Phuket wins Asia Boating Award Phuket has been named Asia’s Maritime Capital at the prestigious Christofle Asia Boating Awards by popular vote among the twenty judges, who rewarded Phuket for its “first-class boating facilities, which include modern marinas, state-of the-art boatyards and prime chartering” The annual King’s Cup sailing regatta also won Yachting Event of the Year. Source: Phuket Gazette, May 12-18, 2007, page 2 Planned Renovation: KATA BEACH RESORT Plan Areas Affected Start/End date Build a new room category = Pool Access Rooms Building B : Beach Road and Garden View Rooms (Superior Rooms*) * not all as some superior rooms in building A/main building 15 May – 31 October 2007 FAQs 1. Between which days will there be building work? Monday – Sunday, 7 days a week. 2. Between which hours will be the building work? 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. 3. What kind of tools/machines will be used? Mostly will be manual labor, the first few days will be some light machine to remove earth. 4. Smell?, Dust?, Noise?, Describe the situation Mostly there will be noise factor, low key hammering. Away from the main pool and beach. 5. Will there be disturbing traffic? Describe how. No. all the tradesman will be using their own entrances. At most times will not be visible to the guest. There will be walls/plants to seal working areas 6. Will all buildings at your hotel be affected? No. only the ground floor of one wing (building B) housing the Superior Rooms. 7. Estimated (%) share of customers at the hotel that will be affected? The work area will be fully sealed off - the guest(s) will not see the work area. The work area will be partially visible. 8. Which type of rooms is affected? Mostly Superior Rooms. 9. What facilities are affected? None. 10. Will the hotel do anything particularly to make things easier for our customers? What? A separate incentive has been forwarded to all agents. New Pool Access Rooms Kata Beach Resort has the pleasure in announcing the following upgrading to certain parts of the hotel. 1) 21 of the ground floor rooms convert to the pool access rooms will be called Grand Pool Access when completed. when completed. 2) Add complete Spa facilities. The work will commence May 15th 2007 onwards. All the work area will be shield off, during this period there will be some noise disturbance in the vicinity of the work area, which will be a distance from the main pool and recreational area. We will ensure that there will be minimal disturbance to our guest. !!!Our first 11 grand pool access rooms are ready at your service and commence to welcome the first guests to stay in our brand new category by 15 September while our spa at the main entrance is still under construction which will be a distance from these 11 rooms, the main pool and recreational area.