Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort marked its 11th anniversary with religious ceremonies and prayers for a better twelfth year.
General Manager Denis Thouvard led employees to the Nov. 3 merit-making ceremony at the Wong Amat Beach hotel where they paid respect to a Brahma statue, spirit house and Garuda atop the main building given to the resort in 2014.
Nine monks from Phothisamphan Temple were invited to receive alms and chant for good fortune in the coming year.
The lush Centara Grand Mirage, created with a theme of the “The Lost World” from the Jurassic Park movie series, opened with 555 rooms on July 27, 2009, with a grand opening on Nov. 3 that year.