The Best Hotels Near TAMU, by the Record
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Fifteen rooms around a pool, all facing the sea, with private balconies and Balinese outdoor showers built for standing in the rain and feeling smug about it. Tamu is a sleek boutique beach hotel on Otres Beach, the Cambodian stretch that hasn't quite made the group-chat rounds yet. Polished cement floors, wide white beds, coffee and cocktails served on daybeds in the sand. Kayaking, snorkeling, and yoga with the in-house instructor when the lounging gets competitive.
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A 15-minute speedboat ride off Cambodia's south coast, this private-island resort is so thoroughly swallowed by jungle that you can barely spot a rooftop from the water. Forty villas each come with plunge pools, and the spa occupies the island's highest point, which tells you where the priorities lie. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys. Water sports, a sheltered cove, and excursions into Ream National Park fill the hours between naps.
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The 12th-floor Sky Pool looks out over the Gulf of Thailand, which is a reasonable argument for booking a higher floor. This five-star resort in Sihanoukville draws on Indonesian and Khmer design, with coffered ceilings, patterned carpets, and smart glass across 236 rooms and suites. A spa, gym, Chinese restaurant, and an international dining room round things out. Otres Beach is ten minutes away when the pool loses its appeal.
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More than 500 private-pool villas arranged around a central lagoon on Phu Quoc's Gulf of Thailand beachfront: this is a resort that functions less like a hotel and more like a small town. The contemporary-colonial villas run from one to four bedrooms, and the usual scale amenities, spa, yoga, kids' program, and watersports, are all here. Being part of the wider Vinpearl complex quietly doubles the options without requiring any extra effort.
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Twenty-seven villas scattered across two wild islands in the Gulf of Thailand, some on stilts over the water, some tucked into forested hillside, all of them a 30-minute speedboat ride from the Cambodian coast. This is a private-island resort in the Maldives mold, except it's Cambodia, which almost nobody expects. Seafaring excursions around the surrounding archipelago give it something to do beyond the spa and the fine Cambodian dining.
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Fuchsia orchids on black marble, koi ponds threading through palms and hibiscus, and sightlines so deliberately composed you'd swear a cinematographer laid them out. This all-suite-and-villa resort on Phu Quoc's white sand beach earns a Michelin Key and a Forbes Four Star by going all in: private pools, a speakeasy bar styled like a luxury train car, a rooftop infinity pool, and a spa that treats "innovative treatment" as a minimum standard.
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A Singapore-sized island off the coast of Cambodia isn't the most obvious resort destination, but Phu Quoc has been quietly building a case. Salinda is a resort of around a hundred suites and villas spread generously enough that it never feels full. Private balconies, rain showers, and king beds are standard throughout. A Thai-run spa, Vietnamese, Italian, and Indian dining, and a Night Market just beyond the gates round things out.
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A tower resort on Phu Quoc's Long Beach where rooftop gardens and palms are less decoration than structural argument, the whole property angled to keep the sea in view from almost every corner. With 459 rooms, this is a full-scale luxury resort, family-friendly and sprawling, set against an island where more than half the land sits inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The kind of place where the jungle does a lot of the heavy lifting.