Lamai Beach
Guesthouses, hotels and resorts
Northern Lamai Beach
Starting from Jungle Park and heading south to Sand Sea, the beach is not the best Lamai has to offer as it's mostly mudflats at low tide and has a boat breakwater built halfway along its length, in front of Spa Samui. The beach though is fine for sunbathing and it's not too far to walk down to the better swimming area. Just to the south of Sand Sea fresh water from the inland empties out to sea -- after heavy rain this swirling torrent of brown water carrying with it all manner of flotsam spoils the beach for swimming for large stretches of the northern portion of Lamai beach. Some very popular budget places call this stretch of the beach home, and while there are some fair mid-range options, the top end is sorely lacking.
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Lamai Resort
Getting flasher
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 124;Lamai Resort is in the process of replacing their older wooden bungalows with solid, pastel coloured concrete bungalows with air-con. The new bungalows are comfortable and well appointed right on the ... View details
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Beer's House Beach Bungalows
Difficult to fault - a great budget option
161/4 Moo 4 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 230 467;Beer's has excellent value beachside budget bungalows, which, while very close together are well appointed right on the beach. The well-shaded front row has good balconies with ample space for a ... View details
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Jungle Park Beach
A good midrange option
176 Moo 4 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 418 034-36; F: (077) 424 110More or less at the northernmost tip of Lamai Beach, Jungle Park has good, clean bungalows with a choice of beach, pool or garden view. A menagerie of animals and birds call this place home, though ... View details
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Sand Sea Resort
Pebble-encrusted, heart-shaped baths
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 231 126; F: (077) 424 415Set on a good stretch of Lamai, Sand Sea Resort has some very large, pink beachfront bungalows with open-air bathrooms boasting pebble-encrusted, heart-shaped baths from which you can survey all the ... View details
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Surat Palm Resort
Great for beach surveying
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
This small bungalow operation has a dozen or so wooden bungalows, all fan-cooled with shower. The smaller huts are a bit older, but particularly if you're travelling by yourself, they aren't bad ... View details
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Long Island Resort
Shady and relaxed
146/24 Moo 4 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 418 456; F: (077) 424 023At this end of Lamai, the beach is reduced to mudflats at low tide, but Long Island has a pool and lovely massage sala that more than makes up for the poor swimming. The grounds are shade-cool and ... View details
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Wish Bungalow
A sleepy, family-run place
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
If Beer's next door is full, Wish is a reasonable second choice, with similar bungalows equally close together but a tad smaller than Beers. The restaurant isn't as welcoming but the family is ... View details
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New Hut
A very popular traveller's haunt
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (089) 729 8489;The long-running and misnamed New Hut is old but still great value. They have basic A-frame huts with share bathroom on offer and for the price you can't really complain even though the share ... View details
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No Name
Couldn't see a room, but loooks ok
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
It can be a real pain to find the staff here, but the bungalows seem cute and comfortable, attracting a mix of Thai and farangs. Despite visiting three times, we weren't able to find someone who ... View details
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Spa Samui Resort
The original Samui health spa
Box #1 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 230 855; F: (077) 424 126The original health spa retreat on Ko Samui now has a second branch up in the hills behind the beach, and for fasters, that's the better choice as it is quieter and doesn't have the distractions of ... View details
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Weekender Villa Beach Resort
Very clean with a small pool
146/1 Moo 4 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 116; F: (077) 424 116Weekender Villa has two rows of free-standing bungalows running back from the comfortable restaurant to the main road. There's a pleasing, beachside decking area with a plunge pool by the beach and ... View details
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Rose Garden Bungalows
If only they loved the huts as they do the grounds
146/2 Moo 4 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 115; F: (077) 424 410Rose Garden has a mix of air-con and fan-cooled bungalows, both ageing though the air-con ones are faring a little better. The former are old-style wooden huts with linoleum covered floors, ... View details
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Under 600B Central Lamai
Central Lamai stretches from Samui Laguna to Mira Mare, and is home to great swimming and sunbathing, with some of Lamai's finest sand, though it's still a lot grainier than Chaweng. This is where you'll find most of Lamai's top-end places, along with a smattering of budget and mid-range options. Most places are noise-affected in the evening, to various degrees so try to get a room as close to the beach as possible.
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Samui Jasmine Resort
Very new and excellent standards
131/8 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 232 446; F: (077) 232 450Samui Jasmine is a welcome addition to the Lamai accommodation scene and what a fine option it is. The rather expensive villas are duplex and spacious inside with tasteful furnishings and terrific ... View details
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Lamai Wanta
Outstanding value
124/264 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 550; F: (077) 424 218For the money, Lamai Wanta represents excellent value for money in a very central location on Lamai Beach. If you are willing to forego the beach view, the standard rooms, which are in a trio of two ... View details
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Coconut Beach
Classic Samui backpacker spot
124/22 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 209;This is a classic, old-style Samui backpacker choice. If you don't want frills but do want beachfront Coconut Beach is worth considering. The basic wooden huts have linoleum-covered floors, bucket ... View details
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Thai House Beach Resort
Modern Thai-style bungalows
131 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 418 005; F: (077) 418 007This Thai-style resort has a bunch of charming, modern Thai-style bungalows set by a pool and overlooking a good stretch of Lamai. The rooms are spacious and spotless, although lack exceptional ... View details
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Utopia Bungalows
A long-running, good-value spot
124/105 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 233 113-4; F: (077) 233 115Utopia Bungalows is a long-running, good-value spot with very friendly staff. Although most of the bungalows do not have a sea view, they are all well-sized, excepting the very rustic wooden huts, ... View details
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Weekender Resort and Hotel
Spacious lawn grounds
124/19 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 429; F: (077) 424 011The Weekender Resort has both duplex bungalows and hotel style rooms running down each side of a large grassy lawn. Rooms are adequate, particularly given the pool, but compared to some of the newer ... View details
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The Pavilion Boutique Resort
Pretension not class
124/24 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 420; F: (077) 424 029While the walk-in rates remain very high, asking for a discount will actually reap dividends for what are some pretty special, though wickedly overpriced bungalows. Plush and luxurious, the bungalows ... View details
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Mira Mare
A range of rooms
124/16 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 262; F: (077) 233 378Mira Mare has some newish off-the-beach aircon bungalows with comfy beds running back through the resort, along with older beachfront rooms. The fan rooms are towards the rear of the grounds, and ... View details
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The New Lamai Coconut Resort
An immaculate resort
124/4 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 232 169; F: (077) 232 169This immaculate resort has a stack of spacious bungalows, all with air-con and very clean hot water bathrooms. Wile most of the bungalows are not beachfront, they're angled in such a way that quite a ... View details
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Marina Villa
Well sized, not bad value
124 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 426; F: (077) 232 342Marina Villa has a selection of spacious bungalows and hotel-style rooms, with a restaurant and moderately sized, well positioned pool by the beach. Oddly, the bungalows are cheapest of their rooms. ... View details
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Southern Lamai
This is the quietest stretch of Lamai beach, with very grainy, rather yellow sand and occasionally quite big seas, but when the weather is calm the swimming is excellent. Towards the far-southern end of Lamai there are some fine backpacker options and at the very end of the beach there's some ok snorkelling.
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Rocky Resort
Secluded and immaculate
438/1 Moo 1 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 418 367;Located just around the headland from the southern end of Lamai Beach, Rocky Resort went through a substantial redevelopment in 2004 and the results are very impressive. The rooms, particularly the ... View details
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Rummana Boutique Resort
A well-executed affair
124/10 Moo 3, Lamai Beach. Ko Samui
T: (077) 418 418; F: (077) 424 028Built on what was once Nice Resorts 1 & 2, the Rummana is a well executed affair as long as you don't mind the somewhat maze like paths from reception down to the beach. While the chalets are packed ... View details
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Whitesands Bungalow
Backpacker beach-front shacks
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 298; F: (077) 424 556A throwback of Ko Samui's backpacker days, Whitesands has some cute little super-basic beachfront shacks (with share-bathroom) that are amongst the cheapest on Lamai and set right on the beach. Back ... View details
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Amity Bungalows
A mix of options, some good some bad
125 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 084;This was the first resort we ever stayed at on Ko Samui, over ten years ago. The 60B rustic wooden beachfront hut we once stayed in has been replaced by a 700B concrete mushroom with air-con but no ... View details
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Aloha Resort
Good for families
128 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 014-6; F: (077) 424 419This is a comfortable mid-range hotel, with the deluxe rooms on the upper floors having good views. All rooms have aircon, hot water, TV and mini-bar, and there is a good sized pool within the ... View details
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Sea Breeze Bungalows
A friendly family-run resort
124/3 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 258; F: Fax (077) 232 173This very friendly family-run resort has a range of rooms from charming old-style bungalows through to quite spacious and comfortable aircon chalets. The latter get more expensive the closer you get ... View details
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Sunrise Bungalow
Lamai Beach
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 433; F: (077) 424 057Very friendly Sunrise is nestled at the very southern end of Lamai Beach, with some pleasing snorkelling right off the shore. There's a mix of rooms, from creaking old wooden huts with fan and ... View details
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Bill Resort
A good mix of rooms
127 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 233 054; F: (077) 424 286This long-running resort has rooms ranging from barely adequate for those on a tight budget to large, air-con bungalows along with very tasteful and ideally-placed beachfront Thai-style chalets. The ... View details
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Golden Sand Beach Resort
Good family option
124/2 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 031-2; F: (077) 424 430Golden Sand has two rows of bungalows running from the hotel foyer down to the beach. On the southern side, deluxe bungalows have all-glass fronts so everyone walking down to the beach gets a good ... View details
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Thai Villa Resort and Spa
Amazingly overpriced
125 Moo 3 Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 297; F: (077) 424 300Concrete copies of a Thai-style house make these look a tad reminiscent of an avenue of Tudorian Thai villas. The garden view rooms are all two-storey but they are packed in close together and only ... View details
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Samui Park Resort
Walking distance from the rude rocks
Lamai Beach, Ko Samui
T: (077) 424 008-10; F: (077) 424 435Samui Park is standard flashpacker fare just around the headland from the southern end of Lamai beach. Rooms are mid-sized, and with their peeling wallpaper and fading bathrooms, they're showing ... View details
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Top accommodation by review
Samui Jasmine Resort
1 vote 131/8 Moo 3 Lamai Beach
Lamai Beach
T: (077) 232 446
F: (077) 232 450
Rummana Boutique Resort
1 vote 124/10 Moo 3
Lamai Beach
T: (077) 418 418
F: (077) 424 028
The New Lamai Coconut Resort
2 votes 124/4 Moo 3 Lamai Beach
Lamai Beach
T: (077) 232 169
F: (077) 232 169
Rocky Resort
1 votes 438/1 Moo 1 Lamai Beach
Lamai Beach
T: (077) 418 367
Lamai Wanta
2 votes 124/264 Moo 3 Lamai Beach
Lamai Beach
T: (077) 424 550
F: (077) 424 218
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