Kata Beach Nightlife

Easyriders at the Kata Centre specializes in the music of great legends like Eric Clapton and Jimmy Hendrix, played full tilt by Thai bands, but is closed during low season. Others like Cat, Lembuscade, Anchor and Dive Inn are open all year.


The psychedelically-painted Voodoobar opposite Easyrides attracts many locals. Around the corner towards the beach, eight beer bars with names like Geng and Neung offer cold beer in open-air surroundings.

In south Kata, the focal point at night is the Islanders international restaurant and bar. The Boathouse offers the islands best jazz sextet Wednesday and Saturday evenings. For families, Dino Park mini golf beside Marina Cottage provides popular early evening fun.


The Boathouse Restaurant
The Boathouse Wine & Grill - situated directly on Kata beach has over the past ten years become synonymous with good food & wine. The thoughtfully balanced menu offers Thai, European and seafood cuisine. The unique wine cellar has over 480 labels. Open 6am. - 11pm.
Address: Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand.
Phone: 0-7633 0015


Phuket Dino Park and Mini Golf, Phuket Thailand
This is one of the pleasant surprises of Phuket - especially for families. After the beach, there is probably no place on the island that kids will like better. This writer knows, since his own second son, up until the age of 14, simply couldn’t stay away from the place every time he came down from his home in Bangkok. And it’s surprising how much fun adults have here too.


This is not simply mini-golf as we normally think of it. This is Dino Park, an open-air restaurant with waterfall and streams, a street-side bar, and a wilderness garden full of roaring, realistic dinosaurs. It’s all landscaped in dinosaur era imagery.

And spewing fire and smoke (it appears) above this green oasis is Phuket’s only active volcano. And, oh yes, there is a fun mini-golf course winding its way through all of this, complete with obstacles that include caves, dinosaur skeletons and streams.

Part of the adjacent Marina Phuket Resort, it is on the road crossing the little hill between Karon and Kata beaches. Dino Park was cleverly conceived as family entertainment, part of the forward-looking vision of Khun Somchai, the owner of Marina Phuket (with a huge investment, obviously). It’s great fun for all.