"Rim Haad" (Beach Road), at the southern end, has a number of small 20-30 room hotels for the low/medium budget traveler. Friendly service and village feel and a diversity of restaurants and small bars can be found on this small road. Cheaper food options/market stalls can be found on the main Kamala Road. If you are looking to spend most of the time on the beach enjoying the sea, this is a very good place to be.

The extremely popular Phuket Fantasea is located in Kamala. Fantasea is an exuberant "show-theme park" that combines the rich heritage of Thailand with unique 4D effects and animals. The park is 140 acres and presents a 4000-seat restaurant offering a grand buffet of Thai and international cuisine. The park operates daily except Thursdays and opens at 8.30 pm. If more entertainment is desired you can take a taxi to Patong beach; however taxi's are unreasonably expensive THB 500 one way (but less if you bargain). Tuk-tuks are a simple and (sometimes) cheap way to leave Kamala. Tuk-tuks to the more popular Patong cost around THB 300 . Some of the hotels provide an affordable shuttle to Patong.

Kamala offers some small supermarkets, one of them a 7/11. There's quite a few souvenir shops on the road, along with some tour offices where you can book lots of different tours for diving or beach watching . There are quite a few restaurants direct on the beach. Usually they show some fresh fish and seafood on ice, where you can choose exactly what to eat. There are several bars in Kamala - most designed to suit the tourists who flock to Phuket in the tourist season. For example the Welsh Bar and the Aussie Bar are bars that have a certain patriotic atmosphere but are rather quiet in the off season.