Phuket Island Thailand-Rawai Beach nightlife, restaurants, hotels, shopping

Rawai Beach. Rawai Beach isn’t the best choice if you are looking for clear water and clean sand. It is known as a beach that has wonderful sea food restaurants right on the beach side of the road. Some of the restaurants are set up in a way that you are actually sitting on the ground by candlelight to have dinner. A favourite attraction for locals and tourists alike is the fresh seafood market just to the east of the new Rawai pier. Every afternoon around 2 pm all the fishing boats bring the days catch to this market. You will see every size and color of fish imaginable. Here there is a restaurant that will cook the day’s catch for you while you watch passersby looking over the fresh catch.

Places to stay in Rawai. Rawai has some nice oceanfront/beachfront resorts. Some of these even have pool villas. Some of the more well recognized resorts include the Evason Resort which has over 60 acres of magnificent grounds, the Vijit Resort, featuring many private pool villas. For a more modest budget, there’s Serenity Terraces resort which has private condominiums (one even owned for an ex Formula One world champion) and rustic Friendship Beach. All of these mentioned hotels are east facing and are on Chalong Bay. In addition to these upscale resorts, Rawai boasts many budget accommodations as to accommodate all of the people that stay in Rawai for Muay Thai lessons.

Places to eat in Rawai- Rawai has some great budget priced sea food restaurants located on the ocean side of the main beach road. Salaloy is the largest of these restaurants and serves up nice dishes for a reasonable price. Next to Salaloy is Baan Rimlay which serves food to the nearby Nikita Bar. On the opposite end of Rawai Beach is another big seafood restaurant that can accommodate a few hundred diners at a time, Baan Had Rawai. In between Baan Had Rawai and Salaloy is Nong Pim. It has it’s fair share of customers, but judging by the popularity of the other two mentioned here, Nong Pim is either more expensive or the food isn’t as good as the number of diners is never as much as the others. Local Steak houses of note include Norbu’s Steakhouse located by the Rawai Temple, and Mando’s steakhouse on the beach road in Rawai.

Things to do in Rawai. The Rawai Nai Harn area includes several Muay Thai gyms, of which Rawai Muay Thai was the first. There is now a Dragon Muay Thai, Lion Muay Thai, Sinbi Muay Thai, Nai Harn Boxing Gym and Promthep Muay Thai. Fishing off of the Rawai Pier is another popular activity, although rarely are any fish caught here. There is also a number of “saunas” which are actually more like steam rooms, where you can pay between 50-70 baht for unlimited sauna sessions per day. Most saunas also have massage facilities to work the kinks out. Halfway between Rawai and Chalong is the Phuket Horse riding facility. If you go here you have a choice of riding horses on the beach, or taking a mountain trail. There are also longtail boats that you can rent for daytrips out to the local islands. Parasailing is real popular here also as tour buses pull up and load up 50 people at a time into speedboats to ferry to where the parasailing takes place.

Rawai nightlife. Surprisingly enough, Rawai has an abundance of nightlife spots. This is due to the number of Muay Thai Camps in the area, as well having a lot of expats that call Rawai home. There are three popular areas of bars in Rawai. There is a group of bars between Nai Harn beach and Rawai beach including the Monkey House, Nancy Bar and Roxanne Bar. The next area that has a lot of bars is on the beach road in Rawai. Here such long standing names as Sunshine Bar, Moonlight Bar, Nikitas and Freedom Bar. On the main road from Rawai to Chalong there is a bar complex on the right hand side next to Siam Commercial Bank named Laguna complex. Here you will find 4 pool tables, 9 bars, and a disco that opens up at 2 am for the late night revelers.

Rawai is where a great deal of expats live due to it’s proximity to Nai Harn, and the fact that this area gets much less rain than other parts of the island. Rawai is a perfect place for expats in that there is an abundance of dining options, nightlife options, and Villa market which carries a lot of foreign food and drinks, is just 10 minutes away. Rawai is also the choice for everyone attending Muay Thai camps as there are an abundance of camps in this area.

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