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Patong Slideshow
Patong
Travel Blogs from Patong, Thailand
A new place to call home
Air conditioning is quite nice, but we were forced to relocate for financial reasons. On our second day Mike and I decided to walk around and scout out a places to stay the following night. All but one of the places simply said to come back the ...
Food, Farang and Floods!
... The number of couples like that I have seen here is astounding. It's pretty funny actually. So it's been an interesting introduction to Thailand... Phuket is not the most authentic place to be, but it's been fun. Tomorrow morning I have an early bus ride ...
Patong - paradise lost
... , she grabbed my boob. It must be a corker of a photo - I must have a very surprised look on my face !! Southern Thailand has very strong muslim influences, making for some great curries. If you find yourself in Patong we suggest you go down to Phuket ...
The rain in Thailand falls mainly in Phuket
... try and get us to book a hotel through them. We walked out the travel agents and waited on the bus untill he took us to Patong. We got accommadation quickly as Lee had stayed here befor and knew somewhere to stay. We made our way to the C + N hotel ...
Jesus Christ When is this over?!?!??!?!
... last day i was here because by that time, it was exactly how i felt. Its how i feel today too. I came back to Patong because the food in Krabi was shit and riding back in made me groan...this shit again. Another hotel room. Another scooter to ...
Patong Beach - It's hot!
... to head to Patong Beach - roasting on sunbeds whilst munching on concertos and chilling out in the cool, clear waters . Getting to Patong beach involved a series of dead ends and wrong turns, trying to find the right bus stop and giving in to an overly ...
4 Airports in 1 day...
... drawings back to the states so why the hell not give it a shot. We talk while waiting to board and then share a cab into Patong. I liked him. I wonder if he was an element of foreshadowing... On the flight, i sat next to a bar-girl on her way home ...
Diving in Phuket
Well folks we did our open water course and passed although at times we worried about our Benny. Our instructor Stephan for the first time ever had to get a second tank on the first stage of the pool training. Everyone had a good laugh at Benny he was ...
Destination Ko Phi Phi
... pondered death. Hey, what did I need those outer layers of skin for? But seriously, it was an amazing experience. Anywhere in Thailand, be it the ramshackle Thai massage parlors or the touristy spa extravaganzas, prepare to be greeted by a cup of iced tea ...
Arrival and the first 4 days
... looked like to be a bit of a storm... Got a crazy minibus ride for very cheap to the hotel (around $7.00 or 150b).. Wow Patong is a very fast paced tourist area... Endless calls from the local taxi drivers, ask EVERYONE like 50 time s for a tuk-tuk ...
yvonne turns into an alien
Feb 14 (Yvonne writing) As mentioned in my previous blog, the only thing we had planed for today and tomorrow is to sit by the beach (In other words, I do not have much to say). Before we could get started relaxing there was one thing that needed to be ...
Thoughts after a week
... in abundance for all buyers. The wares of street vendors are fairly predictable here. They are the same throughout Thailand; VonDutch, Deisel and Paul Frank plastered on all imaginable pieces of clothing, NORTH FACE labelled bags and backpacks that ...
Patong Beach
... of package tourists on their fortnights holiday and this has meant that the prices here are astronomical compared to those in the rest of Thailand. On the plus side, you can get steak & kidney pie, fish and chips, sausage and mash etc... The whole ...
Water Babies (Part One)
(Entry written by Lucy as Mike called his dad to wish him a happy birthday :)) I had a bad time trying to get to sleep last night. After saying we were going to have an early night we couldn't sleep for awhile because of the music coming from a bar ...
The Beach
After a breakfast including more unidentified fruit, we jumped on another boat to take us to Ko Phi Phi Lei. The Ko Phi Phi Islands include 2 islands; Ko Phi Phi Don (the larger of the two and where we were staying) and Ko Phi Phi Lei (the smaller and ...
Phuket
... after the Indochina loop and also to catch up on the blog which was weeks behind. We had managed to blag a poolside villa in Patong Beach for the princely sum of $91 a night, a very small price to pay for some much needed luxury and a decent bed ...
Robbed!!
We had rented motorbikes yesterday to give ourselves some freedom to travel around the island of Phuket. Today, we decided to have a beach day at the best beach that we found, Kata. In an effort to not lose anything important, I only brought some ...
Into the wee hours of the morning
There are a few phrases or expressions that keep getting repeated amongst some of my friends. It is similar in many groups of friends there are always "in jokes" that only a particular group finds funny and everyone else finds peculiar. For example ...
Rain, Rain Go Away
The afternoon I left Krabi for Phuket I think the monsoon season hit Thailand. As the long tail boat left the pier to bring passengers and luggage to the waiting ferry several hundred meters offshore the heavens opened and torrential rain poured ...
Seedy Man Paradise
... sad! Also Phuket is very lady friendly, Spy Coolers and wine were quite cheap but Chris was paying over the odds for a small beer. Made me feel quite special :) I recommend everyone goes to Patong just to witness the sickness! ...
Von Ost nach West / From east to west
Destination 141: km86'283 Hua Hin hat mich irgendwie an Pattaya erinnert da die Barszene sehr aehnlich funktioniert. Aber nach einer Nacht auf nach Phuket. Vorallem ab Chumphon zur Westkueste hatte die Strecke viel Attraktivitaet und einige Kurven. ...
This is how shopping should be!
We spent a day down near Patong beach which was so busy with tourists and Thais alike that it was difficult to actually get onto the beach without being hassled every 10 seconds, and it made relaxing there pretty much impossible. The highlight was ...
Phuket - Come come Kamala
... ! Fantastic. We landed in Bankok at 1:30pm on Novemeber 20th and as soon as we stepped off the plane knew we would love Thailand. The airport had just opened in September so it was all new and stainless steel-like. No smells of urine, even in the ...
Drugged
Today we left beautiful Chiang Mai to arrive at seedy Patong Beach in Phuket. To fit in we bought some beers and nibbles and had a party in our room. We then the Bangla Street which is the pub and club strip. We went to a club and ...
What was I thinking!!
... not near anything, probably another little scam, so you have to pay them more money to take you to the guesthouses. I'm actually in Patong, which is where everyone stays, it's really touristy! So we get here, basically tell the driver to drop us off in ...
letzter Tag Phuket
Den letzten Tag in Phuket verbringen wir nochmals damit, etwas durch die Touristengebiete von Patong zu schlendern. Leider ist das Wetter auch heute nicht wirklich gut und es regnet zeitweise. Anscheinend ist dies auch hier aussergewoehnlich. ...
warten
... muessen. Zum Glueck koennen wir unser Gepaeck noch im Hotel lassen. Also machen wir uns ein letztes Mal ins Zentrum von Patong Beach auf. Unser Ziel ist wie immer das "Break Point", unsere Stammkneipe, wo man umsonst Billard spielen kann und es zudem ...