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44 camps, read one at a time

What the camps publish about themselves

Every camp listed here was read off its own pages, and the fields it did not fill were left empty. Counted up, the empty fields say more than the full ones. Of the 44 camps, none publish how hard their sparring goes and one publishes anything at all addressed to a woman training there.

We check every listed camp for 12 things it could publish about itself on its own site. No camp publishes more than 11 of them, 17 of the 44 publish half the list or fewer, and one publishes none of it at all. The best documented camp here still leaves 1 of the 12 to an email.

The finding

The two questions almost nobody answers

Both are questions people arrive with. Neither is a secret and neither is hard to put on a page.

Ask anyone who has trained in Thailand what to check before booking and you tend to get the same two answers: how hard they spar, and whether a woman gets taken seriously on the mats. We looked for either one on 44 camps’ own sites. We found the first on 0 of them and the second on 1.

That is not a claim that camps are hiding anything. Plenty of them run good women’s programmes and plenty hold sparring at a sane level, and we know that because fighters say so. It is a claim about what you can find out before you have paid for a flight. A camp that does not write it down has left the answer to whoever posted about them last.

A third question lands almost as badly: whether the coaching happens in English, which is the first thing most people flying in from outside Thailand want to know. That is in writing on 3 of the 44 sites. A few more put the word somewhere on the page, but under a booking form, or inside a review a visitor left, and neither of those tells you what language you will be corrected in on the pads.

Set all three against the one question of this kind that camps do answer. 34 of the 44 say on their own site that beginners are taken, which is more than publish a month price. The difference is not difficulty. Welcoming a beginner is a sales line and costs nothing to write. How hard the sparring goes is a commitment somebody can hold you to, and the language the coaching happens in is a promise about every trainer on the floor.

It is also the gap this site exists to close, which is why those fields read not verified yet on the camp pages here wherever the camp has not answered, rather than carrying a guess. Where one has answered, we print the answer even when it is a no. We would rather print the blank and go and fill it in person.

Counted

What 44 camps put online

Each line is one thing a camp could publish and the number of the 44 that published it. Under the figure is one mark per camp, inked where we found the thing published and left short where we did not, so a line of short marks and no ink is a line nobody answered.
A website of their own
39of 44
An Instagram account we could find
35of 44
A map pin of their own
43of 44
Any price at all
34of 44
What a month costs
26of 44
How many sessions a day they run
28of 44
Whether there are rooms on site
27of 44
What one of those rooms costs
4of 44
How hard the sparring goes
0of 44
Anything addressed to women training there
1of 44
Whether beginners are taken
34of 44
Whether the coaching is in English
3of 44

The shape of it

The further you ask, the less there is

39 of the 44 camps have a website of their own. 34 print a price on it. 28 say how many sessions they run in a day. 43 put a map on the page precise enough to navigate from. 4 say what a room costs, in a country where living at the gym is the normal way to do this.

Nothing in that sequence is technical. A price list is a paragraph, a timetable is a table, and a map is a block of code the map provider hands you already written. The camps that publish them are not the biggest or the best funded, and the list further down includes names anyone who follows the sport will recognise.

What it costs is a booking. A visitor comparing four camps books the one that answered their question, because the alternative is sending an email and waiting a day for a reply that may not come.

Named out

The camps with nowhere to send you

A count is only worth printing if it can be named. These are the camps behind two of the lines above, each linked to the record we hold on them.

No website we could find, 5 of 44

No Instagram we could find, 9 of 44

In a sport whose whole shop window is Instagram, 9 of the 44 camps we list have no account we could match to them. Some of them will have one under a name we did not find, and if that is your gym then the record here is wrong and we would rather be corrected than right.

Camp by camp

Nobody publishes more than 11 of the 12

The same lines again, counted one camp at a time instead of across all of them. This orders camps by what they publish and by nothing else: a camp near the bottom may be the best gym in the country and simply never write anything down.

Run the lines against one camp at a time and the ceiling is low. The best documented camp here publishes 11 of the 12 and leaves 1 of them blank, and that is the top of the order rather than the middle of it. Somebody who picks the most forthcoming camp in Thailand is still sending an email.

17 of the 44 publish half the list or fewer, so for most of it the email is not a formality. It is how you find out the things that decide the booking: what a month costs, how many sessions run in a day, whether there is a bed.

At the far end, one publishes none of it. Not one of those has a site for us to read, which is the whole of the explanation: there is no page withholding anything, there is no page. They are listed because they exist and people train at them, and the record here says that much and stops.

Punch It GymKoh Samui
11of 12
Sinbi Muay ThaiPhuket
9of 12
Tiger Muay ThaiPhuket
9of 12
Chinnarach Muay ThaiKoh Phangan
8of 12
Diamond Muay ThaiKoh Phangan
8of 12
Kiatphontip GymBangkok
8of 12
Santai Muay ThaiChiang Mai
8of 12
Sityodtong PattayaPattaya
8of 12
Dang Muay ThaiChiang Mai
7of 12
Honour Muay ThaiKrabi
7of 12
Jaopahin Muay ThaiHua Hin
7of 12
Luktupfah Muay ThaiBangkok
7of 12
Monkey Muay ThaiHua Hin
7of 12
SitsongpeenongBangkok
7of 12
Sumalee Boxing GymPhuket
7of 12
Superpro SamuiKoh Samui
7of 12
Suwit Muay ThaiPhuket
7of 12
Yodyut MuaythaiKoh Samui
7of 12
Bangkok Fight LabBangkok
6of 12
Kem Muay Thai GymIsaan (Northeast)
6of 12
Kombat GroupPattaya
6of 12
Chiang Mai Muay Thai GymChiang Mai
5of 12
Over The TopKrabi
5of 12
Elite Fight ClubBangkok
4of 12
Dragon Muay ThaiPhuket
1of 12
Hongthong Muay ThaiChiang Mai
1of 12
Petchyindee AcademyBangkok
1of 12
Phuket Top TeamPhuket
0of 12

Price by disclosure

Nothing well documented reaches either edge

The same records again, set against what a camp asks for a month. 3 of the 12 questions on this page ask a camp for a price, so the count here runs over the 9 that do not. A figure that partly contained the thing it is being set against would not be measuring anything.

The 26 camps here that publish a month rate run 3,999 to 18,000 baht, and both ends of that are held by camps answering 5 of the 9 questions we ask that are not about money. Not one of the 11 camps that answered more than 5 sits at either end: all 11 are between 8,800 and 16,800, so both edges of the price list belong to camps that answered about half of what we ask. An outlying price is a question to put to a camp rather than an answer to act on.

Nothing here says a dear camp is hiding something or a cheap one is being open. A group this size could not carry that, and the ends are not the emptiest entries on this page either: there are camps below them. The narrower claim is the useful one. No figure at either edge of the price list comes from one of the better documented camps, and those edge figures are the ones most likely to decide where somebody books.

Region by region

The biggest places tell you the least

The same questions again, grouped by where the camps are and ordered by how much of the list each region answered. Nothing is drawn here and no share is printed, because 11 camps answering in Bangkok and one in Pai are not comparable as proportions and a drawing would imply they were; the order carries it instead.

Grouped by region, the pattern reverses: the places with the most camps in them publish the least. Bangkok holds 11 of the 44 camps listed here and answers 56 of the 132 questions we put to them, the lowest share in Thailand, with Chiang Mai next. The four most forthcoming are Pai, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Pattaya. A big region is a big choice of camps, not a well documented one.

Pai1 camp
9of 12
Koh Samui3 camps
25of 36
Koh Phangan4 camps
31of 48
Pattaya4 camps
28of 48
Krabi4 camps
27of 48
Hua Hin4 camps
26of 48
Isaan (Northeast)1 camp
6of 12
Phuket7 camps, 1 of them silent
40of 84
Chiang Mai5 camps
26of 60
Bangkok11 camps
56of 132

Where we stand

We are not neutral about this

Said plainly, because a research page that pretends to have no interest in its own findings is the least trustworthy kind.

We counted this because we needed the data to build the site, and the counting turned out to be the more interesting half. A camp reading its own name in the list above has learned something about its marketing that no agency pitch would have told it, and it can act on that without us.

Correcting the record here is free and will stay free. The rest, a site that answers the question before a visitor has to ask it, is the work we sell. Both links go to a page that says what it involves rather than a form.

Method

How this was read

Every figure above comes from a camp’s own website or its own Instagram, read between 2026-09-02 and 2026-10-14. Nothing is taken from an aggregator, a booking platform or another directory, and nothing is averaged or carried over from a comparable gym.

A blank means we could not find the thing published on the camp’s own site on the day we read it. It does not mean the thing does not exist. A camp may run the best women’s programme in the country and never mention it, which is the point: a visitor can only act on what is findable.

The counts move when the camps move. Each one is computed from the records on this site rather than written into this page, so when a camp publishes a price or a timetable and we read it, the figure above changes on its own.

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What the reading produced

The counts are a by-product. The pages below are what they were collected for.