Regarding 'outside views': I inspected this resort before it became LM and thought all accommodations except the villas were too dark for my liking. We stayed in an Oceanfront Villa on SPG50, which was still around $550 a night. These are the only accommodations with real sea view or 'outside' view. Plats get unlimited wifi internet connections, breakfast and 1st round of drinks at the bar in the evening (soft drinks or house wine or beer, I think. We didn't bother after the first night. Breakfast is OK, but it bothered me that a top notch boutique-sized resort would have so many breakfast items that were bought, like chicken nuggets (really), hash browns (can forgive that as they are difficult to make fresh), steamed from frozen dim sum, fried from frozen samosas, and more.

Pleasant enough resort, but it has only 1 kitchen and food outlet so you will want to get out often, and if you don't have your own pool, you would have fight the Euros who reserve pool loungers at 6am. Perhaps a small point, but the car parking is silly.. just a vacant lot so cars need to be moved to let you out. They won't even let you drive up to the resort entrance and park the car. The feng shui design of the property creates an unnecessary walk around corners and up and down steep staircases to end up 10 metres from where you started. Last, the outdoor bathrooms. I usually love outdoor showers, like at the W Samui, but at LM, the entire bathroom is a) not air-conditioned so can get quite sweaty, b) the mosquitoes are rampant, at least at this time of year, c) the door to the bathroom is cumbersome in the villas - 2 wooden doors and a metal sliding latch... and you must lock it to keep the air-con in and the mozzies out. A real pain when you wake up at night.

Service was pretty good for a small, island resort. It was the first SW I have stayed where the GM actually cleared tables each day and brought coffee to guests. On the other hand, the room staff turned the air off when cleaning, so the room was hot on our return. Each morning, ice was put out with the drinks, but one day, it wasn't. I asked for some. The server replied, " Why do you need that?" I don't want to seem like a ......, but when I have a simple request at a hotel, I shouldn't have to explain myself.

Storage space, even in the largest villa, was minimal, so we used the separate building living room for our luggage. Maybe we were overloaded on the way home from a huge trip in Europe.

On Friday night, Beach Republic, next door, had the doof-doof music going and I ended up using earplugs to sleep, and our villa, which had a shared wall with the main pool showers, let in all the noise of the public showers, filipino singers in the restaurant in the evening and during the New Year holiday, many loud infants. If you take an Oceanfront villa... ask for one away from the main pool.

I realise this sounds like a complaining report, but the resort has a few too many design idiosyncrasies for my liking. Of the 77 rooms, I would discount all but the pool access suites and the 14 villas.

We did love the day bed outside, looking over the beach, the large pool (though it was a bit cool in January due to lack of sun), the double sun-lounger overlooking the sea and the view from the bed.

Worth a trip when the rates are low, but if it's expensive, W would be similarly priced.