Best 8 Low Cost Hotels in Patong
Patong has more cheap rooms than the rest of the island combined, and the only real variable is how many streets back you sleep.
Eight below, all with pools and staffed desks rather than the very bottom of the market.
Nap Patong
Two hundred and fifty metres back from Patong Beach, with a facilities score of 9.4 that is the highest on this list.
Stylish rooms with balconies, minibars and seating areas, an outdoor pool and open space to sit in. Certain villas carry a private pool. Free WiFi throughout, with Patong’s dining and entertainment a short walk away.
Couples and solo travellers who want design at a rate that does not usually buy it.
The Crib Patong
Graphic prints drawn from southern Thai fabric run through the rooms, which gives a small Patong hotel more character than the rate suggests.
Rooftop terrace, outdoor pool, fitness room, tour desk and coffee shop. Jungceylon, Banzaan fresh market and Bangla Road are a few minutes on foot, and the sand is under ten minutes’ walk.
For readers who want Patong’s centre and would rather spend outside the room.
Deevana Patong Resort & Spa
Tropical gardens with two pools and a spa, five minutes on foot from the sand and ten from Bangla, which puts it far enough back to sleep.
Dalah Cuisine runs all-day dining and a free shuttle covers the walk to the beach for anyone who would rather not. Rated 8.1 by recent guests.
Couples and families wanting a garden between them and the beach road.
Baan Laimai Beach Resort & Spa
Steps from Patong sand in the middle of the shopping district, built around a large lagoon pool with a bar in it.
Traditional Thai decor and heavy wooden furnishings through the rooms, with the better categories carrying wide balconies. Three dining options and free WiFi throughout. Rated across more than 7,000 reviews, which is among the highest counts on the beach.
For readers who want the centre of Patong and a pool worth staying in.
The Kee Resort & Spa
Next door to Bangla Road, which is either the reason to book or the reason not to. Rooftop bar looking over the Patong Bay skyline, and a location score of 9.3 that reflects the position.
Spacious rooms with flat-screens and private balconies, an outdoor pool, fitness centre, spa, tour desk, shopping plaza and a wellness clinic on site. Rated across more than 3,400 reviews.
For readers who want to walk everywhere and do not mind the noise.
The Privilege Residence
Loft-format apartments above Kalim, running one, two and three bedrooms with full kitchenettes, dining areas and living rooms. Several carry a jacuzzi or plunge pool, and the views run across Patong Bay.
Building facilities cover an infinity pool, fitness centre, hot tub, sauna, steam room and a rooftop terrace. Kalim Beach is two minutes on foot, Patong Beach a five-minute drive.
Longer stays, families needing a kitchen, and groups splitting a larger unit.
Wyndham Sea Pearl Resort Phuket
Fifteen acres of hillside above Patong, and 204 rooms arranged to keep the bay in view from most of them. Listed on older guides under its former Sea Pearl Villas name.
Eight pools across the terraces, private pool villas at the top end, and family suites through the middle. Patong sits below for anyone who wants it and far enough above for anyone who does not.
Families and couples wanting Patong access without Patong noise.
Kalima Resort and Spa
Seven hundred metres from Kalim Beach on the northern edge, five minutes by road from both Patong and Kamala, which makes it a useful base for seeing the coast rather than one beach.
Outdoor pool, fitness centre, garden and terrace, with a restaurant, room service and a 24-hour front desk. A kids’ club and airport transfers come with it. Rated across more than 4,700 reviews.
Families who want Patong close but not underneath the window.
Booking notes
Green season through October can put a Patong room at a third of its January rate, the widest swing on the island. Two streets back from Bangla is quiet and cheap and the walk to the beach barely changes. Check room orientation before booking anything on the Bangla side, whatever the property claims about soundproofing.