- Thailand Holidays
- Lamai
- Outrigger Koh Samui Beach Resort

The Outrigger Koh Samui Beach Resort is an elegant sanctuary set on the serene sands of Lamai Beach. Defined by its history, colonial elegance and world-class service, the Outrigger Koh Samui Beach Resort is an oasis of charm and space, surrounded by an abundance of natural beauty and white sand beaches. This resort showcases old-world charm where walls adorned in cheerful yellow jasmine hues are complemented with soft white details to frame a vision of a bygone Thai era. Generous courtyards house beautiful guest wings. Several restaurants at the resort give numerous dining options while two swimming pools and a fitness center await you.
This luxurious hotel is located by beautiful Lamai Beach. With a wide range of on-site facilities, this hotel has everything in place to ensure guests have a relaxing stay. Manathai Koh Samui offers a choice of restaurants, two swimming pools, and a fitness centre. The hotel also offers a club located on the Lamai beachfront where you will find one of the swimming pools, a restaurant and the spa.
The service is what really stood out at the Outrigger especially Feen & Touey, personalised service remembering my name from the first time. Such great friendly staff made the resort feel very welcoming. The grounds were all very well kept, the pool and restaurant were across the road from the main building with all the rooms, crossing guards were very attentive to help you cross. The pools were all different depths too which is good and a waterslide for kids. Food was well presented and had Thai and Western options, breakfast buffet also had all the options. Plenty of families and kids at the resort. The main part of Lamai town is about 10-15 min walk away but there are plenty of massage and 7Eleven on either of the hotel. I didn’t swim in the beach at the front of the resort, it seemed to look nicer a bit further down closer to central Lamai. On the last night they had a singers and a fire show which was great.
Friendly staff, delicious restaurant en great swimmingpool / beach area
Good: rooms are well equipped, clean comfortable, pretty nice. Service: staff are excellent with little touches like finding out names using your name. Pools: good variety and plenty of sun beds. Breakfast: plenty of options and good quality. Bad: Pricing: starts high as you would expect from a hotel but you have to add 17% to everything. Also, there’s only one place to eat and you don’t want the same menu day and night so most people eat at the many great restaurants close to the hotel. This has two impacts, after 7 the hotel is dead and also highlights the pricing. Air con in room: so loud I had to wear ear plugs to sleep. If I was in a 3* hotel I would expect it but this hotel classes itself as luxury. Road: very busy road between the rooms and pool area. Beach & water: not sure what’s going on but the sand in the cove by hotel is black and like an inch of silt that you sink into. You need to go about 500m down the beach to get to some nice water. Rooms location: some are very bad (see photo). We got moved with no issue but if they couldn’t switch I would have been distraught at the room I was given. 120 overlooks a mouldy external wall and the power generator. Between that and the aircon it was like trying to sleep on runway 1 at Heathrow. Overall it leads to a compromised stay and not the luxury they advertise. I’ve stayed in 4* family resorts that do a better job in Spain.
Good value for money resort, staff are super friendly, breakfast is good, the pools over the road are good, the beach is peaceful and quiet, however take ear plugs as the walls and ceilings are paper thin and you can hear everything!
Excellent stay, on the beach, great pools, lovely breakfast - something to cater for all tastes. ( I am vegetarian) recommended to stay here. The staff are amazing.
