Lonely Planet Review

'Designer dzong' is the architectural theme here, with the half-dozen sleek and severe rammed-earth buildings calling to mind the elite campus of the world's coolest university. The rooms benefit from calming natural woods and home-spun fabrics, an open-plan bathroom, bukhari (traditional Bhutanese stove) and divan. The spa has a wide range of treatments (book in advance) and there's an intimate restaurant and reading room.

It's certainly sleek and stylish but you can't help but feel a bit disconnected from your surroundings out here. The resort is in pine forest near Balakha village, 14km from Paro and not far from Drukyel Dzong.