Seven-Bedroom Garden Villa

This villa is as open-plan as a building in Phuket can be, which means most of it has no walls at all: roofs on posts over the living and dining platforms, with only the bedrooms and the service side enclosed. The 7 king bedrooms stand round the private swimming pool and its terrace, with lounging and dining areas at several points on the deck.

Indoors, the social rooms carry it — a living room and a dining room big enough for a family that has taken the whole compound. A private chef and a housekeeper live in. This is the same ground that is let as the Eight-Bedroom Garden Villa, with the children's bunk room added.