The Racha Resort

... of the sea onto the mainland after 4 nights of tropical isolation on Racha Yai island otherwise known as Raya island. This is a luxury resort off the coast of Phuket, 30 minutes away on a speed boat. Normally this place would be well off limits to my ...

... the local Thais were, they loved it when we greeted them with a "Sawadee!" We found this great place called Tiewpai Park Resort which has 17 bungalows, some with AC, some with fans and even some with hot water for showers! Being the cheapskates we are, ...

... there are no cars on Racha Yai, so we climbed into a cart pulled by a tractor and off we went to lunch at Ban Raya Resort. Lunch was lovely – Thai dishes and fruit. It rained heavily for about 5 minutes, then we got back into the ‘limo’ ...

... Bay at Racha Yai for our first dive and were into the water at 11.30am. The second dive was at Staghorn Reef, also at Racha Yai. The highlights of todays dives was seeing three Moray Eels, one black one was completly out of its hole, whereas the first ...

... with leaves. The day was good as we visited lots of different places, but was in complete contrast to our snuba trip to Racha Yai – much more touristy. The Andaman sea is amazing with lots of tiny islands sticking up through the water, some quite ...

... had a dinner and took a walk in shopping area next to our hotel. Day 2 - Scuba Diving with Max from Sharkey Scuba in Racha Yai. Day 3 - A day excursion to Phi phi Island with Simba Sea, and I like it so much! First, we stopped at a small ...

... :00am- Left for the airport. 12:45pm-Fly to Phuket. 1:00pm(phuket time)- Arrive at Phuket Airport. 3:00pm- Arrive at Resort (p.s immigration check took us 1 hour plus!) 4:30pm-Left for Phuket town, looked for a hotel to check into for saturday ...

... we were not tempted with a £1000 a night room and quite frankly with all those boats rocking up each day just outside your resort it was definitely well over rated! We stayed in a very basic attached wooden house costing an extortionate 800 (£16) Baht ...

... the hottest fish curry ever, we retired to (seperate) bed(s) with the plan to head a little further down the coast to the resort town of Pattaya the following day. I hadn't planned on doing that originally but what the hell, Robert was keen and I had ...

... along with thousands of others. after diving all day on the boat, they brought us to ko phi phi where we checked into a great resort and went out with the other divers to watch fire dancers. the fire dancers don't get started until late in the evening but ...

... Control Devices (BCD's), regulators (for breathing) and weight belts.  Then the three of us were driven to the nearby resort which has a purpose-built pool with an area three metres deep and a multi-media (air-con) classroom.  That morning we ...

... to be a full day of travel instead of an hour long flight from Penang to Phuket. Nevertheless, we made it there. We booked a resort in Phuket on Kata Beach which was a nice change from the hostels that we had been staying in the entire trip.  ...

... cocktail lounges and cabarets. Pattaya can be brash, bold, beautiful and bucolic, and offers everything and authentic international beach resort. Pattaya is not only popular beach resort but also famous as a conference, convention and ...

... camels and elephants. One regret was how we planned our one night in Bangkok.  We hired a van to take us from the resort to Bangkok. The trip took about 3 hours and arrived late in the afternoon.  By the time we were checked into the ...

... but I was beside myself wth excitement when we discovered the place where we were staying looked exactly like the Kellerman’s resort in ‘Dirty Dancing’. Cute little log cabins were dotted about hill and a set of wooden steps wound ...