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Existing F&B concepts have been reinvented.

They roast their own coffee, smoke their own salmon, rear their own chickens, grow their own fruits, churn their own butterвЂ¦I could go on and on

The quality of F&B has improved tremendously, with the hotel now running its own farm (called Iris) and taking вЂњfarm-to-tableвЂќ very seriously.

The gym has been relocated from the swimming pool area to the breakfast area, and the resulting facility is state-of-the-art.

A 60-minute body massage is now THB 1,400, versus THB 3,500 in 2018

Cost of spa treatments has fallen dramatically.

They do enjoy 25% off F&B, but thatвЂ™s courtesy of HiltonвЂ™s Dine Like a Member promo

Gold and Diamond members no longer get freebies like drinks coupons and the welcome lucky dip (where you could win things like complimentary spa treatment vouchers).

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Some of the fun touches have been eliminated, like personalised bathrobes and slippers, or free neck and shoulder massages at breakfast.This may be contributing to a mosquito problem, which wasnвЂ™t rampant, but definitely noticeable in some areas

While the 1, 2 and 3-series villas are in good condition, several of the Residences have fallen into disrepair, with empty pools, construction debris and overgrown greenery. COVID has taken a visible toll on the resort in some places.They expect things to pick up again in February and March, even more when the silly Day 5 test requirement is removed

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Occupancy was at 20% when I stayed in late January 2022, but the staff mentioned the resort was close to full in December 2021 before the Thai government pulled the rug on Test & Go.

If youвЂ™ve already been to Conrad Koh Samui before the pandemic and are familiar with the hardware, hereвЂ™s a brief rundown of what to expect: I donвЂ™t know, but when itвЂ™s all said and done, the Conrad Koh Samui remains one of my favourite properties in the world. Was it the amazing breakfast, a curated spread of items the resort had grown or made in-house? Was it the service, which had a solution for everything and an uncanny sixth sense about what we needed, when we needed it? Or was it the breathtaking panoramas and sunsets which, though IвЂ™d seen them before, never got old? Then over the next few days, the Conrad Koh Samui won me over again. This place has officially gone down the tubes. There were no more personalised bathrobes or slippers. TheyвЂ™d scrapped the free drinks coupons and lucky draw for Gold and Diamond members. By the end of the first day, I had grown disillusioned. After two memorable stays at the Conrad Koh Samui, I returned for a third time last month. Conrad Koh SamuiД«ut perhaps I should be slow to judge, given my penchant to do likewise. While scripture warns of the folly of saying вЂњwere not the old days better than this?вЂќ, to many, the present can never quite match the past. This romanticised, some would say fetishised view of the past seems to be firmly entrenched in our national psyche. Ask any Singaporean their opinion of a given famous restaurant, and the invariable refrain youвЂ™ll hear is вЂњoh, the standard drop alreadyвЂќ.