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Bang Tao Beach Shopping
Where to Shop in Bang Tao
Shopping in this area is markedly different than that of other west coast locations in that cheap and fake brand names - such as are openly available in Patong, Karon and Kata - are not the order of the day. The onus is on quality goods with a sharp leaning towards antiques, curios and exclusive clothing and accessories.
Beach Shopping
There are a few shopping activities going on at the beach but it's not the place to shop for specialised goods. Along the beach you'll find small outlets here and there where you can get simple beachwear, sarongs, beach mats, swimming accessories, flip-flops, hats, suntan lotion and sun-glasses. The most popular items and activities are massages and hair braiding.
Opening Hours: 09:00 until duskLocation: On Bang Tao Beach
Type : Beachwear and more
Inside Laguna Phuket Resort Complex
Most of the good shopping in this area is inland, away from the beaches and many guests at the six-hotel Laguna complex pay a visit to Canal Village, situated in, but not exclusive to, Laguna. Also, each of the hotels in the complex features shops and outlets.
Angsana Gallery
Visitors will not be disappointed when visiting any of the Angsana galleries. The selection of goods ranges from spa products to clothing, home furnishing and Thai crafts.
Opening Hours: 08:00 – 20.00Location: Inside each resort within the Laguna Complex and at Canal Village
Type : Spa products and fashion apparel
Banyan Tree Galleries
Located within the Laguna Phuket resort complex, are a handful of Banyan Tree Galleries, which are well known for their selection of high quality handicraft products from all over Asia. Items include jewelry, hand-woven textiles and Asian art.
Opening Hours: Hours vary from shop to shop (usually 9.00 - 19.00)Location: Inside each resort within the Laguna Phuket resort complex and Canal Village
Type : Luxury handicrafts and Asian art
Canal Village
Canal Village has about 40 units and is set in a casuarina grove by one of the resort's lagoons. It is laid out like a walking street and has a car park next to its entrance. The 'village' is made up of boutiques, souvenir shops, a bakery, jewelry stores, a clinic, a minimart, and several tailors. Here you can also find quality leather goods such as briefcases, shoes and suitcases. Canal Village also has a Silk Factory Outlet that sells bags, scarves, ties as well as shirts and you can also have clothes made and tailored here, too. A sports shop selling brand-name shoes and accessories stands next to a shop entirely devoted to sunglasses.
Here, you'll also find an art and gift gallery, two Jim Thompson (silk specialists) outlets as well as a shop called 'Siam Crafts' that sells souvenirs and memorabilia. You can have your photos downloaded at the Kodak shop and Canal Village features a small children's playground. At the water's edge there is a tastefully appointed restaurant.
Opening Hours: Hours vary per store (usually 10:00 – 22:00)Location: Inside Laguna Phuket resort complex
Pro Shop
Located inside the Laguna Phuket Golf Club, voted one of the top ten best golf resorts in Asia. The shop offers a variety of golfing accessories and merchandise such as Ashworth, Titleist, Nike and Kiswa.
Opening Hours: 06:15 – 19:00Location: Inside Laguna Phuket Golf Club
Type : Golfing accessories
Entrance of Laguna Phuket Resort Complex
On the road outside Laguna the shops predominantly feature Southeast Asian antiques and curios and the range is enormous; from carved wooden elephants too large to carry to Buddha statues to textiles to religious artifacts. It's not all antiques and curios though; other goods are for sale, such as at 'The Hand Made', a shop specialising in stainless steel cutlery, plates and kitchen utensils. Here, you'll also find a wine dealer as well as a minimart with many massage parlours surrounding it. Another wine dealer stands in 'Plaza Del Mar' – a shopping arcade dominated by property dealers around the corner from the minimart at the 'Y' junction.
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Furniture & décor service. Custom-made to order. Worldwide delivery service.
Opening Hours: 10:00 – 20:00Location: at the entrance of Laguna Phuket resort complex, near 99 Art Studio
Type : Household furniture & decoration items
Tel: +66 (0) 76 270 846
99 Art Studio
99 is an interesting art shop with many original paintings and works of art to order.
Opening Hours: 10:00 – 20:00Location: Opposite Heritage Collection
Type : Paintings
Cozy Company
Cozy Company offers good-looking modern and contemporary household items and furniture (i.e. pillows, sofas, lamps, vases and wooden plates). With a large and attractive display space it is an agreeable place to browse. Many of the items for sale are made from special natural fibres. They also have a decorating service and décor advice.
Opening Hours: Mon – Sat from 10:00 – 10:30Location: Near the traffic lights before entering Laguna Phuket resort complex
Type : Decoration items
Tel: +66 (0) 76 270 847
Heritage Collection
There are three Heritage Collection outlets in Phuket, two of them located near Laguna Phuket resort complex; the Heritage Collection (+66 (0) 76 325 818) and Art of Living (+66 (0) 76 325 148). If you are looking for Asian antiques and oriental fine art objects, this big shop has quite an impressive collection. Goods on sale include wooden Buddha images as well as bronze, alabaster and papier-mâché images, Chinese terracotta sculptures, classic Chinese furniture and Chinese Imperial clothing.
Highlights: Asian antiques and reproductionsOpening Hours: Daily from 09:00 – 21:00
Location: Entrance of Laguna Phuket resort complex
Jasmine Silver & Stone
On top of a good selection of silver earnings and necklaces made from coloured stones they also have Benjarong sets – five-coloured, hand-painted specialist Thai porcelain.
Location: Near the entrance of Laguna resort complex, next to Portrait Art GalleryType : Souvenirs and jewelry
Mix & Match
A shop carrying many lines of products from souvenirs to women's clothing & accessories and home decoration with an adjacent art gallery.
Location: Opposite Chaba Restaurant near the entrance of Laguna Phuket resort complexType : Souvenirs and women's clothing
Portrait Art Gallery
A middle-size art gallery where talented artists exhibit their works. Most paintings are influenced by Asian culture and themes cover typical Asian subjects such as elephants, the Lord Buddha and the bodhi tree.
Location: Next to Jasmine Silver & Stone, near the entrance of Laguna Phuket resort complexType : Art gallery
Silk Wood Art Collection
Fans of Asian art and furniture will enjoy visiting Silk Wood Art Collection. It houses lots of handmade wooden products fit for homes, apartments and offices. Such products include elephant statues and Buddha images.
Location: Near the BB’s Pub in Tinlay Place before the entrance to Laguna Phuket resort complexType : Asian art and furniture
Stainless Steel Cutlery
Products range from spoons, forks, coffee spoons, cake knives, wine coolers, plates, and knives. Though they have a sign says ‘Factory Price’ out front, a little more bargaining won’t do any harm.
Opening Hours: 10:00 – 22:00Location: Opposite Blue Bell Restaurant
Type : Stainless steel cutlery
The Hand Made
This shop sells good quality stainless steel cutlery, large bowls, wine baskets and soup ladles. They also have good range of products at the Sheraton Grande Laguna Beach market place everyday from 08:00 - 21:00 and at Laguna Beach Resort market place on Wed & Sat from 18:00 - 22:00.
Opening Hours: 09:00 – 23:00Location: Next to Blue Bell Restaurant, near the entrance of Laguna Phuket resort complex
Type : Stainless steel cutlery
Tel: +66 (0) 81 892 7215
Top Charoen Optical
This is a Bangkok-based franchise dealing in eyeglasses that has several branches on the island. The one near the Laguna Phuket resort complex is rather small but their goods are the same as in other locations. Top Charoen sometimes has interesting promotional combinations and also sells international brands at advantageous prices and therefore is well worth checking out.
Location: Next to Little India Restaurant near the entrance to Laguna Phuket resort complexType : Eyeglasses and sunglasses
Wine & Taste
This is a nice little wine shop to stop by when in need of a good bottle or two. On top of having labels from all over the world, Wine & Taste sells a variety of the latest wine accessories – a must for all serious wine lovers. If you are looking for unique and elegant products like bottle openers, candleholders, waiters' corkscrews, golf-motif bottle stoppers made from glass and steel and vacuum pumps in high quality stainless steel, give them a visit.
Opening Hours: 09:00 – 20.00Location: Near the entrance of Laguna Phuket resort complex, next to Siam Deli
Type : Wine and accessories
Tel: +66 (0) 76 270 852
Open-Air Fresh Markets
Visiting local markets is a way to learn more about the locals' everyday life as well as to dust off your bargaining skills. There are two local markets in this area; opposite the Cherng Talay Police Station and a second one right next to Tesco Lotus, towards Surin Beach. Thai fresh markets are cornucopias of colourful fruit and vegetables, unrecognizable merchandise, pirated DVD's and computer games, brightly hued T-shirts and jeans, not to mention secondhand shoes, name-brand copies and much more. They truly are a fun place to explore. Read More...
Opening Hours: Early afternoon till about 20:00 on Wed and Sun, Next to Tesco open Mon and ThuLocation: Opposite the Cherng Talay Police Station and next to Tesco Lotus
Type : Fresh food and more
Nearby Bang Tao & Laguna Phuket Resort Complex
If you continue to Cherng Talay you will come to a T-junction next to the police station. There are 24-hour minimarts on each side of this junction but if you go left and continue for 350 metres you will discover a lime-green wooden shop on the left-hand side of the road. This is 'Lemongrass' an outlet devoted to natural oils, soaps, cosmetics, body creams, shampoo and just about every natural hygiene product you could imagine.
&joy! Lifestyle Boutique and Gallery
&joy! is a stylish Thai-European Asian sourcing company offering inspired, creative and elegant, high-quality home ware and lifestyle products. The team also acts as professional buyers with complete product sourcing service for a range of Thai and Asian products. Products displayed at the gallery include antique furniture, jewelry, painting and sculptures. &joy! also hosts interesting art exhibitions from time to time. Call for schedule.
Opening Hours: Daily from 10:00 – 20:00, closed for lunch from 12:00 – 13:00Location: On Srisoonthorn Road halfway between Cherng Talay Police Station and the Heroines Monument, right next to Baan Wana/Yoga House.
Type : Lifestyle products
Tel: +66 (0) 85 655 0954
Beautiful World
The vision of this company is to use eastern materials for western uses. Beautiful World is environmentally friendly and only sources materials from guaranteed suppliers. And they do it beautifully; expect first-quality furniture, accessories, sofas, garden furniture, bedding and lighting. Beautiful World guarantees that customers can save between 40 and 50% on purchasing similar items in Europe.
Opening Hours: 09:30 – 19:00Location: Moo 7, 19/35 Srisoonthorn Road, Cherng Talay
Tel: +66 (0) 81 9560337
Fine Living Arcade
A big range of Asian products including wooden furniture and sculptures with products from various places with furniture from top Thai designers famous for using natural materials such as woven lipao vine, water hyacinth, liana and rattan.
Opening Hours: 09:30 to 20:00Location: Not far from the Palace of Art on Srisoonthorn Road, between the Heroines’ Monument and Cherng Talay
Type : Asian art and furniture
Tel: +66 (0) 81 337 7682
Lemongrass House
The American owner of Lemongrass, Bobby Duchowny, definitely gets things right; since opening in 2007, the shop has been featured in both the New York Times and Time magazine. It specializes in massage oils, soaps, body lotions, body scrubs, skin-calming powders, and much more.
Opening Hours: 09:00 to 20:00Location: ust before the main gas station on Srisoonthorn Road on the way to Heroines Monument
Type : Spa products
Tel: +66 (0) 76 271 233
The Palace of Art
This place is a leader among antique dealers on the island. Much of its reputation comes from the owner, Shahe Donabedian, an interior designer with a background in architecture. He has amassed a huge collection of Thai, Burmese, Laotian and Cambodian fine art and décor.People who visit the Palace of Art often remark that it is like walking into a top-class museum, with hundreds of art objects displayed in harmony, both outdoors and in. One display that should not be missed is the exhibit of large temple drums in the garden.
Opening Hours: 08:30 to 18:00Location: On Srisoonthorn Road, between the Heroines’ Monument and Cherng Talay
Type : Asian Antique, Fine Art and Décor Items
Tel: +66 76 27 3533







