Gay Samui

Samui is a rapidly growing gay holiday and residential destination. Gay life on Samui is a relaxing, quieter, fun contrast to the exuberant gay life of Bangkok , Pattaya and Phuket. This is why so many Western and Asian gay men and women holiday and live here. Gay bars and clubs are more laid back, open, friendly and accessible. Thailand is often called 'the land of smiles' for good reason. If you smile first the Thai guy or woman will smile back and want to talk with you. Don't be shy.

The gay Thai community here is easy to meet at the gay and mixed venues or simply as you move around your hotel, shop, eat in restaurants, lie on the beach or travel around the island. It is hard to think of a restaurant or hotel on Samui that does not have gay staff.

There are a significant number of entrepreneurial Thai, Asian and Western gay men and women, operating businesses on Samui in tourism, hospitality, medicine, alternative medicine, real estate, design and other sectors of this boom economy.

While you will meet gay Thai and Asian men and women all around the island the centre of gay life is Chaweng. For night life there are two gay centres relatively close to each other in South and Central Chaweng. Chaweng hangs off both sides of Chaweng Beach Road thus directions usually refer to North, South and Central Chaweng.