Phuket hotel prices by area and class

Across all 15 areas and every star class the median hotel room on Phuket costs $78 a night (n = 628, October 2026). By class the ladder runs $56 for a three-star room (n = 181), $107 for a four-star (n = 210) and $213 for a five-star (n = 95). The middle half of each class — the 25th to 75th percentile — is $40 – $78 for three stars, $66 – $174 for four and $138 – $333 for five, which says something important about the island: the four-star range is wide enough to overlap both its neighbours, because "four-star" on Phuket covers a city hotel with a pool and a beachfront resort that never asked for a fifth star.

On price alone, the cheapest areas for a four-star room are Phuket Town ($59), Chalong ($63), Rawai ($67), Patong ($72) and Nai Yang ($76). They share a pattern: each is a town with many hotels and competition between them — Patong's resort strip, Rawai and Chalong's long-stay south, Nai Yang's airport village, Karon's mid-range beach road. The priciest are Mai Khao ($357), Layan ($272) and Nai Thon ($166), where the resort is the district and there is no town to undercut it.

Every figure on these pages is the median of a fixed search: one night for two adults in one room, check-in thirty days after the snapshot, the cheapest available room of each property, in US dollars, before taxes and fees. The search is repeated for all 15 areas, results are merged, de-duplicated and assigned to an area by coordinates — the nearest area centre within its radius — so a hotel on the Kata–Karon border counts once, in one district, whatever the platform calls it. Star classes are the properties' own declared ratings; hostels, dormitories and one- and two-star properties stay in the raw dump but are not published as a class, which is why the "all classes" median can sit below the three-star one in a district with many guesthouses.

The three-star class — the budget end of the published index — has an island median of $56 (n = 181) and is deepest in Phuket Town, Mai Khao and Patong by price and in the resort towns by count; Layan, Nai Thon and Panwa have too few three-star hotels for a figure. Four-star, at $107 (n = 210), is the widest class and the one most visitors book; every area has a published four-star median. Five-star, at $213 (n = 95), is concentrated on the west-coast headlands, the northern beaches and the Panwa cape; Nai Thon, Nai Harn, Rawai and Phuket Town have fewer than five five-star hotels in the sample and no median.

Hotel medians are per night; from about three weeks the arithmetic changes. The villas series of the same index prices entire homes by the month in the same 15 areas, after the platforms' long-stay discounts, and in the districts with a large villa market — Bang Tao, Rawai, Chalong, Nai Harn — a three-bedroom house for a month often costs less than thirty nights in the four-star column above. The villa figures live on the price-index pages and on each area page of this hub; the form at the bottom of this page goes to a Phuket agency that handles monthly rentals and replies the same day.