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Phuket Slideshow
Top Hotels in Phuket
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Phuket Grand Tropicana Hotel Patong
6 reviews -
Patong Beach Bungalows
1 review
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Break Point Hotel Kathu
5 reviews
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Golden Sand Inn Karon
30 reviews -
Baan Suwantawe Phuket Town
58 reviews
Phuket
Travel Blogs from Phuket, Thailand
James Bond Islands, Elephant Trekking & Phuket
On the 15th August we travelled from Ko Samui back onto the mainland of Thailand, before driving down to Phuket. Phuket is another island off the West of the mainland accessible by road (fortunately for my stomach). After 10 hours we got to Phuket ...
We have arrive in Phuket and it is so beautiful!
Well, we arrive in beauitful Phuket yesterday, and boy is this place amazing. It is quite warm here, but we are doing great. We plan to do some Spa Days, Scott is Playing Golf with his old friends from Maui, Scott Ogg and John Edgar, so I will ...
Time to Chop in the Marriott vouchers...
... pushed out my flight from Bangkok to India (Mumbai) until the 12th March so that I have plenty of time to stay in Thailand and recuperate before making trips to both Laos and Vietnam. Well that's the current plan anyway. So apologies in advance ...
Phuket
... reservation before arriving. I was surprised to learn that the flight was nine hours long! Just conceptually I thought southern Thailand and Australia were pretty close, but I guess not so much. I left a chilly Sydney and arrived in a ...
October 13th Friday
Said goodbye to the Nolans after breakfast. Went to pool for a while and had a swim. Decided about lunch time to go for a trip to Patong. We arranged a mini van from a man called Him. For 1000 baht ($30) he took us to Patong (30 -45 minutes) waited for ...
Liversidge hailed as the best of Phuket at pool.
... He also lent us his motorbike for the whole time we were there so we saw most of the island. Phuket is a great place, it mixes traditional Thai with it's western influences really well. It's still very charming, full of street stalls ...
Off the Rails in Phuket!
... ! It was good fun though, a clear night but with a thunder and lightning storm on the horizon as we touched down into Phuket Island, Thailand. Neither of us were quite ready for the onslaught that we faced when we cleared customs. As soon as we were in ...
Day 36 Ko Tao - Patong
... , Ko Tao and diving which mad me very sad :( But no need to feel sorry for me for I am off to the other side of Thailand! Now this journey will take 12 hours which will be made up with taxi rides, buses and boats. When arriving at our hotel we were ...
Reprobates r us: A Guest blog from Danny and Alice
... individual he decided it was time to admit defeat, the shame exaggerated by the fact Danny B followed by mouth succeeded! AP So from Phuket we moved on to Phang Nga via a slightly hungover bus ride. Upon arrival a Song Taew took us down to a pier where ...
Ebbs, Flows, and Charlie Chaplin
... giant statue of Buddha. Just in case you couldn’t get it from the name. It is going to be the biggest one in all of Thailand when it is done. The view from up top was absolutely unreal. It is a high point near the middlish of the island so it looks ...
Chiang Mai - Phuket
... as we were about to leave, the owner arrived. What a nice man he turned out to be. We talked for thirty minutes about Thailand, Phuket, his family, the resort, the Tsunami and life in general and it was refreshing to finally meet a Thai with traditional ...
Phi Phi
Hey kids its hot and sticky here today we went to phi phi island it was amazing the pictures will speak for themselves! tommorow off to bangkok for one more night then to england i cant wait! then on the 19th we go to dublin for a few days ...
Songkran New Year
Happy New Year Thailand!! It's already a great day the sunrise was so fantastic and at breakfast the staff are in a good spirit wetting all the guests with water pistols and a smile on the faces. The celebrations are all well under way with people ...
Phuket reborn..
Friday July 14, 2006 I arrived in Phuket this afternoon and headed straight to the visitor's center to check out the hotel options. The nice thing about not pre-planning is that you get a closeup of most accommodations without having to search the ...
Cahh monnn Englaaaaannndd!!
... wrong.. miss all u guys back at home but i'll be devasted if my trip was over already! But anyways.. arrived in Phuket in just under 2hours, couldnt believe how efficent the airport was, u flew via domestic flight and everything including check in, ...
Day 23 Thailand - Phuket
Today is the day of our tour with Khosak discovery. We were picked up at our hotel at 9am and made our way to the elephant trekking place with a couple of scenic stops on the way. Once at the elephant trekking place we were shown our elephant and we got ...
Getting Hitched
Here are the long awaited pics of our Buddhist wedding in Thailand, We also incorporated elements of a Christian wedding as we exchanged the "I DO " vows after the monks blessing. (Ange wore a traditional wedding dress well, one that was suitable for the ...
Phuket - Day 2
... it would tremendously increase their closing rates. Anyway, in the end they gave me a voucher for a week on their 5 star hotels in Thailand. Maybe I should stay a little longer now... Once back to my hotel I went for a change of clothes. Once I took my ...
hat karon
... seas turned rough and soaked everyone who sat along the side, lol. we had the manic taxi service rush when we docked in Phuket town, we arranged to come to hat karon with the taxi driver due to researching it was quieter and calmer than patong. Arriving ...
Leave me alone!!
Efter en lang rejsedag I går er vi nu nået frem til Phuket I Thailand, helt præcist neonbyen Patong! Førstehåndsindtrykket af Thailand var noget traumatisk. Da vi trådte ud af terminalen, blev vi bogstaveligt talt overfaldet af dusinvis af thaiere, ...
Heat is killing us
Well folks we have just finished dinner and Joel had to go upset us by saying he wishes it was cold again just for a nite so that we could put a coat on and wrap up and go for a walk. The heat today has been deadly never sweated so much. The heat is ...
Pictures of Sapa, Northern Vietnam
Here are a few pictures of the town and area around Sapa. We were therre late November and really lucked out with the weather - clear skies and clean air. We did a two day hhike with a homestay while there. Our guide, Sho, led us through rice paddies and ...
Vamos a la playa !
... est parti le 21 au matin de Phnom Penh, on a passe l apres midi a Bangkok (sous la pluie pour changer :-) et on est arrive a Phuket le soir. Rien de special a dire sur Phuket vu qu on a passe une seule nuit au centre ville (dans un hotel qui a accueilli ...
Despair and Pride
The other day i was sitting on the remains of the beach wall smoking a cigar and watching the sunset. Enjoying the solitude and taking a few minutes to appreciate the road that led me to that beach in the first place. I saw a woman walking along the ...
A night in Patong Beach
We are relaxing today, and planning our next stop. The 2 guys I was diving with, we all went out on the town and got'r done up, so I'm moving a little slow. Patong at night is really quite something to experience, not sure Las Vegas has ...
I'm a runner!
... Editor in Chief (me), and Commercial Director (simon, works at an international school in Bangkok - we met at an adventure race in thailand in March). Done entirely out of my front room in Laos, and his boxroom in Bangkok, and out of both of our pockets ...
We're now open water qualified divers!
What can I say, after another early start the both of us were whipped over to the port to take a boat to Ko Phi Phi (inside Hat Noppharat Thara national park) for our final dive. Our boat stopped at Phi Phi Leh (where "The Beach" was filmed) for my ...