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Abandoned 6 -Star Resort in Thailand – S3E02 vlog

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An abandoned megaresort sits rotting on a private islet just off Koh Mak, and Sailing Doodles sailed right up to it.

Bobby White, the former commercial pilot turned full-time sailor behind Sailing Doodles, spends Season 3, Episode 2 anchored in Thailand’s Trat archipelago, tucked along the country’s less-touristed eastern coast near the Cambodian border. Instead of white-sand beach clubs, White and his crew go looking for concrete ruins — the skeleton of a luxury resort that was supposed to be one of the region’s most exclusive properties and instead became a decade-old cautionary tale. From there, the boat points south toward Koh Kut for the next leg of the trip.

• White and his crew dinghy over to Koh Kham, a private islet directly off Koh Mak, to explore the unfinished Ananya Hideaway.
• Construction on the project — planned as a run of ultra-luxury villas with private infinity pools — stalled roughly a decade before the episode was filmed, reportedly due to funding collapse and ownership disputes.
• After touring the abandoned site, the crew departs Koh Mak and sails south to Koh Kut (Koh Kood) to continue the season.

The Ananya Hideaway’s Unfinished Ambition

The Ananya Hideaway was pitched as a statement property: a cluster of high-end villas spread across Koh Kham, each designed around its own infinity pool with unobstructed views of the Trat archipelago’s turquoise channels. It’s the kind of development that, on paper, would have slotted in among Thailand’s premier private-island retreats. Somewhere around a decade before White’s visit, the money and the paperwork both fell apart, and the builders walked away mid-project.

What’s left is a sprawl of half-finished concrete shells — pool basins with no water, villa frames with no walls, staircases leading to floors that were never poured. White walks his camera through empty beachfront lots that were clearly graded and planned for guests who never arrived, the kind of scene that makes for a very different Thailand travel video than the resort brochures ever intended.

A resort designed for infinity pools and ultra-luxury villas, left instead as concrete shells overtaken by empty beachfront and silence.

Funding Collapse and a Disputed Islet

According to the story laid out in the episode, the project’s failure traces back to the usual culprits behind Thailand’s graveyard of abandoned resorts: money ran out, and disputes between parties involved froze whatever was left of the build. With no clear path to finishing construction, the island itself was eventually put up for sale rather than completed — a private islet with million-dollar bones and no buyer willing to pick up where the original developers left off.

That combination — ambitious blueprints, a stalled build, and an unresolved ownership situation — is exactly the kind of site that vlogs built around exploring off-grid coastlines and half-forgotten construction sites tend to chase down, and it’s part of what makes an episode like this stand out from the usual sailing footage of anchorages and sunsets.

From Koh Mak to Koh Kut

Once the tour of Koh Kham wraps, White’s crew hauls anchor and points the boat south toward Koh Kut, the next stop on their run through the Trat archipelago. It’s a straightforward transition in the vlog’s structure, but it underscores the format that’s carried Sailing Doodles through three seasons — sail somewhere unexpected, find the story on the ground, then move on to the next island before the footage gets stale. Viewers curious about the region’s broader travel logistics can find general planning notes in guides like this Thailand travel guide, though White’s route through Trat is well off the standard backpacker circuit most of those guides cover.

The episode also fits into a wider run of boat-based content on the channel, where the vessel itself is as much a character as any destination. Fans of that side of the format have compared notes with other sailing and liveaboard tours, including builds like the one featured in this custom-built off-grid expedition yacht walkthrough, which draws a similar audience interested in life afloat.

Koh Kut has a reputation as one of Thailand’s quieter, more forested islands — fewer resorts, more jungle trails down to the water — which makes it a logical next stop after wandering a resort that never got the chance to open at all.