Luxury Villas for Sale

A property exhibition in Hong Kong started it all. We had found, what we hoped would be our dream villa and my wife, Mary and I, were invited to visit the site on Koh Samui. We took the flight from Hong Kong via Bangkok and at the airport we were met by Anthony, a representative from Royal Developments International who took us to see the land.

Are You One of the 34?

As we drove from Koh Samui airport, and only two minutes into the journey, we passed a sign at the side of the road which read Are You One of the 34? Mary and I looked at each other and nodded, we certainly hoped to be. This was the first sign we saw advertising the development to be, known then as Royal Samui Beach.

looking for land to buy

The only sign of civilisation were tyre tracks made weeks ago, I hoped then that we had not been beaten to it and someone else had decided to buy the plot of land we were going to look at. Anthony told us we were the first people he had shown the land to and said the tracks were probably made by other property developers who were looking for land to buy on Koh Samui.

among the palm trees

After much pacing about among the palm trees and kicking the odd fallen coconut we figured out where our villa was going to be built. We assumed we were in the right place as our plot was marked on the map as being on the far edge of the development. Anthony agreed, he thought it was the right spot.

the middle of nowhere

When we looked back up the hill all we could see were palm trees and no sign of the road. It felt very secluded and as far as we knew we could have been in the middle of nowhere. This became a big selling point for the developers and all their advertising stated the development was close to everything but a million miles from anywhere!

untouched land

We got out of the 4x4 and decided to walk from here on in. The earth was dry and dusty and strewn in places with fallen palm branches, which were pretty much undisturbed, rotting coconut husks and recently fallen coconuts. The land looked untouched, but as we walked towards the beach we could see the developers had cleared part of the site.

fabulous sea breeze

And here it is. Nothing much now but what a view and the fabulous sea breeze convinced us that this was the prefect spot for our dream villa. Looking across at the rest of the site we could see we would have one of the best views. In the far distance, we could see an island called Koh Matalang.

we were not dreaming

Anthony told us the developer intended to keep as many of the trees as possible and would replace them if they had to be removed whilst construction was taking place. Before we left our plot, we looked at this view for a long time and Mary and I had to pinch ourselves just to make sure we were not dreaming. Could this really be the view we would have from our villa one day?