Chang Thai Motorbike Rental Phuket
Practical guides for renting and riding a scooter in Phuket — prices, rules, routes and bike reviews.
We recommend the Honda PCX 160 to more couples than any other bike in our fleet, for reasons already covered in our PCX 160 vs NMAX 155 comparison: the wider seat, upright riding position, and generous storage all matter more once there are two of you on one bike for a full day. This guide […]
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Phuket looks flat on a map, but ride it and you will find three real hill climbs that separate an easy scooter from a good one: the Patong back road, the switchbacks up to Kata Noi viewpoint, and the steep final stretch to the Big Buddha on Nakkerd Mountain. We put Chang Thai's Honda ADV
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Phuket has no shortage of things to see — but not every route is worth the effort on a scooter. This one is. The southern loop connecting Big Buddha, Promthep Cape, and Rawai Beach covers the best landscape, the best viewpoint, and one of the best meals the island has to offer — all within
Phuket Scooter Route: Big Buddha, Promthep Cape & Rawai — Half-Day Guide 2026 Read More »
The Big Buddha is the one landmark you can see from half of southern Phuket before you ever ride up to it — a 45-metre white statue sitting on top of Nakkerd Hill, visible from Karon Beach, Kata, and Phuket Town on a clear day. Getting up close is a short, steep scooter ride from
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Every "secret beach" list in Phuket eventually points you to Nai Harn, which is a beautiful bay but also one of the most photographed, most signposted beaches on the island — not really a secret, and we've already covered it in its own guide. The five beaches below are a different category: small coves most
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Kata Beach usually gets treated as a photo stop on the way to somewhere else. That undersells it. The stretch of coast around it — from the headland south of Kata Noi down to the fishing harbour at Rawai — covers most of what makes the southwest of Phuket worth a full day, not just
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Rawai sits at the southern tip of Phuket, past the resort strips of Kata and Karon, where the island's pace slows down and the roads open up. On a map, the beaches, viewpoints, and villages around Rawai look close together; on the ground, they're spread across several kilometers of hilly, junction-heavy roads with no footpaths
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