Travelers who want Soneva’s barefoot format on a Thai island, and who have already accepted a long transfer as part of the stay. Best for: The Thai Soneva occupies a remote corner of Koh Kood, with treetop dining and villa privacy that only works when the transfer, including the mainland-to-island hop, fits the guest’s patience. Travelers who want Soneva’s barefoot format on a Thai island, and who have already accepted a long transfer as part of the stay. The Thai Soneva occupies a remote corner of Koh Kood, with treetop dining and villa privacy that only works when the transfer, including the mainland-to-island hop, fits the guest’s patience.
01 · Koh Kood, Thailand · Hotel
The Thai Soneva occupies a remote corner of Koh Kood, with treetop dining and villa privacy that only works when the transfer, including the mainland-to-island hop, fits the guest’s patience.
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Travelers who want Soneva’s barefoot format on a Thai island, and who have already accepted a long transfer as part of the stay.
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The Thai Soneva occupies a remote corner of Koh Kood, with treetop dining and villa privacy that only works when the transfer, including the mainland-to-island hop, fits the guest’s patience. Travelers who want Soneva’s barefoot format on a Thai island, and who have already accepted a long transfer as part of the stay.
Avoid if
Guests who want a Phuket peninsula they can reach in an hour, or a Samui hotel they can leave for dinner in town.
Soneva Kiri occupies a stretch of rainforest and coastline on Koh Kood, one of Thailand's less-developed islands, with villas set along the beach, up the jungle hillside, or on the clifftops. The larger multi-bedroom villas are marketed under the Kiri Private Reserve name within the resort. Design follows Soneva's rustic-chic register: natural materials, open-air bathrooms, indoor-outdoor living space. There's no road access from the mainland side.
- The View: clifftop, Nikkei (Japanese-Peruvian) cuisine over the Gulf of Thailand; wifi-free. - Coconut Grove: a rotating range of world cuisines. - Colours of the Garden: plant-based dinner in the organic garden, four menus tied to Thailand's culinary regions, guided garden walk beforehand. - Benz: open-air Thai restaurant on stilts in the mangroves, set family-style menu from local, seasonal ingredients. - Treepod Dining: a wicker pod raised into the canopy by pulley, food delivered by a zipline waiter; breakfast, lunch, high tea, or dinner. - So Chilled / So Guilty: a complimentary ice cream parlour (sixty-plus rotating flavours) and a chocolate room with handmade chocolates, petit fours, and macarons.
The rainforest spa has eight couples' treatment rooms, a yoga pavilion, a Watsu pool, a spa beach sala, and separate men's and women's relaxation areas with steam rooms and saunas, offering Thai massage, Intuitive Therapy, herbal compress massage, and Ayurvedic treatments. An on-site PADI dive centre runs trips to reef sites around Koh Rang, Koh Mak, and Koh Kood, plus the resort's own Solar Reef Garden; snorkelling covers Koh Rang National Marine Park and Koh Raet. The Den, a bamboo kids' club, runs Thai instrument and art activities.
The resort has been carbon neutral since 2012, plastic-straw-free for over 20 years, and free of imported bottled water since 2008, with waste-to-wealth hubs recycling or composting over 90% of operational feedstock. A share of each stay supports the Soneva Foundation's reforestation and marine conservation work.
Alternatives to the private-plane route: Trat Airport plus car and speedboat (four to five hours total), or a private speedboat charter from Laem Sok pier.
Soneva Kiri is an all-villa resort with seven distinct categories, ranging from a 403 sq m one-bedroom suite to an 1,845 sq m five-bedroom reserve with a treehouse.
Koh Kood, Thailand
Reviewed 31 August 2026 from Soneva Kiri's published location, stay format, and press photography. No rate or availability claim is made here.
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Guide updated August 31, 2026.
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