Long Beach Hotel Patong

The rooms of 24 and 25 m² have a queen bed for up to two guests, a private bathroom with a shower and toiletries, a flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi.

Other rooms sleep up to three, five or eleven guests. Views from the rooms include the courtyard and the city, and the rooms can have air conditioning, a mini bar and a refrigerator. Some rooms also have a telephone and an additional toilet.

Guests have a restaurant, a bar and a coffee shop, with buffet and continental breakfast options, grocery delivery and a shared kitchen. A 24-hour front desk, a concierge, currency exchange, luggage storage and safety deposit boxes are available, and the hotel offers an airport transfer and a shuttle service.

For downtime there is a massage service, a game room with billiards, a library and a shared lounge with TV. Water activities include diving, snorkelling and surfing lessons, and tours can be arranged, while laundry, ironing and daily housekeeping are offered. Ticket services, a convenience store, shops, cash withdrawal and an infirmary are also available on the premises. Free parking is available nearby.

Patong is one of Phuket's busiest beach towns, with a long, lively bay and a dense mix of restaurants, bars and shops behind the sand. Its character is busy and social, with the beach and the nightlife close together, and the shopping streets behind the sand are part of the appeal.

Patong Beach is 150 m from the hotel, and Bangla Road, a street of bars and nightlife, is 450 m away. Jungceylon Shopping Center, 600 m away, is a large shopping mall, and Banzaan Fresh Market, a night market, is a short distance off. For a longer stretch of sand, Karon Beach is 3.5 km away, and the Big Buddha sits on its hilltop 7.2 km from the hotel.

Taxis and songthaews are the usual way to reach the outlying beaches and temples, and a day can start on Patong Beach, continue to Karon and end with a visit to the Big Buddha. Chaithararam Temple, known as Wat Chalong, is also a trip by road, and Phuket International Airport is a drive away across the island. The night market and the bars of Bangla Road are a short distance from the hotel, so an evening out takes little planning.