Blue Tara Hotel Krabi Ao Nang

The rooms at Blue Tara Hotel Krabi Ao Nang come in deluxe and superior versions, and several of them look out over the pool or the city. Some rooms have a balcony or terrace, and several have a bathtub and a private bathroom with a shower, bathrobes and toiletries. The rooms can also have blackout curtains, a desk, an in-room safe and a refrigerator.

Air conditioning is a feature of some rooms, and some of them offer a choice of bed set-ups. Air conditioning, a telephone and cable channels are available in some rooms as well. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms. The hotel is in Ao Nang, a short walk from the beach, so the sea is close to the rooms.

Blue Tara Hotel Krabi Ao Nang has an outdoor swimming pool with a poolside bar, a massage service and restaurants serving Asian, buffet and vegetarian dishes. Room service is available, and the front desk is open 24 hours.

Services include an airport transfer, a shuttle service and car hire, and tours can be arranged. Diving, a concierge desk, luggage storage, daily housekeeping and laundry and ironing services are also offered.

The hotel is family friendly, with a children's swimming pool and kids meals, and it offers wheelchair accessible facilities as well as business facilities for meetings and seminars. Languages offered include English and Thai. Bicycle parking is provided for guests who arrive by bike.

Ao Nang is a busy beach town on the Andaman coast of Krabi province, with restaurants, bars and massage shops lining the roads behind the sand. Blue Tara Hotel Krabi Ao Nang stands on Aonang Soi 8 Road, and Noppharathara Beach is 250 m away, so the sea is a short walk from the hotel. Beach days and evening strolls sit close together here.

The Ao Nang Night Market and Ao Nang Beach are both within a short walk. Krabi International Airport is 19.2 km away. Boats to Railay Beach, 3.4 km away, leave from the piers in Ao Nang; Railay is reached mainly by longtail boat and has limestone cliffs and Phra Nang Cave, a beach with a shrine in a cave. Tiger Cave Temple (Wat Tham Suea), 15.1 km away, is a hilltop temple reached by a long flight of steps.

A good day from Ao Nang often begins with a boat trip to the nearby islands, such as Poda and Tup, or further out to the Hong Islands. Boat trips can be cancelled when the sea is rough in the rainy months. On land, the Emerald Pool, a forest pool inside the national park inland, makes a good half-day outing away from the coast.