Golden Buddha Beach Resort

Press Room

See what the press have to say about Golden Buddha Beach Resort.

Each of the links below will download a PDF document containing the article.

The Guardian – Newspaper Article (English)

Bangkok Post – Newspaper Article (English)

Hamburger Abendlatt – Newspaper Article (German)

Spiegel – Newspaper Article (German)

Urban Artikel – Newspaper Article (Danish)

The Times Newspaper

“For a truly awe-inspiring, eye-popping shark encounter, however, you need to go large – to The trip: the Golden Buddha Beach Resort is like a warm bath for your imagination – a few wooden beachfront cottages on a Thai island, Ko Phra Thong, with no other tourism developments, a six-mile beach facing the Andaman Sea all to yourself, supernatural sunsets, lazy hammock days and nothing but the rustling jungle and tropical bird-song to disturb the silence. Phuket this ain’t.

All year round, this is a heavenly spot for snorkellers, divers and 21st-century escapees, but between March and May, other guests arrive off shore – the whale sharks. For that reason, a visionary tourism project calls the Golden Buddha home. Guests (once they’ve let that last banana pancake settle) go on diving trips out to the whale sharks’ regular feeding grounds, where they can enjoy mind-blowing subaquatic encounters.

The photographs they take are then entered into a database of shark markings, to track the creatures’ movements and help establish their true population numbers, thereby supporting demands for greater protection. Local fishermen are involved in this effort – and, with tree-planting and turtle-preservation programmes also under way here, that warm glow you’ll feel every evening won’t just be the last rays of the setting sun.”