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Club Med Cherating Beach
Can a spa resort full of families with young children really offer tranquility and relaxation? We went to Club Med to find out
Vital statistics
Address: Club Med Cherating Beach, 29 Mile Stone, Kemaman – Kuantan, 26080, Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia
Times: 10am to 8pm every day
Details: +60 9 581 9133
www.clubmed.com
Future plans
Club Méditerranée has just announced plans to open a further five resorts in Asia Pacific under the Club Med brand, as part of its ongoing expansion.
Scheduled to open by 2015, the new resorts will be in China, which already has one Club Med ski resort in Yabuli and a second resort for the Maldives. Sales and marketing manager for Club Med Malaysia, Steven Tan, says the group is also considering other opportunities to open further resorts in south-east Asia.
what’s the score?
Ease of booking:
8
Facilities: 7 Cleanliness/maintenance: 10 Staff: 9 Experience/treatment: 8 Value for money: 8 Overall experience: 8Right to Reply
Harish Kumar,Spa director,
We do try to attract family members, including children, to our spa and have up to two promotions a week. Most recently, we held a family spa night where adults enjoyed a footbath and massage and kids had a bubble bath and shoulder, hand and foot massage. We limit this to advance bookings after 8pm and restrict it to our suites and villas (rather than the whole spa), but it’s difficult in the rainy season when we cannot use outside areas. Once a week we also have a free fun activity – from a massage lesson to free mini treatment – to raise guest awareness of the spa.