Centara Hotels & Resorts is to open the Centara Grand Beach Resort Phuket in October 2010, a newly-built resort property at Karon Beach on the island of Phuket.

The hotel is one of the few at Karon to be set directly at the edge of the sand, most of the existing properties being on the other side of the beach road.

Designed in a colonial style with Sino-Portuguese architecture, the five-star resort is Centara’s fourth property in Phuket.

Centara has taken key elements of its resort properties at Krabi and Pattaya to create an ideal destination resort at Karon Beach. Read the rest of this entry »