there. Bali and China are scary. You don't know whom to trust." Plus, she says, prices are relatively low, adding, "Where in Hong Kong can you moor your boat right outside...
...because he sleeps three hours a night, so I had to answer the door every morning,” Scarry writes. “The rest, as they say, is history.”Scarry and Lilly plan to wait until after graduation to get married, listing Memorial Church, Phuket, Cambridge City Hall, or a nice beach in Southern China as possible locales. “If we continue to live in Boston, Widener/Lamont photos are definitely possible. But Mather is so much more photogenic, we would probably go there first,” jokes Scarry in an e-mail...
...RICE: This delightful venue, tel: (66-77) 231 934, is accessed by a small bridge over a pond, bestowing a sense of occasion that is matched by the Italian cuisine. Chef Luca Mancini worked at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Bologna, Italy, and did stints in ritzy restaurants in Phuket, London and Bombay. His imaginative menu incorporates tropical fruit at times, and not only in desserts. TAWANN: The aforementioned Joeri Schreurs tickles palates at this venue - tucked away in the Renaissance Koh Samui Resort & Spa, tel: (66-77) 429 300 - with modern European cuisine that emphasizes fresh herbs...