under the coconut trees

We started to look for a villa, in Kata, on the South side of Phuket in 1993, as we really liked the ambiance at this end of the island. We spent many wonderful holidays in Mon Tri’s Boathouse and scouted the area for our place in the sun. At this time, there were very few developments in Kata and Phuket generally and to find one we liked and within our price range was difficult.

Eventually, in 2002, we put a deposit on a 3 bedroomed Penthouse with a Lanna style roof (off plan) in the area we wanted overlooking Kata Noi beach in Kata, Phuket. A few weeks later, Adrian went to a property exhibition in Hong Kong for Royal Samui Beach (now rebranded to Karma Samui) and rang me to say that he thought he had found the perfect place for us in Koh Samui.

Initially, I panicked as we had concentrated our minds on a place in Phuket, even though we had first visited Samui island in 1989. Within two days, we had decided to purchase Plot No14 in Royal Samui Beach, as we had always wanted a villa rather than a condominium.


We were relieved when we got our deposit back from the Phuket property and could not believe our luck, years later, when we found that the Lanna style Penthouse was not built as described in the plan - but with a flat roof - a lucky escape!