PANWA BEACH (Kao Khad Beach) ⛱️

The Beach Bar

The Beach Bar Phuket is a local restaurant half-hidden on Panwa Beach, away from most tourist crowds. Once a modest wooden shack, the restaurant grew in popularity and now displays a long row of tables and plastic chairs. Set on the east coast of Phuket, this fun restaurant is still mostly made of wood pillars with a thatched roof placed on the beach.

Location: Panwa Beach
Address: 19, 5/16-19 Soi Ao-Yon Khaokhad, Panwa Beach
Open: 10 am – 10 pm (Only open during high season, from October)
Phone: 088 260 2588

The Cove

For a more sophisticated lunch or dinner (but still casual), drive a kilometre further down the coast, stop at the excellent The Cove, and enjoy a surprisingly great menu while sitting at tables by the sea!

Location: Ao Yon Beach
Address: 8/1, Wichit, Muang, Phuket 83000
Open: 7:30 am – 9.30 pm
Phone: 062 242 3442
Price: Moderate
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thecovepuket/

Panwa House

Panwa House is a white Sino Portuguese restaurant surrounded by palm trees, right on the secluded beach of the Cape Panwa Hotel on the east coast of Phuket. This house has been a Phuket icon for years, even appearing in movies or TV series.

Location: Cape Panwa
Address: 27, Mu 8, Sakdidej Road, Cape Panwa, Phuket 83000
Tel: 02 233 3433
Open: 6:30 pm – 11 pm (except Mondays)

Baba Hot Box BBQ

The quality of the meat, the cool equipment used to cook and smoke it to perfection, and the chef’s skills make this a treat. Probably one of the best steak experiences on the island.

Location: Cape Panwa
Address: 88 Sakdidej Rd, Vichit Muang Chang Wat Phuket 83000
Phone: 076 371 000
Open: 24 hours
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SripanwaPhuket/

The Beaches

There are more than two beaches in the Panwa area. The one most people call Panwa Beach is Khao Kad Beach. The seabed is covered with dead coral, so it is not a great beach for swimming. Further south, The Cape Panwa Beach is a lot nicer, and many people don’t even know it exists because the beach access is only reserved for the guests of the Cape Panwa Hotel.

Shopping and Massage

There is not much to do on Panwa but enjoy the tranquillity of such a unique hidden spot. You can sit at a beach table and enjoy reading, order drinks, food and some excellent tropical fruits. Then you can have a beach massage at one of the bamboo huts! This is quite unique as it is tranquil and feels like Phuket twenty years ago!

Ao Yon Beach

Ao Yon is a small hidden cove where you can swim all year round. It now has a few restaurants and a few small beach clubs.

Khao Kat View Tower

Khao Kat Views Tower or ‘Panwa Viewpoint’ (or ) offers an amazing 360˙ view of the southeast part of Phuket and the islands around. It’s very isolated, and despite some investments to attract tourists, it may be too remote to ever become popular.

Phuket Aquarium

Go further south and stop for a short visit to the Phuket Aquarium and its small glass tunnel. This aquarium may not be as big as the new Aquaria at Central Floresta Phuket, but this is a Phuket Marine Biological Center dedicated to rescuing dolphins, dugongs and turtles often found in distress around Phuket.

Baba Nest Rooftop

Baba Nest at Sri Panwa Hotel is the ultimate rooftop bar in Phuket. It is built high above Phuket Aquarium on the remote Cape Panwa, southeast of Phuket Island. It’s far, hard to find, hard to book as you can expect a two weeks waiting list to get a reservation, but it’s worth it.

Location: Cape Panwa
Address: 88 Sakdidej Rd, Vichit Muang Chang Wat Phuket 83000
Phone: 076 371 000
Open: 24 hours
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SripanwaPhuket/

Cape Panwa

Cape Panwa Hotel is a long-established resort with a classic design in a very enviable location and a superb private beach. The hotel has more than 200 rooms, beautiful pool villas, 7 restaurants, an old Sino-Portuguese house hosting a restaurant by the beach, and a funicular to easily go and down the hillside.

Sri Panwa

Sri Panwa is one of Phuket’s most amazing and exclusive hotels. Everyone we know heard of it, but not many actually stayed there, and we finally did. This resort is built on the remote Cape Panwa hillside and is best known for its incredible rooftop bar called Baba Nest.

Location: Cape Panwa
Address: 88 Sakdidej Rd, Vichit Muang Chang Wat Phuket 83000
Phone: 076 371 000
Range: 5-star
Swimming pools: 3
Restaurants and bars: 6
Distance to the closest beach: just a small private beach

Pullman Phuket Panwa Beach

Pullman Phuket Panwa Beach Resort is a vast hotel with 211 rooms, including 29 Villas with private pools, on its own vast but non-swimmable beach.

Crowne Plaza Phuket Panwa Beach