Phayamas Private Beach Resort and Island Brew - Adults Only

Very clean and very helpful. Accommodated letting me stay a day longer due to missing the boat. Friendly staff

Good place good service

Bungalows are nice, aircon, hot and cold shower, good beds, nice veranda with hammock, lovely situated and spotless clean. So is the Staff. Excellent and always offering to do something extra. They give you the 5* feeling. Restaurant is very good. Creditcards accepted. Only thing which can improve is the number of sun-beds and parasols at the pool. Also at the beach only 8 sun-beds and no mattresses for them. The place is popular for parents with young children and young couples (honeymoners), at least when we visited. The beach is not very nice. at low tide you cannot swimm. At high tide hip deep water for 100m. So you need a motorcycle to get to other beaches.

We spent three days here in a deluxe bungalow, ate twice in the evening as well as breakfasts and rented a scooter. An enquiry about the grades of bungalow was answered promptly and the transfer arrangements perfect. The bungalow was great and the general environment very nice indeed. Nice pool and the beach is fine for a stroll. Scooter rental also easy. So all in all a very nice place to stay; we enjoyed it and the accommodation provided a relaxing and stress free residence for the three days spent on the island. My problem was the food as although breakfast was good other meals were not up to much. Apart from a dish of aubergine chips which were amazing the dishes were basic and uninspiring. Okay, it’s a restaurant on a small laidback island but I would rather eat elsewhere where dishes were interesting and tasty even if fairly basic. A fish of the day dish (same fish on each day we were there) was well cooked but I didn’t finish it and the accompanying vegetables just bland. The restaurant shuts at 9pm which is fine but so too does the bar. You could buy a drink to keep you going but they just turn all the lights off when the staff leave. Come on, someone must be able to turn the lights off when the customers have gone to bed. And, no red wine! They sell white but not red? I have given the place a score of 3 which is called Average by TA and that’s a bit hard but a score of 4 is Very Good and it wasn’t that. It was good, I was glad to stay there and if I ever went to Phayama again would probable stay there again. But you will find much better food easily elsewhere.

Phayamas is my favorite resort on the island. The owners, KT and Taey, and the whole team are always so welcoming! The rooms are spacious and clean and the food is delicious. Best part? Having one of their craft beers while floating in the pool listening to the sun aves crash on the beach below…paradise.

We loved the tranquility of the resort and could imagine staying much longer if we had had the time! (We’ll come back!). Its nicely laid-out garden, scattered with spacious bungalows with attached bathrooms, swimming pool, and a short pathway down to a private beach without other tourists, is the perfect place to wind down. Couple that with a restaurant serving freshly caught seafood, which Katie, the owner, went to catch herself earlier that day, and… their own craft Phayamas pale ale (!) and it’s like a little paradise away from home. Even though it’s tucked away from the main road, it’s easy enough to rent a motorcycle and reach other spots on the islands within 10 minutes to catch the sunset, for example.

We absolutely loved this place - it really is something special. The island itself is amazing due to how quiet and simple it is and so it makes everything about Phayamas feel all the more luxurious. After days spent exploring the island it was the perfect retreat to come back to for amazing service, really excellent food and A/C! The pool is a real bonus too. Katie did all our transfer arrangements for us, nothing is too much to ask. I just hope I can return one day - thank you!