Places to stay on Ko-Sichang

Green House

A basic, family-style place, out of the way, with no frills. Tel 038 216 024

Sichang View Resort

Set in a large garden near the sea on the west coast of the island, most rooms with airconditioning.Has restaurant.
Tel 038 216 210-1

Sichang Shine Khao Resort

A large building with 27 large rooms that get more luxurious the higher you go. Good views from the top floor. Not near anything much. Tel 038 216 216-7 fax 038 216 296

Sichang Palace Resort & Hotel

Ko Sichang's only actual hotel, in the center of town, some rooms looking over the port. Coffee shop.
Tel 038 216 276 fax 038 216 030

Tiew Pai Park Resort

The first tourist accomodation on the island, combines some funky backpacker rooms from decades back with rooms and detached bungalows in quiet, shady garden. Centrally located, has restaurant. Tel 038 216 084-5

Rim Talay Resort

Rooms, and boats brought ashore and converted to bungalows, next to us at Pan & David Restaurant. On the east coast, facing Siracha. Tel 089 091 6974 • 038 216 116

Benz Bungalow

Right at the entrance to the Rama V Palace, Benz has one bungalow actually in the water, and some upstairs rooms with good views. Food across the street at Lek Tha Wang. Tel 038 216 091-2, 038 216 144

Tham Phang Beach Resort

Rooms and bungalows right on the island's biggest beach. Basic food and drink Tel 038 216 179

Bat Island Bungalows

Simple bungalows and rental tents on the cleanest beach in the Sichang Islands, with coral just 60 meters offshore. Access to this island is by hired boat from the Thaa Laang pier on Sichang, cost B1000 - B1200 round trip Tel 081 304 2622

There's a great variety of places to stay in Koh Sichang, though nothing on the island is five-star luxury, or near it. Room rates are higher than at a lot of other Thai beach destinations; expect to pay B500 minimum for a double room, B600 up with airconditioning.

The list below is a temporary (January 2010) expedient that doesn't include some new places and may have some defunct phone numbers. Our apologies until it's improved. At least for now, we don't indicate prices, which can change unpredictably, or how much you might like a particular place—individual experiences and opinions have proven 100% irreconcilable, and telling you which places we like best would serve mainly to irritate a lot of our neighbors. Look at a guidebook or website you trust, then get to the island early and look places over. It's a good idea to ask about any issue you care about: late checkout, staff on duty 24 hours, laundry, you name it. The number before each name shows where to find the establishment on the Maps page

(We're sorry, but we can't arrange bookings. We'll try to list e-mail addresses and website URLs soon; meanwhile, persistent Google searching will usually yield something useful.)