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Median price per night in Phuket Town by star class, with the 25th–75th percentile range and the number of hotels behind each figure, followed by what the hotel stock actually looks like on the ground.
East coast · 32 km from the airport · Phuket Town: hotels, villas and living costs
A hotel night in Phuket Town costs a median of $33 across all classes (n = 36, September 2026), for two adults booking thirty days ahead, before taxes. By class: $30 for a three-star room (n = 18, middle half $21 – $57) and $50 for a four-star room (n = 9, middle half $39 – $79). The five-star class has fewer than five hotels in the sample and no median. For a four-star room Phuket Town ranks 6th of 15 areas, cheapest first, 19% below the island median of $62.
USD per night, two adults, check-in 30 days ahead, before taxes and fees; low–high are the 25th and 75th percentiles of the sample. A class with fewer than five hotels shows its sample size and no median.
| Class | Median / night | Low – high (P25 – P75) | n | As of | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3★ hotel | $30 | $21 – $57 | 18 | September 2026 | |
| 4★ hotel | $50 | $39 – $79 | 9 | September 2026 | |
| 5★ hotel | — | — | 1 · below the minimum sample | September 2026 | |
| All classes | $33 | $23 – $56 | 36 | September 2026 |
Online booking platforms, measured September 2026, n = 36. Sparklines appear once a series has at least two monthly points.
Phuket Town in the figure colour, the island-wide median of the same class beside it · Online booking platforms, measured September 2026, n = 36
Phuket Town's hotels are boutique in the Old Town and business-oriented outside it. In the shophouse grid the addresses are renovated heritage buildings — The Memory at On On Hotel, the island's oldest, Casa Blanca on Phuket Road — plus a dozen small guesthouses and a good stock of hostels for backpackers and remote workers. Beyond the grid, the chain hotels serve business travellers: Courtyard by Marriott Phuket Town and mid-range hotels near the malls and the bus terminal.
That mix produces one of the lowest three-star medians on the island and an all-classes figure well under the island's, with no five-star sample at all: there are no beach resorts and no beach. The town is the choice for food, architecture and the Sunday walking street on Thalang Road, with the nearest sea at Ao Yon on the Panwa cape twenty minutes away and Kata or Karon thirty to forty minutes west. Villas in the resort sense do not exist, but the hills around town have houses and townhouses, and the condominium supply is the island's largest, with rents set for Thai residents rather than tourists.
There is no beach in Phuket Town: Saphan Hin on the southern seafront is a park and a working harbour. The nearest swimming is Ao Yon on the Panwa cape, a sheltered east-coast bay calm year-round about twenty minutes away; Kata and Karon are thirty to forty minutes west.
$33 a night is the median across all classes in Phuket Town (n = 36, September 2026), with the middle half of the sample between $23 – $56. By class: $30 three-star and $50 four-star. Two adults, one night booked thirty days ahead, before taxes and fees; observed in the low season.
$50 a night, the median of 9 four-star hotels in Phuket Town in September 2026; the middle half of them cost $39 – $79. That is 19% below the island-wide four-star median of $62, 6th of 15 areas cheapest first.
No: for a four-star room in September 2026, Phuket Town's median of $50 is 11% dearer than Chalong's $45; the full picture is Chalong ($45 — Phuket Town is 11% dearer than it) and Panwa ($110 — Phuket Town is 55% cheaper than it). Neighbouring areas are the ones that share a road or a headland with Phuket Town; each has its own page in this hub with the full class table.
The four-star median in Phuket Town is $50 (n = 9) against $30 for three-star (n = 18), a premium of $20 a night or 67% (September 2026). The five-star class has 1 hotel in the sample, under the minimum of five, so no median is published for it. Ratings are declared by the hotels themselves: where the ranges ($21 – $57 against $39 – $79) overlap, the classes compete for the same guest.
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