The ultra-luxury villa of a nefarious character on “The White Lotus” might be your subsequent trip spot.
HBO Max's Emmy award-winning drama chronicles the darkish underbelly of luxurious resort tradition — however this palatial rental is all open skies and glowing infinity swimming pools.
Villa Amaravida, now out there as a Thai trip rental, served because the hideaway of one of many present's uncommon recurring characters, Greg Hunt.
Greg, performed by Jon Gries, was launched to viewers again in season 1 because the down-to-Earth authorities worker vacationing in Hawaii. Season 3 finds the much-changed, a lot wealthier Greg hiding out from American authorities within the tropical hills of Thailand.
Villa Amaravida, positioned in Phuket's unique Cape Yamu enclave, was the bigger of two villas used because the backdrop for Greg's huge house. Tense scenes noticed Greg researching resort worker Belinda in his ethereal, timber-roofed lounge, and swimming within the spacious lap pool — certainly one of three swimming pools on the property.
The opposite taking pictures location for Greg's abode, a modernist hilltop retreat close to Koh Samui's Chaweng Seashore, can also be out there to lease on Airbnb.
Feroz Taj, of the Company Beverly Hills, has taken cost of selling Villa Amaravida. Anybody staying on the villa will want “White Lotus”-level wealth. Charges for the eight-bedroom getaway vary from $5,700 to $13,650 per night time, based on advertising supplies.
The grand trip house is located on a beachfront plot spanning greater than 86,000 sq. toes. The villa itself spans greater than 43,000 sq. toes between its indoor and outside areas. Its glassy partitions boast panoramic views of the well-known Phang Nga Bay.
Villa Amaravida bares all of the hallmarks of wealth that takes middle stage in “The White Lotus,” from a full tennis court docket to a full workers of seven workers — together with a non-public chef.
The breezy interiors, which the rental touts as “intrinsically Scandinavian,” leaves loads of room for entertaining. Indoor facilities embody a cinema, knowledgeable health club and spa and, based on the itemizing, a “funky little wine-cellar room.”
However it's the exteriors that actually make this house worthy of its main “White Lotus” cameo. Vacationers at Villa Amaravida can play tennis and basketball on the non-public courts by day and get together on the 16-person rooftop bar by night time.
Three swimming pools are unfold throughout three ranges – a protracted infinity pool, a rooftop pool and a garden pool.
Earlier than you e-book that Thai Airways thicket, nevertheless, there are just a few caveats. Villa Amaravida requires a minimal keep of three nights, and even longer across the holidays like Christmas and Chinese language New Yr. Weddings and occasions will not be permitted, both, so that you'll have to plan your “White Lotus”-themed homicide thriller bash elsewhere.
