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Region: Eastern Thailand> Province: Trat> Location: Ko Maak
Sunset
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Southern Point, Ko Mak
Trat Province
Description
Sunset is one of those places that you either love or hate. It has a typical traveller vibe and sees many of the same faces each year who come back for the laid back lifestyle which is mainly made up of hanging about in hammocks. There's no sand here as such as its located on a rocky headland, but your only minutes walk to nearby beaches. Occasional parties see many locals gathering to provide a truly unique Ko Maak event where drinking, dancing and bongo's feature heavily!
Bungalow fan share b'room
200 THB (low season)
200 THB (high season)
Bungalow fan private b'room
400 THB (low season)
400 THB (high season)
Added to Travelfish on: 30th July, 2007
Last visited or updated on: 30th July, 2007
Guest feedback
Laid -back and rustic - 
By tezza ( total comments: 21 
) Stayed here 2/2008
Sunset has maybe a dozen bungalows split between 450B with bathroom and 250B without, the majority with direct or tree-interrupted ocean views. The restaurant is built on a small headland with similar views and eschews the normal tables and chairs for multi-level sitting platforms and picnic-like benches. Food quality was good, with prices at the low end of normal budget levels, service friendly and fast. Just outside the restaurant is a short pier with a sitting platform at the end. There is another raised pergola type platform 30m to the south, but the access wooden walkway was badly weathered so most of us spent time at the end of the pier. Nice place around sunset. Good mix of long-time Thai travellers with great stories. I bargained a 450B bungalow down to 400B -- a wood and thatch roof job with intricate bamboo lining and tiled floor inside which must have looked special when new but was getting a bit tatty. Big king-sized bed with enough room for three adults, thin Thai-type mattress and thin pillows which I didn’t find particularly uncomfortable. Plenty of bungalow room for two plus gear - squeezy for three. No mosquito net but screens in very good condition. Big concrete and tile bathroom, wash basin, towels, good water pressure but no mirror. No interior waste bin, no soap, no toilet paper. No hammock or chairs on balcony. Grounds pretty clean, bungalows not too closely spaced. The 250B bungalows must have been built first because they seemed to have the best views.
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