Finding out the location	easy
Access	easy
Safety	unsafe
Risk of being seen	very high
General condition of the place	very bad
Traces of vandalism	none or very few
Good place for taking pictures?	good
Did you see other people?	very many

Visit date    February 7 2018 at 13 hr
Visit duration    5 hours


I don’t know the full story about this abandon resort; this is just what I have experienced and what I found about it afterwards on the Internet.

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Sometimes you build too big, aim to high … and then you can’t live up to the expectations. I think this was the case with this abandoned resort.

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While travelling with my family in Thailand I saw mostly beautiful beaches, wonderful restaurants and met friendly people. My family isn’t too much (not at all) into urbex so I was thinking I would have to do it on my own or not at all. I had just accepted that this was not going to be an urbex trip when this happened.

One day we went to a new beach 15 minutes from our home. The taxi driver took us behind “No trespassing”-signs into this public (?) beach (there was a sign saying, “public beach”, after you crossed the first sign, “No trespassing”).

This beach was a beautiful little gem and we spent a whole day here playing in the waves. Chickens were running on the beach picking up the food people threw away from their picnic (...). And suddenly, when everyone was in the water accept from me, I was reading a book; there was a sow and her ten little piglets running over our laid-out towels – the mother pig had her aim on our watermelon.

This is just that typical thing that only seems to happen to me. I ran around chasing the pigs, trying to save our towels from getting little piglet footsteps (and other leftovers pigs do) on them. Finally, mama pig was satisfied with some peel from the melon and all was well again.

A little bit later I went for a short walk along the shoreline and found these small bungalows. At first (from afar) I didn’t notice they were abandoned but then I saw that the windows were boarded up, broken roofs and there was one house without doors and windows.

Sometimes, if you can’t go look for urbex – the urbex finds you. I was thrilled with this spooky, abandoned resort that appeared in front of me.

Later I googled the place and found some indicators that the houses I found might belong to a huge resort a bit further away. Some reviews said that the owners just cut off parts of the resort that they couldn’t keep high enough standard on and used old pictures to get new guest to live in the parts of the resort that wasn’t just as damaged.

The reviews were not great on this place, I can tell you that. Some described it as deserted, in need of a full and total renovation, pool being closed and beach being muddy and polluted (not my experience from our day on the beach though). Strangely there were also a lot of five-star reviews made very recent and at the same period. Just five stars with no text in the review ... Although, the average rating didn’t go up to more than 2,8/5 because of the conflicting reviews of the place.

I fantasized about buying this place, get it renovated and live the tropical dream. Just fantasies of course, I don’t know anything about being a hotel manager, or even about simple renovations, and this place needs more than just the final touches.

Although I don’t know the full story here, I know that this place was abandoned because of economic problems, not the tsunami. It was very important for me not to explore and romanticize places in Thailand that was lost in the tsunami. Here no lives were lost, just money.

My photos are not really good from this place, this was before I tried to take nice shots, when I just wanted to document everything I saw. :)

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