As Onemorethai mentioned, my friend and I took the first two rooms at Beautiful Sand Resort when it opened in November 2006. We'd planned to stay 3 or 4 days but ended up cancelling the rest of our travel plans and stayed there for 12 nights! Simon and his staff are wonderful people who went out of their way to treat us well, and I'm glad to read that that tradition has continued.

The rooms are comfortable and the facilities are great (yes, the beds are firm). The beach is a 15 minute walk, but the only time I ever walked there was when I insisted. Any time I started out on my own, Simon or one of his staff would drive up and offer me a ride. A return trip from the beach or anywhere in Nai Yang was just a phone call away!

We had the beach to ourselves. To me that's worth a lot extra. There are many small food outlets on the beach and everything we tried was excellent. The town is small and quiet, but I find that a relief from the noise of places like Patong (Bangkok in miniature). There are many, many day excursions that can be arranged through small travel agents at the beach, so no one need run out of interesting places to visit.

Beautiful Sand Resort is a lovely, well run establishment and I wish them every success.

Perfect location if you need to stay close to the airport but don't want to be disturbed by noise of planes. Staff are very friendly and obliging. Free pick-ups to and from the airport and local beach. Very clean rooms, however our only grievance was the bed was the most uncomfortable bed we ever stayed in. We could feel the springs through the mattress. We planned to tell the manager when we checked out but he wasn't there (everyone deserves a day off) so hence why I'm writing this review in Tripadvisor.

My partner and I stayed at the Beautiful Sand Resort in Thailand for a couple of nights during February 2007. We hadn't booked any accommodation so booked the room through wotif.com at the very last minute the night before flying to Bangkok from Phuket Airport. The position couldn't have been better. We were literally 1 minute to the beach and 1 minute the airport!

Simon the manager was so lovely, always up for good chat (in English!) and always very helpful and accommodating. We loved the convenience of the place (for departing and arriving at the airport) so much we booked again for the last night of our stay before departing back to Australia.

The staff were fantastic, not the best at speaking english but they really did try so hard to understand us (besides when your in Rome do as the Romans do!). Of all the places we stayed this one was the only hotel that was actually decked out with Thai Budda Canvases and bed covers etc... which is what we thought the remaining hotels would be like!

We had some trouble trying to get a cab to the hotel (1minute from the airport) for less than 400THB when we arrived at the Phuket Airport at Midnight! BUT we called Simon and he had someone down to pick us up straight away!

I would recommend this resort to anyone who is arriving late or departing late from Phuket Airport!!!

Thanks Simon and Staff!!!

Tucked away near the Phuket airport and near the beach, the Beautiful Sand Resort was quite convenient for our early morning flight. A new compound with small bungalows is run by a friendly and efficient staff who provided us with a free shuttle service to a restaurant by the beach for dinner and to the airport. Very nice indeed!