Pandanus woos travelers with new services

Tourists ride the all-terrain vehicle, a sea sport game at Pandanus Resort

After 12 years developing as a tourist destination, Mui Ne, in the coastal resort town of Phan Thiet in the central province of Binh Thuan, is the home of some 80 small and large resorts which were built on winding pristine beaches and lie under thousands of coco trees.

Traveling along Nguyen Dinh Chieu Road, travelers have many choices of resorts for their vacations. The Pandanus Resort is among the 80 resorts where travelers can spend their holidays.


The resort is still young compared to others, but very spacious. It was built in 2004 within a ten-hectare tropical garden and with a private beach three hundred meters long.

Scattered throughout the garden are some 130 rooms, suits and bungalows designed with views of the ocean, the landscaped garden or facing the pool area that has a huge free-form pool surrounding an island covered with palm trees.

To make guests feel relaxed and comfortable, the resort offers, among other luxuries, a foot and body massage service on the beach, around the pool, or in the spa.

However, to provide more choices for travelers during their stay, the resort has just set up activities for those who are sports enthusiasts.

Steve Raymond, general manager of the resort, said that last month the Speed Boat Pleasure Company set up operations at the corner of the resort, providing jet ski rentals, snorkeling trips, rubber rafting excursions and fishing trips.

When night falls, at the resort’s Blue Lagoon Restaurant, diners can enjoy a performance by the Philippine group “Stardust” that has joined the in-house traditional Cham band. For families, the resort has just added a ‘kid’s corner’, so that parents can leave their children to play in the supervised games room while they enjoy cocktails and listen to the bands.

Apart from these new activities, there are other things to do while not swimming in the pool or lounging on the widest pristine white sandy beach in the area. Around the gardens are a flood-lit tennis court, a badminton court, a football field, beach volleyball, karaoke rooms, a discotheque, billiards tables, table tennis, complimentary bicycles and a game room.

In addition, the resort is located close to the famous Orange Sand Dunes and Red Canyon. Guests can take a ten to fifteen minute walk to both attractions.

Currently the resort offers promotional rates of US$75++ per night for a superior room, US$90++ for a junior suite and US$99++ for a bungalow.
By SGT