Moracea by Khao Lak Resort

What a perfect choice for us! Moracea Hotel exceeded our expectations.. the photos don’t do justice to how beautiful is the entire place. It has the most beautiful beach, with greenery, trees, flowers everywhere, a true tropical jungle! We didn’t have problems with mosquitos, if you wonder, but we saw some monitor lizards visitors, scary but harmless! The natural scenery was so perfect, we didn't feel we need to explore other beaches. The staff here takes very good care of the place and of the surroundings! We got a really nice, comfy and big room with sea view (I’m not sure if all of them are like this because we saw a map with many layouts and housing styles). There were many swimming pools, but we enjoyed more the sea. The breakfast buffet was nice, with a good variety of products and the coffee was surprisingly good for a hotel coffee. Pretty close to the city center, some good restaurants were on the main road, at a short distance (10 minute walk). Also, Khao Lak is the perfect location for day trips to National Parks - Similan Islands, Surin Islands, Khao Sok.

Fantastic breakfast in the pavilion down by the sea. The whole resort is very nicely designed and it feels like you have a lot of privacy. Nice gardens and pools a bit hidden between bungalows and villas. Fabulous stretch of beach, even after a walk along the beach all the way to the Bang Niang inlet/river we liked the beach of Moracea best: nice and sandy, never crowded and with nice waves. There is a very nice bar at the beach. The resort is spread along a hillside, but this was not a big problem as every care was taken to make bungalows and rooms accessible and it was quick and easy to order a buggy if you didn't feel like walking. We travelled in the monsoon season, and we needed the buggy a couple of days as the main rain shower was after breakfast. It's a 10-minute walk to the Khao Lak village and there's restaurants even closer, which was nice as the hotel restaurant is rather pricy and gets easily boring. It is easy to organize tours by yourself, we went to an elephant camp by taxi, to the sea turtle conservatory and waterfalls by private car, and to the James-Bond Island (private car to the coast and hired a boat on the spot) at Phang Nga. There were no tours to the Similan Islands in monsoon season. The hotel has good airconditioning (not noisy or too cold) and the showers were hot and had excellent pressure (which is often a problem in Thailand). The staff was very friendly and helpful with every wish.

Beautiful resort with excellent facilities and beach access.

Lovely spa and good treatments at reasonable prices.

hotel on the 1st beach line. good breakfast, excellent dinner was at the night party. close to a small town with shops and restaurants, 10 min walk. Nice view from the balcony.