Soi Romanee

This quaint and colourful little backstreet connecting Thalang and Dibuk roads may seem innocuous enough but it has a raunchy past as it was a hundred years ago lined with brothels and the odd opium den servicing Chinese labourers and tin miners. Nowadays, it's a cheerful and photogenic place lined with coffee shops, cute little hostels, and art galleries. One of the most singular aspects of Soi Romanee is that it has no ugly overhead power cables that afflict the rest of downtown Phuket.