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4-star hotels in Phuket: prices by area (October 2026)
Every area of the island with its median for the class, the 25th–75th percentile range and the number of hotels priced — cheapest first, then the areas where the class barely exists.
Source: Online booking platforms, measured October 2026, n = 210 · All sources
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Key facts
as of October 2026 · All sources- $107n = 210
- 4★ hotel, island median per night
- $66 – $174
- Low – high (P25 – P75)
- Phuket Town$59
- Cheapest area for a 4★ hotel
- Mai Khao$357
- Priciest area for a 4★ hotel
- 15 of 15
- Areas with a published median
- 1 night, 2 adults, check-in 30 days ahead, before taxes and fees
- Observation window
4-star hotels: median per night by area
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.
| # | Area | Median / night | Low – high (P25 – P75) | n | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phuket Town East coast | $59 | $46 – $92 | 12 | |
| 2 | Chalong East coast | $63 | $53 – $88 | 24 | |
| 3 | Rawai South | $67 | $52 – $79 | 16 | |
| 4 | Patong West coast | $72 | $49 – $139 | 12 | |
| 5 | Nai Yang North | $76 | $57 – $104 | 18 | |
| 6 | Nai Harn South | $79 | $68 – $96 | 6 | |
| 7 | Karon West coast | $114 | $104 – $150 | 12 | |
| 8 | Bang Tao West coast | $120 | $88 – $315 | 13 | |
| 9 | Kamala West coast | $124 | $85 – $245 | 22 | |
| 10 | Panwa East coast | $132 | $83 – $192 | 15 | |
| 11 | Surin West coast | $137 | $88 – $502 | 8 | |
| 12 | Kata West coast | $150 | $120 – $167 | 20 | |
| 13 | Nai Thon West coast | $166 | $157 – $175 | 5 | |
| 14 | Layan West coast | $272 | $122 – $486 | 11 | |
| 15 | Mai Khao North | $357 | $258 – $385 | 16 | |
| All Phuket | $107 | $66 – $174 | 210 |
Online booking platforms, measured October 2026, n = 210. Sparklines appear once a series has at least two monthly points.
4-star medians per night, cheapest area first; the dearest area in the figure colour · Online booking platforms, measured October 2026, n = 210
What the class buys you
Four-star is the widest class on Phuket and the one most visitors book. At its floor it is a city-style hotel with a pool, a restaurant and a gym; at its ceiling it is a beachfront resort with grounds, a spa and a kids club that has simply not asked for a fifth star. Both sit in the same column, which is why the low–high range for this class is broader than for three-star almost everywhere, and why the quartiles are worth more than the median in districts like Surin, Layan and Bang Tao where 'four-star' includes residences and villas sold by the night.
Location is the other variable. In Patong, Karon and Kata the four-star hotels are on or just behind the beach road; in Bang Tao they are inside or around the Laguna complex; in Kamala they are the family resorts on the flat; in Nai Yang and Mai Khao they are the resorts along the beach road with nothing else around. The class median in each area is therefore a fair summary of what a resort-standard night costs there, and the ranking below is a useful shortlist for a first trip: the cheapest districts in this class are the ones with many hotels and a town around them, and the priciest are the ones where the resort is the district.
Where a four-star hotel is cheapest, and where it is not
15 of the 15 areas have a published four-star median in October 2026, and it runs from $59 in Phuket Town to $357 in Mai Khao, 6.1 times as much for the same declared class. The island-wide four-star median is $107 (n = 210); Phuket Town, Chalong, Rawai, Patong, Nai Yang and Nai Harn sit below it, Karon, Bang Tao, Kamala, Panwa, Surin, Kata, Nai Thon, Layan and Mai Khao above. The cheapest districts are the ones with a town around the hotels and many of them competing; the priciest are the ones where the resort is the district and the sample is a handful of large properties.
Every area reaches the minimum sample of five for the four-star class in October 2026. The deepest sample is Chalong with 24 hotels.
Reading the ranges
The low and high columns are the 25th and 75th percentiles — the middle half of the four-star hotels in each area — and their width says how homogeneous the class is there. The widest spread is in Surin, where the 75th percentile ($502) is 5.7 times the 25th ($88); the tightest is Nai Thon at $157 – $175, 1.1 to 1. A wide range means two products share one star count — a village hotel and a residence sold by the night, a beach-road hotel and a headland resort — and the median is a compromise between them. A tight range means the area's four-star hotels are genuinely alike, and the median is a price you can plan on.
Ratings are declared by the properties themselves on the booking platforms, not audited, so a four-star listing in one district is not the same promise as in another. The area pages of this hub describe what the hotel stock actually looks like street by street; where the range here is wide, that description matters more than the median.
4-star against the other classes
Island-wide, a four-star room at $107 compares with $56 for three-star (n = 181) and $213 for five-star (n = 95) in October 2026; the all-class median, hostels and unrated properties included in the sample, is $78 (n = 628). The step up to five stars is smallest in Layan (the five-star median is $114 lower) and largest in Surin ($276 more, 201%).
The observation behind all of these figures is the same fixed search — one night, two adults, check-in thirty days after the snapshot, cheapest available room, before taxes and fees — repeated monthly, so the classes are compared like with like and the next revision moves every column at once. The observation month is printed next to every figure; the current one was taken in the low season.
Other classes
- Budget (3-star)$56n = 181 · October 2026
- 5-star$213n = 95 · October 2026
- Hotels: by area$78All classes · n = 628
Frequently asked questions
How much does a four-star hotel in Phuket cost per night?
$107 a night is the island-wide median for a four-star hotel (n = 210, October 2026), with the middle half of the sample between $66 – $174. Two adults, one night booked thirty days ahead, before taxes and fees, observed in the low season; by area it runs from $59 in Phuket Town to $357 in Mai Khao.
What is the cheapest area in Phuket for a four-star hotel?
Phuket Town, at a median of $59 a night (n = 12, October 2026), followed by Chalong ($63), Rawai ($67) and Patong ($72).
Which area of Phuket has the most expensive four-star hotels?
Mai Khao, at a median of $357 a night (n = 16, October 2026), 6.1 times the cheapest area's median. Next come Layan ($272) and Nai Thon ($166). These are the districts where the resort is the destination and there is no town to undercut it.
Is a four-star hotel in Phuket worth it over a three-star?
Island-wide the four-star median is $107 against $56 for three-star, a premium of 91% in October 2026. Whether it is worth it depends on the district: where the ranges of the two classes overlap they are competing for the same guest, and where they do not the classes are different products. Read the ranges on the area page before deciding.
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