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Paradise Beach

This is one of the few privately owned beaches of Phuket and there is a charge for the pleasure of sitting on the beach.

I can attest to the no so easy terrain to and from the beach. The path is a steep and long walk, for a reasonably fit person, but you can take your motorbike down the hill if you think it will make it back to the top (most bikes will.)

I've had the pleasure of riding my old motorbike to this beach, down the hill was no problem, but the bike gave out on the way back and I can tell you, it's a long hard push to the top in full sun.

The beach is quite small and set in a rock amphitheatre surrounded by a forest of palm trees above and to the sides with a beautiful soft white sandy beach.

The owners have built an imposing café and other facilities on the beach, the food is good, (if a little expensive,) and the beer is cold.

Getting There:

Take a Tuk Tuk, Taxi or Motorbike or Motorbike rental, head north to the very end of Patong beach road (Thanon Taweewong) until you can go no further along the hilly and windy road. Now the fun starts as you make your descent!

What's there for the diver and snorkeller:

Reef: Yes.

Small rock and boulder dive with hard corals in a maximum depth of 14 metres and visibility at 10/15 metres. Currents are easy to moderate. Lots of fishing by local Thais has left fish stocks low and lead weight covered rocks. Good for a snorkel (rent gear at the café) or a try dive and sometimes used for divemaster training with access by long-tail boat from Patong beach.

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Scuba Dive Phuket Information - Patong Beach Resort.

Patong Beach is the main holiday resort on Phuket Island, much noted for it's nightlife, which is more on the risqué side of life than the other resorts of the island.

Patong is the up front, in your face, all drinking all dancing, Southern Thailand answer to the fleshpots of Bangkok and Pattaya, only on a smaller scale.

There are many hundreds of bars and massage parlours mostly concentrated around the main streets - Bangla Road and Rathu-Thid Road.

On the sometimes outrageous Heterosexual, but ‘She-male‘ filled Bangla Road, you will find scantily clad “Real Women” cruising the street, sitting on bar stools or dancing for business on the bar tops.

You will find the Gay & Lesbian bars on Rathu - Thid Road’s Soi Paradise. Just look up and head for the Royal paradise hotel.

All this should in no way stop the regular sun seeking holiday making couples from enjoying a holiday in Patong, as there is a lot more to the resort than prostitution. Here you will find some of the finest hotels and restaurants in the whole of Thailand, catering to all tastes, in a style that brings people back year after year. The prices are usually lower here than other Phuket holiday resorts.

Health Warning:

Phuket and Patong especially, has a Devil may care attitude that can get the better of some. HIV/AIDS and all other sexually transmitted diseases are rife here as in all Thai holiday areas. Possible life saving action should be taken when out and about drinking in the bars and nightclubs of Phuket. If you do find yourself in the company of a Thai working girl/boy the uses of Condoms is essential.

Please protect yourself as you would at home.

Tai Trang Beach

A little outside Patong proper, you'll find this long white sandy beach that has all the ingredients of a desert island beach- palm trees and sand. Yes you can rent a sun bed and parasol, buy some food and a drink or two, but it's all in a much quieter more relaxing way than Patong Beach, which can be seen in all its glory as you savour the view and sounds of relative silence.

Care should be taken in the very shallow water here as the seabed is very rocky and it is easy to trip and turn an ankle or scrape bare skin.

Getting There:

Take a Tuk Tuk, Taxi or Motorbike or Motorbike rental, head north to nearly the end of Patong beach road (Thanon Taweewong) until you see the beach on your right hand side just before the the road rises uphill to Paradise beach.)

There is a view point at the top of the hills on the way there, that’s worth a photo or two.

What's there for the diver and snorkeller:

Reefs: None

Patong Beach:

The beach, which is a crescent shaped 3.5 kilometres long stretch of white sand, fringed by palm trees, restaurants, hotels and even a McDonald's, is populated by hundreds of sun beds, parasols, quickly char-grilling bodies and hawkers, selling everything from cheap T-shirts and silk scarves, to long-tail boat trips and Para-sailing. It is a hive of activity and noise from the jet skis that line a lot of the shoreline, so make sure you only swim in the marked off areas as accident do happen, more than occasionally.

I guess this could sound like heaven or hell depending on what your thing is, so I won't comment one way or the other and let you decide for yourself.

If you want a little peace and quiet try at either end of the beach as there are less shady palm trees and even less shady hawkers.

Getting There:

All Patong roads lead to the beach.

What's there for the diver and snorkeller:

Reefs: None.

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