Don’t stay on this beach. You won’t get a wink of sleep with the unnecessarily loud bar music, blasting 90’s tunes over and over until 5am every night. It rattles the whole beach and was really frustrating after Day 1, until day 2 it repeated all over again.

Actually, you can find lots of different restaurant with different dishes, from Noddles to Kebab.

No you don't need . The beach is easily accessible

Some are unscrupulous, in that say you rent for a couple of days and return the bike they will look all over it and will normally find a small scrape on it , this they will charge a large amount for ie: 20 times what the rental cost was ! If you decide not to pay, they will threaten you with the police . Now this is not all of them , so photograph all round the bike before taking , then you have your proof . Its the same as the Jet Ski rentals , beware .

Si vous n'avez pas envie de vous enterrer sur la côté est, le mieux est de loger sur la cote ouest, aux alentours de thong sala...et de louer un scooter pour découvrir le reste de l'île. Évitez Hat rin, la plage la plus pourrie de Thaïlande, sauf si vous êtes amateur de grosse fête super défoncée....