lama beach oily?dirty?

[Clive]

Good morning.
I will be travelling to Thailand early next year as a family and have already booked a place on lamai beach (can be cancelled) but reading reports on trip advisor there seem to be a number of posts stating that it can be oil pollution or simply dirty. I was wondering if this is so please as would like to stay somewhere picturesque where the children can swim in the sea.
Thank you so much

[evadgib]

A bigger danger in the first 3 months of the year are rip currents for unsuspecting swimmers on that coast. There's a least one area I can think of where pollution might be a problem but in general the beach is clean but viability in the sea can be quite cloudy. It improves a few hundred meters further south.

HTH

[Clive]

thats great.
thank you for your reply evadgib.....much appreciated
Clive