Independent camp directory
Compare 44 camps across 10 regions of Thailand on price, level, accommodation and fight opportunity. A month of training costs 3,999 to 18,000 baht at the 26 camps that print a monthly rate, and 10 of the 44 print no rate of any kind. Every figure was read off the camp's own page on a dated check, and a camp that publishes nothing gets an empty field rather than a guess.
the question most people arrive with
every price comes off a camp website, with the date we read it
How this works
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Every price, session count and claim on this site came off the camp's own website on a dated desk check. Where a camp publishes nothing, the field stays empty and says so. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap.
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No booking fee and no markup on the room. What the camp quotes you is what you pay, and the enquiry goes to the camp rather than through us. If a link on this site ever earns us anything, the page carrying it will say so.
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Every profile says who a camp does not suit as well as who it does, because a fighter camp will chew up a beginner and a resort camp will bore a fighter.
How long before a month pass breaks even
10 regions
Where the professional Thai fight scene actually lives, alongside Rajadamnern and Lumpinee stadiums. Gyms are city gyms rather than resort camps, so on-site accommodation is rarer and you commute. The commute is the part to plan for: the camps we list run from Thaweewatana in the far west to Prawet out past the eastern suburbs, and the wrong side of town can put an hour of traffic between your room and the gym. It holds more camps than any other region on this list, and three of them publish a week rate, none of it cheap by mainland standards. Best fit if you want authentic stadium-adjacent training and city life over a training holiday.
Seven camps on one island: five in Chalong and Rawai at the southern tip, the other two at Thalang and Bang Tao up the west coast. The only island on this list with its own international airport and no ferry at the end, which is most of what makes it an easy first trip. It holds one of the two camps we class as large, and four of the seven publish rooms on site. Not the cheap option either, and not a uniform one: no camp here prints a month anywhere near the cheapest on the mainland, and the gap between its own cheapest and dearest is wide.
Northern city with a long-established camp scene and a lower cost of living than the islands. Cooler months from November to February make training more comfortable. Air quality drops sharply during the northern burning season, roughly February to April, which is worth planning around. The camps sit closer together than anywhere else we cover, two of them inside the old city walls and the furthest out at San Kamphaeng, so visiting two in a morning is realistic. The catch is how little gets published here: only two print a month rate, and both print the same figure.
North of Samui and in the same province, with no airport of its own, so everybody arrives by ferry from Samui, Surat Thani or Chumphon. The scene is small, relaxed and heavily crossed over with the long-stay yoga and wellness crowd on the Sri Thanu side of the island. That means fewer camps and fewer training partners than Phuket or Samui, and progress that depends a good deal on who else happens to be in camp the month you are. The Full Moon Party at Haad Rin fills the ferries and moves room prices once a month, which is worth checking your dates against whichever way you feel about it.
Mainland province on the Andaman coast, across Phang Nga Bay from Phuket and served by its own international flights. Arriving here does not mean routing through Phuket first. The camp scene is small and a lot of the draw is what sits around the training rather than the training itself: Railay and Tonsai are limestone walls reachable only by boat and a climbing destination in their own right, and the ferries to Koh Lanta and Koh Phi Phi run from the town pier. Quieter than Phuket in every sense of the word, the party one included.
Gulf coast city in Chonburi province, two hours from Bangkok by road, and the closest cluster of long-running competition gyms to the capital that is not in it. The town has a nightlife reputation that arrives before you do, and the training scene sits beside that rather than inside it: the gyms are in their own compounds, long-stay accommodation is cheap and plentiful, and U-Tapao takes enough regional flights to skip Bangkok on the way in. It suits people who want a serious room to train in and do not need the surroundings to be pretty.
Coastal town in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, roughly three hours south of Bangkok by road and on the southern rail line. That makes it the easiest stretch of beach in Thailand to reach without flying. It was a Thai holiday town long before it was a foreign one and still reads that way: families and long-stay visitors rather than backpackers. The camp scene is correspondingly small, a few gyms around the town rather than a strip of them.
The larger of the two Gulf training islands, in Surat Thani province, with a scene built around a holiday rather than a fight camp. That makes it the easier place to bring somebody who is not training. Getting here is the cost people underestimate: the island airport is privately operated and fares into it run well above the mainland, so the cheaper route in is a flight to Surat Thani and then the bus and the ferry. A shorter list of camps than Phuket, and a shorter list of trainers to work with.
A mountain town three hours north of Chiang Mai by minivan, with one serious camp rather than a scene to shop around in. That is the trade: you commit to a gym before you arrive, and in exchange you train somewhere cheap and quiet where the road out takes most of a day. The burning season settles into the valley and sits there, which makes February to April the months to avoid.
The biggest and poorest part of the country, and the part that produces a disproportionate share of its professional fighters. Most gyms here are built for Thai kids fighting for purse money rather than for visitors, so English and comfort vary enormously between camps. The few that do run foreigner-facing programmes tend to sit outside any town, with the room and the food included because there is nothing to walk to. Flights serve the north and the east of the region, while the Khorat end is close enough to drive from Bangkok. Come for immersion, not for a cheap month: the rates published here are not noticeably below the islands.
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Camp profiles
Chalong, Phuket, large camp
The largest and best-known training complex in Thailand, running Muay Thai alongside a full MMA and BJJ programme. Big enough that you can always find training partners at your level, and structured enough that a total beginner is never left guessing. The trade-off is scale: it feels like a fitness resort rather than a Thai gym, and it is priced accordingly.
Muay Thai / MMA / BJJ / Boxing / Wrestling
From the camp's own site,2026-10-14Rawai, Phuket, mid-size camp
A long-running Rawai camp that stayed Muay Thai only while neighbours diversified into MMA. Reputation is built on Thai trainer quality and pad work rather than facilities. Suits people who want to actually get better at Muay Thai rather than sample several martial arts.
Muay Thai
From the camp's own site,2026-09-02Chalong, Phuket, mid-size camp
Mid-sized Chalong camp with a reputation for a friendly, less intimidating atmosphere than the larger complexes nearby. A reasonable first camp for someone nervous about walking into a hard gym.
Muay Thai
Not verified yetThalang, Phuket, small camp
Smaller camp in the quieter north of Phuket, away from the Rawai and Chalong concentration. Being out of the tourist strip is the point: fewer distractions, smaller groups, more trainer attention. Less convenient if you want nightlife or a big social scene.
Muay Thai
From the camp's own site,2026-09-02Chalong, Phuket, mid-size camp
MMA-first gym rather than a Muay Thai camp that added MMA. The right pick if mixed martial arts is the actual goal and Muay Thai is one component of it. A poor pick if you want a traditional Thai Muay Thai experience. The address the gym used to publish is no longer theirs: the domain lapsed and now serves an unrelated gambling site, so we removed the link rather than send anyone there. Nothing under that address has any connection to the gym.
MMA / BJJ / Muay Thai / Wrestling
From the camp's own siteBang Tao, Phuket, mid-size camp
Based on the north-west coast near Bang Tao beach rather than in the southern camp cluster, which changes the whole trip: quieter beaches, more of a resort setting, longer drive to the Chalong and Rawai scene.
Muay Thai / MMA / BJJ
From the camp's own site,2026-09-02Six questions
The matcher shows what fits and, beside it, what we still do not know about each camp. No account, no email, no booking form.
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