Facilities
What is actually here, room by room
Twelve acres, 58 villa rooms and a five-room dementia unit. The resort is quiet, secure and enclosed, and everything below is on the same site.
Accommodation
58 villa rooms, in modern Thai style
Most accommodation is villas built in a modern Thai style, decorated inside in the same style to give a light and relaxing environment. Each villa has a terrace with garden, mountain or lake views, and its own bathroom.
Inside every air-conditioned villa:
- Refrigerator and drink making facilities
- Television with Thai, Western and Asian channels: movies, news, sport, entertainment
- DVD player, with a large DVD library available to residents
- Telephone
- Push and pull alarm systems connected to the central nursing station
Villa designs run from one-bedroom studios to two-room and three-room villas, plus two penthouse suites. Room types are shown on the photographs page: Garden Room Type 1, Garden Room Type 2 and Lakeside Villa.
The grounds
Twelve acres, more than 1,000 trees, and a lake
The resort is spread across twelve acres (nearly 50,000m²) of quiet, secure and enclosed land with mountain views. There are more than 1,000 trees, planted gardens, a lake and fishponds, and it is extensive enough that walking it properly takes a while. Residents who enjoy walking will find variety in the trees, the planting and the birdlife.
There is a lakeside relaxation area, and residents can fish on the lake. Anyone who wants a small gardening plot next to their villa can have one.
Pools, fitness and sauna
- Two swimming pools
- The larger pool has disabled access and a disabled swimming pool lift
- A sauna beside the pools
- A large, well-equipped fitness room
Spa
- Our own spa facility on site
- A wide range of massages and other spa treatments
- Therapists can also treat residents in their own room
- Hair washing and cutting
- Nail treatments
Indoors
Restaurant, library and the activities room
The restaurant. Meals are cooked in our own professional kitchens. You can eat inside in the air-conditioned section or outside with garden views, and there is disabled access to both. There are no set mealtimes, only broad bands: breakfast runs from 07:00 until 10:00. The menu covers Western, Thai, other Asian and vegetarian cooking, and the kitchen works to dietary, religious and ethnic requirements on request. Meals can be delivered to your room instead.
The activities room. A very large room where most of the seven-day activity programme is based, run by a qualified activities supervisor.
The library, and a guest lounge.
Wi-Fi covers the resort and is available in every villa. Residents who want to learn computer skills are taught them, usually so they can keep in touch with family by email or video call.
It doesn't feel anything like a care home. There are morning exercise classes by the lake and excursions to Chiang Mai. There's a library with 500 large-print books. I can swim lengths in the pool. There's even a bar here. I can sit on my terrace with a glass of wine in the evening and chat to my daughter in London on the phone. John Higgins, resident · The Item
Care on site
The nursing station, and the memory care unit
A central nursing and care station operates 24 hours, and every villa on the resort is alarmed to it with push and pull alarms.
There are two boutique memory care facilities. The memory care unit has five rooms, each with its own bathroom, television and personal space, for residents who need 24-hour care and supervision. It sits inside the same gardens as everything else.
Thailand does not run a general practitioner system, so care goes directly to specialists. Chiang Mai has a number of world-class hospitals, most within a thirty minute drive, and hospital visits are normally accompanied by our own staff.
Access
Step-free, with the slopes admitted
The resort has slopes and it is not an ideal site for a wheelchair. Rather than discover that on arrival, here is exactly what has been adapted:
- Purpose-built villas designed for disabled use, and adapted villas
- All step-free, with 90cm (35in) doors
- Ramp access to the restaurant, guest lounge and activity room, library, fitness room, spa and health facilities
- Ramp access to the larger swimming pool, plus a disabled lift into the water
- A hydraulic wheelchair lift fitted to the minibus, so nobody is left behind on excursions
- Staff assist where needed
Only the two penthouse suites are reached by steps.
Getting out
Weekly shopping, monthly excursions
A weekly shopping trip runs, and there is a monthly excursion for sightseeing or an activity. The minibus has a hydraulic wheelchair lift. Residents who want to go out independently are encouraged to, and are given an emergency phone if they do not already have one.
The area around the resort is good for walking for anyone who feels more active.
How many rooms are there?
58 villa rooms, plus a five-room dementia unit.
Is there Wi-Fi?
Yes, across the resort and in every villa.
Can I use the pool if I use a wheelchair?
Yes. The larger of the two pools has ramp access and a lift into the water.
Is there a spa?
Yes, on site, with massages and other treatments, hair washing and cutting, and nail treatments. Therapists can treat you in your own room.
What if I don't want to eat in the restaurant?
Meals can be delivered to your room. There are no set mealtimes in any case.
Which hospitals do you use?
Chiang Mai has several world-class hospitals, most within thirty minutes. Hospital visits are normally accompanied by our staff.
Come and see it
Photographs flatten twelve acres
Walk it. Please book an appointment first.