The White Lotus

Jake Lacy claimed that due to the COVID-19 production bubble, the season 1 cast all actually did stay in the same hotel and eat every meal together at the same restaurant just like their characters in the show.

It is made clear that Season three takes place on the island Samui. This is located on the east side of the mainland in the Gulf of Thailand. The tsunami of 2004 had no effect on Samui, because that took place in the west and there is a land mass in between. Also there are no islands surrounding Samui. There is also no marina. The landscape during the boat trip is that of the sea north east of Phuket, also known as James Bond Island (location for The Man with the Golden Gun).