New website shows beachfront hotels that really are on the beach

Is that hotel really on the beach? According to John Everingham, you're more likely to find a true beachfront hotel on Koh Samui than anywhere else in the world

'Among the sandy statistics, Thailand shines, but Australia slumps.

"Koh Samui has over 230 qualified hotels, making it the single 'biggest' true beachfront destination in the world," Everingham says.

"Australia, which has vast coastlines, fares very poorly in the 'true beachfront' stakes, because roads were built right along most of its famous beaches long ago."

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Edited February 4, 201115 yr by churchill

that seems pretty high for such a small island but i'm not going out to count them myself...

Direct access points to any of the main beaches on Samui are rare, so I guess the numbers don't suprise me.

I have perfected that arrogant 'I am a paying guest here' look as I saunter through a hotel to get to the sea!!

The absolute majority of guests stay in resorts directly on a beach and therefore don't walk through a another hotel to get to the beach.

Secondly, working in the business since over 2 decades I have not heard of one tourist saying that.

and thirdly, why care? maybe a future customer? or not?

i have never been stopped or queston once when walking through a hotel to the beach

i have never been stopped or queston once when walking through a hotel to the beach

Try Tongsai bay.

i have never been stopped or queston once when walking through a hotel to the beach

Try Tongsai bay.

Is that where the Ursula Undress scene was filmed?

Is that where the Ursula Undress scene was filmed?

Naughty boy.

Unless it was a Freudian slip and you meant Ursula Andress.

Is that where the Ursula Undress scene was filmed?

Naughty boy.

Unless it was a Freudian slip and you meant Ursula Andress.

Go on though straight up...where was that scene filmed?

Go on though straight up...where was that scene filmed?

It is the famous "Dunns River Falls" in the background, a popular tourist destination in Jamaica.

Go on though straight up...where was that scene filmed?

It is the famous "Dunns River Falls" in the background, a popular tourist destination in Jamaica.

The memory has brightened my morning.....thanks.

i have never been stopped or queston once when walking through a hotel to the beach

Try Tongsai bay.

you can swim to Tongsai Bay and then sunbath there disguised as a beach chair

The guy has worked in Oz and Asia.....maybe he should broaden his horizons befor making such statements and visit Europe, South America or the Caribbean

i have never been stopped or queston once when walking through a hotel to the beach

Try Tongsai bay.

Never been stopped, just wave at the entrance guards and take a golf cart at the lobby down to the beach, swimming pool, restaurant area.

LaoPo

i have never been stopped or queston once when walking through a hotel to the beach

Try Tongsai bay.

Never been stopped, just wave at the entrance guards and take a golf cart at the lobby down to the beach, swimming pool, restaurant area.

LaoPo

Edited February 5, 201115 yr by PoorSucker

i have never been stopped or queston once when walking through a hotel to the beach

Try Tongsai bay.

Never been stopped, just wave at the entrance guards and take a golf cart at the lobby down to the beach, swimming pool, restaurant area.

LaoPo

Was thinking much the same. Visited the place a few times and clambered on the rocks on the beach.

you can have as many beach front hotels as you like but surley you need a decent beach and water to be in front of them which samui is lacking big time.

you can have as many beach front hotels as you like but surley you need a decent beach and water to be in front of them which samui is lacking big time.

What a <deleted> clueless comment.

you can have as many beach front hotels as you like but surley you need a decent beach and water to be in front of them which samui is lacking big time.

*scratches u.s. eastern seaboard off of beach front list...