Choeng Mon Beach
Choeng Mon is a beach of Samui located on the north coast of Ko Samui, between Chaweng and Mae Nam. Choeng Mon is made up of a series of bays featuring white sandy beaches. Although only about 15 minutes north of Chaweng and 5 minutes from Big Buddha, the intervening coastline has kept the beaches quiet and the waters clean.
Choeng Mon beach is a small but magnificent bay, it features wide sandy beaches with a rock formation on one side and a small island you can paddle out to on the other.
Most of the activity of places like the White House, The Peninsula and Tong Sai Bay is kept in-house, meaning that apart from a few tailors and local restaurants there's not a lot going on outside the hotels. Still, when guests can have their own private beach as offered by Tong Sai and the Peninsula, there's not a great deal of incentive to leave either.
Most of the resorts attract an older, package tour crowd, predominantly from Germany and France. This is reflected in the food and entertainment on offer in many of the resorts' restaurants. So don't expect the Thai cuisine served to be too spicy and do expect traditional Thai dancing and numerous Filipino bands expertly playing covers of Western pop standards.
Accommodations
Accommodations in Choeng Mon beach starts at about 700 baht for a small fan beach bungalow, this would be about 30 metres from the beach.
- Thongsai Bay, tel. +66-23818774 is a five star resort offering beach front suites, cottages, and villas. The resort is situated on a private beach, so you'll have the bay to yourself, and offers a variety of activities, a spa, and plenty of different restaurants to choose from.
- Samui Peninsula Spa & Resort Thailand's Leading Boutique Resort with Luxury Pool Villas, pavillions and Spa is located on Choeng Mon Peninsula overlooking scenic Choeng Mon Beach. Samuibooking.org (it's sister company)is the resort's major online distribution channel to promote the resort.
- Payorm Park View Resort 24/30 Mu 5 Tambon Bo Phut, Ko Samui (Tel: 0 7742 5429), 20 rooms: 300-600 baht
- Sala Samui Resort & Spa (Choeng Mon Beach, Koh Samui, Surat Thani, Rates: 5,960-24,280 Baht
- The Tong Sai Bay 84 Mu 5 Tambon Bo Phut, Ko Samui (Tel: 0 7724 5544, 0 7724 5621-38 Fax: 0 7724 5620 Bangkok Tel: 0 2254 0056–63 www.tongsaibay.co.th ), 83 rooms: 12,947–61,204 baht
- White House Hotel 59/3 Mu 5, Cheongmon Beach, Koh Samui, Surat Thani, Rates: 3,520-7,040 Baht
- Chat Kaew Resort 59/4 Mu 5 Tambon Bo Phut, Ko Samui (Tel: 0 7742 5109), 12 rooms: 500-700 baht
- Choeng Mon Bungalow 24/3 Mu 5 Tambon Bo Phut, Ko Samui (Tel: 0 7724 5372), 34 rooms: 300-1,200 baht
- Imperial Boat House 83 Mu 5 Tambon Bo Phut, Ko Samui (Tel: 0 7742 5041-52 Bangkok Tel: 0 2261 9000 Fax: 0 2261 9530-4), 216 rooms: 5,500–10,000 baht
- P.S. Villa 24/2 Mu 5 Tambon Bo Phut, Ko Samui (Tel: 0 7742 5160-1), 16 rooms: 400-800 baht
