Baan Tai Beach Overview
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Koh Phangan Beaches Guide
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 Located just beyond Thong Sala, Baan Tai Beach is a popular Koh Phangan destination. Featuring white-sand beaches fringed with verdant palm trees and lined by clear blue waters, Baan Tai is especially popular with those looking to stay close to the island’s best-known moon parties and music festivals.
The beach is located only a hundred meters off the road leading to Haad Rin and Thong Nai Pan beaches. This area of Koh Pangan features many restaurants and bars, petrol stations and a handful shopping option. There is a small pier at the centre of Baan Tai Beach where you can catch boat taxi or organize fishing trips. It is also a strategic place from where to explore the east of the island, which boasts exotic natural highlights and a few of historical sites.
A great for sunset lovers, Baan Tai Beach is a prime location for hotels – budget and mid range accommodation options most of them offering direct access to the serene shore, with gorgeous Koh Samui views and a mountainous range overland on its south, dominate its landscape. |
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 Getting There
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 Baan Tai is the most accesible beach on the island located on the southern coast of Koh Phangan. You will have no problem finding a taxi in Thong Sala (Koh Phangan's capital and major ferry hub) to take you to Baan Tai beach.
Alternative many of resorts in Baan Tai offer a free pick-up service from/to Thong Sala pier. Otherwise taxi fare should be 100 baht/per one way. Around Baan Tai area you easily can rent a motorbike or car also.
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Baan Tai Beach Facilities |
 Sunbeds, hammocks, swimming pools and beach chairs are available in Baan Tai's beachfront resorts, restaurants and bars. In the same places can be found toilets usually allow you to use it for a small fee (if you are not guest).
There are ATMs, money exchange, 7-eleven minimarts, pharmacies, medical and dental clinics, laundry service and tours/ticket operators in Baan Tai village on both sides of the main road.
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 The main source of food and drinks at Baan Tai beach is the many beachfront hotels, that serve mainly Thai, seafood and International dishes with amazing sunset views.
There are also a great number of local restaurants, bars, cafes and hawker stalls a short walk away along the main road but they are spread out all area is some distance.
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 Baan Tai is not a wide beach but in some places you'll find a volleyball nets. There is a coral reef about 150 meters from the beach running the full length of the island's south coast, however this does not mean a perfect snorkeling, and during the low tidal seasons (May to October) the water is shallow until the reef. It is fun to paddle in but not great for swimming. However most of the time swimming is perfectly safe on Baan Tai beach. Sunbathing, partying and reading a good book are the most popular activities here. A some diving schops and massage parlors
are available in Baan Tai village. Wat Pho Herbal Sauna is an ideal attractions to restore your powers after Moon parties.
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 When the southwest monsoon comes to Koh Phangan, Baan Tai becomes a kiteboarding beach. There are a number kite schools in Koh Phangan. One of them, Kiteboardingasia is located on Baan Tai main road between Full moon party beach and Thongsala, just in front of Milky bay resort and offer lessons for all kite levels. There is a reef here that makes that provides small waves to play with, with flat water and easy depth to practice and develop your kiteserfing skills inside the lagoon. If there is no wind, they have a jet ski for wakeboarding. So if you fan of extreme sports and like a night party, Baan Tai beach is the right place...
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Hotels Right on The Beach |
- Awe Resort Villas On The Beach
- Milky Bay Resort
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 Hotels in Baan Tai are very well located along this stretch of coastline, each offer a home away from home and you can always find here, among a long white strip of sand some secluded place. Baan Tai hotels come in a wide range of styles, choices of complementing facilities, and of course, room rates to suit any budget. This fact makes Baan Tai beach area is a very popular place to stay among people in middle age and youth...
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