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X2 Resort Samui now a member of Design Hotels

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X2 Samui, a recently opened design hotel and resort on Koh Samui, has announced its membership with Design Hotels, the German-based marketing and sales company for independent luxury design hotels.“X2 Samui is honored to be a member of Design Hotels with its strategy to only accept the best and the most compatible properties into their collection.

With X2 Resort Kui Buri (Hua Hin) opened in December 2007 and more X2 Design hotels and resorts in the planning in Bangkok, Koh Tan, Koh Kood, Phuket and Krabi for next year, we will definitely expand our relationship with Design Hotels in the near future,” said Anthony McDonald, Chief Executive Officer of X2 Resorts.

“We are excited to be part of Design Hotels, certainly because of the fact that X2 Resort is Thailand’s first chain of Design Hotels.Next year’s agenda, we will also be introducing X2 Residences for sale in X2 Kui Buri and X2 Samui”, said Klaus R. Rauter, group general manager of X2 Resorts.X2 Samui, opened in June 2008, is the latest in a series of new developments of the stunning X2 Resort properties.The resort encompasses 27 casually elegant beachfront pool villas decorated by famed architect and designer Be Gray, situated on 5-acres of pristine beachfront on the south-eastern coast of Samui island.

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2 Aussie boys hurt in hotel balcony collapse

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Written by CHAT ANUPAN
TWO teenage Australian boys vacationing on Samui were hurt after they fell from their second-story wooden hotel balcony, which collapsed when they leaned against its railing.

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.”

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Relief promised to Coco homeowners

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Written by PATRICK ROXAS
Wednesday, 28 January 2009 15:21
A NEW management team has begun efforts to turn around Coconut Montana Co. Ltd. and Coco International Service Co. Ltd., a top official of the two financially-beleaguered firms, said.

Sonsak Na Pattalung, the newly-designated acting chief executive officer for the two troubled companies, said that after the recent management change within the Coco group, a thorough review has been carried out and a new management plan is being drawn up.

“The management team is fully aware of the issues on site and the first and most obvious matters to deal with are site security and utilities,” Sonsak said in an emailed report to stockholders.

Sonsak said management will then move on to address other issues such as standby power, communal areas, swimming pools, among other things.

He said changes would be made regarding the delivery of services and the administration of services and these would be done phase by phase.

“In the coming weeks, site security will be restored and a controlled access plan introduced,” he said, adding that “in the initial stages, owners, residents and guests will be issued with an access card that will allow entry past the site gate and visitors and contractors will be required to sign in.”

He also said that a security plan is being developed now, with details of the access system being finalized.

Work has already begun to restore site main water and lighting and infrastructure are being reviewed, according to him. He said he expects homeowners and residents to notice the changes within the next two weeks.

At the same time, billing for site services will be modified and an optional contract amendment offered, he said.

“At this stage, our view is that as site services are gradually restored, then payment contributions to services must also be restored,” Sonsak said. “As some owners will be aware, there has been, for a long period, an impasse whereas services deteriorated, payments also reduced. Unfortunately, this is a ‘Catch 22’ situation.” Continue reading →

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