Samui Nightlife
Apart from the full moon parties, Samui has many nightlife attractions and activities. There are many pubs, bars, discos and restaurants on beaches of Samui. Especially in Chaweng beach and Lamai beach. We are going to explore them as following.
Chaweng Beach Nightlife
Chaweng is well-known as the place to party on Samui. There are many kind of relaxation, from a little quite restaurant to a loud a go go bar.
If you prefer to sit on the beach for a sundowner, any of the beachfront restaurants will happily serve drinks without dinner but as the night moves in, most of the action takes place in the bars and clubs around Soi Green Mango.
Green Mango Square
Green Mango offers a street scene characterized by an “anything-goes” ambience, merry tourists and local revelers bar-hopping and bopping, while fortune tellers set up shop on the pavement, street-side noodle stalls and barbeques do a roaring trade, and sleepy pythons are draped around foreign necks for photo souvenirs.
Although the atmosphere is fantastic, please beware of theft.
Music Pubs
There are some good live music pub at Chaweng beach. Mostly they play oldies song. But there are also modern pubs which offer you a music like pop or R and B. Here are some recommended pubs.
- Springer(live on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays) play old-school rock
- Outdoor Bar on south Chaweng Beach Road, live Thai bands playing rock covers most nights.
- Tropical Murphy play some classic sing-a-long tunes and Thaitanic, who cover everything from U2 to James Brown
- Red Snapper restaurant play Latino grooves for the post-dinner crowd. Located in North Chaweng at the Chaweng Regent Hotel.
Beer Bars
Soi Reggae also boasts a long stretch of beer bars, which offer a more laid back experience. The girls shriek welcomingly at passers-by, and you can play pool or watch sport and engage in stimulating conversation with the lovelies.
The only area in downtown Chaweng with beer bars is located on the side street back to the main drag leading from Sound Club, around the corner from Soi Green Mango.
There's a collection of small bars there with friendly ladies on hand to flatter you and challenge you to a traditional game of 'Connect Four'.
GO-GO Bars
If you want some fun with booze and girls, at Chaweng beach there are some nice places to enjoy this. Here are some recommended place you can hang out with pretty girls or watch dance show. They are mainly around Soi Green Mango, and Soi Reggae.
- Dream Girls, busy venue on Soi Green Mango. With a lovely ladies to pamper entertainment to you.
- Moulin Rouge a GO GO Bar on Soi Reggae, behind Chaweng Beach Road, by the lake. You can enjoy your drink and watching pretty ladies dancing for you
- Charlie's Angels New, classy venue in the middle of the beer bar area of Soi Sound.. The club offer fun and amusing atmosphere with of course pretty ladies to entertain you.
- Polo Coyote a large indoor club, located on the ring road near the PTT gas station. They have live bands and dancing girls, with various entertainment throughout the week, including the famous "body-painted' show.
Lounge Bars
Nightlife at Samui has its central on the middle of Chaweng Beach Road around the Soi Green Mango. There are some recommended bars as following;
- Bar Solo, a cool, sleek interior with a great music. Pool table and 6 plasma screens showing the major sporting events. Bar Solo is a good option to start a night out, The bar get more lively at late at night when the DJs come to play. Open from 2pm-2am, Central Chaweng Beach Road, next to Starbucks.
- Unique Bar, a nice street-side bar with an upstairs lounge that hosts UK DJs playing funky, uplifting house 7 nights a week.
- DUST bar, an eclectic mix of Afro, Soul, Disco, funk and Balearic, while tickling your taste buds with lush herbal cocktails.
- POD bar , at the end of Soi Colibri, opposite the Centara Grand Beach Resort With a great designer interior, kicking cocktails, a friendly vibe and guest DJs throughout the week playing funky.
Discos and Nightclubs
Chaweng has many great venues to party the night away, and the variety of music on offer has improved in recent years, with Clubs at regularly hosting international DJ talent. Most of the clubs have an open- air layout, and a lively atmosphere, which has given Samui a reputation as a party island. Here are some recommended bars and nightclubs you may like to enjoy.
- Sweet soul on Soi Green Mango on the left hand side at the end of the street and has a lively party every with hip-hop and R&B music.
- Solo Club a famous after-party venue. A laid back, good value late night drinking and dancing spot, open from 2-6am. Located behind Starbucks in Central Chaweng.
- Sound a really popular venue for the late night crowd, and doesn't really get going until after 1am when it is crammed with high-energy revelers. Open 12-5am.The bar plays hip-hop and R and B at the dance floor at the back has djs spinning harder house, with a big swimming pool separating the two dance floors, which sets the scene for some late night water fights.
- The Green Mango Club a huge warehouse building at the end of the road. It has two main areas with the entrance space playing hip hop and mainstream tunes, whilst the main pumps out some banging house and techno music.
- Q BAR chic, urban-style club. The great-looking downstairs club has nightly House DJ sets, and is host to international visiting DJS, while the stunning open air terrace upstairs offers panoramic views over the lake and hosts the Thursday Lounge Sessions with chilled, funky hip-hop and soulful old-school. Open 6-2am.
The full moon parties
Haad Rin Nok Beach on Koh Phangan is regarded by many as one of the best places in the world for viewing the full moon. No surprise then, that it’s also the venue for the famed Full Moon Party – a must for travelers from all over the world. As with many famous events, no one seems quite sure when or how the Full Moon Party started.
The consensus is that the first was in the late 1980s and was a small, private affair among a group of friends. Today, 20 years later, the Full Moon Party attracts tens of thousands of people from Thailand and the world beyond. The party starts as twilight falls. You’ll know you’re in the right place when you see lots of small tables on the sand and lamps hanging everywhere.
In 2009 the full moon party are scheduled in: Jan 10, Feb 10, Mar 10, Apr 9, May 9, Jun 7, Jul 9, Aug 6, Sep 4, Oct 4, Nov 2 and Dec 2.
Half Moon Party
A relatively new addition to the nightlife scene, Surat Thani's half moon parties seem to have been started in response to the demise of Samui's own Rocky Bay beach parties (due to an increase in luxury property development in the Choeng Mon area). Saying that though, the Half Moon people go to great lengths to offer an attractive package to counterbalance the longish trip over to the mainland and provide a viable alternative to the Full Moon Party.
For around 1,800 Baht, revellers can be collected from their hotel, transferred by coach and ferry to mainland Surat Thani, then whisked off to a secluded beach for an all-inclusive night of fun and frolics. A generous seafood barbecue and all you can drink alcohol are thrown in alongside, of course, a night of house and techno courtesy of local and international DJ's. The price also includes the trip back to Samui the next day.
Oktoberfest
Samui's latest cultural import began in 2004 and stuck pretty strictly to Teutonic traditional features, ie lots of bratwurst, lederhosen, oompha loompha music and (of course) gallons and gallons of beer. Organised by the local Rotary Club, all profits from Oktoberfest go towards buying much needed equipment for local schools and other good causes.
The pasr event was at Long Beach Resort, behind Tropical Murphy's in Chaweng - check Murphy's or at the Siam Bar & Grill in Lamai for details of this year's party.
people, all in a party mood.