Anavana Beach Resort

Great hotel. Awesome service. Beach is much smaller than the pics show, but it's still nice.
Staff are extremely attentive and kind.
Very cute room in your own personal cottage. Nice and private and quiet as well. Just what we wanted.
Overall a very good experience.

Amazing hotel, enjoyed every minute of my stay.
Gorgeous rooms, tasty breakfast and a nice beach and pool. Highly recommended.

Unique, not a cheap eat like an app tld us, but glad we took the time and expense to eat their. On arrival went through some secret passages to learn about the history of the hotel and restaurant... Very original! High quality dishes, attentive/helpful staff with good English and the sound of the ocean lapping on the beach.. Outstanding but not a cheap eat...

Great hotel and location. It's like a paradise right next to the main street. The hotel design is outstanding. The staff is great. They have a wonderful beach and SPA. Highly recommended.

Very nice, clean, great staff, cozy rooms

Came here for a massage and for dinner

Massage was in a room overlooking the ocean (I’m pretty sure there were no fish trying to spy on me) and was very relaxing. For those who want to know, it was a 1 hr coconut oil Thai massage and a 30 mins head, neck and shoulder massage (packaged together as a special deal at the time so it was too good to refuse!). The Thai massage is very good but for uninitiated, it’s relatively gentle but then they do pull and stretch your muscles and body revealing (sometimes painfully) some knots and tender areas. However, it is worth it!

Sufficiently relaxed / tortured I had dinner. The deep fried mixed seafood & vegetable “starter” was pretty large and I had to abandon this 2/3 the way through or else sacrifice the main I’d already ordered or, worst of all, the mango sticky rice I had my eye on!

Cutting it all short, the green curry with chicken was great as was the mango sticky rice.

All the staff were superb.

Very nice resort with a nice location at chaweng beach. Also love a staff over there. They such a really nice and very helpful.They can speak English very well. I do love The Poppies restaurant as well cause a food are very tasty, super delicious. Yummy.
Well done the Poppies. 5stars.

Poppies was the last stop on our honeymoon and a great choice for it. The site is right on the water, so you get to eat/drink at the restaurant or bar (or on the beach chairs) watching the ocean. The room was very comfortable, and they very kindly provided some extras to celebrate the honeymoon!

They also provide some very nice events - a night with drinks/snacks on the beach one night, Thai dancing/music another. The pool was beautiful and very pleasant for the dip I took (though I mostly swam in the ocean).

The restaurant was really great, and we enjoyed the breakfast's Thai options each morning. The bar's drinks were very nice, and the bartenders (and all the staff) were incredibly friendly and ready to help with anything.

In general Ko Samui seemed to be pretty empty when we were there (early November) - not sure if that's all seasonal or due to changes in tourism, but it was really nice for us, as there certainly weren't crowds around. The street Poppies is on probably had a dozen construction projects, though, including some huge resorts under construction nearby. This didn't impact our stay, just mentioning it because overall Poppies was less secluded than I'd imagined (which was good! It meant good restaurants and bars very easy to walk to!). The overall lack of other tourists on the island did mean that Poppies' already-great staff were all the more ready for drink requests, etc.

Overall we would definitely recommend Poppies to others, especially at this time of the year.