Lauren Parsekian welcomed her 30th year in December 2016 with a trip to Ko Yao Yai with husband Aaron Paul and their friends. She said, “So in love with Thailand and Thai people and these humans and this day and this planet and the universe amen.”

New Kids on the Block’s Jonathan Knight checked in to Six Senses Yao Noi in November 2015 and explained its “Novel concept” — “You can go to the chicken coop and pick your own eggs for breakfast. They also have a vegetable garden and the water bottles are re-usable glass.”