Overall, COMO The Halkin is the stronger stay.
COMO The Halkin for the location, COMO Point Yamu for the spa.
Phuket, Thailand · Como
Morning yoga gets singled out as a highlight, and the hotel will arrange outside activities like muay thai on request.
A secluded villa resort on Phuket’s Cape Yamu headland, built around private pools and sea views.
Read the full verdictLondon, United Kingdom · Como
A quiet Belgravia side street near Hyde Park Corner that still puts you a short walk from the Tube and Knightsbridge shopping.
A 41-room boutique hotel on a quiet Belgravia street near Hyde Park Corner in London.
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Out of 20
Overall +1
Overall: COMO Point Yamu 16 out of 20, COMO The Halkin 17 out of 20.Service +1.5 Why
Service: COMO Point Yamu 17 out of 20, COMO The Halkin 18.5 out of 20.COMO Point Yamu: A butler named Da ran a whole stay over WhatsApp, and the restaurant staff learned a family’s drink orders by day three.
COMO The Halkin: Staff are named constantly by guests for solving real problems, from a missed-flight rebooking to a midnight laundry fix.
Rooms & Design +0.5 Why
Rooms & Design: COMO Point Yamu 17 out of 20, COMO The Halkin 16.5 out of 20.COMO Point Yamu: Low-rise, villa-led architecture that guests describe as understated rather than showy, with private pools drawing the strongest reaction.
COMO The Halkin: The 41 rooms run large for London with marble bathrooms and Edwardian details, though some have small windows and no view.
Location +3 Why
Location: COMO Point Yamu 14.5 out of 20, COMO The Halkin 17.5 out of 20.COMO Point Yamu: A quiet headland that keeps the views and privacy but means a Grab ride for anything outside the gate.
COMO The Halkin: A quiet Belgravia side street near Hyde Park Corner that still puts you a short walk from the Tube and Knightsbridge shopping.
Dining +3 Why
Dining: COMO Point Yamu 13.5 out of 20, COMO The Halkin 16.5 out of 20.COMO Point Yamu: Only two real restaurants on site despite marketing language suggesting more, and the Thai kitchen undercuts the Italian one.
COMO The Halkin: Afternoon tea and the restaurant get singled out repeatedly, with coconut waffles and a well-cooked steak both mentioned by name.
Wellness +2 Why
Wellness: COMO Point Yamu 15.5 out of 20, COMO The Halkin 13.5 out of 20.COMO Point Yamu: Morning yoga gets singled out as a highlight, and the hotel will arrange outside activities like muay thai on request.
COMO The Halkin: There’s a spa-scented bathroom experience guests like, but almost nobody describes an actual spa or fitness stay here.
Strengths of COMO Point Yamu
Strengths of COMO The Halkin
Trade-offs of COMO Point Yamu
Trade-offs of COMO The Halkin
Only at COMO Point Yamu
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COMO Point Yamu sits on its own headland on Phuket's quieter east side, away from everything and built for exactly that kind of privacy. The villas get the strongest reaction: a four-bedroom pool villa draws comparisons to the best family stays in Phuket, and the private pools attached to the rooms are the detail people bring up unprompted when asked what made the trip. Staff get remembered by name here. One guest's butler, Da, ran the whole stay over WhatsApp and kept showing up in the gratitude at the end of the review; another couple had the restaurant team learn their drink order by the third day.
The trade-off is eating on property. There are really only two restaurants despite the hotel's own materials suggesting more, and the Italian room is the better of the two. For a resort at this price, that's a thin bench, and anyone who wants a night off from the in-house menu will be calling a car. A family villa guest also flagged that the hot water tank isn't sized for eight-plus people showering back to back, worth knowing if you're booking the bigger villas.
None of that changes who this is for: people who want a private pool, a quiet headland, and staff who remember what they drink, over a resort with five restaurants to rotate through. Book it for the villas and the view, plan to eat at least one night off-site, and go in knowing Phuket Town is a drive away, not a walk.
COMO The Halkin is a 41-room townhouse hotel in Belgravia, and the case for it is almost entirely the people running it. Guests keep describing the same shape of moment: something goes wrong, a scale disappears from a bathroom, a kettle gets forgotten, a flight is missed entirely, and the front desk just fixes it. One traveler who missed their flight had a new room booked within minutes by a staffer named Pammy, who turns up often enough in these stories that she's clearly not having a lucky week. Another checked in near midnight with an urgent laundry request and got it sorted on the spot rather than told to wait until morning.
The rooms are genuinely spacious for central London, with marble bathrooms and the kind of soundproofing that makes a street two minutes from Hyde Park Corner feel silent. The afternoon tea and restaurant pull real praise, down to specific dishes like the coconut waffles. But a few guests had to ask three times for basics like a kettle or a replacement bathroom scale, which is a strange thing to still be chasing at this price point, and there's no real wellness story here: no spa worth describing, nothing beyond a nice-smelling bathroom. If a pool and treatment menu matter to your trip, this isn't that hotel.
It suits a couple or a small family who want a quiet address, big-for-London rooms, and staff who'll actually solve a problem rather than apologize for it. Book it for the room and the people at the desk, not the amenities list.
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COMO Point Yamu: Morning yoga gets singled out as a highlight, and the hotel will arrange outside activities like muay thai on request. COMO The Halkin: A quiet Belgravia side street near Hyde Park Corner that still puts you a short walk from the Tube and Knightsbridge shopping. Overall, COMO The Halkin is the stronger stay.
COMO Point Yamu is ahead on the spa. COMO The Halkin is ahead on the food. COMO Point Yamu adds Beach, Wellness and Thai Design; COMO The Halkin adds Urban, Heritage and Culinary. Both are tagged Romantic, Family and Design.
COMO The Halkin leads on this. COMO Point Yamu: A quiet headland that keeps the views and privacy but means a Grab ride for anything outside the gate. COMO The Halkin: A quiet Belgravia side street near Hyde Park Corner that still puts you a short walk from the Tube and Knightsbridge shopping.
COMO The Halkin leads on this. COMO Point Yamu: Only two real restaurants on site despite marketing language suggesting more, and the Thai kitchen undercuts the Italian one. COMO The Halkin: Afternoon tea and the restaurant get singled out repeatedly, with coconut waffles and a well-cooked steak both mentioned by name.
COMO Point Yamu is in Phuket, Thailand; COMO The Halkin is in London, United Kingdom.
Neither: COMO Point Yamu and COMO The Halkin both hold One Michelin Key in the Michelin Guide’s 2026 hotel selection. The Keys come from the guide’s own anonymous inspections and are separate from the Fat Score.
