Serenity wins TripAdvisor ‘Certificate of Excellence’ Award…Again!

ECM | May 22, 2013 | News & Features | 0 Comments

Once again (for the 3rd year in a row), Serenity Resort and Residences have been awarded the Tripadvisor ‘Certificate of Excellence’, from the world’s largest travel site! Awarded to only the top few percent of hotels around the world, the 2013 Certificate of Excellence demonstrates our ongoing commitment to providing a consistently high standard of service for our guests.

Tripadvisor Certificate of hotel Excellence 2013

According to Tripadvisor:

“This accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews on Tripadvisor, and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Only the top-performing businesses listed on Tripadvisor receive this prestigious award”.

Great reviews on www.TripAdvisor.com keep our team motivated and smiling. We would like to thank all of our past guests who took the time to complete a review on Tripadvisor, all suggestions that we have received, have helped us to further enhance the Serenity Experience.

For those of you who are yet to visit, we hope to exceed your expectations on your visit and look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions.

We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you all back to Serenity again soon.

Thanks again from all at Serenity!

Skal Phuket donates funds to ‘Phuket has been good to us foundation’

ECM | February 8, 2013 | News & Features | 0 Comments

On 8th December, SKAL Phuket, with the help of some familiar faces from the Serenity Team, hosted the ‘Full Monty’ charity event to raise funds for local charities. The event was a phenomenal success with over 300,000 Baht being raised for Phuket Children’s charities.

The event was held at The Bliss Beach Club, with our very own General Manager (Urs) and our Executive Assistant Manager (Pascal) taking part in the show! From the 300,000 baht raised, SKAL Phuket was able to donate 150,000 to the ‘Phuket has been good to us’ childrens educational charity and 150,000 was donated to SKAL Phuket’s own educational charity programs benefiting children in Rawai and Khao Lak.

SKAL Phuket is the world’s largest travel and tourism organisation, made up of the top executives in the industry, to promote global tourism and friendship.

Click here to read the Skal Phuket Press Release.

Serenity Supports the Phuket has been good to us foundation

ECM | February 4, 2013 | News & Features | 0 Comments

The Serenity Team take our Social Responsibility seriously and recently joined the Burns supper auction event at Pullman Phuket Arcadia, in support of the ‘Phuket has been good to us’ foundation. By providing one of the auction prizes, Serenity were able to help the Burns Supper raise over 474,000 Baht, which will fund an English teacher for a year.

The ‘Phuket has been good to us’ foundation supports more than 900 underprivileged children around Phuket, helping to “improve the economic opportunities and life chances of young people around Phuket by funding and implementing high quality, practical English language Education in government schools on Phuket Island”.

Former Chelsea FC Manager Avram Grant Visits Serenity!

ECM | November 12, 2012 | News & Features | 0 Comments

Avram Grant, former Chelsea FC, West Ham FC and Portsmouth FC Football Manager took time out of his busy schedule to relax at Serenity Phuket this week, staying in one of our unique Beach Front Pool Villa Residences.

Avram, who recently ended a spell as Manager of Partizan Belgrade, chose to come to Phuket for a holiday break, but still found the time to meet with our GM, Urs, to the delight of the football fans within the Serenity Team!

Avram is perhaps most famous for his spell as Chelsea manager in 2007 following the departure of Jose Mourinho, where he led Chelsea into the Champions league final, League Cup Final and contested the Barclays Premier League Title all the way to the final day.

Serenity Villa Owner Kimi Raikkonen Wins GP!

ECM | November 7, 2012 | News & Features | 0 Comments

Congratulations to our Serenity Pool Residence Villa owner, Formula 1 Racing Driver Kimi Raikkonen, for his first F1 victory since his comeback last year! Kimi, the 2007 Formula 1 world champion, held off Fernando Alonso, to seal victory at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, for his 19th GP win, his first victory since the 2009 Belgian Grand Prix.

Speaking after the race, Kimi, nicknamed ‘Iceman’ had this to say: “I’m very happy for the team and myself but mainly for the team. It’s been a hard season for the team. Hopefully, this gives us more belief, not just for those are doing the work but those who run the team.”

Throwing open the 2012 Drivers championship with his victory, Kimi Raikkonen and his Lotus racing team, won the crash-filled Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in a time of 1:45:58, with Fernando Alonso finishing in 2nd place and Sebastian Vettel finishing in 3rd, following the race retirement of Lewis Hamilton.

Well done to Kimi from all at Serenity and we hope to see welcome you back here again soon!

Serenity Joins the Phuket Blog-o-sphere

ECM | September 21, 2012 | News & Features | 0 Comments

Yin-Dee-Ton-Rab (Welcome) to this, the inaugural post of our new Phuket blog! It’s Official Serenity Resort & Residences has joined Phuket’s “blogosphere”. We thought we would try our hand at journalism, giving you a fresh and fun filled guide to Phuket, giving you the low-down on the REAL scene in Phuket, featuring all of our favorite places to see and things to do. There will be features, expert travel tips, reviews, interviews, competitions and all kinds of cool stuff; consider this your “go-to” guide for Phuket.

Whether you are considering staying with us or have already returned home, we will have lots of interesting shareable and downloadable guides and resources, as well as all the best insider local information to help you squeeze every last drop of fun out of your visit to our sunny shores!

What better way to kick things off, than to introduce ourselves Meet the Team. Feel free to contact us at blog@serenityphuket.com if you would like to suggest a feature or have a Serenity story to share. Thanks all and we look forward to welcoming you to Serenity Phuket & East88!

P.S. We haven’t peaked yet, so keep reading!