Jeremy Webster, 18, and his brother Guy, 14, were taken to the Bangkok Samui Hospital and hours later flown to Bangkok, where they are confined at the Bumrungrad Hospital.

Jeremy reportedly hit his head on a rock when he fell while Guy landed in a pond and suffered from a shattered femur. The two boys were billeted in Baan Samui Resort with their mother, Linda, and sister, Kelly.
It was reported that the hotel had failed to inform their guests that their room’s balcony railing was weak. The 13-year-old Baan Samui Resort is one of the popular hotels in Chaweng beach because of its good sea views and white-sand beach.

A hotel staff said he saw the two boys at the balcony engaged in horseplay before the balcony collapsed.
The Australian newspaper The Daily Telegraph, however, quoted the mother of the two boys, Linda, as saying that her older son leant on the railing, which “just gave way and my other son went with him.”

“They’re getting better and are not in serious condition as reported,” hotel representative Khun Sunee said. At the same time the hotel management expressed its regret for the accident.

“We are sorry for what happened. It is an accident that no one expected. We have always checked our facilities in accordance with our safety policy. However, we do not want to make any excuses because it happened in our hotel. We accept all responsibility for the injured tourists,” Ms. Sunee said.

After the incident, Baan Samui Resort conducted a safety check of all its guestrooms and closed the room where the Australian family was billeted.

The three-story, two-building hotel, according to Sunee, is mostly made of hardwood but that they suspect that some parts, including the fallen balcony, could have been eroded by termites within.
The resort plans to renovate the wooden parts and replace them with more durable material.

Sunee also said that the hotel is taking care of the injured tourists very well to the satisfaction of their family. “We give them everything that they require. Their (victims’) mother, Linda, is happy with the services we’re giving them. Her sons are better and next week they could go back to their country. They said they love the beach and Samui and that [what happened] was an accident that no one wanted to happen.”