Villa Saanti is Thai for “Home of Peace”. This extraordinary six-bedroom, fully staffed beachfront villa lounges next to one of Thailand’s most alluring secrets: Natai Beach – seven kilometres of near-deserted, powder-soft white sand, only 30 minutes to the north of Phuket International Airport. This stunning designer-chic home is run by Wow (an appropriate name for the manager of a villa with a definite wow factor) and his full-time team – the chef, housekeepers and the gardener – all ready to satisfy your slightest whim. And after a spectacular sunset over the Andaman Sea, for which the villa has ringside seats, after an invariably excellent dinner, and after digestifs sipped under the brilliance of a billion stars unspoiled by urban lighting, it’s time to drift into a dreamless sleep in Villa Saanti’s deeply comfortable bedrooms. Villa Saanti faces west across the Andaman Sea, its two-storey main pavilion and four glass-walled sleeping pavilions framing two huge swimming pools, and looking out across palm-dominated gardens to the beach. Entering the main pavilion, you find the dining and guest kitchen area on the left and the lounge on the right. Beyond the lounge is the media and entertainment room. Upstairs is the huge master suite and a guestroom, and in front of all this is an enormous shady terrace and the 20-metre main pool, which spills into a second pool – looking out over the garden. And beyond the garden is the glorious deserted beach
