Best 8 Low Cost Hotels in Karon
Karon is long enough that a cheap room three streets back is still a short walk to sand, which is the whole reason the budget end here works better than on busier beaches.
Eight below, from a boutique inn on the beach road to hillside properties with pool complexes.
Coral Inn
On the Karon beach front road with a restaurant and bar downstairs, and a location couples rate 9.4.
Air-conditioned rooms with a refrigerator and flat-screen cable television, done to a boutique standard rather than a budget one. Value is what guests mention first.
Couples and solo travellers who want the beach road at the lowest workable rate.
Karona Resort & Spa
Four minutes’ walk to Karon Beach, twelve to Kata. Fifty-five superior rooms across nine low-rise buildings, with 37 sea-view deluxe rooms and three suites in the main block.
Subpaya Place runs massage, body scrub and facial treatment. CHILIES covers breakfast through dinner, and the outdoor pool has sun loungers and a poolside bar in the garden.
Couples and families who want to walk to two beaches from one base.
Best Western Phuket Ocean Resort
Three outdoor pools on the Karon hillside, with free WiFi and free parking and an international brand standard behind the operation.
Family rooms are the strength, and the pool count keeps children occupied without a trip to the beach every day. Karon’s beach road is a short ride below.
Families wanting predictability and pool space at a mid-range rate.
The Old Phuket Karon Beach Resort
Two wings and two different ideas. The Sino Wing runs traditional Sino-Portuguese with the tiled, shuttered look of Phuket Town, while the Serene Wing is white-washed and contemporary.
Two outdoor pools, one per wing, seven dining options and a gym. Central on Karon, twenty minutes from Patong.
For readers who want Phuket Town’s architecture with a beach outside.
Centara Karon Resort Phuket
Three minutes’ walk to the sand across four residential zones, each with its own character, which makes this read more like a village than a hotel.
Three outdoor pools with a bar at each, six dining options, plus SPA Cenvaree, a gym, tennis courts and a children’s recreation centre.
Families wanting scale and choice a short walk back from the beach.
Mandarava Resort and Spa Karon Beach
Ranked third of more than eleven hundred properties in Karon across upward of two thousand reviews, which on a beach this crowded takes some doing.
Hillside position back from the sand with a spa at the centre of the offer. Rooms run large and the pool terraces step down the slope.
Couples and spa stays wanting Karon without the beach road outside the window.
Thavorn Palm Beach Resort
Front and centre on Karon, with beach access across a twelve-acre Thai botanical rainforest garden that separates the rooms from the sand.
Two hundred and thirteen rooms and suites in a colonial and contemporary Thai mix, four large pools and a four-storey water slide. Eight dining outlets, and a beachfront petting zoo.
Families, and travellers wanting Karon frontage with garden space behind.
Paradox Resort Phuket
Listed on older guides as the Mövenpick, which is why the name will look unfamiliar. Same position, new operator, and direct beachfront with Karon sand two minutes away.
Spa, fitness centre, sun terrace and gardens behind a pool angled at the view. The rebrand brought a refresh rather than just new signage.
For readers who want Karon frontage without Centara Grand rates.
Booking notes
Karon Center holds the cheap eating and Kata is walkable from the southern end, so a room here reaches two beaches and a food strip on foot. Green season through October can halve the January rate. Rooms back from the beach road are quieter as well as cheaper, which on this stretch is worth having.