Best 8 Hotels in Kamala
Kamala changed character when the InterContinental opened at the northern end and the hillside above filled with villa resorts. The village core stayed as it was, which is the balance that makes the bay work.
Eight below, spread deliberately across the hill, the beach and the village so the pick depends on how close to the sand you want to be.
InterContinental Phuket Resort
Kamala Beach at the front, jungle hills closing in behind, and seven dining outlets between them. Five pools, Sati Spa, and a Two Keys listing in the 2025 MICHELIN Guide.
Rooms are large and lean modern rather than Thai traditional. Kamala village is walkable, which matters more than it sounds when the alternative is a taxi for every meal.
Works for families and for couples who want the beach without Patong’s volume.
Hyatt Regency Phuket Resort
Two hundred and one rooms cascading down a tropical hillside above Kamala Bay, every one with a private balcony facing the sea and the sunset. Rated 8.7 across nearly 1,900 reviews.
Casa Boho runs three storeys of clifftop restaurant, bar and lounge around an infinity pool, with Mizu handling teppanyaki and Pool House Kitchen the all-day dining. Nahm Spa, Camp Hyatt for children, a dive centre working the house reef, and the largest seafront infinity pool on the island.
One thing to know: the water directly below is rocky rather than swimmable. Kamala Beach proper is fifteen to twenty minutes on foot.
Families and couples who want the view and the reef rather than sand at the door.
The Naka Phuket
Angular black-and-white villas cut into the hillside above Kamala Bay, each with a private pool and a sea view that does most of the talking. Design Hotels membership, earned rather than borrowed.
Five accommodation categories, a spa running traditional Thai treatments, and a restaurant covering Thai and western. Twenty minutes down to Phuket Town, forty out to the airport. West-facing villas are the ones to ask for.
For design-led travellers and couples who want a pool nobody else can see.
Keemala
Four fictional clans, four styles of dwelling, and a hillside above Kamala village to hang it all on. Tree houses, tent villas, clay pool cottages and bird’s-nest villas are each built to a different logic, set into streams and standing forest.
Mala Restaurant runs Indian cooking under a chef brought in for it, alongside Thai and international plates. Wellness leans on traditional technique and herbal remedy rather than machinery. Rated 8.9 by couples, which is the segment it is built for.
Suits couples and anyone who finds conventional five-star rooms a little flat.
Novotel Phuket Kamala Beach
The quiet end of Kamala Beach, which on this stretch is the end worth having. Modern air-conditioned rooms with private balconies, a spa, an outdoor pool and a fitness centre.
Kamala village is three minutes by road and Phuket FantaSea the same, with Patong fifteen minutes south and the airport thirty north. Accor standards behind the desk.
For families and readers who want the beach without the village noise.
Cape Sienna Phuket Gourmet Hotel & Villas
Hillside position on the headland above Kamala Bay, on the stretch still called Millionaires’ Mile. Views run the length of the rocky west coast and the infinity pool is angled to make the most of them.
Five villas and five room categories, four dining outlets and two pools. Kamala Beach sits 400 metres below with a shuttle running down, and the village shops another hundred metres past that. Forty minutes from the airport.
Built for couples, and for anyone who would rather look at the coast than sit on it.
Thavorn Beach Village Resort & Spa
Twenty-five acres of tropical planting along Nakalay Bay, filled with Thai-style bungalows rather than a tower. A large lagoon pool runs through the middle of it.
The bay sits between Kamala and Patong and is reached by its own road, so the beach stays effectively private. Free parking, and a scheduled shuttle runs to Patong for anyone who wants the noise. Forty minutes from the airport.
Families and longer stays wanting a private bay and space to spread out.
At Kamala Hotel
Fifty metres from Kamala sand, which at this price is the whole argument. Rooms are modern and air-conditioned, each with a private balcony.
A coffee shop downstairs handles mornings and a tour desk arranges trips out. Kamala village stays busy while the hotel itself keeps quiet.
For solo travellers, couples and long stays wanting Kamala village on foot.
Booking notes
Kamala divides sharply between hillside and beach, and the price gap between them is wide enough to be the deciding factor. Anything on the hill needs a shuttle or a car, which is worth checking before booking on view alone. Green season through October brings the softest rates of the year, and the bay stays swimmable on most days.