The Vijitt Resort Phuket

Breakfast was very good, location is stunning and the staff are excellent without being overly formal. The villa was comfortable, cool and the layout was well considered. The villas all feel very private, nestled into the hillside amongst lots of greenery. The entire place feels very relaxed. The Thai Restaurant was weirdly quiet considering the food was so good, but that meant the service was amazing and it made it feel even more special. It has some aspects of a 5 star resort, but is really more like a high end 4 star. That isn't a criticism, if anything I think really trying to push the high-end elements further would make it lose some of its charm.

As with many 4/5 star resorts, water ends up being an expensive extra. A couple of small plastics bottles of water were put in the room each day for free, but in 34 degree heat, that isn't enough. They warn you not to drink the tap water, but dont really offer an easy alternative around the pool area other than small plastic bottles, priced at around 5x the going rate, or larger 1.5 litre Evian bottles, which are priced at more like 10x the going rate. Neither option is very good either financially or environmentally. Water is no doubt a big source of income for them, but I think this resort, like many others, need to reconsider how they manage and charge for this.

The pool is wonderful, big, clean, deep enough and pleasantly illuminated after sunset.

For swimming the beach right at the hotel is not perfect but u can kite surf there. The breakfast is very good, just fresh juice would have been appreciated. Juice being presented in these big containers with the ever moving turning tool inside never looks pleasant and the taste of the juice was artificial, which is odd in a location like that. I travelled alone but I got two free 15 minutes hand massage trial coupons (normally for two people staying) and the lobby personnel offered that I could just use it for 30 minute massage (very nice of them). Unfortunately the Spa personnel refused to actually do that, not a nice feeling to be made looking cheap, lack of communication between the staff at this point.