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Region: Southern Thailand> Province: Trang> Location: Ko Libong
Libong Beach Resort
Good friendly place
Ko Libong
Trang Province
Tel: (081) 477 8609
Description
Libong Beach Resort is located on a lovely white sand beach with just a few rocks. The beach is the perfect spot for the daily stunning sunset. The resort is a good place with a friendly, family like atmosphere. The staff can organise snorkeling trips to other islands and jet ski hire. There is also a SCUBA centre.
Total rooms: 22
Dbl fan private b'room
700 THB (low season)
700 THB (high season)
500 with no ocean view
Bungalow fan private b'room
1,000 THB (low season)
1,000 THB (high season)
Bungalow A/C private b'room
1,200 THB (low season)
1,200 THB (high season)
Added to Travelfish on: 14th October, 2003
Last visited or updated on: 1st February, 2007
Guest feedback
An excellent place - 
By tezza ( total comments: 21 
) Stayed here 4/2006
The northern part of Ko Libong is mountainous, covered with rainforest and has some really nice beaches. Ko Libong Beach Resort has one of these all to itself, facing westward with excellent sunsets and views of Kos Nok Rok, Kradan, Muk, Ngai, and even mountainous Lanta way up to the north.
That popular guidebook describes this as a mid range resort, and the elevated beachfront 1000 and 1200 bungalows (fan v aircon) looked very nice indeed. But up the back, across a small creek in a nice garden setting they have some really great value 300 baht A frame chalet style bungalows with attached cement and tile bathrooms (and a separate bathroom block behind). I think these were built for Thai families because they have TWO double beds and SQUAT TOILETS. The latter may be a turnoff to some, but I know it does not faze lots of budget travelers, particularly if the price is right, and this was very right.
The bungalow itself was in good condition, clean, had a nice verandah , plenty of room for two people and their gear - even four western people and their stuff would not be too sqeeezy. It came with 2 towels, soap, toilet paper, comp. water, a broom, a big mirror in the sleeping area but none in the bathroom. The bathroom shower was a gusher, which is great after the trickle you get from many cheaper places. There were not a lot of hooks, lines or shelves to put stuff, although the mirror was set in one of those small modular vanity tables. They also showed me their 500 baht fan bungalows - these were set in kind of duplex 50s motel -style blocks, twin beds, western toilets, closer to the restaurant and beach (but the 300s were only 100m from each) - but frankly there was no comparison value-wise.
The open plan style restaurant was set up near the beach, but the profusion of trees cut down the views a fair bit Food was good in quality and variety of choice, the service quick and friendly and the prices mostly towards the lower end of all the bungalows I visited. A large Chang was 70, soft drinks 15 and the curries in the 70 range before rice. Grounds were spotless as was the beachfront. There was a good selection of hammocks and beach furniture under the beachfront trees. It was possible to swim in most places along the beach even a lowest tide and at highest tide there was still a good strip of sand left. Some fairly good coral outcrops made snorkeling off the beach interesting. There is a dive school, snorkeling trips to Kradan, Muk and the wonderful Emerald Cave are offered, you can hire motorcycles, but frankly, this is the perfect place to just sit back, relax, swim, tan and shade it out. Thankfully for the peace and quiet, those jet skis Travelfish mentions looked like they had been out of use for quite some time. BTW, longtail boat noise, the bane of many resorts, is not an issue - there is a small fishing village about 500 m to the south around the corner of the beach, but shallow water between it and the resort forces those noisy things out around a small islet so that they are a long way offshore when passing. This is my favourite Trang island place. Compared to Ko Muk Resort (good value), Ko Hai Resort (pretty nice), I thought Libong Resort consididerably better. One other consideration is ease of access - you can get hourly minibuses down from Trang to Hat Yao, catch one of the frequent water taxis out to the main island village, and a motorcylce taxi across to the resort just about anytime during daylight, which beats the expensive one boat a day to some other islands. In my value for money ratings I give the 300 bungalows 8.5/10, food 8.5, location 8.5, staff 8 and grounds/landscaping 8. The overall impression was so nice I rate it overall closer to 9.
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