Registration is now open for Thailand’s favourite regatta and the Provisional Notice of Race is online. Five nights of parties that are renowned as the best regatta parties in the region, combined with four days of high-octane yacht racing in the southwest monsoon season have elevated Six Senses Phuket Raceweek, now in its seventh year, [...]

It’s a tough assignment I know: Three spas in four days. But I’m in Phuket to investigate signature spa treatments, and with a twinge of stiffness in my neck after almost 24 hours of travelling, I’m keen to get started. Thailand is known as the land of smiles and it’s my intention to put that [...]

Stepping from the air conditioned terminal into the humidity laden chaos of Phuket International Airport, I anxiously peer through the throng of arriving travellers and their greeters. I’m searching for someone holding a board with my name on it, but it’s hard to distinguish one placard from another, which are all bobbing up and down [...]

Stepping gingerly into the long-tail boat, our heavy tread rocking the boat alarmingly, two young children in the stern peer curiously through long- lashed eyes. Offering them my best wide-mouthed, friendly grin, they respond with bashful smiles. Gesticulating to their mother, who has now cranked up the enormous diesel engine and is manoeuvring through other [...]