Phuket Wake Park: Cable Wakeboarding in Kathu

Phuket Wake Park's two cables: a 700 m loop and a two-tower trainer

The big cable is a full-size system. The park gives its numbers on the home page: 700 m of cable, strung 10.5 m high, running at 30 km/h, with 11 obstacles set into the lake. Carriers travel round the loop continuously and pull several riders at once, which is why a cable park gives you so much more time on the water than a boat. The park's own evening-hire terms put the number of riders on the cable at "from 1 to 20".

The second line is different in kind. The park lists it as its training cable, "System 2.0", and its kids' camp page calls it a "reverse cable". System 2.0 is a two-tower design. Wakeparx, which distributes it, describes "two A-shaped towers" between which "wakeboarders move back and forth instead of in a circle", over a course of 80 to 250 m, and says it "has proven itself as a beginner-friendly practice facility thanks to its two-tower-design". The park does not print the length of its own System 2.0.

In practice that splits the lake by ability. The 700 m loop is where you ride once you can stay up, and where the 11 features are. The trainer is where you learn to stay up. That matters for budgeting, as the price list below shows.

Phuket Wake Park prices in THB, as of October 2026

The park prints its full price list on its home page. These are its figures, read on 13 October 2026.

Two things stand out. The second hour on the big cable costs only 250 THB more than the first, and a full day is 2,150 THB, so anyone who can already ride should buy time in blocks. The trainer works the other way: 30 minutes on System 2.0 costs 900 THB, nearly as much as an hour on the big loop. It is a learning tool, not the cheap option.

For scale, 1,000 THB was about US$30 or €27 at the European Central Bank's reference rates for 12 October 2026. The park's FAQ adds a free day on the big cable on your birthday and 10% off for groups of up to 10, and points to its social media for current promotions.

First time wakeboarding in Phuket: the beginner package and System 2.0

The park answers this one itself. For anyone who has never ridden, its FAQ recommends the "First-time" program: "30 min private training with a coach on System 2.0", then "1 hour riding on the Big cable", with "all necessary equipment". That is the 2,500 THB package. It is a sensible order. Getting up is the hard part of learning, and a coach on a short back-and-forth line gets you through it faster than falling off the start dock of a 700 m loop over and over.

Book it. The park's rule is plain: "If you want training with a coach or ride on the System 2.0 (training cable) booking is required in other cases you can just walk in." The number on its site is +66 98 018 9959, and the email address is info@phuketwakepark.com. If you want to arrive knowing the stance and the getting-up position, our beginner's guide to wakeboarding covers both.

Children have their own program. The 5-day Kids Wake Camp runs Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 15:00, for ages 7 to 15, at 5,600 THB: two hours a day on System 2.0, two on the big cable, coaching in Russian or English, all equipment including the helmet, plus lunch and snacks. Separate kids' lessons run from 4,000 THB for eight group sessions.

What the Phuket Wake Park ticket includes, and the board you need for the kickers

The helmet is in the price here. The park's FAQ lists "Basic equipment: wakeboard (not for obstacles), vest, helmet. This equipment is included in all tickets price and is perfect for beginners." That is a real difference from Thai Wake Park in Bangkok, where the helmet is compulsory but rented on top.

Read the brackets, though. The included board is "not for obstacles". If you want to hit the kickers and rails on the big cable, you need one of the park's pro boards (the price list shows wakeboard rental at 500 THB) or your own. The park's boardshop, opposite the main entrance and open daily 10:00 to 18:00, stocks Liquid Force, Hyperlite and Slingshot boards. If you are thinking of buying for a long stay, our wakeboarding gear guide explains what separates a park board from a boat board.

Keep the helmet and vest on. The sport's world body is blunt about both. The IWWF's cable wakeboard competition guidelines say "Riders must wear a suitable well fitted helmet in the course" and that a vest "must float the Rider" and "must be constructed to provide adequate protection from impact damage to the ribs and internal organs". Those are competition rules, not a law for a day ticket, but they describe what the gear is for. When you catch an edge, let go of the handle rather than fighting the pull.

Phuket Wake Park opening hours, and the banner to read before you ride

The park lists Monday 10:00 to 18:00 and Tuesday to Sunday 9:00 to 18:00, and its Instagram bio gives the same hours. Treat that as the plan, not a promise. On 12 October 2026 the home page opened with a notice: "THE MAIN CABLE WILL WORK FROM 15:00 TILL 18:00 ON MONDAY, OCTOBER, 12", and System 2.0 "by prior booking only". So check the banner on the morning you go, or the park's Instagram, which was posting through early October 2026.

There is no regular evening session. After 18:00 the cable runs only as private hire by pre-order, from 6,000 THB for the hour from 18:00 to 19:00, for 1 to 20 riders. Alone, that is the most expensive hour in Phuket. Split twenty ways it is 300 THB each, under a third of a normal daytime hour. A group of friends or a coworking crowd can make that arithmetic work.

Getting to Phuket Wake Park from Patong, Phuket Town and the airport

The address is 86/3 Moo 6 Vichitsongkram Road, Kathu, Phuket 83120, and the park describes itself as being in the middle of the island. Kathu is inland: there is no beach here, which is the trade-off for a short drive from both coasts.

Distances below are measured on OpenStreetMap with the OSRM routing engine, to the pin on the park's own Google Maps link. The times are free-flow estimates. Phuket traffic, especially on the hill out of Patong at the end of the day, will be slower.

• From Patong (Bangla Road): about 9.5 km. You cross the hill on Route 4029, Phra Barami Road, then follow Vichitsongkram Road into Kathu. Around 15 minutes without traffic.
• From Phuket Old Town (Thalang Road): about 10.4 km, almost all of it straight out along Vichitsongkram Road. Around 15 minutes without traffic.
• From Phuket International Airport: about 31 km south on Route 4031 and Route 402, Thepkrasattri Road. Around 40 minutes without traffic.

Plan on a taxi, a ride-hailing car or a rented scooter. On a scooter in the wet season, bring a dry bag for the phone.

Wakeboarding in Phuket's rainy season: September and October are the wettest

The Thai Meteorological Department dated the onset of the 2026 rainy season to 15 May. On Phuket the wet months then build rather than peak early. Taking the department's monthly summaries for its Phuket station and subtracting each month's departure from normal gives these monthly normals: about 24 mm in February and 50 mm in January, rising to 237 mm in May, 309 mm in August, 350 mm in September and 336 mm in October, before falling to 178 mm in November and 82 mm in December.

Single years swing far from those averages. In May 2026 the department recorded 670.9 mm at its Southern Meteorological Center in Thalang, near the airport: a new May record for a station with data from 1952, beating 652.4 mm set in 2016.

Rain on its own does not spoil a cable session; you are wet anyway. Thunderstorms do, and you should get out of the water when one rolls in, cable running or not. The wet season also has an upside for anyone based here. The Similan Islands close to divers from mid-May to mid-October, as our Phuket diving season guide explains, and a freshwater lake in Kathu does not close for the monsoon. If the sky looks heavy, go early and keep the day loose.

A month at Phuket Wake Park: membership, rooms with Wi-Fi and a desk for rent

Phuket Wake Park sells time in weeks and months, and you can live and work on the grounds.

The membership prices on the home page are 10,500 THB for "1 week (available 15 days)", 15,500 THB for "15 days (available 1 month)", 20,500 THB for a month and 35,500 THB for three months. The list does not say which cable or gear a membership covers, so ask before you pay. At the day price of 2,150 THB, a month pays for itself from about the tenth full day. In euros it is roughly €545 at the 12 October rate, well above the €311 that Singapore Wake Park charged for a month in our cable park roundup.

The park also rents rooms. Its site lists 28 hotel rooms: standard rooms of 24 sq m for one or two people, deluxe apartments of 40 sq m with a mini-kitchen, and 67 sq m family apartments. "We have WiFi in all apartments and in a park area," the hotel page says, and long-term rentals are available; prices come by email from pwp.apart@phuketwakepark.com. The park also lets offices at 13,500 THB a month on a one-year contract, and its restaurant cooks Thai, European and Russian food.

Who should skip it as a base: anyone who wants to walk to a beach, or to dive most days of the high season, which means living closer to the boats. If you are still choosing an island, Phuket vs Krabi and Phuket vs Koh Tao weigh the bases for diving, and the Thailand DTV visa guide covers staying longer than a tourist entry allows.

Is there another wake park on Phuket? Anthem and the Mai Khao cable

Older guides to Phuket name two other parks. Neither is one to plan a trip around in October 2026.

Anthem Wakepark in Thalang has closed. Its domain is up for sale, Airbnb's places listing marks it "permanently closed", and a Kathu-based Phuket blogger noted it "has now closed as of 2020". No single official notice of the closure exists; that is three independent signals that agree.

Sport Wake Park in Mai Khao, near the airport, runs a Facebook page under the handle iwpsportsclub, the same site older listings call International Wake Park. Its own website, sportwakeparkphuket.com, did not resolve on 13 October 2026, and the property was advertised on FazWaz from 8 November 2024 as "Sport Wake Park for Sale ad Rent in Phuket". Whether its cable runs today is unconfirmed. Message the park through Facebook before you drive to Mai Khao, and do not swap a Kathu booking for it on the strength of an old listing.

For other cable parks within reach of a Thai base, see Black Mountain Wake Park in Hua Hin.