First off, Maikhao Palm Beach Resort and Spa is great if you want a place to rest - and it works with your family too. They have family rooms, a huge area of swimming facilities including a children's pool, some small slides, sun chairs, and a pool bar. There is a building with a gym, table tennis table, spa, and children's play area ("kids zone" or something), which is great for indoor play when it is hot outside. Breakfast is excellent, with a variety of warm dishes, fresh egg station, breads and pastries, fruit and vegetables, cereals, teas and coffees, cold drinks (juices, etc.) and more. Please don't steal food from the breakfast buffet - that is dishonest, illegal, poor. There are rooms with sea view, rooms with forest view, probably all have a balcony. Some rooms have their own pool access (direct access to the large general use pool from their rooms, with a more private "landing" behind a hedge). Rooms come with AC, and a mini fridge too, which is nice if you want to cool some drinks or whatever. The beach is right across a small road from the hotel. Here, you'll get lots of smallish waves and views of fishing boats, as well as easy and comfortable access to the "viewing point" for airplanes at the Phuket airport (it is only a short walk from the hotel). Nearby: Just beside the hotel, you can find a stall selling fresh fruit and smoothies - they are great! On the other side of the hotel, on the same road, there is a restaurant called Yum yum on the beach. Food here is great and the staff is friendly. A little further down the road towards the airport, there are some more restaurants with food, and right down by the runway viewing area, you'll find motorcycle vendors with their snacks and souvenirs too. Final point: the staff at this resort are very friendly and helpful. Remember, they are Thai, they have a different culture and different sensibilities, and they overlook SO many faux pas from their guests.

The place is fairly big, so depending on your room, you may be quite a distance from the lobby/restaurants that you'll have to walk (you can request a lift, though, I think). One downside could be the relative distance from a market, but there are some restaurant and snack options nearby. You can also get into a village with Lotus's and 7-Elevens easily by bicycle or motorcycle with sidecar (or whatever mode if transport you prefer).

I loved this place. It's traditional Thai mixed with luxury. We had a pool room and I wish we had booked to stay longer. The food was great and the staff lovely. I would love to stay here again. The booking.com photos don't do this place justice.

We couldn't get WiFi in our room. No room service before 11am. Taxi's arranged by the hotel were very expensive.

Clean and beautiful building with friendly staff and excellent chefs with delicious food

Distance from big towns

Spacious and great big pool! Quiet local and friendly helpful staff.

It was a little run down and needed TLC and some deep cleaning.

Good value for money. Huge resort with lots of facilities. Two big pools with swim up bars. Great kids pool. Large, well appointed, clean and comfortable rooms. Extensive buffet breakfast included. Staff were nice. The resort is directly over the road from a long, white sandy beach. Very quiet area with are a few restaurants withing walking distance, but no shops. The town is a short drive away. The whole resort is a little old and run down but it would have been five star in it's day. That is why it is the price it is.

Initially we were put into a room on the 3rd floor where the view was completely blocked by a high roof directly in front. There would only be one or two rooms in the whole complex without a nice outlook. We asked to move and were allowed to change rooms the next day.

Location is perfect, close to the beach, airport. You can be often totaly alone on the beach, with hundreds of meters between you and other people. Rooms are clean, spacey and for thai standarts overall very good.

The hotel is always full of russian tourists, so you will be unfortunately witnesses of their horrible behaviour...especially during breakfasts.

The hotel, the room, the territory, the pool - everything is huge. The breakfast was great. The staff is awesome, very friendly and helpful. We were going to islands several days before check-in in this hotel and we asked for luggage box for our suitcases and got it for free! The hotel provides free bicycles to make the 7/11 and airplane viewpoint closer :))

The territory is very mysterious and strange. There are three abandoned buildings in front of our room, they are really scaring. There are no shops close to the hotel, you need to walk about 30 minutes or take a tuk-tuk to go the 7/11 shop, but there are some cozy local restaurants nearby.

We were very pleasantly surprised by Maikhao Palm Beach Resort. As we arrived quite late 9pm the hotel looked very quite and we didn't see any guests around! Waking up the next morning though started off with a lovely breakfast with many different options available. The breakfast was great! The hotel is enormous with many different room types available. The swim up pool rooms looked great. The pools were fantastic and very well kept with a swim up bar and beautiful tropical areas surrounding the property and the pools. A little tuk tuk is continually circling the property and takes you from a to b and to the beach only a couple of minutes away. If you have mobility issues though be warned there is quite a few steps at the entrance to the hotel but once inside there is lifts etc. Not a great deal to walk to in the surrounding area eg cafes, restaurants etc although you could happily spend all your time at the hotel quite comfortably for a relaxing break with no need to go out! This hotel was great value , fantastic pool areas and had lovely staff! We would definitely come and stay again , we loved it!

Nothing! We loved staying here! 😊

Clean and spacious room. Beautifully designed and decorated main building. Nice breakfast. Clean, warm, and very long swimming pool. Nice and helpful staffs. Close beach with only a few people. Quiet and beautiful surrounding. Free bicycle rental. Nice outside restorants within a walking distance. 7/11 and mini C market in 15 minute walk. Only 20 minute drive from the airport (the famous Patong beach we visited on the last day is crowded with too many people and takes 1 hour drive from the airport).

The beach is quite stiff. The water depth exceeds your height after five steps, and not good for children. But it was ok for good swimmers.

the room and the hotel with the pool are very beautiful

long distance from the restaurant to the rooms and to the beach, there is no train to the area, they only take your suitcases, not you