INSIDE - Phuket Dining

The Sri Panwa resort recently won second place for the world?s best beach bar with its stunningly serene Baba Nest pool bar.

As an Englishman I know a thing or two about English football, European lager, the various nuances of Indian cuisine and the Royal Family, well three out of the four anyway

The K restaurant, located on the K-Hotel?s grounds, is, by merit as well as by default, the Austrian restaurant in Patong.

Baan Rim Pa has been operating for more than twenty years and as such is one of the most well-known and acclaimed restaurants on the island.

The recently-opened Panache restaurant, by Outrigger Phuket is hoping its innovative and interactive menu will bring something different, something fun and something affordable to those wishing to dine within the Laguna Resort Complex.

Downtown Surin is unrecognisable to what it once was; with high-end boutique clothing stores and restaurants very much de rigeur now.

The Amari Coral Beach, Phuket has seen many changes in Patong since its opening in 1985, but the one thing that has remained consistent to the beachside-resort are the incredible views and complete and utterly luxurious feeling of seclusion.

The Royal Phuket Marina, besides being a luxurious dock for those with the means to make use of, is also home to the unrivalled, in equipment and staff know-how, R.P.M fitness centre.

There are six Centara Hotels & Resorts in Phuket, with a seventh to open some time in the new year.

This year has seen the Phuket Tin Mine Museum open, and a Sino-Portuguese inspired Centara hotel open, construction is even currently underway to create a Sino-Portuguese style shopping centre on Bangla Road.