About Koh Phangan Life

An independent island guide — not a booking conglomerate and not a pay-to-list directory. We cover the whole island: where to stay, where to eat, wellness and yoga, the beaches, things to do, the neighbourhoods, and practical guides to planning a trip.

The aim is simple: be the most useful, most honest, most current reference for Koh Phangan — the page we'd want a friend to have before they came.

Every place shows its real Google rating and review count — a live snapshot, not a number we invent or sell. We apply quality thresholds (rating and a meaningful number of reviews), filter out places that aren't actually on Koh Phangan, and organise everything by area and category so it's easy to find what fits you.

Ranking is driven by those real ratings, never by payment. No business can buy a higher spot, and we don't accept money to add or move a listing.

The guides, area pages and beach pages combine first-hand knowledge of the island with the same real listing data — then every fact is checked against reliable sources and reviewed for accuracy before it goes live. Where something can't be verified, we leave it out rather than guess.

We keep dates and details current, because a guide that quietly goes stale is worse than no guide at all.

Some links to book a stay or a tour are affiliate links (through partners like Trip.com and GetYourGuide). If you book through one, we may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you.

It never influences what we list or how places rank. Selection and ordering are driven by real Google ratings; the commission just helps keep the lights on and the guide free.

Listing photos, ratings and review counts come from Google Places and are attributed accordingly. They refresh from a live snapshot, so what you read here tracks what real visitors are saying now.