Top 6 Krabi Shopping

Along a series of parallel numbered streets called Maharat, you’ll find many textile shops interspersed with hardware stores and cafés. The downtown Vogue department store sells brand-name goods, but check the quality as copies site side-by-side with the real stuff. You’ll also find Boots the Chemist, a Bata and a Body Glove shop there. Read More...

A few kilometres outside Krabi Town on the airport road (Route 4) stands a collection of big supermarket and retail stores. Big C sells household goods and has satellite stores with brand-name goods. Tesco-Lotus is in the same game as Big C, but in a slightly higher quality bracket. Nearby Outlet Village is perhaps the best sports and clothes hub in the province and is worth a visit. Read More...

Since it’s possible to stroll from one end of town to the other on a largely one-sided road, it’s easy to plan shopping in Ao Nang. You just have to make up your mind from which end to start. At the northern end are some original and colourful clothing boutiques. Along the main Beach Road are countless stores selling T-shirts, flip-flops, beach hats. This part of Ao Nang also features several good tailors and a couple of jewellery stores. Read More...

Klong Muang is quiet. The beach and sunset views are its main attractions and for good shopping opportunities visitors should head to nearby Ao Nang. The only good shopping facilities in Klong Muang are in and around the Klong Muang Plaza a square of antique and handicraft shops, massage and beauty parlours, cafes and boutiques. Opposite the plaza is an excellent antiques store. Read More...

If you’re in the market for hippy paraphernalia, second-hand books and the like then Railay East is for you. Interspersed between the pancake vendors, restaurants and bars, you will find several small vendors selling beads, flip-flops, wooden souvenirs, Frisbees, beach bags and beach tennis gear. Next to the Sand Sea Resort on Railay Beach stands an attractive, newly constructed shopping plaza. Read More...

All throughout Krabi Province you will see a colourful collection of roadside market stores with many motorcycles parked to the side, vendors selling out of the back of their pickups, colourful vegetables and piles of bizarre-looking fruit. These markets are not there just for commercial reasons, they are a part of Thai social integration and are fun to explore.