Phuket Travel Guide and Blog
A great beach club on Bang Tao Beach [toc] Carpe Diem on Bang Tao Beach is the latest Beach Club in Phuket, serving appetizing Mediterranean and Italian cuisine with creative cocktails and a long list of fine wines. Because the beach in front of the club is not very wide, people come here for drinks, dinner and to enjoy great music at the end of their day. Carpe Diem is
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A water park near Bangtao Beach [toc] Blue Tree Phuket Water Park is an immense playground designed for adults and kids to spend a day of fun in the warm waters of a tropical island. With its multicolour and brightly decorated buildings, the park is easy to spot on the roadside of Cherngtalay, on the way to Bangtao beach. This 17,000-square metres lagoon is gigantic, with an impressive restaurant building
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Cocktails and grill on Bangtao Beach [toc] Benny's Cocktail and Grill is an understated gem hidden by the roadside in Bangtao Beach; opened in 2015 and specialising in meats but with many excellent other options, including Thai food. We heard of it for a while and even drove by a couple of times, but it took us too long to stop and try it. So we paid them a long
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[toc] Hugo Hub Phuket is a beachfront cafe, bar, restaurant and beach-working space concept. The cooking stalls are distributed around the restaurant, serving breakfast, food and drinks in a relaxed and easy-going atmosphere by the ocean, and the prices are very reasonable. [gallery type="rectangular" size="large" link="file" ids="49068,49070,49071,49072,49073,49074,49075,49076"] Hugo Hub Phuket Info Location: Bangtao Beach Address: Had Soi Hat Surin 8, Choeng Thale, Thalang District, Phuket 83110 Hours: 8 am -
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What to do at Boat Avenue Phuket? [toc] Boat Avenue Phuket is a relatively new shopping and dining neighbourhood with growing popularity at the entrance of the Laguna complex in Bangtao, Cherngtalay. It started modestly a few years back, progressively attracting more trendy restaurants, bars and shops until it became today's fashionable shopping and dining destination. Boat Avenue Phuket evolved and remained smart enough to keep the area spacious with
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Spanish Tapas in Bang Tao Beach [toc] ANISE Tapas & Bar is a popular Spanish restaurant at the Boat Avenue Shopping Village entrance in Cherngtalay on the way to Bangtao Beach. The restaurant is beautifully designed and well-located, perfect for meeting friends for a relaxed and casual tapas dinner. The restaurant is run by a long-time resident who is also very well-known for managing some of the most luxurious hotels
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Phuket's Best Beach Club [toc] Catch Beach Club, by the famous Twinpalms Resort, is reborn on Bangtao Beach and is as popular as ever. This beach venue is more than just another beach club in Phuket: it was the first to open on the island and the one that triggered the fashion. In just a couple of years, there were beach clubs everywhere. Most of them were quite busy, but
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A relaxed beach club on Bang Tao Beach [toc] Xana Beach Club is part of the Angsana Laguna Phuket Resort and one of the popular beach clubs in Phuket. Xana is a cool place to spend an entire day on the beautiful Bang Tao Beach. The concept is to offer the most excellent lazy experience, starting from a laid-back afternoon in the swimming pool or the sea, eating on the
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Siam Supper Club in Bang Tao Beach [toc] Siam Supper Club is a long-established cosy restaurant near Bang Tao Beach, on the west coast of Phuket. The restaurant is mostly a steakhouse that also serves an excellent choice of European comfort food. As you enter the restaurant, the warm interior mostly made of varnished wood may look a little intimidating. Still, the atmosphere is very casual and easy-going, and the
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A casual trendy restaurant in Bangtao [toc] Maison Napoleon is a new modern restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the entrance of Laguna Phuket in Bangtao Beach. The cuisine is mostly casual French but also from Mexico, and Latin America. The venue is already trendy and busy with customers, and the atmosphere is very welcoming, with the lively background buzz of people having a good time with family and
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A community mall in Bangtao Beach [toc] Porto de Phuket is a new open-air community mall near Bangtao Beach in the Cherngtalay district, just next to the very popular Boat Avenue. It's of the same brand as Central Phuket and Central Patong, and you will therefore recognise some of the typical shops, but the concept here is a little different, so don't expect to find a multi-storey shopping mall. Porto
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Bangtao Beach Photos [toc] This Bangtao Beach photo gallery gives you a quick overview of what Bangtao looks like, by day and by night: what to do, restaurants and hotels we tried. NOTE: Photos are strictly Copyright © Phuket 101 and Willy Thuan - Copy or use without written authorization is strictly prohibited - (Link back, credit to or mention of the blog does not constitute an authorization). This site
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Map of Bangtao Beach [toc] This Bangtao Beach map shows the places we visited and some other popular places travellers talk the most about. Bangtao is known for having many luxury beachfront resorts, such as Banyan Tree Resort and a growing shopping scene with occasional night markets at Boat Avenue. You can enjoy some trendy beach clubs like Catch Beach Club and Xana Beach Club, plus a lot of local
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A selfie-dedicated restaurant in Phuket [toc] Ma Doo Bua Phuket is a cafe and restaurant whose sole purpose is to provide an irresistible background to the new generation of selfie lovers and Instagrammers. The main catch is an artificial lake covered with those unusual giant circular floating leaves called Victoria Amazonica, a species of flowering plant, the largest of the Nymphaeaceae family of giant water lilies. Ma Doo Bua is
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Dream Beach Club Phuket [toc] Notice: Dream Beach Club is temporarily closed Dream Beach Club Phuket sits in a fantastic location on Layan Beach, just next to Bangtao. It’s a relaxing spot to spend the day between the sea and the swimming pool, and a fun party place on weekends. The white and yellow stylish beach club comes with a great restaurant and a beautiful trendy design. There is no
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What is Fun Friday Avenue Market? [toc] Fun Friday Avenue Market is a small weekend market popping up every Friday evening at Boat Avenue on the way to Phuket Laguna. It’s modest in size but fun to visit if you stay in the Bangtao Beach area. Night markets are part of Thailand's life, and wherever there is a market, there is a crowd and lots of food! Boat Avenue is
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Bampot Restaurant in Bangtao Bampot Kitchen received a 'Michelin Plate' rating in the Phuket Michelin Guide. 'Michelin Plate' is a recognition of excellent food. [toc] Bampot Kitchen & Bar is a fantastic contemporary restaurant located at the entrance of Laguna Phuket, just past Boat Avenue in Bangtao. The restaurant is spacious and beautifully designed with an open kitchen on the side. The atmosphere is trendy without being too sophisticated, and
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