Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 0 7566 1551;
www.anantaburinresort.com
;
166 Moo 3; r from 6000B; )
A boutique resort with
an impressive vaulted-roof lobby and hotel blocks that horseshoe around a pool. Rooms
feature nice design elements, including built-in dark-wood furnishings. First-floor rooms
spill directly into the pool. Rooms are half price in low season.
Eating
Ao Nang is full of mediocre roadside restaurants serving Italian, Scandinavian, Indian,
Thai and fast food. Prices are a bit inflated but you won't go hungry. For budget meals, a
few stalls pop up at night on the road to Krabi (near McDonald's). You'll find
roti
(pan-
cakes),
gài tôrt
(fried chicken), hamburgers and the like, and around lunch time streets
stalls also set up just north of Krabi Resort. Glur (
Click here
)
, the grooviest hostel in
town, also has a seasonal sandwich shop that makes some of the best sandwiches and
burgers in all of Krabi. Of course, the best meal in the Ao Nang area (and beyond) can be
found at Kruthara (
Click here
)
in nearby Nopparat Thara. It's well worth the trip.
Bamboo Food Huts
(meals 35-90B)
If you're in the mood for a ramshackle local food joint, walk a few minutes
up the main road to Krabi from the beach to find a row of thatched beach-style eateries.
Ignore the Western dishes and dig into something tasty, spicy and authentic, like fried
squid with hot basil, seafood
đôm yam
or massaman curry. There are plenty of vegie op-
tions too.
Lucky Yim Restaurant
is particularly good.
THAI
$
Ao Nang Cuisine
(mains 50-300B; 9:30am-10pm; )
This place claims to be the first proper restaurant in
town, and it does feel delightfully dated, with its brick columns and breezy patio perch
across the road from the beach. They do a mix of Chinese and Thai dishes, including
more obscure delicacies like steamed crab with glass noodles and fried tofu with crab
meat.
THAI
