Patong Beach Hotel by See2Sea

The rooms at Patong Beach Hotel by See2Sea all have a private bathroom, and beds are king beds or pairs of single beds. Some rooms look onto the pool, and others onto the sea or the garden.

Rooms sleep up to three guests, and most bathrooms have a whirlpool bathtub as well as a shower. Each bathroom has toiletries, towels, slippers and a mirror, and most rooms have an electric kettle. Rooms can also have individual air conditioning, an in-room safe box, wooden flooring, a seating area and a coffee or tea maker, and free bottled water is provided in the rooms.

The hotel has an outdoor swimming pool and a fitness center, plus a children's swimming pool and a kids club for younger guests. There is a 24-hour front desk, and free parking is available on site.

For meals, there are restaurants, a breakfast service and room service, and food delivery is also offered. Laundry, dry cleaning and ironing services are available, along with luggage storage, safety deposit boxes and a concierge.

Business travellers can use the business facilities and the meeting and banquet facilities, and tours can be arranged, with a taxi service available too. The grounds include a garden, and facilities for disabled guests are provided, including wheelchair-accessible areas.

Patong is one of the best-known beach towns on Phuket, on the Andaman coast, with a wide bay of sand, restaurants, bars and a busy street life after dark. The hotel sits on Thaweewongse Road in the lively part of the town, where a short walk takes you to the sand and to the shops.

Patong Beach is 50 m from the hotel, and Bangla Road, the street of bars and clubs that gives the town its nightlife, is 250 m away. The Jungceylon Shopping Center, with its shops and restaurants, is within a short walk too. Freedom Beach, a small and quieter beach, is 2.9 km away, and the temple Chaithararam (Wat Chalong), one of the most revered on the island, lies 6.9 km off. Phuket International Airport is 24.3 km away, and since Phuket is joined to the mainland by a bridge, a car or taxi is the simplest way to reach the rest of the island from the town.

A good day starts with the sand at Patong Beach, then a drive to Kata Beach or Nai Harn Beach for a quieter stretch of coast. Big Buddha Phuket, the large statue on a hilltop, offers wide views over the island. In the rainy monsoon months the sea can be rough, and boat trips to the smaller islands are sometimes cancelled.