Chaweng Beach - Koh Samui
Everything You Need to Know About Chaweng Beach
Koh Samui's busiest and biggest town has sprung up around one of the island's best beaches. As well as offering more accommodation options than elsewhere on the island, Chaweng is also nightlife central with bars and restaurants catering to every taste.
From beachside institutions to sophisticated cocktail bars, Chaweng's nightlife is streets ahead of anywhere else on Samui in terms of choice.
The famous Green Mango strip still forms the axis around which the rest of the town's bars revolve and is packed with (mostly) young revellers every night, alternating between the pubs, dance bars and girly bars. Chaweng's main strip is nearly three kilometres long though, and lots of smaller centres of activity have sprung up along it. McDonalds' forms a landmark in the south of town just across the road from Chaweng's single most popular bar, Tropical Murphy's Irish pub.
Over the past twenty years, Chaweng Beach has been transformed from a near deserted tropical bay, into a vibrant, busy, cosmopolitan resort town. This is undoubtedly the most popular tourist area on Koh Samui. Read More...
Chaweng Beach is the most popular stretch of powdery white sand. The wide bay has been the focal point for the development of the island's tourism industry. Read More...
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The main attraction in Chaweng is its six-kilometre long beach. But if you are looking for something different, there are plenty of other things to see and do in Chaweng. Read More...
Chaweng has a huge variety of restaurants and you'll find whatever you hanker after along the Beach Road. There are even restaurants right on the sand of Chaweng Beach if you're so inclined while others are tucked away in side alleys and still others are situated in hotels. Everything, from Thai to British, German and Japanese and a whole lot more is here. Read More...
Chaweng is Koh Samui's Party Central. All along the Beach Road you will see sois (streets) leading off into warrens of bars and pubs of varying appeal and popularity. The epicentre of all this hedonism and fun is undoubtedly Soi Green Mango in Central Chaweng, with Soi Reggae, by the lake, coming in a close second. Read More...
Most of the choice shopping in Chaweng is located along the Beach Road and, as is often the case in Thailand, is compartmentalised into areas for beachwear, jewelry, sports shops, with a long thread of bazaar-like shops selling clothes and DVD's the whole length of the road. Read More...
Chaweng has developed a great range of activities to complement just eating, shopping and sunbathing. If you stay on the island a few days and want to expand your horizons, or the weather plays up, there is still plenty to do. So switch off the TV and switch onto some of the fun holiday activities on offer. Read More...
Something guaranteed to provide a relaxing and indulgent alternative to the beach is a treatment at one of Chaweng's many high-quality Spas. You can find many massage, reflexology and beauty salons scattered along the beach road. Read More...
Our interactive map (and satellite views) displays all available hotels with photos, facilities and guest comments as well as attractions, landmarks and other items of interest with links to relevant information pages. The perfect way to find your way around and see where everything actually is. Read More...