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The 10 Best Activities & Tours in Koh Lipe, Ranked
This list is mostly boat people: island-hopping operators and dive centres, several of them working out of Walking Street, with a couple of places you actually go rather than book, like Ko Hin Ngam and the Chado Cliff viewpoint over on Ko Adang. Pura Vida Diving is the one I'd point at first, since it tops the ranking on rating with far more reviews behind it than anything else here. Ordered by Google rating, with review volume breaking the ties.
The 10 Best Hotels in Koh Lipe, Ranked
Nearly every place here sits right on the sand, and most are bungalow resorts rather than big hotels, spread across Sunrise, Pattaya and Bundhaya beaches. Ten Moons Lipe Resort is the one I'd flag, since it carries the strongest rating of the lot despite a smaller crowd of reviewers. Ranked on Google rating, with review volume breaking the ties.
The 10 Best Nightlife Spots in Koh Lipe, Ranked
This is mostly beach bars and jungle-themed drinking dens, with a good few sitting right on Walking Street and staying open into the early hours. Zodiac See Sun takes the top slot on sheer weight of reviews, though Jungle Bar and Sand Bar are the ones to hit if you want cheap drinks. Nearly everything here is mid-range, and it's ranked by Google rating with review count breaking the ties.
The 10 Best Restaurants in Koh Lipe, Ranked
Walking Street does a lot of the heavy lifting here, with three of the top five sat along it, and the rest split between cheap noodle shops and cafés that locals actually eat at. Elephant takes the top spot on sheer weight of reviews, though the clifftop sunset bar is the one people rave hardest about. Ranked by Google rating with review volume breaking ties, and most of it is budget or mid-range.
The 10 Best Spas & Wellness Spots in Koh Lipe, Ranked
This is mostly small independent massage shops rather than polished resort spas, with late opening hours that suit a sunset-to-midnight island rhythm. Kamon Puh Massage takes the top spot on a big pile of reviews, though Castaway Yoga is the odd one out and the one I'd name, a beachfront studio running morning sessions on Sunrise Beach. Ranked by Google rating, with review volume breaking the ties.
The 4 Best Islands in Koh Lipe, Ranked
This one's split between the main event and the little places you reach by longtail: Koh Lipe itself tops it on sheer weight of reviews, with its white sand and easy snorkelling straight off the beach. Kla Island is the one I'd name though, uninhabited and quiet, and Koh Bulon Leh keeps the no-cars, no-ATMs thing going. Ranked by Google rating, with review volume breaking ties.
The 6 Best Beaches in Koh Lipe, Ranked
Koh Lipe is small enough that you can walk between most of these in an afternoon, and that's roughly what this list is: the three big-name stretches on the east, west and south, plus a few quieter corners like North Point and Maricilla that see a fraction of the crowds. North Point takes the top spot for me, since it pulls big-beach ratings without the longtail traffic. Ranked by Google rating, with review volume breaking the ties.