I honestly lost track of how far along I am right now; it is very confusing as to how you actually count the dates, no? According to the babycenter app, I am 26 weeks 5 days now, so I shall just follow what it says.
We returned from Koh Samui, Thailand after a 4D3N babymoon last Wednesday. We chose to stay at Hansar Samui Resort & Spa at the Bophut area.
Room/Facilities
We were satisfied with the room that we got. It had the view of both the pool and the sea, a big balcony and a king-sized bed. If I am not mistaken, all rooms will have these. It was also clean, which is quite important to me. The only gripe I had was that there was not any door/partition to the shower area so it was literally freezing to shower because we could still feel the air-conditioner. I also really liked the smell of the Luxspa toiletries that they provide: it was very soothing!
Food
I really enjoyed the spread at the breakfast area! If I am not pregnant, I would have tried everything on the menu. But they feature egg dishes with either soft cheeses or cured meat so I steered away from them. Even then, the regular scrambled or omelette was very nice, especially with the side of very crispy bacon and pork/chicken sausage. Lots of options for fruits too, and I loved the local Thai options. On the first morning, they offered Fried Glass Noodles which I LOVE; I should have gotten more of those because it was available only on that day.
The resident restaurant, H Bistro, was very good too. We had dinner there on the first evening; it was probably the freshest seafood we had during the entire trip. We even had complimentary bread basket, appetiser and palate cleanser. Of course, this was the most expensive meal we had during the trip.
As Hansar was located very near the Fisherman Village, we went there almost everyday although there was nothing much there. Hahaha We did try the mango sticky rice and nutella banana pancake from the roadside vendors. They were very generous with all the ingredients and the food items did taste good, but they did not come as cheap as expected.
I did research prior to the trip for some eating places, but they were located pretty far from Hansar so we ended up eating nearby. One commendable eating place was probably Cafe 69, which was like 5-minute walk away from Hansar. The menu was quite interesting; I remember the duck dumplings were quite awesome.
Mother-to-be Massage
Hansar also houses the famous Luxspa, which offers treatments for pregnant ladies. I went for the Mother-to-be Massage which costs 2,500 baht. It was definitely pricey, but I left the massage feeling very pampered. It was definitely the best pre-natal massage I have ever had; it was even better than the one I had in Singapore, and I remembered that I slept like a baby that night. That's how good it was. S did go for a regular massage session as well, and he enjoyed it very much too!
Overall, it was a very good and relaxing trip. Both of us took the time to really recharge ourselves before returning to the daily grind (I should not have kept on checking my work emails as that distracted me quite a bit).
Overall
The weather wasn't exactly great when we were there; it rained like almost 75% of the time we were there. Add on the fact that there was nothing much we could do there, we ended up spending lots of time in the resort, which was good too. Unfortunately, the electricity tripped quite a few times during our stay, but we were not sure if it's an entire island thing or just the hotel. This is because when we went out to the shopping area at and around Central Festival, there was a blackout as well; even McDonalds could not operate because there was no electricity! Thank goodness for the generator in the hotel as the power came back up pretty quickly.
It was a good trip for us to just relax and do nothing; we even brought along our marble products that we were going to launch so it definitely was a fruitful trip! :)
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