Anantara Koh Yao Yai Resort and Villas

I had an incredible experience training Muay Thai with Coach Ohm at Anantara Koh Yao Yai. He’s not only highly skilled and professional, but also incredibly patient and encouraging — whether you’re a complete beginner or more experienced. His sessions are well-structured, fun, and tailored to your level. You’ll sweat, learn, and leave with a huge smile! Ohm brings great energy and a real passion for Muay Thai, which makes every session enjoyable and motivating. If you’re staying at the resort, I highly recommend booking a class with him — it was one of the highlights of my trip!

The hotel is absolutely amazing – everything is perfectly organized, brand new, and spotless. The service deserves ten stars! Grace took care of everything we needed, keeping us constantly updated – from activity options and restaurant reservations to the daily weather forecast. An outstanding experience!

Hotel is new and super clean. Staff are very friendly and kind. Overall experience is great . Recommend to everyone

We took a lagoon wellness villa and it’s literally like luxury in the jungle. The pool was amazing and the scenery so relaxing. A great villa type if you want to feel disconnected. Large villa very good value for money. The service is generally outstanding and the WhatsApp concierge service is a godsend General hotel facilities are outstanding. We did get rain but as we were here for family time with our 7 month old and just general relaxation this wasn’t a massive issue. Only downsides Hotel isn’t walking distance to anything - however we got a taxi via our concierge for 300 baht to an outside food place. Hotel food is quite expensive and the menu isn’t that extensive if you’re looking for good Thai food. In the restaurant we had to ask for a pad Thai as it wasn’t on the menu which just seems crazy to me. One other thing I did find a bit irritating is before you arrive they email you with offers on massages, however a day later even before we arrived those offers have gone and couldn’t be redeemed. It wasn’t clear from the email that it was time sensitive or wouldn’t be available later the same day - if so we would have booked it. The link they sent which has the enhance your stay on it must be dynamic and the same link changes the offers as you get closer to your stay. The main thing the hotel could do to improve would be the menu, or even another simple restaurant doing Thai food. I think they have tried to suit everyone a bit much and done that at the cost of a better Thai menu Overall great location and if you really want to disconnect and switch off I couldn’t recommend it highly enough

Fabulous and stunning experience staying at Anantara …the island is very quiet and sooo good for a retreat island experience. Nice Vila and friendly staff in and out. The arrival is stunning with the private speedboat and the pier too. Everything was perfect. Best vacation ever.