Kata Yai is home to Club Med, and Kata Noi has a number of very up-market places as well. The main town of Kata Yai decent, cheap Thai places to eat. Kata also has plenty of dive shops and travel agents. A bus from Phuket town to Kata cost Bt15 and goes via Karon Beach. A chartered tuk tuk costs Bt130.
Dilapidated buildings side by side with plus multi-storey hotels, bars and restaurants.
The beach here is nice and some sections do not even have deck chairs, though you may have to dodge jet skis, parasailers and windsurfs. Like Kata, there is definitely no oversupply of great places to eat, but there some good places to sleep. There is some big development going on in the centre of the beach as Karon tries to inject a bit more zest into itself. There is no post office in Karon, the closest is a Kata. A bus from Phuket town costs Bt15 and returns via Kata Beach.