Beach Haad Khuad tourists rarely call the Thai toponym, preferring Bottle Beach or Boat Beach, or Bottle Beach. By the way, Thai “khuad” and English “bottle“ that is what the bottle means. Bottle beach is located on the north of the island of Phangan, in a secluded bay between two steep rocky coast.
Getting to Bottl Beach is not so easy, so the people here usually a little happy about the lucky ones who are undivided use granted one of the most beautiful beaches of Phangan.
The content of the article
- 1 Description of the beach
- 2 Entry into the water, depth and waves
- 3 Sun beds and shade
- 4 Beach Photos
- 5 Infrastructure
- 6 Houses and hotels on the beach
- 7 How to find a beach
- 8 beach map
Contents
Beach description
Boat Beach is almost a straight line wide (about 20 meters), shady beach with light yellow, fluffy sand. To the right and to the left it rests on almost sheer cliffs, which excludes the opportunity to walk along the shore from another beach. Around the center beach, a small river flows into the bay, which almost dries out closer to April, turning into a channel with stagnant water.
But during the seasonal rains the river takes up its whole course, which in some places reaches up to 10 meters wide. Beach at the same time eroded into two halves, pass between which is no longer work out.
Entry, depth and waves
Beach on Bottl Beach is smooth, without any significant differences on all its length. Provided, of course, that now is not the monsoon and the waves did not partially undermine the beach until the formation of small cliffs. In the quiet season, the sea evenly scatters sand around. beach, falls asleep ravine from the river and generally behaves decently, but waves happen.
The shore is pretty cool going under water. When ebbing exposed two-meter strip of sand with a clean bottom, without stones and corals. The depth of the beach is one of the most pleasant on Phangan, ten meters away. from the coast you can already swim upright.
Sun beds and shade
I have not noticed rental services on Bottle Beach, therefore I assume that all the deck chairs in the frame belong to nearby resorts and guesthouses, the territory of which is separated from the rest of the beach is low walls of stones. Ibid private territory is 99 percent of the beach shadow.
The managers of some of the resorts have attended planting additional palm trees on the beach, but so far under them even cats can hide, so find shelter from the sun on Bot Beach is possible, but not all its length.
Beach photo
Quarrel over the photo, it was overcast, so it looks a bit sad. In life and in sunny weather, there is, indeed, very good and beautiful.
View to the left from the center of the beach
In the increase – the left edge of Bottle Beach
View to the left from the center of the cape. As you can see, from the other side, by sea, Boat Beach too
View to the right from the center of the beach
And right behind the yellow flag is the mouth of the river that divides the beach. in two parts
Beach at the back
In cloudy weather, the beach looks without much showiness.
Infrastructure
Like most beaches isolated from civilization, Haad Khuad infrastructure is services and services that offered by five to six resorts in the area. Separate there are rooms for a couple of restaurants and cafes, there are massage houses and bars. Equipment rental, travel agency services, currency exchange and other amenities for tourists will have to ask at the reception one from resorts.
All of them are located at a distance of about 100 meters from the coastal lines. Behind the hotels there is nothing but a wild jungle and very bad dirt road.
There are no shops and sights on Bot Beach. Nearest the store is located on one of the nearby beaches of Tong Nai Pan, and this about 8 kilometers of mountainous soil, and not the easiest roads. Honestly, the beach of Haad Khuad itself is closed such an inaccessible attraction of Phangan, to reach which along the shore is already a real adventure.
Therefore, either they come here just to look at Bot Beach itself. Either they are settled for a long time, they don’t remember about the shops, and in general – for other landmarks go to other parts of the island.
Closer to the left Bottle Beach there is a cafe with a thematic by design.
The view from here is quite good and reach the sea.
Breakfast options, quite affordable prices.
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This is how it looks with people in the frame.
Sea, Thai food, and my lunch on the beach
Houses and hotels on the beach
I usually check in and test housing myself, or at least checking traveler reviews on basic booking services, choosing the best and best in terms of price / quality. But in the case of Had Quad, you are limited by the size of the beach and as a result, small choice of housing.
Listed below are all available at Bottle Beach Resorts (detailed descriptions, see the links):
- Smile Bungalow Bottle Beach
- Bottle Beach 1 Resort
- Haad Khuad Resort
- Bottle Beach 2 Bungalows
The whole coastline is a bungalow of different quality, right on the shore
The tallest hotel on the beach
Hotels on Bottle Beach →
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For the lazy, here are the direct links to the hotels listed above:
- Smile Bungalow Bottle Beach
- Bottle Beach 1 Resort
- Haad Khuad Resort
- Bottle Beach 2 Bungalows
- Sucasa Guesthouse
How to find the beach
Bottle Beach has its own marker on Google maps, there is it on my map at the end of this post. You can get here by three ways:
- on a scooter to the beach
- on a scooter to the trail, and then on foot along the rocks
- on the boat
On a scooter you can easily get on a very wide track. before the ordinary exit to the dirt road. The turn is marked on my map, as well as the last section of a flat primer, after which begins a serious test of your driving skills. And I I strongly recommend not to risk on cars – front-wheel drive will not pull.
Only four-wheel drive, only hardcore. Scooter drivers too should be tested on dry stone crumb and longitudinal ravine, downhill and with sharp turns. Especially with the passenger or, God forbid, with children.
All inexperienced motorbikers and car drivers will walk along the trail with pointers to Bottle Beach, and for reliability covered with plastic bottles throughout its length. At the very In fact, it is garbage, but you can use it as a guide.
Trekking is quite simple, but with unaccustomed, yes in the heat, you can catch dehydration – stock up on water, just don’t throw it away bottles along the way. The trail ends on the beach itself. Beach
As you understand, the most cheating way is a taxi-boat, but he the most expensive too. The price of the crossing will increase according to your distance from the end point, so I would proposed to combine land and water transport. Get to closest to Haad Khuad, the nearby beach, where laid human road, for example, to Haad Tong Nai Pan Noi.
There, drop vehicles and transfer to the taxi-boat, which for 150-200 baht will take you to the right place without any adventures. Just remember, you need several people, one for this The amount is not lucky. Alternatively, you can still swim with Chaloclama.
The easiest way to get to Bottle Beach is taxi cab
As can be seen in the pictures – the depth allows boats to approach close to the beach
Beach map
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