Smile House Karon

The rooms at Smile House Karon run from 24 m² superior rooms with a king bed or twin beds to a 50 m² one-bedroom apartment with a terrace. Several rooms overlook the mountains and others look onto the street, so the view depends on the room you book.

Rooms with a street view look onto the road, and rooms with a mountain view look towards the hills. The one-bedroom apartment sleeps up to five guests and offers a choice of bed set-ups. Several rooms also have air conditioning, a flat-screen TV, a private bathroom with a shower and toiletries, and a mosquito net or a hair dryer.

Smile House Karon has a bar, room service, a massage service, a library and a garden. The public areas are air-conditioned, and the property also has a mini golf course and snorkelling facilities. The hotel also has a shuttle service and a family room for travelling with children.

Transport options include an airport transfer, a shuttle service, a taxi service and car hire, and tours can be arranged. Daily housekeeping, laundry service and dry cleaning are offered, along with luggage storage, safety deposit boxes and cash withdrawal. Free parking is on site.

Languages spoken include English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish and Thai. Pets are allowed, and the property has a terrace.

Karon is a beach area on the Andaman coast of Phuket, centred on a long, sandy beach lined with hotels, shops and restaurants. Smile House Karon is 200 m from Karon Beach, and the streets around it hold small shops and a convenience store, with the Karon Shopping Mall close by. The quarter feels lively by day and has a steady flow of visitors who come for the sand and the restaurants along the road.

Kata Beach is about 1 km away, and the Big Buddha, a hilltop white statue, is 1.9 km from the hotel. Wat Chalong, one of the best-known Buddhist temples on Phuket, is 4.6 km away, and Patong Beach, home to Bangla Road and its nightlife, is the other main beach area nearby. Kata is the easiest of these to reach on foot from the hotel's stretch of coast, while the temple and the Buddha are a drive inland.

A good day here starts with a swim at Karon Beach, followed by a visit to Wat Chalong and the Big Buddha in the afternoon, and an evening at Kata Beach or in the restaurants of Karon. The hotel offers a taxi service and car hire for those trips.