The Top 2 Hotels Near Paradise Beach
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Perched on a hillside above Kamala Beach, this boutique all-suite resort and villa complex is the kind of place where you book two nights and somehow stay five. Private plunge pools, infinity pools staring down at the Andaman Sea, and dedicated villa attendants make it feel less like a hotel and more like you borrowed a very wealthy friend's house. The cliff-top pool is for quiet mornings; Silk Restaurant is for everyone else.
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A Ritz-Carlton Reserve tucked between jungle and the Andaman Sea, Phulay Bay is the kind of resort where 54 private-pool villas are spread far enough apart that you genuinely forget other guests exist. Limestone cliffs rise out of the water, a circular infinity pool frames the whole scene, and the spa leans into local treatments rather than generic hotel wellness. The crowd came to fully disappear, and the place lets them.