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huge balcony, and bathrooms with a stone tub and an open-air shower. Reasons to leave
your room include tennis courts, a huge pool and a spa.
Nonguests can dip into to the pool for K5000 and the Pier Restaurant is a lovely place
to dine with an extensive international menu and prices that are not too steep, consider-
ing.
Emerald Sea Resort
RESORT $$$
$$$
( 042-40247;
www.emeraldseahotel.com
;
r $110, bungalows $120-140; )
Located
south of the village, this cosy resort may not be as flashy as the newer places along the
beach, but it makes up for it with attractive design and excellent service. The rooms
themselves are beautifully created with minimal decor, making the virgin-white and very
comfortable interiors all the more classy.
There's a decent restaurant (advance notice is often required), a spa and a beautiful
stretch of beach out front. Electricity is only 24 hours in high season.
Sunny Paradise Resort
RESORT $$$
$$$
( 042-40227;
www.sunnyparadiseresort.com
;
r $65-260; )
Yet another imposing
compound north of the village, Sunny Paradise also includes two adjacent properties:
Dream Paradise and Ocean Paradise (offering the cheapest rooms with no direct beach
access). The attractive wooden bungalows in the Sunny Paradise section are the pick of
the rooms, with pricetags from $200 upward.
Aureum Palace
RESORT $$$
$$$
( 042-40218;
www.aureumpalacehotel.com
;
r/villa from $160/240; )
Designed in
glitzy royal Myanmar style with plenty of gilded traditional carvings and soaring teak
pillars, the Aureum is exactly the kind of place you'd expect a crony such as Tay Za to
own. Nonetheless the standards are high and it's professionally run with the promise of
round-the-clock power.
The cheapest rooms are on the small side.
Eating
Break out of your hotel restaurant at least once in order to eat in the village, where there
is a good range of cheap restaurants. There is little to distinguish one from another -
most places share a facsimile menu that focuses on seafood-based dishes prepared in the
Chinese style.
