Koh Samui’s 26 beaches offer visitors a fantastic choice of locations to do their holiday lazing. Each with its own special atmosphere and options for activity and entertainment. Thanks to Samui’s 51 km concrete ring road and its multitude of extensions, all the beaches and resort areas described are easily accessible and make traveling between between resort areas an enjoyable part of the holiday.
The northern beaches and their adjacent villages of Maenam, Bophut, Big Buddha and Choengmon offer a balance between the relative solitude of the west coast beaches around Lipa Noi and the largest, most popular destinations of Chaweng and Lamai on the east coast of the island, both with well established dining, shopping and entertainment infrastructures.
The regular ferries from Maenam, Bophut, Petchurat Pier and the adjacent Big Buddha are also the starting points for exploration of Koh Pha Ngan; the diving island of Koh Tao and the myriad islands of the Ang Thong Marine National Park.
Koh Samui’s tides are diurnal, meaning, unlike the majority of coastlines in the world which receive two, Samui only receives one high tide and one low tide every 24 hours. Most of the island’s resort beaches are attended by offshore reefs, behind which the sea can retreat at periods of very low tide which occur at certain times of the year. If the single daily high tide occurs at night or early morning, to the unfamiliar, the sea appears not to move. Baan Bophut is fortunate in that while we have a reef offshore it is never left fully exposed at low tide, although swimming is not recommended when tides are at their lowest. The reef ends within twenty metres to the of the hotel’s beach permitting sea bathing all year around with little inconvenience.
Resort towns & beaches
Koh Samui’s 26 beaches offer visitors a fantastic choice of locations to do their holiday lazing. Each with its own special atmosphere and options for activity and entertainment. Thanks to Samui’s 51 km concrete ring road and its multitude of extensions, all the beaches and resort areas described are easily accessible and make traveling between between resort areas an enjoyable part of the holiday.
The northern beaches and their adjacent villages of Maenam, Bophut, Big Buddha and Choengmon offer a balance between the relative solitude of the west coast beaches around Lipa Noi and the largest, most popular destinations of Chaweng and Lamai on the east coast of the island, both with well established dining, shopping and entertainment infrastructures.
The regular ferries from Maenam, Bophut, Petchurat Pier and the adjacent Big Buddha are also the starting points for exploration of Koh Pha Ngan; the diving island of Koh Tao and the myriad islands of the Ang Thong Marine National Park.
Koh Samui’s tides are diurnal, meaning, unlike the majority of coastlines in the world which receive two, Samui only receives one high tide and one low tide every 24 hours. Most of the island’s resort beaches are attended by offshore reefs, behind which the sea can retreat at periods of very low tide which occur at certain times of the year. If the single daily high tide occurs at night or early morning, to the unfamiliar, the sea appears not to move. Baan Bophut is fortunate in that while we have a reef offshore it is never left fully exposed at low tide, although swimming is not recommended when tides are at their lowest. The reef ends within twenty metres to the of the hotel’s beach permitting sea bathing all year around with little inconvenience.