Pick your corner of Thailand.
Where to base yourself, what each place is genuinely good at, and what a night actually costs.
Central
North
Gulf Coast

34 hotels listed
Hua Hin
Thailand's old royal seaside town, about 195km from Bangkok, with a long beach running south from the town to the hill at Khao Takiab.

37 hotels listed
Koh Samui
Thailand's most accessible island, because you can fly straight to it.

42 hotels listed
Koh Phangan
Samui's northern neighbour, more than half of it national park, with the Full Moon Party at one end and the Thong Nai Pan bays at the other.

24 hotels listed
Koh Tao
The small one you come to for the diving, two hours north of Samui.
Andaman Coast

36 hotels listed
Koh Lanta
A long island south of Krabi, with a string of beaches down its west coast and an old stilted town on the east.

30 hotels listed
Krabi
Limestone cliffs, a beach town at Ao Nang and a peninsula you reach by boat.

36 hotels listed
Phuket
Thailand's largest island, from Patong's nightlife to an old town of shophouses, with a different kind of stay on every stretch of coast.

14 hotels listed
Koh Phi Phi
An island with no roads, one village around the ferry pier, and beaches you reach on foot or by longtail boat.
East Coast









