Friday I moved on to Phuket Island a major resort area on the southern coast of the Andaman Sea. I stayed at the Marriott Phuket Beach Club which is in the collection of timeshare properties of the Marriott Vacation Club International. This one shares the area with a luxurious JW Marriott and the features nd amenities are interchangeable.
As you can see from the above photo of the reflecting pool at the JW the grounds are beautiful.
One of the 3 swimming pools on the grounds:
One of the lawns near a swimming pool:
The view from my balcony:
A couple of views of the beach:
If you look carefully you can see that there is a rather steep approach down to the waterline at this beach....maybe 10 feet up to the ground level where the hotel lay. This is what saved the hotel during the Great Tsunami of 6 years ago. Sea water and some debris reached the swimming pools but the buildings were protected by their setback from the water's edge and the slope you can see above. The hotel actually was used as headquarters for the rescue and relief effort on the northern part of the island.
This is one of 4 resorts on 10 mile long beach that is relatively protected from development because it is a marine turtle nesting ground. I'll have a week here before I move down to the over-developed Patong Beach for 5 days at the Courtyard by Marriott in Patong City.
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