One of the most commonly heard criticisms of Phuket as a holiday location is that large parts of the island have been overly commercialized to cash in on the tourism boom, with beaches that were once famous for their serenity now looking more like hang-out areas for party-goers. Most of that sort of atmosphere is centered in Patong – which we will be making our way there too at a later date this vacation – but we did mark out two other beaches to check out during our stay.
The first is Bang Tao beach in the Laguna area, where Cassia Phuket is situated. The beach is a short 10 minute walk from the hotel and might be a little hard to get to at your first try. Basically, you want to head out of Cassia Phuket, turn left, walk across the bridge with Minions on both sides, and approach the guard house at the main gate with the security detector device LOL. Don’t go past that gate. Rather, approach the behind of that guard house and you will see a foot path. Take that footpath which will lead you around the small lagoon – and after 7 minutes or so, you’ll get to Bang Tao beach.
The beach is apparently shared between Cassia Phuket and Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket, so guests of either hotel can access the beach – though truth to tell, I doubt if the guard actually stops any one from getting past him to the beach!
There were quite a few Caucasians already on the beach, swimming or just relaxing even though this was fairly early in the morning at about 9AM. The water wasn’t actually clear and the beach sand not of the powdery-white kind, but it’s still clean enough and free of general debris for us to chill out for an hour before heading back to wash up and get ready for our day trip with John Gray’s Sea Kayaking.
Our notes on John Gray’s Hong by Starlight in the next post!
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