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Patong Beach
Discover Patong Beach attractions, restaurants, hotels, and activities. Explore Phuket’s busiest beach with guides to nightlife, shopping, and water sports.
5 Best Go Go Bars in Phuket
The Go Go bars of Phuket might not be for everyone, but there is no doubt that a lot of visitors to Phuket are curious about them and want to visit at least once. All of them are on Patong Beach, and there are quite a few.
Go Karts in Phuket
Go Kart Phuket is a fast, loud and exciting activity, and it is fun to compete with (or against) friends. There are a few Go-Kart tracks on the island, and strangely, two of them are facing each other near Patong, just past the hill and close to Kathu,
Ta Khai Restaurant at Rosewood Phuket
Ta Khai Restaurant is a beautiful Thai restaurant nestled on the secluded beach of Tri Trang and part of the new luxurious Rosewood resort. Located just a couple of kilometres from Patong Beach.
64 Best Restaurants in Patong Beach!
There are so many restaurants in Patong Beach; you would think that finding great Thai food would be easy. But if you know Thailand, you soon will realise that too many of them serve a toned-down version of Thai cuisine or something very far from local food.
Naughty Nuri’s Phuket
Naughty Nuri’s in Patong Beach is famous for their Nuri’s signature ribs and piglets (Babi Guling a la Nuri’s). The restaurant is vast and welcoming, and the staff is known to be friendly and cheerful.
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No 9 Restaurant in Patong Beach Phuket
No 9 Restaurant is a modest Thai restaurant in Patong beach, quite far from the busy streets, yet it is much talked about. The restaurant is spotless with a good design sitting layout, serving Thai and European food.
Briley Chicken Rice Restaurant in Patong Beach
If you like delicious Hainanese Chicken Rice and you happen to be in Patong Beach, you need to visit Briley, one of the two famous chicken rice restaurants in Phuket, open for more than 20 years.
Kee Sky Lounge Rooftop Phuket
The Kee Sky Lounge rooftop bar at the Kee Resort in Patong Beach has been popular for years. The rooftop bar invites you to the sun deck of a luxury cruiser, one of the best places in Patong, to enjoy a sunset with a cocktail and great music.
No.6 Restaurant in Patong Beach
The original Number 6 is very popular Thai restaurant in the middle of Patong Beach, and the queue in front of the shop is unusually long in Phuket.
Central Patong Shopping Mall
Central Patong is a modern shopping mall located in the heart of Patong Beach, just next to the famous Bangla Road. The mall offers a range of international and local brands, with a focus on shopping and dining rather than entertainment.
Suzy Wong’s 3
Suzy Wong’s 3 is the latest, most trendy and most luxurious Club in Patong, replacing the Exotica Club. This new club is inspired by the original Suzy Wong’s which is just a little down the street.
Wat Doi Thepnimit Phuket near Patong Beach
Wat Doi Thepnimit is a monastic residence with a fantastic panoramic view over Patong beach. You can see its iconic white pagoda from the beach, if you know in which direction to look, of course, it’s pretty tiny.
Bangla Boxing Stadium
Bangla Boxing Stadium is one of the two or three Muay Thai Stadiums in Patong Beach, one of the many ways you can entertain yourself after dinner.
OTOP Market Phuket
Initially designed as a local market, OTOP Market Phuket was created to promote the handicrafts and original products of each province of Thailand. Long ago, it became a night spot with those round bamboo bars that used to be so famous on Bangla Road twenty years ago.
Bangla Street Food in Patong Beach
Bangla Street Food is the latest opening in Bangla Road, the heart of Patong nightlife. Street food is a smart move in this part of town. Bangla Street Food opens late, and it’s really casual. So it’s actually the perfect place before AND after the party. This is something really fantastic about Patong: you can party until 3 or even 4 am and still enjoy some seafood.
Kalim Rim Lay Restaurant in Kalim Beach
Kalim Rim Lay Restaurant is a little-known restaurant serving good honest Thai food and seafood at a good price. Best of all for some of you, it is located not far from Patong Beach, just past Kalim Beach. Rim Lay is a very relaxing spot to enjoy lunch or dinner with spectacular sunsets if you are lucky to get one as we did.
Swissôtel Resort Phuket Patong Beach
Swissôtel Resort Phuket Patong Beach is a great hotel in a great location if you can’t afford a hotel on the beach. This rather large resort is only 200 metres from the beach and at a comfortable walking distance to the Bangla Walking Street.
Hard Rock Cafe Phuket
Hard Rock Cafe Phuket doesn’t need to be introduced anymore, but it was a big deal when it arrived in Patong Beach a few years back. If you came here, you already know that Phuket doesn’t lack live bands.
BYD Lofts Boutique Hotel & Serviced Apartments
BYD Lofts Boutique Hotel & Serviced Apartments in Patong Beach has so many good reviews on Trip Advisor and social media; we had to try it to see for ourselves
KUDO Beach Club
KUDO Beach Club is a popular venue in Phuket, with a unique location on the beach of Patong; it has all the ingredients to be a popular party place on the island.
Full Moon Party in Phuket
There is a Full Moon Party in Phuket? Maybe you didn’t even know about it, but yes, there is indeed a Phuket Full Moon Party on Paradise Beach near Patong Beach, and it has been around for a while. It’s smaller than the notorious Koh Phangan Party, but with easy access and great music, it is gaining in popularity.
Phuket Surf House
Phuket Surf House Patong is a fun activity in Patong Beach with a prime location near Bangla Road and the beach nearby. Yes, it sounds like surfing, but don’t imagine a real surfboard on immense artificial waves.
Malin Plaza Patong
Malin Plaza Patong is a trendy night market at the southern end of Patong Beach, and it succeeded because it kept in mind that food is the magnet that makes people come in the first place.
Phuket Marriott Resort Merlin Beach
Phuket Marriott Resort Merlin Beach is a 5-star hotel with a unique location on Merlin Beach in Phuket, just a few kilometres from the busy Patong and yet in superb and quiet surroundings.
Impiana Resort Patong Phuket
Impiana Resort Patong Phuket is a relatively small hotel blessed with a unique location in Patong Beach, right between the best part of the beach and the end of Bangla Walking Street, well known to be the main shopping and party zone.
Illuzion Phuket
Illuzion Phuket is the most popular Nightclub on Bangla road in Patong Beach. Illuzion Phuket is gigantic, supposedly able to accommodate up to 5,000 standing people plus hundreds of VIP tables.
Harem Club Phuket
Harem Club Phuket is the most luxurious bar in the whole of Phuket. With plush red velvet sofas and curtains all around, and two main stages with four smaller platforms on each side, the place feels cosy and intimate, and the ladies are beautiful.
Sizzle Rooftop Bar
Sizzle Rooftop Bar and Restaurant is a romantic place at the top of the Avista Hideaway Phuket Patong in the south of Patong Beach, part of the MGallery by Sofitel, an award-winning luxury resort.
Phuket Graceland Resort and Spa
Phuket Graceland Resort is one of the largest hotels on the island, with a staggering 600 rooms. The hotel location is unique as not many hotels in Patong Beach have the privilege of being so close to the beach.
The Surface Rooftop Bar
The Surface rooftop bar at La Flora Hotel in Patong Beach is one of the few rooftops in Phuket, but as beach clubs did, the number seems to be growing.
Number 6 Restaurant ‘Up The Hill’ in Patong Beach
Number 6 Restaurant ‘Up The Hill’ is one of the most popular places in Patong Beach, we all know that. But did you know that there are two Number 6?
24 Best Hotels in Patong Beach
Patong Beach hotels come at many prices, sizes, and locations, so finding a hotel in Phuket that will please your budget and all your needs can be tricky. Many readers ask for our suggestions, but no hotel in Patong fits all.
Karlsson’s Restaurant and Steakhouse
It might be strange to recommend a steakhouse to travellers coming a long way to Thailand, but there comes a time when we crave a good old fashioned steak.
Pan Yaah Seaview Restaurant
Pan Yaah Seaview Restaurant on Patong Beach is a little gem you should reward yourself with if you choose to spend your holidays in Patong Beach, in a romantic place with a sea view, good food, not overly touristic.
La Gritta Restaurant
La Gritta Phuket is an Italian restaurant at Amari Phuket Resort, ranking high on our Most Romantic Restaurants in Phuket. It has a unique view of the entire Patong bay and is a perfect place for a romantic evening with a view.
Tri Trang Beach
Tri Trang Beach is just a few kilometres south of Patong Beach and is a superb and unsuspected haven of peace. There used to be a lot of confusion about the names of the four beaches around this peninsula.
Savoey Seafood Restaurant
Savoey Seafood Restaurant might not be the best seafood restaurant in Phuket, but if you don’t want to or can’t drive outside Patong beach and don’t feel like dining in a food court, it’s a good place for a seafood dinner.
Paradise Beach
Paradise Beach Phuket is just 4 kilometres from Patong Beach and consists of two small sandy bays with blue water, soft sand and coconut trees. You will find plenty of beach chairs, bars, restaurants, shops and massive parties on some nights.
Kaab Gluay Restaurant in Patong Beach
Kaab Gluay is one of the few authentic local Thai restaurants in Patong Beach. The food is delicious and well priced, and the staff is always amiable.
Inside Phuket Go Go Bars – What Really Happens in a Go Go Bar?
Go Go Bars always feature a central elevated stage or two, surrounded by seats and accessorised with a few stainless poles. You will find sofas with small tables and flashing colour lights all around the room,
Holiday Inn Resort Phuket
Holiday Inn Resort Phuket is an excellent hotel to get the best of many sides of Patong Beach: easy access to the beach across the street, shopping, dining and, of course, the famous nightlife.
The Kee Resort and Spa
The Kee Resort is probably one of the best-located hotels in Patong Beach if you want to be in the heart of the renowned Bangla Walking Street action. Its unique location at the end of Soi Seadragon makes it the perfect place for guests who plan to be on the beach during the day and party at night.
Novotel Phuket Resort
Novotel Phuket Resort at the northern end of Patong Beach offers sea views, which not many hotels in Patong can afford. The hotel is designed with typical Thai roofs over an imposing lobby, palm trees and greenery everywhere around three huge cascading pools.
Kalima Resort & Spa Phuket
Kalima Resort Phuket is a hotel with amazing panoramic views of the immense bay of Patong Beach, built on a green hill near Kalim Beach in Phuket.
Amari Phuket
Amari Phuket is a resort with a unique location on Patong Beach. The hotel has a private beach, a fantastic view of the entire bay, and most rooms face the sea! This 5-star resort is at the southern end of Patong past the bridge, making it the perfect hotel if you want to enjoy the best of both worlds
10 Ways to Spot Ladyboys in Phuket
Ladyboys in Phuket are often so pretty that you would be unable to tell. Is that lady you are chatting with on Bangla Walking Street, not a bit too good to be true? Tall, slim, pretty and very sexy: indeed, she’s a ladyboy!
Suzy Wong’s 2 – Devil’s Playground A Go Go (HOT)
Devil’s Playground is brought to you by the owner of the famous Suzy Wong’s in the same Seadragon street. Devil’s Playground, now also known as Suzy Wong’s 2, ‘raised the bar’ of Go Go clubs to a new level.
Banzaan Market in Patong Beach
Banzaan Market in Patong Beach is an excellent experience during your holiday. It’s easier to access than most local markets since it is just behind the gigantic Jungceylon Shopping Mall.
Where to Party in Phuket?
Where to Party in Phuket? Of course, we know that everyone expects something different, but everyone wants to have fun after dinner and get and see the best of Phuket’s nightlife in a minimum amount of time!
Soi Seadragon – HOT Bangla Road – Phuket Nightlife
Soi Seadragon got a major facelift and is no longer this dark old-fashioned alley that reminds a bit of Patpong in Bangkok. Now with two levels, a centrally located DJ booth and some pretty flashy light effects, it looks more like an oversized club.