With its excellent staff and chic contemporary ambience, the Aleenta Phuket is an excellent luxury choice for honeymooners and families alike. A 20 minute drive north from Phuket airport, yet a world away from the island’s main tourist beaches, its’ setting is the unspoilt, un-commercialised Natai Beach.

The range of accommodation is versatile, from the superbly private pool villas only metres from the splendid beach, to the huge beachfront properties with a maze of freeform plunge pools and lots of separate rooms. In common with all the options is the sleek aesthetic - airy open plan, multilevel squared off spaces with huge windows and stone floors, floating staircases, a soft coffee palette against cream walls and dark wooden contemporary furniture. Inside and outside don’t really exist, here, unless you want it too - much of the living space opens straight onto spacious decking and personal pools.

The hotel’s two intimate restaurants serve Thai and fusion cuisine: creative menus showcase innovative dishes cooked using the freshest local ingredients, making Aleenta a dining hotspot for foodies. Equally impressive and cutting-edge is the Ayurah Wellness Centre that, in addition to traditional treatment rooms, features a chromo-therapy room and Vichy shower room designed for horizontal water massage. Whilst parents escape, guilt-free to the spa, children are kept entertained with a variety of gadget-free activities at the A Explorers Club which features its own kids pool. There's even a kid's concierge on-hand to suggest other inspirational and fun activities.