← Phuket hotel prices, all areas
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 September 2026, n = 87 · All sources
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 | Chalong East coast | $62 | $51 – $92 | 6 | |
| 2 | Patong West coast | $70 | $48 – $159 | 6 | |
| 3 | Kamala West coast | $79 | $68 – $332 | 8 | |
| 4 | Nai Yang North | $79 | $58 – $161 | 6 | |
| 5 | Layan West coast | $107 | $78 – $136 | 5 | |
| 6 | Bang Tao West coast | $128 | $83 – $182 | 10 | |
| 7 | Panwa East coast | $187 | $128 – $425 | 7 | |
| 8 | Mai Khao North | $196 | $177 – $263 | 12 | |
| 9 | Karon West coast | $244 | $167 – $246 | 5 | |
| 10 | Surin West coast | $307 | $160 – $506 | 6 | |
| — | Kata West coast | — | — | 4 · below the minimum sample | |
| — | Nai Thon West coast | — | — | 2 · below the minimum sample | |
| — | Nai Harn South | — | — | 4 · below the minimum sample | |
| — | Rawai South | — | — | 3 · below the minimum sample | |
| — | Phuket Town East coast | — | — | 1 · below the minimum sample | |
| All Phuket | $141 | $71 – $219 | 87 |
Online booking platforms, measured September 2026, n = 87. Sparklines appear once a series has at least two monthly points.
5-star medians per night, cheapest area first; the dearest area in the figure colour · Online booking platforms, measured September 2026, n = 87
The class was found in these areas, but with fewer than five hotels in the sample the median stays unpublished — the count is shown so the gap is visible.
Five-star on Phuket means resort grounds, several restaurants, a spa, a pool or several, and usually a beach or a private cove; at the top of the class it means a villa with its own pool and a butler. The class is concentrated on the west coast headlands and the northern beaches — Surin, Kamala, Bang Tao, Layan, Nai Thon, Mai Khao — and on the Panwa cape in the east, and it is thin or absent in the long-stay south (Rawai, Nai Harn) and in Phuket Town, which is why several rows carry a sample too small for a median.
The price of a five-star night is decided more by the district than by the star. The same class runs from a Patong hillside resort with a shuttle to a headland cove in Surin, and the ranking below shows the spread. Where a five-star median sits close to, or even below, the four-star median of the same area, the reason is usually a small sample or a four-star column full of villas and residences; treat those rows as a hint to compare individual properties rather than as a rule. Low season — the observation window of the current snapshot — is when this class discounts most, so the medians here are closer to the floor of the year than to its ceiling.
10 of the 15 areas have a published five-star median in September 2026, and it runs from $62 in Chalong to $307 in Surin, 5 times as much for the same declared class. The island-wide five-star median is $141 (n = 87); Chalong, Patong, Kamala, Nai Yang, Layan and Bang Tao sit below it, Panwa, Mai Khao, Karon and Surin 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.
Kata (4), Nai Thon (2), Nai Harn (4), Rawai (3) and Phuket Town (1) have fewer than five five-star hotels in the sample, so the index publishes the count and no median — the class exists there, but a figure from one or two properties would describe those properties, not the district. The deepest sample is Mai Khao with 12 five-star hotels, which makes its median the most stable number in the table.
The low and high columns are the 25th and 75th percentiles — the middle half of the five-star hotels in each area — and their width says how homogeneous the class is there. The widest spread is in Kamala, where the 75th percentile ($332) is 4.9 times the 25th ($68); the tightest is Karon at $167 – $246, 1.5 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 five-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 five-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.
Island-wide, a five-star room at $141 compares with $34 for three-star (n = 177) and $62 for four-star (n = 210) in September 2026; the all-class median, hostels and unrated properties included in the sample, is $50 (n = 618). The premium over the four-star median of the same area is smallest in Layan ($62 below it) and largest in Karon ($196, 408%); the hub page lists every area with both medians.
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.
$141 a night is the island-wide median for a five-star hotel (n = 87, September 2026), with the middle half of the sample between $71 – $219. Two adults, one night booked thirty days ahead, before taxes and fees, observed in the low season; by area it runs from $62 in Chalong to $307 in Surin.
Chalong, at a median of $62 a night (n = 6, September 2026), followed by Patong ($70), Kamala ($79) and Nai Yang ($79). Kata, Nai Thon, Nai Harn, Rawai and Phuket Town are not ranked: fewer than five five-star hotels in the sample.
Surin, at a median of $307 a night (n = 6, September 2026), 5 times the cheapest area's median. Next come Karon ($244) and Mai Khao ($196). These are the districts where the resort is the destination and there is no town to undercut it.
Island-wide the five-star median is $141 against $62 for four-star, a premium of 127% in September 2026. Whether it is worth it depends on the district: in Layan the gap is negative, in Karon it is $196. Read the ranges on the area page before deciding.
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