New luxury Evason Resort from Six Senses Hotels Resorts & Spas to open in Hua Hin

Six Senses Hotels Resorts & Spas has announced their latest Evason Resort at Hua Hin, a beach resort area south west of Bangkok, Thailand. Six Senses will not only manage the resort but also has a significant equity investment in what will be their latest addition to the Evason brand. The resort will open as “The Evason Hua Hin” in November 2001.

The resort is currently the site of Club Aldiana which will continue to trade normally until mid March 2001 when it will be closed down for extensive renovations and upgrades. A budget in excess of USD 5 million has been allocated to transform the property into an Evason Resort. Six Senses plans for the new Evason Resort include 40 pool villas measuring approximately 130 square metres. Each villa will have it’s own private pool plus a bathroom in a garden setting that has become a trademark of the company’s Soneva brand. There will also be 24 deluxe suites measuring around 60 square metres and 140 standard rooms at 35 square metres.

Extensive meeting facilities are also included in the renovation plan with state of the art equipment designed to host meetings for up to 150 people.

Six Senses has always placed quality dining outlets high on their list of guest facilities and the resort will have a number of options available to satisfy all tastes. Apart from the main restaurant guests will be able to choose from a casual beach club concept and an Asian fusion restaurant situated in the middle of a very large lotus pond, plus snacks from a colonial style open air bar with panoramic views of the sea.

The resort will also feature a Six Senses quality spa which has become a feature of both the Evason and Soneva brands. A substantial amount of the upgrade budget will be devoted to a large children’s centre. This will consist of specially designed facilities for children of all ages including a dedicated children’s pool. This facility will also become a feature of all Evason Resorts.

Six Senses Chairman and founder Sonu Shivdasani said that “We are positioning the resort to be the best in the Hua Hin area. It will have facilities and standards that existing market leaders do not have and will help us further establish the Evason brand as one of outstanding quality in all areas. The whole style of our redevelopment will be a mixture of contemporary elements seen in our recently opened Gallery Evason in Singapore, with strong traditional Asian values and materials..”

Six Senses first resort in Thailand, Phuket Island Resort, will also complete it’s upgrades by November 2001 and will be renamed “The Evason Phuket” at the same time as The Evason Hua Hin comes on line.