You may forget you live elsewhere after a few days in your rustic-luxe teakwood villa at this village-style resort on the northern point of Phi Phi Don Island. Encased in the Koh Phi Phi National Park, famed for its rugged cliffs, gorges and coral reefs, this resort is all about the outdoors – even bathing is a chance to be outside with al fresco rainfall showers. After gaining your PADI certificate – there’s no nicer place to study – or taking an easy boat trip to the local marine park beaches, lagoons and uninhabited islands, return to a lazy seafood buffet eaten under the canopy of a tree with your toes in the sand.