Banthai Phuket

... have stayed out there for hours, which by the looks of our tan lines we did. lol We ended the night by going to Phuket's FantaSea, a theme park with magic and cultural shows in Kamala Beach. There they had a huge buffet of food from all over the world. ...

We have just finished our five nights in Phuket. We are now sitting waiting to leave on the midnight flight to Amman where we will change planes then fly to Cairo, its going to be a long next 24hours waiting and on planes, we will be stuffed when we ...

... top deck, pasted ourselves with suntan lotion and started to soak up the sun! An hour and a half later we were in the Banthai guesthouse and Lee had made friends with Dan. We headed over to beach via Sean's hotel to inform him we would meet up ...

! ...

We got up fairly early and headed to Patong Beach to find a new hotel.  The Aussies were staying at BanThai, so we started there.   The cab driver got fed up because he couldn't find the hotel, so he literally dropped us off at the side of ...

...   tables on the beach with our toes in the sand I am sure contributed to the enjoyment. We found a great room at Banthai right off the beach road for tonight back in Patong.  It's a place we passed a few times and I got a ...

... coming would be a TOP IDEA!! i HAVE BRUISES IN PLACES i CANNOT MENTION!. whoops caps lock on! Today being our last day in Phuket we are parasailing over Phuket beach, visiting the orchid farm, zoo last minute shopping, dinner tonight at Baan Rim Pah - ...

Weel today is raining and I mean raining but it has not dampened our spirits or our shopping zealor! Last nite went to Old Phuket town local markets which are a blast so cheap it is ridiculous! We tried some street food - did I mention we tried a frid ...

... are going seawalking - like scuba diving only you wear a helmut and walk on the ocean floor.  Tonight is off to the Old Phuket Town Night markets where we will show you what the real locals eat!!! Nerida and I and Tony sampled a fried white grub ...

OK sadly today is our last day :( but we had a good one starting with parasailing off the beach with a Thai guy who acts as a swing guy to guide you-amazing ! No pics yet as the camera's battery died! Will post from Bangkok, went to the Zoo for the tiger ...

So, we decided to spend the last full day doing everything that we talked about doing, but didn't get around to.  First things first, we needed to buy our bus ticket to get to Surat Thani to catch the train to Bangkok.      ...

Woke up to the wonderful feeling of no hangover!   We wandered out of the hotel fairly early, since we needed to try to extend the stay at the hotel and wanted to pay the same price.  Once that was done, we started walking.... and walking ...

I woke up feeling fine, which immediately triggered the "Yeah! I am not going to be hungover " or the "Ah, crap, it hasn't caught up with me yet, this may be bad" thoughts.  The latter won.  Bri and I did our best sloth impersonations and ...

... , after that i may do the overnight camping under the stars trip that they have from this island, or may just take off to Phuket for a couple days. Haven't dove yet, but will probably tomorrow or day after, right now i'm just content to chill and eat good ...

... my side - now thats service! I thought seeing as I would be spending a lot of time downloading photos on the internet at the banthai guesthouse I should really be staying there as well, so I could just roll out of bed and sit in front of the computer ...

... managed to squeeze in one 60 min massage in the afternoon and one 30 min massage at night.  We didn't make it back to the Banthai resort until 1am and after showering realized we only had two hours to sleep before we had to be up for a taxi to the ...