Hi all, I am just seeking some local knowledge please. It you guys were to stay for 5 nights in phuket which resort would you choose? I am after some life, not too quiet. I am considering the back of patong towards the mountains and away from the beach, would this be a good choice or would you avoid patong altogether? Any help would be most grateful

You might as well  ask 'how long is a piece of string'

 

Need to know a bit more about your expectations ... thank you

Sure, sorry for the vague info. After a fairly quiet day time, coffee, read the papers a bit of beach time, a few quiet beers at tea time then a fair bit of life in the evening, but need  accommodation to be out of the way of racket. Thanks

OP, you seem to know Patong quite well.  Stay in Patong as anywhere else is just a small part of Patong.

Budget ?? Hotel standard ??  

Budget hotel

I did know phuket about 20 years ago but have not been back since, I'm sure its changed massively

28 minutes ago, liveforever said:

Budget hotel

 

So not a 'resort' as asked. Now a guesthouse ? What sort of price ? Plenty plenty along Nanai Road for as low as 500 baht these days.

25 minutes ago, liveforever said:

I did know phuket about 20 years ago but have not been back since, I'm sure its changed massively

 

You are correct.  I arrived 22 year ago. Many changes in Patong. I've seen small shacks demolished, 2 floor building erected, demolished, 4 floor building erected, and so the circus continues. I left living in Patong to living in Kata 12 years ago. 

Most posters here don't stay in hotels and resorts in Phuket. You are better looking at Tripadvisor or the review pages of the big online booking sites such as Booking.com or Hotels.com. They generally have a map view so you can limit your choices to the exact area you wish to stay in.

 

 

Basically looking at small hotels up to around 2000B. By resort I meant 'town', sorry for the confusion. Cheers

5 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

 

So not a 'resort' as asked. Now a guesthouse ? What sort of price ? Plenty plenty along Nanai Road for as low as 500 baht these days.

 

In the original poster’s defence:

It is only relatively recently that the word resort has been highjacked and adopted by the hotel industry in an attempt to make their hotel sound like it’s something more or different than a mere, ordinary hotel. I doubt you’ll find the word defined in this sense in any dictionary.

 

The poster’s use of the word to describe a tourist town or area is quite correct.

Look up "Palm View Resort". Clean, friendly staff, pool, next to entry of Nanai Soi 2. Quite a few places for draft beer near to it. Should be compatible to your budget.

Many thanks hkt, that's a good start for me. I have been looking on the usual sites but first hand knowledge is the best that's really why I started the post regarding which area of phuket people had opinions on. Like I say its been a while since I was in the area and kata is where I spent most of my time but that was 20 years back. I fancied patong this time but not the central area. Cheers

7 hours ago, hkt83100 said:

Look up "Palm View Resort". Clean, friendly staff, pool, next to entry of Nanai Soi 2. Quite a few places for draft beer near to it. Should be compatible to your budget.

 

I second that. Well managed small scale resort.  Little bit further out I recommend the Sun Hill Resort. 

3 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

Little bit further out I recommend the Sun Hill Resort. 

Same owner...

Nice 1, cheers guys

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21 hours ago, liveforever said:

Budget hotel

There is no such thing as a Resort  that is a budget hotel in Patong.

You get what you pay for and a budget of less than 3000 baht a night won't get you quality.

 

5 hours ago, hkt83100 said:

Same owner...

 

Not exactly correct. Sun Hill has 2 partners, one manages the Sun Hill. The other is the sole owner and manager of the Palm View. Both manage their respective resort with the usual German efficiency.

6 hours ago, geriatrickid said:

You get what you pay for and a budget of less than 3000 baht a night won't get you quality.

 

It depends on your definition of quality. There are plenty of (what I would consider) quality hotels for up to 2,000 baht a night. 

When i worked for Planet holiday ( now agoda)  we used this to keep people from saying they had a "resort" ....Resort has at least 1 full size swimming pool, at least 2 restaurants, a business center, grounds on property to walk around and relax, prehaps a Gym and or Spa.

if not, than its not a resort but a hotel

8 minutes ago, phuketrichard said:

When i worked for Planet holiday ( now agoda)  we used this to keep people from saying they had a "resort" ....Resort has at least 1 full size swimming pool, at least 2 restaurants, a business center, grounds on property to walk around and relax, prehaps a Gym and or Spa.

if not, than its not a resort but a hotel

Bit like calling a house a "villa".

If it doesn't have a courtyard, it ain't a villa.

1 hour ago, phuketrichard said:

When i worked for Planet holiday ( now agoda)  we used this to keep people from saying they had a "resort" ....Resort has at least 1 full size swimming pool, at least 2 restaurants, a business center, grounds on property to walk around and relax, prehaps a Gym and or Spa.

if not, than its not a resort but a hotel

 

Here in Thailand anywhere with a pool, bar, and restaurant is billed as a 'resort'. A basic guesthouse is billed as a 'hotel'. A flop is called a 'Hostel'. 

48 minutes ago, LivinginKata said:

 

Here in Thailand anywhere with a pool, bar, and restaurant is billed as a 'resort'. A basic guesthouse is billed as a 'hotel'. A flop is called a 'Hostel'. 

Motels are also billed as 'resorts' here in Thailand - and they seldom have swimming pools or a bar.

 

There are tons of these 'resorts' up and down the country. The average price being 600 baht a night. Decent quality too.

 

2 hours ago, Timbob said:

Motels are also billed as 'resorts' here in Thailand - and they seldom have swimming pools or a bar.

 

There are tons of these 'resorts' up and down the country. The average price being 600 baht a night. Decent quality too.

 

 

Can't say I have ever come across a 'Motel' in southern Thailand over the last 22 years of longer distance driving. Maybe have these days as I fly these last few years. 

29 minutes ago, LivinginKata said:

 

Can't say I have ever come across a 'Motel' in southern Thailand over the last 22 years of longer distance driving. Maybe have these days as I fly these last few years. 

As I said, they are not called 'motels' here. They are (as far as I'm aware) called 'resorts' and yes, there are many. I'm very surprised you haven't seen them. You must call them something different if you haven't seen any in 22 years.

 

When we drove from Hat Yai to Chiang Mai (and back) we stayed in these 'resorts' in Hat Yai, Chumphon, Cha-am, Kanchanaburi, Nakhon Sawan, Tak, and Lampang. They were not hard to find.

17 minutes ago, Timbob said:

As I said, they are not called 'motels' here. They are (as far as I'm aware) called 'resorts' and yes, there are many. I'm very surprised you haven't seen them. You must call them something different if you haven't seen any in 22 years.

 

When we drove from Hat Yai to Chiang Mai (and back) we stayed in these 'resorts' in Hat Yai, Chumphon, Cha-am, Kanchanaburi, Nakhon Sawan, Tak, and Lampang. They were not hard to find.

 

Oh right ... I thought you meant a real US style motel. I have driven from Phuket to Bangkok or  Cha-am and back numerous times over the years. I have never noticed a nice place to stop on the main highway in all those years. We have to drive way way into Chumpon town to find a half decent place to overnight.  Forget the main highway. Although that might have improved these last 5 years since I stopped driving and now fly .....   

5 minutes ago, LivinginKata said:

 

Oh right ... I thought you meant a real US style motel. I have driven from Phuket to Bangkok or  Cha-am and back numerous times over the years. I have never noticed a nice place to stop on the main highway in all those years. We have to drive way way into Chumpon town to find a half decent place to overnight.  Forget the main highway. Although that might have improved these last 5 years since I stopped driving and now fly .....   

Yeah, sorry.... not your typical US style motel. But still places that are not far from a main road that you pull into a park up by your chalet. By definition a motel or sorts, but not what immediately springs to mind when one thinks 'motel'.

 

The only substandard 'resort' we stayed in was in Cha-am, right off the main road near a McDonalds. It was a bit a of a dump. The one in Chumphon wasn't much better - that too was in the town centre and the only one we needed to look up for online. If I recall it was called 'I Love You Resort'. It seemed like the sort of place that accepted short term bookings, if you catch my drift. But all the others were just fine and I'd happily stay in them again. 

8 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

Bit like calling a house a "villa".

If it doesn't have a courtyard, it ain't a villa.

In Aust a house has a freehold title to the land it sits on, A Villa is part of a group development on a area of land which has common property belonging to all the house/villa owners and a special green title i think its called which gives the house owners exclusive use and control of their own air space of their villa and garden

They have a corporate body usually voted in by the joint owners into which they pay a annual fee to cover the costs of managing and running the jointly owned property

Retirement villas sold exclusively to people over 55 usually by developers who keep control of the corporate body and set the annual fees and set  restrictions on the selling of these villas and includes a percentage of any capital gains being paid to them is a scam that goes on in WA for sure, only a mug would by one

One one in their right mind calls a house a villa in Australia including Agents and its nothing to do with a house or villa having a courtyard   

47 minutes ago, madmax2 said:

In Aust a house has a freehold title to the land it sits on, A Villa is part of a group development on a area of land which has common property belonging to all the house/villa owners and a special green title i think its called which gives the house owners exclusive use and control of their own air space of their villa and garden

They have a corporate body usually voted in by the joint owners into which they pay a annual fee to cover the costs of managing and running the jointly owned property

Retirement villas sold exclusively to people over 55 usually by developers who keep control of the corporate body and set the annual fees and set  restrictions on the selling of these villas and includes a percentage of any capital gains being paid to them is a scam that goes on in WA for sure, only a mug would by one

One one in their right mind calls a house a villa in Australia including Agents and its nothing to do with a house or villa having a courtyard   

Look up the definition of a villa in the dictionary.