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LAGUNA BEACH RESORT.... ... my workplace during winter 1999/2000 I'd like to discribe my former workplace here a little bit - don't want to got too exited though - as so many things happend there within the 3 month of my stay - good ones as well as rather unpleasant ones... Now, that I look back on my time there - and to be honest - even during the worst time there I would have taken the same decission to work there all over again. Let's start with the physical attributes : the hotel! In one word : It was beautiful - if not the nicest hotel I've seen so far and you can imagine, that I have come accross a few in my life!!!! It is situated in Phuket's Laguna Area, the first Hotel out of 5...on Bangtao Beach. I believe that Bangtao Beach - that means "Silent River" by the way - is the longest beach I've ever seen. I've never managed to walk it off - but Chris and some others apparantly did and needed more that an hour for one way! Unfortunately swimming is not so recommandable there most of the time - in summer, the Monsoon Time, the ocean is very rough and swimming is prohibited due to aggressive undertows and currents. In Winter on the other hand - the main season is that it is very likely to have jellyfish...you can choose the lesser evil! Can you imagine how many jellyfishbites we had to treat every day? puh! Safer but maybe not as pretty looking is the Lagoon - old coppermines now flooded that give the hotels their very special charme! I highly suggest to all of you to stop by at Laguna Beach Resorts Homepage to get a better impression of its beauty. My workplace was the pool area - and that was huge! A waterpark of 3 seperate pools, including a divepool, sportpool and the mainpool- all together a surface of.....have to look it up first...surrounded by palmtrees, and plenty of tropical flowers. The hotel itself is held in a typical Thai style - it's big, but doesn't lose it's connection to this extrodenary country. Redish peaks rising high into the normaly light blue sky, cutting the clouds, green hills in the background with stipes of mist hanging in the tropical forest. The building has hardly any closed fronts - walls are avoided, which always makes a breese flow through the restaurants, halls, reception area, the hallways to the rooms, or the Chai Nam Bar, which is so nicely placed in the open, next to an artificial little pool in the first floor, that ends in a waterfall into the canalsystem of the groundfloor. In the morning, whenever I had to work to AC 1 shift, which started at 7am I could watch the sunrise over the lagoon, and the still ocean lying there in the Andamansea as if it had never moved at all - the clouds touching the surface in such a way that there was no way of telling where exactly the line was that seperated water from sky. Those were the beautyfull and peacefull minutes of the day...  StartpageWhat we did AFTER workPhuket excursionsBangkok excursionsTask describtionMy new Friends |
