The SIS Kata (which means Stay In Style) is a 4-star hotel with 124 rooms and suites, an immense rooftop swimming pool, and a restaurant overlooking the south of Kata Beach on the west coast of Phuket Island. The hotel is very popular with modern rooms and well-designed facilities at a very affordable rate.
Intercontinental Phuket Resort is one of the most exclusive hotels in Phuket, with an enviable location on the beach of Kamala and a unique architecture selfie and Instagram enthusiasts will love.
Jaras is an exclusive restaurant serving superbly presented modern Thai Cuisine near the beach at the Intercontinental Phuket Resort in Kamala Beach. The restaurant is listed in the Michelin Guide, and our dining experience confirmed that the listing is fully justified.
Here is our list of all the best of everything in Phuket to help you make the best of your next trip: things to do, where to go, where and what to eat, where to stay and what to know. Browse the list of all the ‘Best of Phuket’ pages we built over the years!
Here is the full list of the Phuket hotels and resorts we have stayed at and reviewed in the past 15 years. We only recommend hotels we fully enjoyed. We try to cover luxury hotels, budget places, and everything in between. We paid for our stay in the vast majority, allowing us to be true to our choices.
Hotel Verdigris is an amazing gem with a great location on Yaowarat Road in Old Phuket Town. The hotel is small and intimate, designed with passion by the young owner around the story of Martina Rozells, an important but mysterious personality of Phuket in the 18th century.
Planning your trip to Phuket is, of course, optional. You could just book a flight and a hotel for the first night and take it from here. However, it can help you make the best of your time and budget to look at the huge amount of opportunities, especially if you travel as a family! We made it simple and illustrated with tons of photos to help you get the big picture.
The Selfie Experience is a new photo playground in Phuket, covering 3,000 m2 indoors with more than 40 backgrounds to play with, a fun way for families, friends and selfie lovers to spend a fun day away from the heat or an occasional rainy day.
La Trattoria is a well-known restaurant in the Dusit Thani Phuket on the popular Bang Tao Beach in Cherngtalay. Outside guests frequently come to La Trattoria for dinner in the spacious and beautiful white restaurant.
Bang Tao Beach is blessed with a surprisingly vast amount of restaurants, from modest roadside venues to beach restaurants and high-end cuisine. We visited quite a few and keep exploring.
L’Arôme by the Sea Phuket is a contemporary French restaurant serving modern cuisine over Kalim Beach, with amazing views of the Andaman Sea, without a doubt one of the best restaurants in Phuket.
Andamanda Phuket is a massive water park spanning an impressive 100,000 sq.m! This massive park features 25 attractions, including many impressive waterslides, a 10,000 sq.m. swimming area with artificial waves and the longest lazy river in southeast Asia.
Ploenchit is an ever-growing and fast-changing neighbourhood in Bangkok that stretches from Sukhumvit to the Siam areas. Ploenchit was a rather anonymous part of Bangkok for a long time
The Mustang Blu is an old renovated building with a flat iron shape that was originally built as a bank in the late 1800s just… Read More »The Mustang Blu Bangkok – Hotel and Cafe
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ROOF Pudding and Cafe is a popular coffee shop on Yaowarat Road, one of the historical streets of Phuket Old Town. Set in a renovated shophouse in a mix of contemporary and old Sino Portuguese style, the coffee shop serves excellent coffee and non-alcoholic cocktails.
A Michelin Star Restaurant in Ploenchit Saneh Jaan is an upmarket Thai restaurant in Ploenchit with one Michelin Star, located on Wireless Road, just between… Read More »Saneh Jaan Restaurant Bangkok
REBEL Rock Climbing is an impressive 3-story, 700 sqm indoor set of walls to ascend. Everyone, from kids to adults, from beginners to very advanced, can practice their skills on top-rope walls, boulder walls
TAKÉ (pronounced ‘takeh’) is an excellent Japanese restaurant often recommended by the Japanese expat community of Phuket, which is quite a statement.
Ska Bar is a small but iconic Reggae bar built in the shade of an immense tree, right on the beach in Kata. This unique setting makes it a perfect spot to end your day on the beach, even if you are not a Reggae fan.
