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It was a huge hit because it showed up the rich for their sense of entitlement and the way in which they treated the staff at the hotel, which was called the White Lotus..
According to a spokesperson for the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) quoted in the worlds press the White Lotus team has visited Chiang Mai, the Golden Triangle (the land bordering Burma and Laos), Bangkok and Koh Samui to check out locations...
And while the other Four Seasons properties mentioned are all lovely (with the exception of the Golden Triangle hotel, a tented camp, which is horrible), there is nothing that compares with Koh Samui...
But because I am not so wild about Thai beach resorts (in all of Phuket, the only hotel I have ever really enjoyed staying is Amanpuri, which is not a beach resort) and Samui is an island (Koh means island in Thai) I assumed this would be just another beach destination and refused to go there...
Like all Thai resort towns Samui has a nightlife scene (though I did not go to that area and so, cannot recommend it) and a fun pedestrian street full of stalls selling Banana Pancakes (no idea why they should be such a big deal) and cannabis which is now legal in Thailand and sold openly at shops that look like ice-cream parlours..
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