Hat Kata
This friendly, popular divers' flophouse offers clean, no-frills en suite doubles, hot water and air-con, and is attached to a recommended boutique dive…
Hat Kata
This friendly, popular divers' flophouse offers clean, no-frills en suite doubles, hot water and air-con, and is attached to a recommended boutique dive…
Pai
There are good views over Pai from the rooftop terrace here, where the overpriced and compact dorm is located. Rooms are a better deal: sizeable and…
Nakhon Ratchasima Province
This renovated wooden house is polished to a gloss and the rooms have a hint of traditional history. The main drawback is that while each room gets its…
Ko Lipe
The only beachfront hostel in Ko Lipe is housed in a contemporary-style concrete block on west Hat Pattaya. Showers are shared, but you get private…
Hat Patong
Just 100m from Th Bangla, this well-kept budget offering has compact, comfortable four- to eight-bed dorms in light woods and whites (not all have windows…
Phuket Town
While not Phuket Town's most exciting midrange option, reasonably priced Tint revolves around three coloured-themed floors with hints of boutique style…
Phuket
Most bungalows have sea views and you're right on the beach at this pleasant, decent-value little resort at the southern end of Hat Bang Thao. The design…
Mae Hong Son Province
Ban Ruam Thai's first guesthouse, Pala consists of several simple and spartan brick bungalows and some newer and more comfortable (but still plain) rooms…
Banglamphu
Despite sharing real estate with a Chinese temple, there’s no conflict of design at this eccentric hotel. Most rooms have raised-platform beds, and are…
Trang Beaches & Islands
Sloping landscaped grounds dotted with papaya, frangipani and bougainvillea hold large, clean and well-managed (if a little old) bungalows sporting…
Phuket Town
A relaxed, up-to-date hostel where the look is red-brick and open-concrete with wall art. The two spacious, modern dorms for six or eight have individual…
Hat Kata
This welcoming, rather anonymous hostel-guesthouse offers cheap sleeps in an eight-bed dorm with two bathrooms. Clean, compact doubles (some brighter than…
Hat Patong
This is a sweet, simple guesthouse where Chinese art hangs on the flagstone hallway walls behind sky-blue shutters, a whitewashed facade and a vibrantly…
Ko Phi-Phi
If you don’t mind walking 10 minutes to eat, drink or sunbathe, then Tropical Garden offers a little tranquillity (although you're in earshot of the bars)…
Hat Patong
Tucked into a tranquil soi, this artsy, characterful boutique guesthouse is overseen by pleasant staff and overflows with Buddha imagery, paintings of…
Phang-Nga Province
This large, modern concrete block has spotless rooms with comfortable beds, nice showers and excellent views of the surrounding mountains. The breakfast…
Phuket Town
The four-bed, concrete-floor dorms at this hangar-like hostel come with good, thick mattresses, big lockers and their own bathrooms, while private rooms…
Krabi Province
This place is an old-fashioned hippy vortex with basic bamboo bungalows and a couple of newer wood huts with their own bathrooms, set in the trees behind…
Railay
A steep set of stairs leads to this collection of tin-roofed, fan-cooled, woven-bamboo and shiny-wood bungalows, stilted between tropical gardens high…
Chiang Khong
Pretty much what the label says: a box-like structure holding 16 fan-cooled dorm beds. There are also five fan-only private rooms that share bathrooms…
Lampang
One of Th Talad Gao’s noblest historic buildings has been turned into this relaxed guesthouse. The six rooms, located above a cool cafe and ice-cream shop…
Hat Khao Lak
The air-con rooms here have high ceilings, dark-wood furnishings, ceramic-tiled floors, huge bathrooms, and beanbags on verandas. The fan rooms, fronted…
Northern Thailand
The cheapest rooms at this long-standing guesthouse are fan-cooled and share a clean bathroom, while the more expensive ones have air-con. All are set…
Kanchanaburi
The family that owns this little riverside spot lives here, making it almost as much a homestay as a guesthouse, with all the good (friendliness) and bad …
Northeastern Thailand
Not a homestay – this is actually the only proper guesthouse in the area. It's far from fancy, but the simple bungalows are still pretty good; and the two…
Ko Pha-Ngan
This remote outpost perched on the rocks south of Hat Rin has simple, good-value fan options and air-con bungalows with sweeping views of the sea; plus…
Hua Hin & the Upper Gulf
There's nothing boutique about it, but the misnomer is the only knock on a very well-run, impeccably clean hotel. Rooms aren't fancy, but they're fully…
Krabi Province
Tasteful, clean, fan-cooled bamboo huts here have proper thatched roofs, polished wood floors and verandas, and are spaciously laid out in a woodland…
Prachuap Khiri Khan
North of town and close to the fishing pier, this secluded three-storey hotel has Ao Noi Beach (good for strolling, not so much for swimming) on its…
Hua Hin
Almost like a little village, this hotel by the waterfront has a variety of rooms and while they aren't bad, you can get better elsewhere for the same…
Bangkok
LUXX, the Th Decho branch of the stylish LUXX XL, flaunts the hospitality chain's trademark hip minimalist vibe, along with a vantage location close to…
Trang Beaches & Islands
Endearingly ramshackle and very laid-back, Garden Beach Resort stands out for its family feel and very helpful host. Bungalows, both the older and basic…
Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi-Phi National Park Accommodation
Krabi Province
These rustic but well-maintained air-con, 24-hour-electricity bungalows are just over the road from the beach. There's no wi-fi. Note that while you can…
Mae Hong Son Province
The cheapest rooms in this cosy wooden house are fan-cooled, share bathrooms and are mattress-on-the-floor basic. The more expensive rooms offer some…
Northeastern Thailand
Though the hotel lacks panache, Green Park’s big, bright and sparkling clean rooms are the best in Yasothon. There are two buildings – the main hotel …
Pai
This collection of old A-frame bungalows and some newer ones, all with thatched roofs, is set on the edge of a photogenic rice field. The older ones are a…
Ko Phi-Phi
Tucked to the side of the food market and away from the noise of the bars (although the nearby mosque's early morning call to prayer may wake you), the…
Ko Pha-Ngan
The world-famous Full Moon Party was first hatched on the plot occupied by this hostel – one of the three properties run by Paradise, and staying here…
Hat Patong
At the end of a quietish soi, just a few minutes' walk from the beach and Th Bangla, the Armoni has helpful staff and big, bright, clean rooms at…
Ko Samui
The big, bright cement rooms all with attached hot-water bathrooms and balcony in this nondescript apartment block are a steal. The Pott's staff is super…
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