Beyond the resorts life goes on much as it did before the arrival of tourists, with Yao Noi villagers still farming, fishing, tapping rubber and swinging in hammocks strung up under their stilted homes. (Compared to a national average of 3,364 baht.)īut those travelling on a budget have no reason to be scared away by Yao Noi’s purported exclusivity. Six Senses is one of the handful of high-end hotels that have led Ko Yao Noi to have the highest average room rate of all destinations in Thailand - a whopping 9,519 baht in a 2013 hotel price index survey. With Yao Noi’s residents aiming to attract higher spending, "quality" visitors, a number of private villas and luxury resorts have sprung up, including the Six Senses Yao Noi, a pool villa resort that’s been featured in all the luxe travel magazines and is recognised for its eco-friendly initiatives.
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A 7-Eleven is one of the first shops you’ll notice on arrival but aside from that the island is free of franchised blandness. The 140-square-kilometre island is about half the size of neighbouring Ko Yao Yai, but it’s the more developed of the two with more accommodation and tourism infrastructure. Yao Noi boasts a diverse and photogenic landscape with mangrove forests lining its west coast, a lush, pastoral interior and sandy east-coast beaches with superb views to the towering karst islands of Phang Nga Bay.
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