Anantara Lawana Koh Samui Resort

Elaine Lim

We had an amazing stay here, beautiful quiet beach. Great singing Bird Lounge and treetop dining experience ( our staff art and Emma) were superb. All the staff and the experience from the moment you walk in till you check out makes you feel so pampered

Kasper Nyborg

Just about 5 starts but a really lovely trip overall. Excellent location at its own little stretch of beach. Beautiful and serene lobby area, lovely foliage throughout the extensive property. The main infinity pool is excellent and a lovely place to hang out. As are the beach restaurants and bars, which have a calm vibe overall. A decent number of families, which makes things nice and lively. Breakfast superb. Service really great. Gym excellent. Small deductions for our dark room (not sure why they were to stingy with windows) and because the sea was “closed” 3 out of our 5 days because a jellyfish sighting.

LISA MCPHERSON

We stayed at Anantara Lawana in 2024 and can't help but continue to be extremely disappointed in our stay. I am writing this review so that others can be informed, expectations can be managed and perhaps the right questions can be asked before you proceed with your own reservation. At the time of our stay I would describe the hotel as being poorly managed and maintained - barely operating and strung together by a thread. I did note it closed soon after our stay for repairs, so on reflection, the hotel was perhaps tapering off pre-closure, all the while, taking full rate from paying customers and ignoring guests when they raised concerns. The bad: 1. My husband received an electric shock from the bain-marie at breakfast. When he advised staff, the staff member got the same shock. Appallingly, rather than replace the affected appliance, they put a rubber matt under it and there it remained for the rest of our stay. 2. The shared breakfast utensils were dirty and barely cleaned. 2. The hotel pool was green for the first 2-3 days of our stay. Guest were swimming in it and staff appeared unconcerned until we mentioned it. The hotel finally got an engineer in to review and test it but only after we pushed and pushed was a broken filter found to be the cause and later fixed. I never got to swim in the pool. 2. There were no pool towels available, just a pile of dirty threadbare, frayed and stained towels. 3. There was no cold water by the pool. 4. Pool chairs were frayed and broken. 5. Kayaks were filthy dirty, and moldy. The paddles were broken. 6. Only 2 bath towels are provided per room. 7. One day the hotel "ran out" of bath towels and pool towels all together. 8. Housekeeping was late if not at all. We had to call at 5pm to follow them up. They didn't replenish the bottled water and left wet towels on the floor. 9. One day the beds were partially made and the decorative cushions were left on the floor. 10. No matches provided for in insect coils. 11. The gardens were dry lifeless and poorly maintained - not what you would expect from a tropical resort. There was brown dead grass everywhere. 12. Broken furniture in the breakfast area. 13. The beach isn't great and at low tide even worse. There is not much around in the way of restaurants and shops. Good: Staff member Khai was excellent and tried very hard in difficult conditions. I hope that with the refresh and a new approach to management, the hotel is back on track. The resort we experienced fell well short of other experiences of hotels a similar price and certainly fell well short of other properties in the Virtuoso group. Note: Requests to speak with the manager were denied. The hotel did provide us basic compensation after the electric shock but fell way short of what we deemed acceptable.

Kate Juan

When we first checked into the pool suite, we were a bit disappointed with the size of the room as it appears much larger in online pictures. Basically the actually room is TINY as most of the square footage was the outdoor plunge pool and deck area. There is also no view in such room types. Then 5 mins later my husband discovered the toilet is clogged and then we contacted the reception immediately to ask to change rooms… we saw the pool access room (bigger but no privacy and no view) and then the only other option we had was the two bedroom sea view villa during our dates…. Once you see the amazing view and space in this villa, it’s basically impossible to go back to stay in a much smaller room with zero view or privacy… so we decided to splurge on the two bedroom sea view villa just for the two of us… We received a small discount for the upgrade but we still ended up paying 5x the original price of the pool suite but you do get what you paid for as this villa came with free nonalcoholic mini bar, daily afternoon tea, two free massages in the villa per person, one free in-villa BBQ and 24 hour on-call service. We could also have had free Muay Thai, yoga or PT sessions if we wanted but we didn’t end up requesting any of this. At first we thought we were paying too much even after the discount cos there were only two of us but in the end we felt it was worth it cos the staff really went out of their way to make us feel pampered and taken care of. Despite the higher price tags of this resort and the higher category of rooms, you do get what you pay for. If we had stayed in the regular room or the pool suite, our experience would have been totally different and probably not good at all as we are the type who just wants to relax in the room and go to the gym during our vacation. I cannot imagine now how our experience would have been if we had stayed in the pool suite. So my recommendation for this resort is that get a sea view villa, go to the Tree Top restaurant and request for a high table with view. You will get what you pay for!

Anita M.

We got a pool villa and stunned with elegant and Thai traditional style villa. We were very impressed. The breakfast was so good and various choice. The beach was nice and peaceful. Recommended