There are just 4 Koh Wai resorts and bungalows, all located on the north coast beaches.
The backpacker style huts at Paradise Resort, Good Feeling Bungalows and Grandmar Huts are a mixture of rooms and huts with shared facilities, together with bungalows with attached bathrooms. Rates range from 350bt to 500bt for the basic rooms to 800bt/900bt and 1,200bt for the bungalows.
All are fan only and with a few exceptions at Paradise, it’s generator electricity only from 18.00 to 21.00 or 22.00. There is no WiFi but you can get mobile data.
The bungalows at Pakarang Resort are a step up in quality, but don’t expect high end! Prices start at 700bt for fan and go up to 2,500bt or more for family a/c rooms. Electricity is on all night, with WiFi available in the common areas, mobile data everywhere.
Paradise also has some 2 person and 4 person ensuites with all night electric from 1,200bt to 2,000bt (4 person).
Koh Wai Beach Resort, just around the corner from the other resorts on the east coast, is closed and may not reopen again.
Pricing Code/Per night in Baht (B):
B= under 500; BB= 500 to 1,500; BBB= 1,500 to 3,000; BBBB= over 3,000;
Resorts and Bungalows in Koh Wai
Koh Wai Paradise Resort
Per Night: B – BBB
On The Beach
On a lovely stretch of beach, 30 thatch and wood bungalows, some two storey family rooms, shared bathroom, some ensuite, all with fans only. Popular restaurant, own pier. Electricity from 18.00 to 23.00. There are a few rooms too with all night electric, ensuite too.
Prime spot for daytrippers, so days can be very busy. Room numbers in the 30’s away from the crowds, with 36 and 37 on their own cove.
Good Feeling Bungalows
Per Night: B to BB
On The Beach
Small friendly operation of cabins on the hillside above its restaurant, with shared bathroom or wooden bungalows with their own bathroom on the beach, daytripper free, further round the coast. Electricity 18.00 to 22.00. Shares the pier with Paradise, with the restaurant located at its start.
Ao Yai Ma (Grandmar Huts)
Per Night: B to BB
On The Beach
Most remote of the north coast resorts and only one on the island owned and run by an original Koh Wai family. Very simple fan rooms with shared bathroom on the hillside or 3 to 4 fan bungalows with bathroom on a small sandy cove. Own pier and restaurant (good for seafood). Electricity 18.00 to 21.00. Fabulous beach a few hundred metres further along the shore, with limited daytrippers.
Koh Wai Pakarang Resort
Per Night: BB – BBB
Whole array of different style accommodation from small rooms with fan to large a/c bungalows, all by or above the gritty sand beach. Own pier and conference room, restaurant, small shop. Electricity all night, satellite WiFi, kayaks. Can be busy with daytrippers.
Koh Wai Beach Resort
Per Night: BBB – BBBB
Reached only by sea, selection of 8 hillside bungalows, 10 beachfront villas, teak houses and larger family houses with 2 or 3 bedrooms, fan and a/c. Restaurant, electricity all night, kayaks. Mobile data coverage.
UPDATED February 2nd 2023
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