Avista Hideaway Resort & Spa: Beautiful and grand, BUT...
Inside Vista , the resort's main restaurant. With hundreds of hotels scattered all around Phuket, it was quite the task to choose where to stay. And although we were already set at staying in the island's tourist central, Patong Beach , picking a hotel was still a challenge. So we decided on splitting our 5-night stay in 2 hotels, the first of which was the wonderful BYD Lofts and the other one set farther away from the beach atop the hills--the 5-star Avista Hideaway Resort & Spa , where we spent a very short 2 nights. Let me break our whole experience down into sections.