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Fire performers and a crowd on a beach at night
Photo: Kaung Myat Min, Unsplash-Lizenz
Haad Rin · Koh Phangan

The beach goes off
till the sun's up

Once a month, 800 metres of sand turn into the loudest party in Thailand. Getting there is the easy part. Getting back at four in the morning is not — so that bit is sorted before you even leave.

Next party September 26, 2026 Haad Rin, Koh Phangan
Get me there & backWhat the night is like
  • Return seat reserved before you go
  • Picked up at your hotel
  • Book up to two days before
Nobody plans for this bit

Four in the morning is the hard part

Going over is easy. Boats run all evening, everyone is already buzzing, the beach does the rest.

Then the sky turns grey. The music thins out, the beach empties towards the pier, and a few thousand people want to cross back at once. The boats waiting there are not scheduled services — they leave when they're full, and «full» stretches a long way at that hour. Life jackets are not a given. The price is whatever the moment allows.

Book the round trip and none of that is your problem: you get picked up, you get across, and your seat home is reserved before you set off. You end the night walking onto a boat instead of bargaining for one.

Every full moon

Pick your night

The party follows the moon, on the beach at Haad Rin. If a date lands on a major Buddhist holy day it moves to the next night — alcohol sales stop nationwide on those days — so this list is solid but not carved in stone.

Full moon over the sea
Photo: Davide Sibilio, Unsplash-Lizenz
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How the night runs

Six steps, one booking

You organise none of it. This is the whole evening, start to finish.

  1. 1Hotel pickupEvening, from your place on Koh Samui
  2. 2To the pierShort drive, nothing to arrange
  3. 3AcrossRoughly half an hour to an hour on the water
  4. 4Haad RinThe beach, until you've had enough
  5. 5Back overYour seat is reserved — no queue, no haggling
  6. 6Back at your hotelSomewhere around sunrise

We arrange the round trip and are your contact if anything changes; the boats and vehicles belong to the local partners who run them. We are not a ferry company and we don't sell ferry tickets — on any other night you'd use one of the regular services from Maenam, Bangrak or Nathon.

Where it happens

Samui → Haad Rin

Short crossing, long night. The party sits on the south-eastern tip of Koh Phangan, not in the island's main town.

Koh Phangan Koh Samui 30–50 min Haad Rin Thong Sala Maenam Bangrak Nathon
Schematic, not to scale. The piers on Koh Samui are on the north and west coasts; Haad Rin sits on the south-eastern tip of Koh Phangan — Thong Sala, the island's main port, is on the other side.

Three ways to get there

Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan — going over from Koh Samui

The Full Moon Party takes place on the beach at Haad Rin on Koh Phangan, once a month around the full moon, and draws somewhere between five and thirty thousand people depending on the season. It has run for decades, organised by the bars and clubs along the sand, and the 800-metre beach works as one open-air dance floor until sunrise. Ultraviolet body paint, a sound system every few dozen metres and buckets instead of glasses are part of the picture.

Most people come over from Koh Samui for the night rather than staying on Koh Phangan. The crossing takes roughly half an hour to an hour depending on the boat and the pier. The return is the part worth planning: the party ends at dawn, when several thousand people head for the boats at the same time. This page lists the round-trip transfers we arrange with local partners — hotel pickup on Koh Samui, the crossing, and a seat reserved for the way back — along with the upcoming dates and what the night is actually like.