Twelve resorts in Phuket, Khao Lak and Phi Phi where you can really book all-inclusive, from Club Med and Thailand's first 24-hour Riu to island and adults-only packages, ranked with what each plan covers and its drinks hours.
Thailand has very few true all-inclusive resorts, and almost all of them are in Phuket and Khao Lak. Only two run all-inclusive as the way the resort works, Club Med Phuket on Kata Beach and Hotel Riu Palace Phuket on Mai Khao, whose plan runs 24 hours. Everywhere else, all-inclusive is a package or meal plan sold on top of a room rate, often through tour operators, so the same resort can be all-inclusive on one booking and breakfast-only on the next. This list ranks the 12 where you can really book it, resort-run plans first.
Outside Club Med and Riu, a Thai all-inclusive usually means three meals at one or two of the resort's restaurants and house-brand drinks, local beer, house wine, cocktails and soft drinks, served from about 11:00 to 22:00 or 23:00. Premium drinks, room service, the spa and excursions are almost always extra. Barceló Coconut Island's own terms are typical, with house drinks from 11:00 to 23:00 and half price after that.
Many resorts that other lists call all-inclusive publish no all-inclusive plan of their own, among them Centara Grand Phuket, Katathani, Kata Rocks, Phulay Bay and Dusit Thani Krabi, so they aren't on this list. Read the board on your rate before you pay, because that line decides what you get.
| If you want | Stay at | Where |
|---|---|---|
| A family all-inclusive | Club Med Phuket, Avani+ Khao Lak, Hotel Riu Palace Phuket | Kata, Khao Lak, Mai Khao |
| Adults only | ananea Beyond Khaolak, Sunprime Kamala Beach, Riu's Elite Club | Pak Weep, Kamala, Mai Khao |
| The best drinks package | Hotel Riu Palace Phuket, Club Med Phuket | Mai Khao, Kata |
| A private island | Barceló Coconut Island | Koh Maphrao, off Phuket's east coast |
| Khao Lak | Avani+ Khao Lak, Le Méridien Khao Lak, Pullman Khao Lak, The Sands Khao Lak | Bang Sak, Bang Muang, Nang Thong |
| Phi Phi | SAii Phi Phi Island Village | Loh Ba Gao Bay, Phi Phi Don |
Thailand's best-known true all-inclusive, with all meals, unlimited cocktails, wine and spirits, about 30 activities and kids' clubs from 4 to 17 on Kata Beach. The family pick, booked on Club Med's own site, since Booking.com doesn't list it.
RIU's first hotel in Thailand, with a 24-hour all-inclusive across six restaurants and seven bars on Mai Khao Beach, a kids' club and an adults-only Elite Club. Suits families and couples alike.
Three meals at two restaurants, house drinks from 11:00 to 23:00 and kayaks, paddleboards and sailing on a small island seven minutes by boat from Phuket. Best for couples and families wanting quiet.
Marriott's Ultimate All-Inclusive Package adds buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner and drinks from an all-inclusive list between 11:00 and 23:00 to a room on its own cove just south of Patong. A family-friendly upgrade on a big resort.
An All-Inclusive Getaway package with meals, free-flow drinks from 11:00 to 22:00 and water sports, at a Khao Lak resort with a water park, skate park and two-story kids' club.
A seasonal package of breakfast, lunch, a three-course or buffet dinner and house drinks from about 12:00 to 22:00, at a big beachfront resort that suits families and mixed-age groups.
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Phi Phi's all-inclusive option, an official meal plan paid on top of the room at this beachfront village on Loh Ba Gao Bay, with drinks from 11:00 to 23:00. Children share their parents' meal plan free.
Package sellers bundle buffet meals and free-flow local drinks until about 22:00 at this quiet Bang Muang resort with an infinity pool, swim-up bar and kids' club. Booking.com and Expedia sell the room with breakfast at most, so book the package through a tour operator.
A family resort on the Nang Thong strip, near Khao Lak's restaurants, where UK tour operators sell an all-inclusive board of lunch, dinner and drinks from 11:00 to 23:00. Booking.com and Expedia sell the room with breakfast at most, so the board comes with an operator's package.
The adults-only pick in Khao Lak, a 16+ villa resort on quiet Pak Weep Beach sold all-inclusive by European operators, with meals and house drinks from about 11:00 to 23:00. Booking.com and Expedia sell the room with breakfast at most, so book the plan through an operator.
An adults-only (16+) resort on the sand at Kamala, where tour operators sell an all-inclusive board of buffet meals and local spirits, beer and wine from 11:00 to 23:00. Booking.com sells the room only, so the board comes with an operator's package.
A four-night prepaid package on the hillside above quiet north Patong, with meals at Ocean View and soft drinks, local beer and cocktails from 11:00 to 22:00. The most limited plan here.
Yes, but very few. Club Med Phuket and Hotel Riu Palace Phuket are the two that run all-inclusive as standard, and Riu's is 24 hours. A handful of others, among them Barceló Coconut Island, Phuket Marriott Merlin Beach, Avani+ Khao Lak and Le Méridien Khao Lak, sell all-inclusive as a package on top of the room, and tour operators add an all-inclusive board at a few more. Most Thai resorts, luxury ones included, sell room and breakfast.
Often not, because food and drink outside the resort are cheap. A street-food meal costs ฿40–80 ($1.20–$2.40), a local restaurant meal ฿100–250 ($3–$7) and a local beer in a bar ฿60–180, so two people eating out every night spend a fraction of a package supplement. It makes sense where there's little outside the gates, on Coconut Island, at Mai Khao or on the quiet Khao Lak beaches, with children, or if you drink cocktails all afternoon.
Phuket, by a long way. It has both resort-run all-inclusives, Club Med on Kata Beach and Riu on Mai Khao, plus Barceló on Coconut Island just offshore and the packages at Marriott Merlin Beach, Sunprime Kamala and Diamond Cliff. Khao Lak, on the mainland 80 to 100 minutes by car north of Phuket airport, is the second choice, and SAii on Phi Phi is the one island option outside Phuket. The best all-inclusive resorts in Phuket list compares the island's eight by beach.
Yes, but usually house brands within set hours. Barceló Coconut Island serves house wine, gin, vodka, rum, whiskey, selected beers and house cocktails from 11:00 to 23:00, and most packages here run from about 11:00 to 22:00 or 23:00. Club Med includes cocktails, wine, spirits and beer, and Riu serves drinks around the clock. Premium brands and wine by the bottle are extra almost everywhere.
Two on this list are adults-only for guests 16 and over, ananea Beyond Khaolak on Pak Weep Beach in Khao Lak and Sunprime Kamala Beach on Phuket, and both are sold all-inclusive mainly through tour operators. Hotel Riu Palace Phuket also has an adults-only Elite Club inside a family resort.
Club Med Phuket, which runs kids' clubs from age 4 to 17 until 21:00 and includes about 30 activities in the price. Avani+ Khao Lak has the best kids' facilities in Khao Lak, a water park, a skate park and a two-story club, and Riu's RiuLand club and pools make it the newer alternative on Phuket.
