How is Ao Nang now for retirement?

[grumpyoldman]

On 6/28/2024 at 8:42 PM, simon43 said:

As an update, I moved from smoky Laos to temporarily stay in Pattaya while I sort out a few admin things (update bank card etc).  The offer from my wife is still on, but I have had another offer to rent a detached house on Koh Lanta for 6,000 baht. Weighing up the 2 houses, the Lanta one is preferred because it has a garden for my radio antennas. I also have a 6,000 house in Khanom right near to the beach. My suitcases are in Khanom right now and the beach is lovely, but I'd like to do some snorkelling/coral reef visits in my dotage and Khanom beach has none of that.  Coral reefs are more accessible from Ao Nang and Lanta.

 

Anyway, since moving south from Laos to be by the sea, my bronchitis has gone, my coughing and phlegm have gone and I have no need for daily anti-hystamine and mucus thinner medicines :).  Pattaya is not a preferred long-term base for me (cheap condos, hanging 10 meter antenna poles out of the windows upsets the locals!).

Lo and behold, you remove the air particulates, shazaaam, all that disappears.

 

Just had some friends return from Patters, they had a great time. A best buddy's wife had passed away a year earlier, a year of melancholy and then I think Pattaya was a good cure for the guy.

 

I love Koh Lanta, not as much in the low season. Lots of places closed up as they take the brunt of the monsoon winds, but rest of the year, Lanta is great.

[kuma]

On 6/2/2024 at 2:32 AM, Hummin said:

I guess it is free housing? 

 

Ao Nang I lived before it got to well known, and dropped by once or twice a year the last 7 years. Its okay and a place I could live. Never found that air as bad as Isaan or North.

 

And as you say, if you get sick, your x will be there. I think it is a good solution

Really like Ao Nang the few times we have been there to visit. Have some agents showing me the condos in the area///there certainly are not many at all compared to your phukets, pattayas, hua hins etc....wonder why it is the market there is so small? something keeps people from wanting to buy there? (Thai and foreign)?

[it is what it is]

On 5/7/2024 at 8:04 AM, marin said:

Ao Nang did not impress me at all. Just a Thai beach town full of travellers and cheap restaurants that are basically all alike. Hard to find a simple Thai restaurant.  If it was Krabi town a solid yes, but Ao nang is run down and simply dirty.

 

Ao nang is run down and simply dirty.

 

no it's not.

[Hammerheads]

Is there anyone in this post who lives in Ao Nang and would recommend it? I currently live in Bath, UK. It is full of tourists and, quite frankly, it's brilliant having them here. I'm not interested in anyone moaning about petty things that you can find almost anywhere. 

[Hammerheads]

On 5/7/2024 at 8:04 AM, marin said:

Ao Nang did not impress me at all. Just a Thai beach town full of travellers and cheap restaurants that are basically all alike. Hard to find a simple Thai restaurant.  If it was Krabi town a solid yes, but Ao nang is run down and simply dirty.

You may wish to visit Wangsai Seafood restaurant next time. The food is wonderful and the view is beautiful. Sometimes you have to go a little off the beaten track to find the gems.