Koh Phangan Parties - Full Moon Party - Half Moon Party - Any Party - We Cover Them All!

This is the first part of what will be a two part article covering Lazy House in Haad Rin. By daytime it’s a cool place to chill out and watch a movie or two. On and around full moon party time Lazy House joins in the revelry by staging parties of it’s own in the evening. This article deals with the Lazy side of Lazy House. In a week or so we will be going back to review one of their night parties.

If you don’t know your way around Haad Rin then it could be a little tricky to find this place. I will try and give some directions here but it would probably be easier to ask somebody where Lazy House is once you are in Haad Rin. Going from the 7/11 on the main road then start with the 7/11 on your right, head about 300 metres down the road and you will see a wide dirt road on your right. Turn onto this dirt track and follow it down and around to the right until you end up back on concrete, follow this road down and around to the left and you will find Lazy House right in front of you on both sides of the road, yes both sides, this is a big bar!

During the day Lazy House plays movies, the days schedule can be found on a board outside, it really lives up to it’s name as you can see from the pictures, plenty of couches for people to lay upon whilst watching the movies and suffering from last nights partying.
The menu here is very interesting, forgoing most Thai food and concentrating almost completely on western dishes. Breakfast seems to be the big thing here with 4 pages of the menu dedicated to just this meal alone! The traditional pies look pretty good too. You will also find a selection of pastas and pizzas along with daily specials……
I was lucky enough to catch up with Jon, the owner of Lazy House and ask him a few questions, when I asked him how long he had been a resident on Koh Phangan and he replied 12 years I knew I was going to get something interesting, so here is the transcript telling the history of Lazy House.

phanganparties: So where did it all come from Jon? The name Lazy House, why did you choose it?

Jon: The Lazy House was first a free party sound system playing funky house out of a squatted house in a residential housing estate in Exmouth, Devon in England. From 1989 until 1994 we partied our way through the south west of England with a regular night in the house, fields, quarries and abandoned warehouses, any where we could get away from the prying eye off the old bill who were all over us when ever they got the chance.

phanganparties: That’s quite an interesting history Jon, the early 90’s were possibly the peak time in the UK for free parties, what was the biggest you played at?

Jon: in 1991 we set up near a small village which soon turned into the biggest free party I have ever been too, the police estimated the crowd to be 25,000 but it was more like 40,000 it lasted 10 days it was awesome. The village was Castlemorton and it was the start of the summer of love. The next year we played at a party on an old airfield called Smeathorpe which was just down the road from Exmouth this also went on for a week and was on the same weekend as Glastonbury. For the first time the new age travellers were not given a field at the Glastonbury site and were forced to move on, they came to Smeathorpe and the party went on and on with the spiral tribe going solid for 10 hardcore days the Lazy House system stayed for a week then went home to recover.

phanganparties: So how did all this end and the Lazy House we know now on Koh Phangan come into existence?

Jon: Sadly in mid 94 the owner of our squat house won the court case and promptly demolished the house while we were away at a party. After this the collective drifted apart and in 1996 I moved here permanently and reopened the Lazy House as a lounge bar in haad rin, since then it has gone from strength to strength, constantly expanding to meet the demands of the customers.

phanganparties: Thanks Jon, it seems you have got a lot of things right here with Lazy House and we will be back to cover one of your night parties very soon.

So there you have it, who would have thought that a bar in Haad Rin would have such an amazing history? It’s easy to see why Jon is doing so well, he understands what his customers want and supplies those wants, good business and we wish him the best of luck in maintaining the quality that is so easily recognised in Lazy House.