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
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
- 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
No website we could find, 5 of 44
- Dragon Muay Thai
Chalong, Phuket
- Phuket Top Team
Chalong, Phuket
- Hongthong Muay Thai
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai
- Petchyindee Academy
Bangkok, Bangkok
- Sitjaroonsak Muaythai Gym
Bang Wa, Bangkok
No Instagram we could find, 9 of 44
- Dragon Muay Thai
Chalong, Phuket
- Phuket Top Team
Chalong, Phuket
- Suwit Muay Thai
Chalong, Phuket
- Lanna Muay Thai (Kiatbusaba)
Chiang Mai city, Chiang Mai
- Hongthong Muay Thai
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai
- Yokkao Training Center
Bangkok, Bangkok
- Petchyindee Academy
Bangkok, Bangkok
- Fairtex Training Center Pattaya
Pattaya, Pattaya
- FA Group Muay Thai Gym
Chatuchak, Bangkok
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
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
- Charnchai Muay ThaiPai
- 9of 12
- Emerald Muay ThaiKrabi
- 9of 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
- Martial Arts Academy Koh PhanganKoh Phangan
- 8of 12
- Santai Muay ThaiChiang Mai
- 8of 12
- Sityodtong PattayaPattaya
- 8of 12
- Bangtao Muay Thai & MMAPhuket
- 7of 12
- Dang Muay ThaiChiang Mai
- 7of 12
- Fairtex Training Center PattayaPattaya
- 7of 12
- Honour Muay ThaiKrabi
- 7of 12
- Hua Hin Muay Thai SchoolHua Hin
- 7of 12
- Jaopahin Muay ThaiHua Hin
- 7of 12
- Khongsittha Muay ThaiBangkok
- 7of 12
- Luktupfah Muay ThaiBangkok
- 7of 12
- Monkey Muay ThaiHua Hin
- 7of 12
- Phangan Muay Thai & FitnessKoh Phangan
- 7of 12
- SitsongpeenongBangkok
- 7of 12
- Sudsakorn Muay Thai GymPattaya
- 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
- E.N. Muaythai GymKrabi
- 6of 12
- Eminent Air Muay ThaiBangkok
- 6of 12
- Kem Muay Thai GymIsaan (Northeast)
- 6of 12
- Kombat GroupPattaya
- 6of 12
- Chiang Mai Muay Thai GymChiang Mai
- 5of 12
- Elite Fight Club Hua HinHua Hin
- 5of 12
- FA Group Muay Thai GymBangkok
- 5of 12
- Lanna Muay Thai (Kiatbusaba)Chiang Mai
- 5of 12
- Over The TopKrabi
- 5of 12
- Elite Fight ClubBangkok
- 4of 12
- Yokkao Training CenterBangkok
- 3of 12
- Sitjaroonsak Muaythai GymBangkok
- 2of 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 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
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
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.
Next
What the reading produced
- What the camps charge
Every published rate, dated and attributed to the camp that printed it.
- How to choose a camp
What these counts mean when you are the one deciding where to go.
- The 44 camps
One record each, with the blanks left visible.
- Field notes
The only way the two blank fields ever get filled.