Trisara

Trisara opened in 2004 on the north-west coast of Phuket, about twenty minutes from the airport, around a cove of its own on the Andaman Sea. It has 64 villas, each with an infinity pool facing the sea, and among them a set of residences of two to nine bedrooms; it is family-owned and run by Montara Hospitality.

The name means a garden in the third heaven.

A cove and a hillside

The resort is built around its cove: the main pool is steps from the sand, and the villas climb the wooded hillsides behind, with Thai details in their design. The beach is one of the few private ones on the island, held between two headlands. The largest residence, on a headland of its own, has nine bedrooms and its own chef and butler, as do the other residential villas. The owners refurbish part of the resort every year.

PRU and the farm

The resort is known as much for its kitchens as for its villas. PRU, the tasting-menu restaurant of the Dutch chef Jimmy Ophorst, became in 2018 the first restaurant in Thailand outside Bangkok to win a Michelin star, and it also holds a Green Star; since 2023 it has cooked in an open kitchen in a building of its own on the estate. Jampa, about twenty minutes inland, serves zero-waste meals at the group's organic farm, Pru Jampa, which supplies both. On the resort itself, La Crique cooks French seafood in a glass pavilion, Cielo & Spice serves Mediterranean food and a Sunday brunch, and Thai Library the recipes of the south. Jara Spa offers treatments including a hot-stone therapy.

Phuket's west coast has its own established addresses, compared in OKYTO's guide to where to stay in Phuket; Trisara is the one where the restaurant is often the reason for the stay.

Sources: Elite Traveler (July 2025); TTG Asia; Michelin Guide, PRU.