Phuket

4th stay with Club Med Phuket and definitely won't be the last . Thanks Max and his great team of GOs. Special thanks to Retna , Tem, Gus, Rama, Rosie, Cara, Aum, Kimmy, Adib, Arri, Batu, Prakash, Frank, Azizul, Aoy, Jolie, Zom , Ing, Awan, Chirron, Ayoub, Ari, Edmund, Miggy, Ploy, Sophia, William ...... We were surprised to be able to meet so many GOs we know from other Club Med. Out of this world experience this visit and we feel so at home with the special arrangements we received. Great food and room. From check-in to check-out everything was flawless.

The activities are exciting and fun. The G.O.s are very nice, and the performances are amazing. The circus team (Adib, Kimmy, Chloe, Alicia and others) are very friendly and encouraging. Special mention to teens and mini club G.O. Aum who was very friendly to the kids.

There were family holiday for 10 days, 2 adults, 3 kids (4, 9,11y) to Phuket, Thailand.
Long time we checked the opportunity to visit ClubMed based on friend's feedback about the concept.
The biggest expectations were about kids club and related sport activities, so the kids each day would have a lot of summer sport, similar to clubmed winter time, where each day kids have ski classes and upgrade their skills on that.
Pros:

1. Hotel located on the front line of the Kata beach. Even thogh you need to cross the small Road with small traffic, it was very good organize by internal staff to help with it.
2. Food is really good and evyryone would find a lot of different cuisines and dishes variety at own taste. All inclusive concept really matters, you Will not be hungry for sure, all Food are delisious.
3. Team is super friendly and would like to make customer happy 24/7. Its also quite multinational and very approachable, so everyone would like to have small talk but do it gently, not to other you too much.
   Cons:
4. The biggest upset for me personally was overexpectation on kids club. I assumed that if i go to Thailand itself close to sea, there should be many thai boxing and water sport activities everyday. Thai boxing was just once, sea activities was absent at all ( btw few days were high waves and there might be some safety resons, other days weather was quite calm).
   There were also no activities in the pool, there were just a pool time, where kids play by themselves.
   I expect that team may do some swimming classes, snorkelling demos or adventures, water polos, water volleyball etc. Nothing like that.
   However, there was trampoline, trapeze, which i Can find every place but not tropical sea country.
   Territory also have padel, basketball, but kids said they were not offered that activities as well.
5. Beach is quite dirty. Team said that this is because its a public beach and clubmed is not resposible for cleaning it. But i am sure that with so many cleaning team the Can do regular cleaning some part of the beach to make customer satisfied.
   Also clubmed does not have their own sunbeds, also because its business for locals. I am sure clubmed Can negotiate with local authirities to put just few of them.
   In many other countries Even for public beaches Premium hotels have their own beach Zone.
   And the last for the beach is that clubmed has quite big territory, but has only one exit to the beach clise to Main pool and bar. So if you leave in the far area, which is also good in terms of privacy, you need to cross almost whole territory to exit to the beach. Better to have at least 1 more.
   Overall, compare to the other hotels in Phuket i really enjoyed the Experience.
   On the other hand, specifically kids club differentiate the clubmed from other, so this part denibetely migh be improved (my kids never asked my to bring them back or wait New day in the club, so we even skip few days).
   I would like to Experience winter clubmed, so i would have the full understanding whether it fits for my family or not.