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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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Samui seeks to host Miss Thailand workshop

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Suratthani Gov. Pracha Taerat will nominate Koh Samui as venue for the skills workshop for contestants in the forthcoming Miss Thailand Universe pageant.

The workshop is scheduled in March. The governor said that holding the workshop on Samui could generate a lot of publicity for the island and boost local tourism in the process. The Koh Samui Tourism Promotion and Development Board has endorsed the governor’s bid to have the beauty pageant workshop held on the island.

The committee will ask the Samui Municipality to release Bt1 million as expenses in hosting the beauty contestants and the pageant’s staff. It would also ask hotels on the island to offer rooms for the six-day stay of the Miss Thailand Universe participants.

Mrs.Wanwalee Tantikan, president of the Koh Samui Spa Association, said that tourist interest about the island would be reignited should Samui win its bid as venue for the workshop. Spa, she said, is one of the signature products of Koh Samui.  The industry, she added, would benefit a lot from the visit of the beauty contestants. –

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