Opening 2028

Capella

Capella Kenting

Name: Capella Kenting
Address: Kenting, Taiwan

65 oceanfront pool villas by ACPV ARCHITECTS; Capella's first resort in Taiwan.

Kenting, Taiwan

First look

Capella is taking its first run at a Taiwan resort in Kenting, on the Hengchun Peninsula at the island's southern tip, with an opening reported for 2028. The plan is for 65 oceanfront villas, each with a private pool, designed by ACPV ARCHITECTS, the Milan studio of Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel. The all-villa format puts this firmly in resort territory.

It would be Capella's second property in Taiwan after the Taipei hotel, but the first resort, which is a different proposition entirely. Kenting is known for its coastline and national park rather than city life, so a villas-only layout fits the setting. ACPV is a familiar name in this tier of hospitality, which raises expectations for how the architecture sits against the ocean. What we will be watching for is whether the villa count stays at 65 and how private the beachfront actually feels once the resort takes shape.

Not yet scored. We publish a Fat Score only once a hotel is open and real guests have stayed and written about it — this is a first look, not a verdict.

Sofie, who runs the Fat Voyage booking desk with Nicolas

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Nothing to book yet — rates usually load a few months out. We're Sofie and Nicolas; tell us roughly what you're after and we'll come back the moment Capella Kenting is bookable, with rates, what the rooms are actually like, and whether we'd go in the first season.

You'll be dealing with the two of us the whole way through, which is why we only take on a handful of trips at a time — if we're full, we'll say so. We reply by email, usually within one working day. The hotel pays us, not you: your rate is the same as booking direct, and the perks come on top.

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What you can book today

Capella Kenting is still under wraps. Here's what's already open and scored in our collection — more from Capella, and nearby in Taiwan.

Fat Legend

Capella

Capella Bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand

Capella Bangkok runs on people who know your name and act on it, and the reviews make that concrete rather than vague. One guest's Culturist heard she was tired from the flight and had a bubble bath and a private mask-making workshop waiting before she asked twice. Another had a tuk-tuk driver try to hustle him right outside the property; the team pulled him back inside and handled it themselves. Golf and Oat at the pool, Vam at the Tea Lounge, May at Stella bar all come up by name for the same reason: they remember what you drink, what you ordered yesterday, what you're celebrating. Every room has a genuine river view and outdoor space, plunge-pool villas included, and the Auriga Spa's jacuzzi and steam rooms get called some guests' best ever, full stop. The catch is fixed and worth knowing before you book: you're on the wrong side of the river from Sukhumvit and Thonglor, and getting to the malls or the BTS means the hotel boat and some planning rather than a walk out the door. Breakfast is otherwise a genuine highlight — Japanese and Korean dishes draw praise from everyone — but Thai guests specifically flag the Thai dishes as adapted rather than the real thing. The pet policy is real but unevenly briefed: one dog-owning guest asked front desk staff where dogs were allowed and got sent to a second colleague, then a third, and the "Dog Not Allowed" sign at Phra Nakhon turned out not to mean what it said. Book it for the service and the river, not for proximity to anywhere else. Families get looked after properly rather than just tolerated, kids included, and if your Bangkok is a calm base with a two-Michelin-star restaurant and a spa people keep calling their best ever, nothing on this side of the city touches it.

Fat Favorite

Capella

Capella Ubud

Ubud, Indonesia

Capella Ubud gets talked about for two things: Bill Bensley's tented design and staff who seem to know your schedule by day two. Vidi the duty manager keeps coming up as the one who makes people feel tracked rather than processed, greeting returning guests in their own language and steering them through the property like he's done it a hundred times. The 23 tents are individually themed, copper bathtubs and outdoor showers and all, and Api Jiwa is the meal people build a night around, alongside excursions like the Wos River Temple ritual that read as genuine rather than staged. The concept is also what you're actually signing up for, and it splits people. These are canvas-walled tents with open-plan bathrooms and no glass, linked by roughly 120 steps up and down a jungle valley: extraordinary to look at, harder to live in for a week if you want a normal room and a phone that works. One 2026 stay found dead power outlets, a soaked deck cushion, and a broken room phone with no way to reach reception short of climbing those steps in the rain. When the theatrical design meets an off day, there's no easy backup, and that's the real risk here, not the concept itself. The bar and a few restaurant dishes have also been flagged as a notch below the service around them, which says more about how good the staff are than how bad the kitchen is. Book it for an experience, not a hotel room. Nobody who loves this place is comparing it to a conventional five-star, they're comparing it to nowhere else in Bali. If a proper bed-and-bath layout matters more to you than atmosphere, that's a fair reason to look elsewhere; people who've made that trade tend to land at Amandari instead. For everyone else, it's the tents, the temple ritual, and staff who remember your birthday without being told twice.

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