Patong Harbor View Condominiums | Patong Beach Apartments

Staying in Patong? Book your condo direct & save Come view soon this Modern, updated large 98 sqm bright end unit with two bedrooms, one bath apartment available for long term rental.  Located on the second floor with nice pool views just outside rear balcony. Unit is C303.  Large 16 sqm Balcony with high railing is great for entertaining guests. Unit is very light and bright in the living room area with a great view of the pool. We are doing a 90% rehab on this unit including adding insulation and soundproofing between floors, full electrical and adding a safe-t-cut, new tile, furniture and more.

Most Patong rentals top out at two bedrooms. C401 is the big one: 170 sqm of three-bedroom home on the 4th floor at Patong Harbor View, with the pool below and the green mountains behind the building in a single outlook. The shared space is built for a group that actually lives together: a dining table set for four, a kitchen island with three stools, a built-in oven and a large fridge — a kitchen you can cook a real market haul in, not a kitchenette. The master bedroom is a proper anchor room, with a desk and office chair for anyone working from Patong and doors opening onto the balcony. And the balcony is the room everyone talks about: wide enough for a table for four plus bench seating, with the buildings below and the hills beyond. Inside: 170 sqm, 3 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms, 4th floor Pool and mountain views Open dining / kitchen space — table for four, island with three stools, built-in oven, large fridge Master bedroom with desk and office chair, doors to the balcony Wide balcony ...

Plenty of couples who live in Phuket, or spend half their lives here, reach the same conclusion at some point: we might as well make it legal here, where our life actually is. The encouraging news is that Thailand makes this genuinely doable for foreigners. A legal Thai marriage is not a ceremony on a beach (lovely as those are — they are celebrations, not registrations) but a piece of paperwork, done in the right order, that ends with the two of you signing a register at a district office — an amphur — and walking out with a Thai marriage certificate. The process has a reputation for being a maze. It isn't, really. It is a chain: four links, each of which has to be finished before the next one starts. Couples get stuck not because any single step is hard, but because they try a link out of order and have to travel back to Bangkok to redo it. This is the chain, in order, plus the traps we have watched friends fall into. One note: this is a practical overview, not legal advice — r...

If you have flown into Thailand in years past, you will remember the little paper arrival card — the TM6 — handed out mid-flight, filled in with a borrowed pen, and surrendered at the passport desk. That card is gone. In its place is the Thailand Digital Arrival Card, the TDAC: an online form you complete before you travel, which produces a confirmation you show on arrival. For a first-time visitor it is one more bit of pre-flight admin. For those of us who live in Phuket for months at a time and fly in and out regularly, it has become part of the rhythm of every single trip — and it rewards a few minutes of care, because the fields that trip people up are exactly the fields long-stayers tend to rush. This is the practical version, the way we explain it to friends coming to stay: when to do it, where to do it (and where absolutely not to), the answers that need a second thought if Thailand is your second home, and what to do when you spot a mistake after you have pressed submit. What...

Monsoon storm clouds over Patong Bay and the hills behind the town (file photo). Three days after Patong cleaned up from Monday's flash flood, the rain came back — and this time the town is evacuating. After more than 15 hours of rain on Wednesday, October 28, water poured into the Nanai neighbourhood for the second time this week, and on Thursday morning Patong Municipality ordered residents in landslide-risk areas to leave their homes after a fresh landslide and falling rocks blocked the road at Soi Nanai 3. Phuket's flooding has now run for three consecutive days and spread across the island. Here is what has happened since our Monday report , where to avoid, and what officials are asking people to do. Wednesday: The Rain Came Back The rain that fell on Phuket through Wednesday, October 28 lasted more than 15 hours, and by the afternoon it was running off hillsides that had never had a chance to dry out after Monday. From about 3 PM, muddy red water poured down from the h...

Phuket looks like a cyclist's dream from the plane window — a green island ringed by coast road, with beaches every few kilometres. On the ground it is still a wonderful place to ride, but it is a very specific kind of wonderful: hilly, hot, and shared with traffic that plays by its own rules. If you're staying a month or more, a bicycle (or a rented road bike for weekend missions) opens up a side of the island that the songthaew route never shows you — the dawn coast, the rubber-plantation back roads, the Old Town coffee stop at the end of a climb. This is the honest version of how it works from Patong. The Geography Nobody Puts in the Brochure: It's Hilly Start with the truth that surprises everyone: Patong is in a bowl. Every ride out of town begins with a climb — north over the hill toward Kamala, south up and over toward Karon, or east up the long drag over the mountain to Phuket Town, roughly 14 kilometres away. There is no flat warm-up. Locals treat the Patong hill...

Almost everyone who stays in Phuket for more than a few weeks has the same thought at some point: I have time, I have skills — how do I give something back? Maybe it's the beach clean-up you walked past, the dogs at the shelter, or the kids in a local classroom. The impulse is a good one. But Thailand has a rule that catches well-meaning foreigners out every year, and it's worth understanding before you pick up a litter picker with the wrong paperwork: under Thai law, volunteering is work — paid or not. This isn't a reason to give up on the idea. Plenty of foreigners help legally in Phuket every week. It's a reason to route your goodwill through an organisation that knows the system, instead of improvising your own good deed and accidentally putting your stay at risk. Why Unpaid Work Still Counts as Work Thai labour law defines "work" broadly — working for an employer or anyone else, with or without wages. That means the legal trigger isn't whether mo...