Stayed at Golden Buddha for 2 weeks in Feb 07 as a solo traveller. An absolutely amazing location if you want to get away from everything. The beach is amazing, 10km of golden sands, palm trees and warmest sea imaginable. At the busiest expect to share those 10km with about 10 other guests! Accommodation was very good, but not really luxurious by Western standards. Expect frogs, ants, lizards (which weren't a problem), maybe monkeys or if you are unlucky even a snake to make a house call. Biggest complaint about accommodation was that the bed was VERY hard, so if you don't like hard beds, combined with the hot nights, it can make for very unconfortable sleeping. All meals are taken in clubhouse and the food was plentiful, very varied and excellent. Typical Thai food, so quite spicy/hot at times but with an excellent choice of fresh, fresh fish, meat dishes and vegetarian. Staff and Management are absolutely brilliant and will help you with whatever you need. Barman doubles up as excellent guide and kayaking trip into mangroves
was really good. Massage was also excellent. Electricity generator is switched off however every night at 11.00pm and bar is usually empty by about 10pm, so if you like a bit of night life this is not the place for you. I would definitely recommend this resort for a short term stay as part of a trip to Thailand, but long term may be a bit too boring for most people. There are no roads, no shops, no TV/radio, no landline phones, no medical supplies, so as a solo traveller it did feel at times a little like Purgatory in Paradise! It was however a very safe and gentle place to stay and perfect for a meditative type of holiday. On the negative, internet connection was very expensive and although mosquitoes weren't too bad, black sand flies were very bad (bite and itch like European midgies), the closer it got to full moon. I would go again, but not quite for so long!

This is Thailand's most remote and unspoilt beach resort. It lies on a large, virtually undeveloped island just south of Burma in the Andaman Sea. This large island has only 3 small villages, none are near the resort.

The resort is composed of homes of private Americans and Europeans who rent them to paying guests when not using them. Each is unique and on a large private plot. Half are right on the beach and the remaining ones are less than a 100 meters from the beach.

The beach is beautiful! Over 10 kilometers with absolutely no sign of man. The resort has another kilometer of beach front plus there is a bay with good snorkeling tha has another 6 or so kilometer of golden sandy beach. This is a good jumping off place for diving trips to the Surin Islands and Richelieu Rock.