My friend and I stayed here for 4 nights. Although it is very much a honeymoon place we felt like queens. The hospitality was amazing and they catered for us not being a couple (i.e. included an extra bed). The people were lovely, I really can't say enough about this place. I would highly recommend it to anyone wanting a luxury getaway. Obby our villa host was beyond amazing, catering for our every need. The place itself had thought of everything and the place was designed with every detail

If you ever get a chance to experience such magic, it is well worth it.

This is by far the best luxury resort in Samui , all Private Pool Villas secluded with a gorgeous beach , great food, staff looking after all details , management presence in every service step and enjoyed sharing cultural and worldwide experience with the new Spanish GM. Spa is terrific as in other Banyan Trees and also enjoyed the Rainforest water circuit. Fun and different , although they should give it complimentary.
We will come back soon at this best of the best Resort.!

We stayed there for three nights in December in a Hill crest villa. The property layout is creative and looks gorgeous with the lights on at night. The bars are efficient, the breakfast spread generous,and the bar-be -que at our villa was outstanding. Samui city is a disappointment, and it was a mistake wasting a day exploring it. The waters at the private beach are very choppy and unsafe, but the pools make up for it.

We stayed for 13 days here, at first felt totally isolated in an uncomfortable way as the only way to leave your villa is by golf cart.
We stayed in a Royal Banyan Pool Villa, it was truly magnificent, we have stayed at a lot of resorts with private pool but this edge pool in the hills was fantastic.
After about 2 days we started to feel comfortable, the buggy system is very efficient, however they did let us down on chinese new year for 2 days, the batteries where dying and they couldn't keep up with the load, i had a 45min wait from the day spa, then had to share buggy was fine.

The spa was very good and although I only visited 3 times the wife being 4.5 months pregnant spent a lot of time there and loved it.

The Safron restaurant was good, we only went once, the Edge was nice and the chef was accomodating on our request to cook our lobster Mornay style was magnicent... not being a fan of buffet I did breakfast only twice, my dislikes for buffet food was turned around slightly with the bread offerings and of all things a Gouda cheese... Scrambled eggs where dry even when cooked as you wait... The staff here are impeccably good, noticing emptied juice glasses and promptly offering refills... Wife went every day and enjoyed it all.

Now on to diving, I have stayed on koh samui many times, always charter a private boat, I was looked after by Bophut Diving again, however a real downer is that they can't pick you up from the resort beach... I have stayed at 3 other resorts on koh samui and beach pickup from hotel was easy... We where told that this is not allowed... However a couple days later the General Manager has a private boat hit the beach, to be honest this is the first 5 star luxury resort that we have stayed at where he or she (GM) didn't introduce themselves... On both accounts can only be labelled as arrogance.

Have to mention all the staff again, nothing was a problem, they where so accomodating.

If they could improve anything I would suggest, more buggies, more driving lessons for buggy drivers... We where in many tiny incidents, most hilarious however would love to see any of them handle a break failure coming down from the G villas, and buy Gbetter quality toilet paper!

We also rented a car that was a good move if you are there for a long stay, buggy picked you up and strait to car park.

So all in all an amazing place to stay, service 9/10 food 8/10 spa 9/10 and remember you can't get a boat to pick you up diving unless you are the GM.