Location: Off the east coast.
How to get there: Charter a boat from Laem Hin Pier.

Rang Yai Island is privately owned by one company. The island is tiny and you can walk around the whole thing in about 25 minutes. The beach is awesome, but the water can be a bit murky. Rang Yai Island is [...]

Location: Off the southeast coast.
How to get there: Catch a boat from Ao Makham Pier.
Koh Tapao Yai is the larger twin of Koh Tapao Noi. Koh Tapao Yai is actually home to a couple of hotels, although they aren’t especially big or plush. The attraction of the rare hornbill birds on Koh Tapao Noi is [...]

Location: Off the southeast coast.
How to get there: Take a boat from Ao Makham Pier.
Koh Tapao Noi was for a long time an unknown Phuket island, but that could all be about to change since January of this year when the Royal Thai Navy decided to begin developing a plan for eco-tourism on the island.
Flocks [...]

Location: Well off the south coast.
How to get there: Take a boat from Chalong Pier or Rawai Beach.
Koh Racha is actually made up of two islands: Koh Racha Yai and Koh Racha Noi. Koh Racha Noi is just south of Koh Racha Yai, and is difficult to get too, although it attracts many divers and [...]

Location: Off the northeast coast.
How to get there: Take a longtail boat from Ao Por Pier.
Just a few years ago, Koh Naka Yai, the larger of the twin Naka islands, was only inhabited by a small village of fishermen and their families. However, recently, the island has been developed into an eco-friendly tourist destination.
Environmentally conscious [...]

Location: Off the northeast coast.
How to get there: Take a longtail boat from Ao Por Pier.
Koh Naka Noi is the smaller of the twin Naka islands and is located just off the northeast of Phuket. Koh Naka Noi is rapidly becoming more popular with eco-friendly tourists who want to stray a little off the conventional [...]

Location: Off the west coast.
How to get there: Take a boat from Laem Hin Pier (15 baht each way).
Koh Maphrao, or Coconut Island, is one of the more untouched islands around Phuket. The attraction main draw of this Phuket island is that you’ll feel as if you’re stepping back in time as soon as you [...]

Location: Well off the southeast coast.
How to get there: If you aren’t being ferried over by the Maiton Resort, take a boat from Ao Makham Deep Sea Port.
Koh Mai Thon is a beautiful Phuket island that is home to the luxury Maiton Island Resort. If you want it to be, Koh Mai Thon can be [...]

Location: Off the south coast.
How to get there: Take a boat from Chalong Bay.
Also written as Koh Lohn or just Lone Island, Koh Lone definitely lives up to the hype. Koh Lone is one of the better Phuket islands and it’s fairly isolated from the massive tourism and nightlife scene that you find in some [...]

Location: Off the southernmost tip.
How to get there: Catch a longtail boat from Rawai Beach if you’re making you’re own way there.
There are, in fact, two Koh Bons. One is near Rawai and the other is about 20 kilometres north of the Similan Islands.
The one of the coast of Rawai is a lovely little island [...]