Parties in Baan Tai
Half Moon Party
The Half Moon Party is the second biggest party on Koh Phangan. It is in a jungle clearing on the Baan Tai to Thong Nai Pan Road. There is usually a live act to warm up the crowd. This is followed by a series of DJs, each one bringing harder beats to a crowd very much up for it. Expect underground house, progressive house, techno and trance. The party has suddenly shot up in price.
There are plenty of food stalls and places to buy drinks.
Price: 1,000 Thai Baht - early bird (8.30 to 9.30pm); 1,200 Thai Baht - pre-sale e-tickets
Dates: 1 week before and 1 week after Full Moon Party
More info: Official Website
Jungle Experience
Jungle Experience, like the Half Moon Party, is located in Baan Tai in the Jungle. Just follow the road to Thong Nai Pan and you will soon see the sign for the Jungle Experience.
Jungle Experience has a DJ booth, chill out area and plenty of psychedelic decoration. It is a party that has steadily grown in popularity over the years, and is now nearly as well attended as the Half Moon Party.
The music is mostly deep house, tech /house and progressive house. There is also a light show as well fire dancers.
Price: 600 Thai Baht
Dates: 1 day before the Full Moon Party
More info: Official Website
Black Moon Culture
Black Moon Culture is a rave at Mac Bay on Baan Tai Beach. Unlike Jungle Experience, the Half Moon Party and Shiva Moon Family, those partying have the soft sand to dance on or chill out.
It is a small and intimate party with a small DJ booth and a central pole with various fluorescent decorations hanging over proceedings. The music is invariably psy-trance.
There are plenty of food and drink stalls catering for the all-night party.
Price: 600 Thai Baht
Dates: 2 weeks after Full Moon Party
More info: Official website
Shiva Moon Family
Shiva Moon Family is a small psy trance party in the jungle. It is a mile or so into the jungle. It is a beautiful setting with 3 natural dance floors.
You can get food and plenty of drink at the party. It is an all night psy-trance party reminiscent of Goa.
Price: Free entry before 11pm. After 400 Thai Baht
Dates: The parties are irregular. The party was stopped in 2009 and in 2014. Check social media and local people in Koh Phangan to find out if it is on.
Other Parties
Voodoo Party started in 2016. It's in the Baan Tai jungle, again on the Thong Nai Pan road. Entry is 300 Thai Baht. Who knows how long it will last. The same DJs crop up at all the parties. It's a lucrative business for the organisers, hated by the local Thai residents for the noise and the present regime in Bangkok continually threatens to regulate the parties.
Club Nights
Ku Klub and Loi Lay Floating Bar both throw regular dance parties. They are often well attended and the music is normally spot on house. Loi Lay is at Baan Tai pier hanging over the water. Ku Klub is on the white sands of Baan Tai Beach.
More info: Loi Lay Floating Bar Facebook page
Amnesia Club promises 'European' style club nights. DJs spin vinyl, CDs and fiddle with their Apple computers from 8 to late. Free drink on entry before 10pm. AMNESIA HASN'T POSTED ON ITS FACEBOOK PAGE SINCE AUGUST 2017. IT IS PROBABLY CLOSED OR IN THE PROCESS OF CLOSING.
More info: Amnesia Club Facebook page
After Parties
A party might go on all night, but for some this is not long enough. Indeed some skip the main event and just turn up for the wild and strange mornings to be had at Baan Sabaii After Party at Baan Sabaii Resort. Trance and techno on the beach with indoor and outdoor dancing. Free entry. The other afters spot is Backyard Party on the tip of Haad Rin peninsula. The after parties generally follow the FMP, Half Moon and Black Moon.