Hotels in Phuket - Prices and Reviews

What a difference 4 days in a quiet hotel with a superb sea view and two swimming pools can make to our perception of Phuket. We have found the Aochalong Bay Resort hotel to be almost paradise, or as near to it as can be purchased for twenty pounds per day for a double room including buffet breakfast. The only small setback happened on our secon...

After leaving the paradise of Phi Phi island, I took the boat across to Phuket, which was just 2 hours away. When you land at the jetty in Phuket, it's an insane madness of people trying to get you to go in their van/on their scooter taxi, or on a bus to a resort. Not knowing what 'normal costs' were yet, I kept refusing, and as I was just going...

I am not sure what time it was, exactly...but I awoke feeling like I was back in Taiwan...in the middle of an earthquake. My bed was shaking and I had no idea why. After the fog somewhat cleared from my sleepy brain...I heard some sounds that were definitely not associated with earthquakes. Apparently, the people in the room next door had decide...

Today I went on a cool day trip to James Bond Island, a location where they did some filming on the 007 film Man with the Golden Gun with Roger Moore. Several other islands were included which were actually better to visit but I think the tour sells more tickets with the James Bond name. The first island visit was amazing as we kayaked through a...

Op 3/12/2007 komen we om 5u25 aan in Bangkok. Om 8u vliegen we van Bangkok naar Phuket. Na anderhalf uur vliegen zullen we aankomen in Phuket. Van hierruit zullen we met de taxi naar ons hotel gaan. In dit eerste hotel verblijven we 12 nachten. Deze twee weken zullen we enkel relaxen en ons verder voorbereiden op onze reis door Maleisië. We kunn...

Day 3 in Phuket We've spent the last couple of days in Ko Karon, with a beautiful beach, beautiful waves and visits to Ko Kata (5 min walk), with simplistic waves but still a gorgeous beach - none of photos do any of it justice! My camera is doing some silly things and needs to be replaced immediately, the exposure on my pictures are always out,...

All change again!  I'm now typing over a Singha beer on a balmy evening in a wee bar on the beach in Phuket.  As the Benidorm of Thailand, it's not a spot that has ever appealed to me but I'm being put up in a lovely bungalow in a very tasteful complex belonging to a friend of the boss, and it is so unbelievably good to be back on a tropical bea...

So, we finally managed to get here, after 18 months of scrimping and saving, we set off on our big adventure around South East Asia a little bleary eyed after one last farewell celebration (officially title Leaving Do Number 6, I think). Against all odds we made it to the airport in plenty of time, said goodbye to my brother and my mum, settled ...

I went on a trip with Tony, Arturo, Kettie and Christy as we rented a longtail boat and made our own private trip to an island called Raitha Yai (or something like that) The day turned into quite and adventure! We met at Raiwai Beach around 8:30 AM after picking up some snacks for lunch. They had already talked to the Long tail boat skippers an...

Phuket is our last stop in Thailand. The monsoon has meant that our time here has been mostly wet. This has given us chance to do some last minute shopping before moving on though. We are staying in Phuket Town instead of at any of the beach resorts as we suspected that it would be raining a fair bit, and we have only really come here to fly fro...