Une demi-journée, cinq ou six districts, une voiture et quelqu’un qui vit ici. Sans frais ni engagement : c’est ainsi que Layan Real Estate rencontre ceux qui choisissent où acheter sur l’île ou y rester six mois et plus.
Partenaire : Layan Real Estate · Bang Tao → Layan → Surin → Kamala → Chalong → Rawai
The orientation tour is a free half-day drive through six Phuket districts with someone from Layan Real Estate who lives on the island. It exists for one decision — which district — and it is offered to people who are choosing where to buy or where to rent for six months or more. You see the streets, the schools, the shops and the beach roads, hear what a month there costs from the index, and go home with a shortlist of two districts instead of fifteen.
One group a day, four to five hours, pick-up from your hotel or villa in the west or the south, nothing to sign and nothing to pay.
The car leaves at nine from the west coast and finishes in the south by early afternoon; the order reverses when you stay in Rawai or Chalong. Each stop is twenty to thirty minutes on foot in the part of the district where people actually live, with a drive-past of two or three residential projects on the way out, so that by the end the names in a catalogue mean a street you have walked.
Nai Harn, Phuket Town and the Panwa cape are swapped in when the brief calls for them — a family looking at BISP or HeadStart, someone who wants a town rather than a beach, a buyer of a sea-view villa on the east side. A full day covers nine districts; that is the exception.
Three-bedroom pool villa, USD per month, median of the September 2026 revision of the Phuket Travel Price Index; n after each bar is the sample. A district without a bar has fewer than five observations.
The catalogue side of the same districts — price per square metre, entry prices and declared yields — is on each district page under “Buying in …”, and on the investment tour page as one table. Snapshot September 5, 2026.
The tour is free because it is how the agency meets its clients, and that only works if the people in the car are choosing a district for a long time. So the condition is plain: you are considering buying a home on Phuket, or renting one for six months or more, and you have not yet settled where. Families relocating for a school year, couples who have rented a month twice and want the next year, retirees comparing the south with the north-west, and buyers who prefer to see streets before they read a catalogue are the usual passengers.
If you are on the island for a week and want beaches and viewpoints, the day tours are better value for your time; if you already have a shortlist of projects and a budget, the investment tour goes inside the buildings this one only drives past. And if you are between the two — renting now, buying later — say so in the form; the route stays the same and the conversation changes.
Not a sales drive: nobody shows you a show flat, and the projects along the road are pointed at, not visited. Not a promise of anything: the rents and prices quoted are the index’s medians with their dates and samples, and where the index has no figure we say so instead of guessing. Not a private car for the day: the route is the route, with one or two swaps, and one group goes out per morning. Not a substitute for the lawyer: ownership, leases and visas are covered on the investment tour’s third day and in the visa guide, not in the car.
Yes. There is no fee, no deposit and nothing to sign. Layan Real Estate runs it to meet people who are choosing a district before they choose a house; if you later rent or buy through the agency it is paid by the landlord or the developer, and if you do not, the morning cost you nothing.
Anyone seriously deciding where on Phuket to buy a home or to rent for six months or more — families looking at schools, couples comparing coasts, investors who want to see districts before catalogues. It is not a sightseeing service: holidaymakers with a week on the island will enjoy the day tours more, and we say so when someone books by mistake.
Six in half a day: Bang Tao, Layan, Surin and Kamala on the west coast, then over the hills to Chalong and Rawai in the south — Bang Tao, Layan, Surin, Kamala, Chalong, Rawai. Nai Harn, Phuket Town or the Panwa cape replace a stop on request when they fit your brief better.
Streets, not show flats: the school gates and the supermarket in Bang Tao, the beach road in Layan, the hill villas above Kamala, the gated estates of Chalong, the long-stay village of Rawai and its pier. In each district we stop where residents shop and eat, drive past two or three residential projects from the outside, and talk about what a month there costs — the figures are the index’s, not opinions.
Fill in the four-step form on this page — what you are deciding, a budget if you buy, the month you are on the island, and a WhatsApp or Telegram contact. Artem replies personally, usually within 15 minutes between 9:00 and 20:00 Phuket time, with the next free morning; one group goes out a day.
Un groupe par jour, départ le matin. Dites-nous où vous logez et quel mois vous êtes ici.