Marriott Mai Khao Beach. Excellent location with access to adjoining hotels and shops. Clean throughout with ample facilities. Friendly, well trained staff from checking in to departure. Special compliments to Ice, Joy, Gift, Por, and view: the lovely team at the reception with their smiling shiny faces and friendly attitudes.

Mai Khao Beach is good for seeing air planes landing and taking off at Phuket Airport. We landed at Phuket airport at 11:30 am. We went to have lunch for dim sum at Jea Dim Sum - Bak Kut Teh near the Phuket airport. We went to Mai Khao Beach - Airport viewpoint near Mai Khao temple. We parked our rental car at the free parking near Mai Khao temple on the road Soi 7. The water was clean. We paid 20 Baht per person for a local taxi/motorcycle to Mai Khao beach. The afternoon viewpoint is good for planes taking off. The morning viewpoint is good for planes landing. The planes were taking off every 5 to 10 minutes. We paid 20 Baht to get back to parking lot.

If you go on sunset you may meet some 10-20 people every 500 meters. During the day you feel as if this 10km sand beach belongs to you - no people around except two lonely fishermen. The water is a little turbulent, so you should be a good swimmer if you want to go out further (some people did in the evening). If you like beach walking (with or without sunset) this is a perfect place.

Mia Khoa faces the Andeman Sea on the western side of Thailand. We stayed at the JW Marriot and it was outstanding. Situated on the beach at Mai Khoa in a lovely quiet area. Bike rides was a pleasure around this area. Around 20 minutes from the airport it was an excellent end to our holiday. Great restaurants was easy walking distance from hotel as was the beach massages situated outside of hotel.

I’ve only been in Phuket for a couple of days , and I’ve quickly learned that beaches can look really different depending on what part you are staying at. I’m staying in a hostel near Nai Yang where the beaches are covered in litter, sadly. After doing research, I saw a lot of people staying at the Marriott were really happy with their beach, so, I decided to see if I could access it even without staying at the hotel. I could! It’s beautiful there and quite clean. I was not questioned when I walked through the hotel to get to the beach.

We went to the beach daily to watch the planes land and take off as our grandson desire is to become a pilot 👨‍✈️ Fab location 5 minutes from our hotel. Beautiful sunsets to die for but was shocked how much litter and plastic bottles are left over the beach. No one, even locals appear to pick it up. Sand it lovely and you can take a beach towel and watch the sunsets but beware of the super fast translucent crabs 🦀😂😂😂 Gave us a few shocks. We went in August no rain but the red flag was up most days and a life guard in situ. Sea was too rough to swim. We had a hotel infinity pool right on the beach so was more than happy to swim here till the sun went down.