UPDATED for 2019-20 Season
Klong Prao Beach resorts, hotels, bungalows and guesthouses are spread out along the full length of the beach (3km+), with other accommodation on the small streets leading off the main road down towards the sand or inland towards the mountains.
Being the largest area on the island, in effect the complete middle section of the west coast, you are spoilt for choice with everything from the larger Koh Chang hotels to luxurious resorts, mid range bungalows to guesthouses and backpacker hang-outs.
The temple area is commonly thought of as the central section, with the nearest accommodation to that around the southern canal.
From the beach, there will always be a few minutes walk to the restaurants up on the street. Wherever you stay, ambling along the sand cuts down the distances considerably, as well as being much more pleasant than the hot dusty road. Simply use the the resorts as shortcuts – smile sweetly and keep going, nobody will notice.
Luxury and Mid Range Resorts, Hotels – Klong Prao Beach
Klong Prao Beach has the highest concentration of large upscale resorts on the island, with places like The Dewa, Emerald Cove, Santhiya Tree, Aana Resort, Centara Tropicana, Barali Beach Resort and Ramayana Resort offering standards and indeed prices a cut above the norm.
With the exception of Aana Resort and Ramayana Resort which are located on the northern canal (klong) and the road leading down to it, all are found along the beachfront, giving instant sea access for those wanting a change from their excellent swimming pools.
Rooms vary from those in hotel-style buildings over a couple of floors (Emerald Cove) to cabana villas on walkways (Aana Resort) to huge villas with plunge pools (Santhiya Tree) to deluxe grand villas with jacuzzis at The Dewa.
As a guide, prices in high season are:-
- Emerald Cove: 4,700bt for deluxe room to 16,575bt for ocean suite
- Dewa: 5,700bt for deluxe room to 15,200bt for grand villa
- Santhiya Tree: 7,700bt for deluxe room to 18,600bt for pool access deluxe
- Centara Tropicana: 5,450bt for superior room to 10,950bt for Cabana suite
- Barali: 4,900bt for deluxe to 8,4200bt for junior suite
- Aana: 2,700bt for deluxe room to 6,750bt for villa with plunge pool
- Ramayana: 2,800bt for deluxe to 6,200bt for family suite
These would include breakfast, taxes. Expect them to go up again for peak season (around 24/12 to 5/1 or later)
At the start of the whole area, Klong Prao Resort is another huge 2/3 star resort, popular with Thai and European tours. Prices range from 2,300bt for double up to 4,000bt for a villa room. Its sister resort, Bhu Tarn is more boutique in style, 3,000bt for a 2 room family accommodation up to 5,750bt for its suite.
Noren Resort, a popular family spot, is another very solid 2/3 star choice located road side just after the central temple area. Double rooms start at 2,700bt.
VJ Searenity is in prime location between The Dewa and Emerald Cove. Not in their league, it is still popular with eastern Europeans and for its location, worth considering. Prices are from 3,300bt for doubles on their website.
At the far southern end, three older Klong Prao Beach resorts, popular with Thai weekenders, sit side by side on the sand, Koh Chang Cabana, 1,700bt to 2,000bt a night, Magic Resort and Choc Dee Resort where fan rooms go from 700bt.
Built along the northern canal where it meets the beach, Long Stay Resort has large villas with kitchens and sitting areas. A month’s rent comes in at 40,000bt, which if on a long winter holiday, maybe more reasonable than it might seem as 1st glance.
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Pricing Code/Per night in Baht (B):
B= under 500; BB= 500 to 1,500; BBB= 1,500 to 3,000; BBBB= over 3,000;
The Dewa
Per Night: BBBB+
On the beach at the southern end, contemporary and stylish, deluxe rooms opening onto the long swimming pool or unique round villas and grand villas. Restaurant, beach bar, spa. One of the island’s top resorts.
Koh Chang Tropicana Beach Resort and Spa
Per Night: BBBB+
Large resort with superior and deluxe rooms or cabanas. Swimming pools, restaurants, bars, spa, beach volleyball, yoga. Managed by the Centara Group, so expect good service, well delivered, clean and comfortable. On the beach towards the southern end.
Santhiya Tree
Per Night: BBBB+
Large resort running down to the sea with accommodation in deluxe or private plunge pool villas set in tropical gardens. A further hotel block on the canal was added in the last couple of years. 3 tiered swimming pool, spa, restaurant, bar.
Barali Beach Resort
Per Night: BBBB+
Contemporary villas and suites, some with private pool, set in peaceful tropical gardens. Swimming pool, children’s pool, spa, restaurant, bar. On the beach.
Aana Resort and Spa
Per Night: BBB-BBBB+
Fabulously designed resort on the canal at the northern end, with deluxe rooms in two storey building, designer villas with plunge pools, wooden walkways, gardens, swimming pools, spa, restaurant by the klong, kayak to the beach.
Ramayana Resort and Spa
Per Night: BBB-BBBB+
Inland from the canal (klong) at the northern end, another large scale resort with good value deluxe rooms and suites, swimming pool, spa and restaurants, all set in tropical gardens. Free transport to own stretch of beach some 10 minutes away.
Bhu Tarn Resort
Per Night: BBBB
Up by the road at the northern end, selection of solid well apppointed villas around the pool or in a row on the small waterway that backs onto Klong Prao Resort, its sister. Swimming pool and restaurant.
Noren Resort
Per Night: BBB-BBBB
Small Swedish owned resort in the centre of Klong Prao near the road and next door to The Gallery. 15 well- equipped bungalows, swimming pool, restaurant. 10 minute walk to the beach.
Koh Chang Longstay Resort
Per Night: BBBB+++ (weekly)
On the canal at the northern end, new well appointed self catering bungalows with bedroom and separate sitting areas, looking out over the river. Restaurant and the beach a few paces away. Weekly rental only.
Choc Dee Resort
Per Night: BB-BBBB
At the far southern end of the beach, bungalows up on the hill and on the seafront, fan or a/c, standard, deluxe or family. Small hotel building. Seafood restaurant.
Smaller Hotels, Bungalows and Guesthouses – Klong Prao Beach
For lower budgets, Klong Prao Beach also has a selection of smaller hotels, bungalow resorts and guesthouses.
The Gallery is a practical economy hotel complete with swimming pool, a few minutes walk to the beach – superior rooms start at 2,350bt, studio rooms at 4,000bt. At the southern end opposite the entrances to Grand Cabana and Magic Resort, Kachapol Hotel is another clean and well-run motel, within very easy walking distance of the beach, with prices from 750bt for a standard double.
Also worth a look is the Italian owned Boonya Resort towards the southern end, inland but only a short walk to the beach, It offers fan rooms from 650bt on its small motel block through to family bungalows by the pool at 2,200bt. The much bigger, Sofia Garden Resort is in the same stretch, with about 80 rooms in total, prices ranging from 1,500bt upwards
VJ Bed and Breakfast, sister resort to VJ Searenity and indeed VJ Island View in Chai Chet, is at the rear of Klong Prao Temple. Popular with eastern Europeans, its double rooms start at 1,200bt .
For the backpacker, the recently renovated Tiger Huts is probably the pick of the bunch. It also has a great restaurant, an ideal vantage point to watch the world go by. KP Huts, next door, gives you another option, with its fun brightly painted accommodation up on stilts. Prices at either start from 700bt upwards. Riverview Hostel has mixed or female only dorms from 500bt a night on the northern canal just around the corner from Aana Resort. Bee Sleep, one of two branches on the island, is 315bt per night upwards for beds in their mixed dorms, with female only also available. It’s located street side at the northern end near to Klong Prao Resort.
On the southern canal, Blue Lagoon, home of the cooking school, is a long running favourite under French management. Fan rooms can be as low as 650bt per night in high season, family rooms and the unqiue eco room at 2,000bt. Just behind it, Sabaidee Resort is another good value spot from 1,300bt a night, whilst also new here, offering very much the same, Baan Klong Gog has its own row of bungalows – both are just a couple of minutes walk from the sand.
Also near to Blue Lagoon, Papaya Cottage offers standard bungalows in a quiet garden setting, prices around 1,200bt per night in high season.
On the northern canal, Baan Talay is a stylish nautically themed guesthouse run by Phu Talay Restaurant, while Sapparot Bar and Moley’s Resort are a few doors down, each offer just a few rooms in single level buildings behind their respective restaurants and bars, prices from 1,000bt a night.
On the opposite bank, Baan Rim Nam is a long established guesthouse, popular in tripadvisor, rooms from 1,000bt to 1,900bt. Next door, the Dutch owned Watercolours has five rooms, 1,400bt to 2,400bt.
For long stay options, Leelawadee or Kongtarra, both by Klong Prao school up on the road, are happy to do deals on their nightly rates of around 1,000bt. Opposite Ramayana Resort, try Baan Suan also, where large bungalows for monthly rentals are around 13,000bt to 15,000bt.
P and Pu House, tightly packed bungalows set back from the road not far from the main entrance to Centara Tropicana has minimum stay of 2 nights from 3,300bt. Iyara Resort, inland opposite the temple has superior rooms from 1,200bt a night, again a useful option for long stay.
Big Elk Steakhouse and Bungalows offer a wide range of rooms, from just 300bt for its most basic fan to 1,800bt for a bungalow around its small pool. Anna Homestay off the road leading to Santhiya Tree has a selection of clean simple bungalows from 800bt a night.
At the far end, Jungle View Bungalows has accommodation from 1,500bt upwards in its wooden style rooms, complete with swimming pool.
The Gallery
Per Night: BB-BBB
Newish keenly priced hotel of 48 rooms with mountain view, pool view or standard. Swimming pool, restaurant, short walk to the beach and the central temple area of restaurants and shops.
Kachapol Hotel
Per Night: BB
A/c standard rooms in a small no frills practical hotel at the southern end. No restaurant but food available, car parking. Across the road through one of the resorts to the beach.
Watercolours
Per Night: BB-BBB
Set on the canal at the northern end, small Dutch owned guesthouse with five a/c ensuite rooms. Kayak to the beach, jacuzzi, small restaurant.
Baan Rim Nam
Per Night: BB-BBB
Long established, popular guesthouse with 5 double a/c rooms in adjacent houses with decks, in this converted fisherman’s dwelling on the canal at the northern end. Breakfast available.
Moley’s Resort
Per Night: BB
On the canal at the northern end, 3 nicely designed a/c rooms in a converted fisherman’s house with restaurant and bar area by the water. Kayak to the beach.
Tiger Huts
Per Night: B-BB
At the northern end of the beach, newly renovated backpacker fan huts, with and without bathroom, in 3 rows on the sand. Good lively restaurant attached.
KP Huts
Per Night: B-BBB
Next door to Tiger Huts, brightly painted fan bungalows with bathroom, high up on stilts on the sand or more basic affairs with and without bathroom in the next row. Quiet and popular spot, restaurant on site.
Blue Lagoon
Per Night: BB-BBB
On the canal at the southern end, fan and a/c bungalows, including an eco build on the lagoon or in the garden at this French set-up. Family rooms, restaurant, all sorts of activities, early evening bar. Recommended cooking school at the rear.
Sabaidee Resort
Per Night: BB
On the back road to Blue Lagoon, a handful of a/c bungalows with bathroom. No restaurant but a couple of minutes only from the beach and beach cafes over the pontoon bridge.
Papaya Cottage
Per Night: BB
Run by an Italian couple, new resort on the back road from The Gallery offering a handful of clean, practical a/c ensuite bungalows. Short walk to the beach, easy access to the central area of Klong Prao.
Boonya Resort
Per Night: BB-BBB
At the southern end, inland on the oceanside of the road, about 8 minutes walk from the beach. Bungalows around a small pool, separate 2 storey motel block. Restaurant, car parking, WiFi. Friendly and knowledgeable Italian owner.
Big Elk Steakhouse and Bungalows
Per Night: B-BBB
Shortly after Noren Resort in the central area, wide selection of rooms in a small 2 storey building, fan, share bathroom through to queen size a/c. Bungalows also. WiFi, restaurant, small swimming pool, about 12 minutes to the beach.
Jungle View Bungalows
Per Night: BB-BBB
Located street side at the far southern end, just a few minutes walk to either Klong Prao or Kai Bae Beach, selection of garden standard or deluxe bungalows, a/c, bathroom, safe, key card. Swimming pool, restaurant and bar.
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