Roavi · Phuket
Become a Local Friend in Phuket
Create your Local Friend profile, share the places and experiences you enjoy, and connect with travelers visiting your city.
Free to create. You choose when and who you meet.
Roavi · Phuket
Become a Local Friend in Phuket
Create your Local Friend profile, share the places and experiences you enjoy, and connect with travelers visiting your city.
Free to create. You choose when and who you meet.
No commission · keep 100%
You set your rate
Free to publish
Locals are already sharing these cities with travelers. Yours can be next.
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Not a tour
This is not about memorizing a tour.
It is about sharing the version of your city that only you know.
Morning
Coffee, markets, your neighborhood.
The stop you make without thinking, the market that isn’t in any guide.
Afternoon
Food, culture, the hidden places.
The alley with no sign. The place you’d only find if someone showed you.
Evening
Music, nightlife, conversation.
By night, you’re not a guide — you’re just a friend showing someone around.
Your rate × your schedule
What locals actually charge.
You set your own rate. Payment happens directly between you and the traveler — Roavi never touches it. Here's what real Local Friends are asking on the platform today.
Your hourly rate
Hours a week
A month, roughly
$1,386
yours to keep · 0% commission
An example, not a promise. You're paid directly by the traveller; Roavi never touches the money.
You already know more than you think.
You know where to eat, where to walk, what to avoid, when to arrive, and where the city feels most alive. That local knowledge is what travelers are looking for.
Share what you love, on your own terms.
Roavi helps people discover and message one another. It does not create a booking or force either person to meet.
- Choose your availability
- Set your own rate
- Decide who you respond to
- Choose where to meet
- Say no to anyone, anytime
- Pause or edit your profile anytime
A few minutes
Four steps. A few minutes.
Set up your profile today. Start hearing from travelers.
- 1
Create your profile
Add your name, photo, city, and a short introduction.
- 2
Add your local interests and availability
Choose the food, culture, nightlife, or experiences you enjoy — and when you’re free.
- 3
Publish your profile in the Roavi directory
Your profile becomes visible to travelers — free, right away.
- 4
Receive and respond to traveler messages
Interested travelers message you directly. You decide who to respond to.
Build more trust with optional identity verification
Verification is completed through Stripe Identity. Once approved, a verified status appears on your profile — addable anytime from your dashboard.
Your profile, directory visibility, and messaging remain free without verification.
Verified identity status
A trust signal on your profile that helps travelers feel confident reaching out.
Profile performance insights
See how your profile views trend over time from your dashboard.
Phuket that isn't just Patong
Plenty of visitors come to Phuket, stay in Patong, pay more than they should to get around, and leave without seeing the old town, eating mee hokkien or moo hong, or knowing which coast is dangerous in the monsoon. People who live in Phuket know all of that already.
What you can show
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Old Phuket Town: the Sino-Portuguese shophouses on Thalang Road and the Lard Yai Sunday walking street.
- 2
The Phuket food locals eat: mee hokkien, moo hong and a dim sum breakfast in the old town.
- 3
Beaches quieter than Patong, and how to read the warning flags in the monsoon, when the waves make swimming unsafe.
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How to get around the island at a fair price, and when to go island-hopping.
This page is written for Thai nationals who live in Phuket. Tour guiding in Thailand is a licensed profession under the Tourism Business and Guide Act and is reserved for Thai nationals, and any foreigner earning income in Thailand needs a work permit. Local Friends sell no tours, drive no one by car or boat, and lead no groups.
Travelers are looking for locals in Phuket
Be one of the first Local Friends they meet. Build your profile today and get discovered by travelers heading to Phuket.
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Good to know before you begin
A few honest answers, so there are no surprises.
All year, but most in the dry season, roughly November to April, when the sea is calm. Visitors still come in the monsoon, roughly May to October, and many want someone who knows which coast is safe that day.
Local Friends don't carry people by car or boat for money or sell island tours: transport for hire and tour packages are regulated. You can help a visitor book the right way and go along with them.
Yes. Creating and publishing your Local Friend profile is completely free — there’s no cost to appear in the directory or receive messages.
No — and that is the point. A Local Friend is not a tour guide: you spend time with someone as yourself, you do not run a tour. Professional guiding is a licensed profession in a number of countries; spending an afternoon with someone is not. And if you do hold a guiding licence, put it on your profile — travellers look for it.
Yes. You set your own hourly rate, and you can change it anytime from your profile.
No. Roavi doesn’t process payments or take a commission on what you arrange with a traveler.
No. You decide who you respond to, and you can say no to anyone, for any reason.
No. Verification is optional. It’s completed through Stripe Identity and adds a verified status to your profile, but your profile, visibility, and messaging stay free either way.
Travelers message you directly through Roavi once they find your profile in the directory. You choose whether and how to reply.
Yes. You can pause your visibility or delete your profile at any time from your account settings.
Your city is already part of your story. Share it.
Travelers are already looking for someone like you.
No commission. No required schedule. You stay in control.