article_snippet: Thailand is not short of a marvellous beach or two. 
article_snippet: Thailand is, after all, a country with 2,000 miles of coastline.
article_snippet: But the problem is practically every other visitor who chooses Thailand for their exotic sun, sea and sand holiday wants to sit and be seen in the country's most famous hotspots too.
article_snippet: At the risk of sounding a bit of a beach snob, I want to be alone, or at least not swamped by hundreds of other sunbathers, when I'm on my holiday, at least until I've shaken off some stress.
article_snippet: Naturally, it has plenty of places to sunbathe or take a dip, not least Khuk Khak Beach, a marvellously empty stretch of white sand fringing the Andaman Sea.