Thara Patong Beach Resort & Spa

Travel Blogs from Patong

PADI Open Water

A travel blog entry by cgassauer

When Amy and Dan, my Japanese-American and Canadian friends I had met in Mui Ne, arrived in Bangkok we walked around for a while till Amy and I got picked up to leave to Koh Tao over night. The buses in Thailand are luxury and so we got to Koh Tao in the morning after quite good sleep. Getting off the ferry we just walked along the beach to a place …

Stressful travel day ends well

A travel blog entry by thamitastouch

... they are expensive. **** I thought everything would be cheap once I left Singapore but apparently not! I give up a surfing the web trying to ldecide where to go in Thailand. I'm still exhausted and only slept like 5 hours so I pass back out for a few more after setting my alarm. I wake up again and check out of my room with nowhere to go and no idea what to do. I go to the gym inside the hotel for a good quick workout and then back up to the pool to cool off after. I whip ...

Patong Beach (Phuket, Thailand) during Songkran

A travel blog entry by aaronpolarbear

... discomfort and at 60 baht a serving we ended up returning many times.

By now I had finally burned through almost all of my clean clothes and it was time to do laundry. I was glad to see that the concept of “street laundry” that I had seen in Chaing Mai had now been embraced by business at Patong Beach. What I call street laundry is essentially a Laundromat (as seen in Canada) but on the sidewalk. Lisa and I actually found ...

Need a chill day ... feel like crap :(

A travel blog entry by diverdebs

Ok ... I'm really sick ... head cold, chest congestion and only 2 days until we travel by Liveaboard for 3 days of diving in the Similans ... I'll have to be dead in order not to go.
Luckily, I got some antibiotics from the Dr. before I left ... good time to start taking them. Went to Boots and got some Robitussin, Dimetab and more Ibuprofen. That should keep me well drugged up for the next couple of days. ...

Crazy

A travel blog entry by sianm_jones

... thinking that either you or your bags are going to fall out if the truck has to stop suddenly. But we made it to the port this time in one piece.

We changed our voucher for tickets and a sticker and got on the boat. The boat wasn’t as full as the one from Koh Phangan but there still wasn’t much organisation. We found some seats and sat down for the journey to Koh Samui. When we got to Koh Phangan Rhian and I were still sitting on the ...