Christmas and New Years Availability

Christmas and New Years Availability

At the moment phi-phi.com is making many bookings for the Christmas and New Years  but some of our hotels are telling us they are now full. This happens every year as there are only 3000 rooms on Phi Phi and the influx of tourists to Thailand is measured in the millions!!

Phi Phi Hotel availability during peak season

What phi-phi.com has also found is that if a hotel or resort is booked, and this goes for all Phi Phi budgets of accommodation, it doesn't necessarily mean it is fully booked tomorrow as, people cancel and some of the national travel agents, who overbooked their rooms, return their allotments to the hotels and resorts. So this means there is nearly always availability but you might need a little patience to the get the room types that suite you.

There are many people who try to just walk of the ferry get accommodation and get their ideal accommodation. This is quite rare as the best rooms get booked up in advance by word of mouth and good reviews for the better hotels  and hostels. All through high season, you see many people gathered at the pier head trying to work out what is going on. the room prices that they saw on the websites are the same but the rooms offered are quite a standard more simple or lower in  quality. There are some good and resourceful guides down by the pier but it is not always a case of expectations and option being equal.

The quirkiness of Phi Phi Accommodation in December

Christmas and New Year are full and in most cases are full by mid November as described above. However if you want the good weather and the December stay, you can look at 12-20th December as this is a lull before the peak season. Traditionally people will travel to the North of Thailand and maybe do a trek in places like Chiang Mai and then come down to the beach for Christmas. Very often there are rooms available in plenty on Phi Phi at this time.