Cheap Muay Thai camps in Thailand

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.

The cheapest published drop-in of any camp on this site, and the only one in Krabi that prints a rate for grappling as well as Muay Thai. Read the passes before comparing them with anywhere else: the week and month are one class a day rather than unlimited, so they are a different product at a different price. MMA and no-gi BJJ are listed as waitlisted rather than running, which makes Muay Thai the thing you can count on turning up to.

Two group sessions a day, Monday to Saturday, priced in two columns so training once a day costs a good deal less than training twice. Every tier from one week to one month is published in both columns, which makes it unusually easy to work out what a stay costs before arriving. Privates run in the gap between the two group classes rather than alongside them, so they need booking ahead. Nothing on the site mentions rooms, which makes accommodation here unknown rather than absent. The gym names its founder, a former champion, and dates itself to 2014.

Two two-hour group sessions a day, priced in two columns so one a day costs less than two. Accommodation is on the gym's own plot and sold by the week or the month rather than the night, starting with the option of sleeping in the gym itself, which is as cheap as training in Thailand gets. A private with the head coach costs roughly three times a session with a trainer, which tells you how the place is organised before you arrive.

A Thong Sala gym with a fitness floor attached and the most granular price list on the island, running from a single day to a full year in two columns, once a day and twice. The long tiers are where the price per session collapses, so it suits somebody settling in rather than passing through. Two bungalows are listed with no rate and no stated location, so treat accommodation here as unknown rather than on site.

A small Nong Kae gym that has been running since 2017 and publishes a plain price list: one session, packs of five to twenty, or a month at one or two sessions a day. Three coaches, named on the site, with the head coach credited with twenty years in the sport. Nothing is bundled with a room or a visa, so the month buys training and nothing else, which is why it is one of the cheaper months in the country. Suits somebody already staying in Hua Hin who wants to train daily without buying a package.

A family gym in Nong Kae run by Kru Tum, who names his two assistant coaches and three of his fighters on the site. The timetable runs three adult group sessions on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and two on the other three days, because the early evening hour goes to the children, and every class is an hour and a half. Every price is printed twice, once for children and once for adults, so a parent training alongside a kid can read the whole bill off one page. The month buys training and nothing else, with no room and no visa attached, and the gym is closed on Sunday. Suits a family or a beginner already staying in Hua Hin who wants a plain price list and a coach who is also the owner.

One of the historically significant names in Muay Thai, with a lineage that long predates the training-holiday market. Traditional in approach rather than resort-styled, and priced accordingly: a session here costs half what the resort centre up the road charges.

The reason Pai is on this site at all. Sixteen trainers in a mountain town, run by a former Lumpinee and Rajadamnern number one with something over three hundred fights behind him, and one of the few camps anywhere in Thailand that puts in writing both that beginners are welcome and that the coaching happens in English.

The gym of Sudsakorn Klinmee, who runs it himself. Two group sessions a day, six days a week, with a five hour gap in the middle of the day and nothing on Sunday, which suits a working schedule better than it suits a fight camp. The published ladder prices one session a day separately from two, so a lighter week costs less here than at a camp selling nothing but unlimited.

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.

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.

Sells nothing but accommodation-inclusive camps: every tier from one night at 1,500 to three months at 75,000 bundles a private bungalow with unlimited Muay Thai, boxing and gym access, and no training-only rate is published anywhere on the site. The property runs to over 7,000 square metres with eight bungalows, a pool, a sauna, a steam room, an ice bath and its own restaurant, so the comparison is with a training resort rather than with a gym down the road. It also runs CrossFit, Hyrox and strength work alongside the striking. Suits somebody buying a block of time and a bed in one go, and is no use to anybody already living in Hua Hin who wants to pay for training alone.

Large resort-style training centre attached to the best-known equipment brand in the sport, with on-site accommodation and food. Polished and self-contained, which is either the appeal or the drawback depending on what you came for.