A design-driven, luxury boutique hotel with a rather apt name: the property offers quiet refuge from the party atmosphere Koh Samui's Chaweng Beach is otherwise known for. Aesthetically, the hotel is reminiscent of a chic art gallery, but the bookish theme is manifest in the faceless statues of readers sitting throughout the grounds (below) and in the hotel's referring to its rooms as "pages". Thankfully, though, it is not all show - The Library was voted the trendiest in Thailand on TripAdvisor last year, and it has substance and warmth to go along with the whimsy.
Hmm, trend-setting, perhaps. The 26 spacious accommodation options (suite pictured below) include the newly opened The Bookmark (102 square metres), the ground-level Exotic Suite (76 square metres) and the first-floor Smart Studio (67 square metres). All have a modern, semi-minimalist aesthetic that wouldn't look out of place on the cover of a high-end interiors magazine. With low-level bespoke furniture and artwork, high ceilings, striking colour palettes and natural light, the "pages" have "one of a kind" written all over them. They each come fully equipped with gadgetry and goodies, including an iMac, wireless headphones, modern-art-inspired mood lighting and outdoor writing desks with vistas that might encourage guests to start penning their own prose.
the Library's red-bottomed pool (top) turns many a head; and there is a staggering selection of books (as you might expect), CDs and DVDs available for loan at The Lib. All-day restaurant The Page has a large wooden deck for alfresco dining overlooking the beach.
