Phuket Trip

Just came back from my trip. Spent 4D 3N from Apr 9-12, 08 with BB @ Patong Beach Phuket.
Trip was GREAT! We arrive @ Phuket Airport bout 1pm (thailand time) and we had a free ride to our hotel by JC Tour, we pre-booked our Island Hopping trip & FantaSea trip. Took us bout 45mins-1 hour to reach our hotel. Imagine how far it is to go to the beach. We stayed in Patong Resort, which is good.
On the day we arrive, we walked around Patong Beach, checking out the mall and the food. Looking for local food (e.g typical thai food, fried stuff and etc) sadly we can't find it. So we went to this back-lane food area. I ordered Fried rice with beef and BB ordered Tom-Yum soup noodle. Not too bad la the food. After makan, we continue our walk. Jungceylong Mall was good... biggest at Patong Beach. ^_^ When we were on our way back from Carrefour @ Jungceylong, a local guy called us and giving us a free pen cos they were promoting their new hotel at Laguna Beach. And he said we can tour around the lagoon for free (90mins tour) without any obligation and even giving us a free voucher (different voucher we can choose e.g lunch/dinner/trip to FantaSea/Spa/golf). Well, we pick a free lunch voucher cos we already bought our tickets to FantaSea by JC Tour.. too bad. And we made the plan for Friday @ 10am.
The next day we went Island Hopping on Apr 10, 08. They came to pick us up bout 8am, reach the jetty bout 9am and we waited for other people to arrive. Took off on the speed boat bout 10am. First we went to Phi Phi Island which took bout 40mins to arrive there and we stop over at Viking Caves. We were lucky that we can go inside to see the caves cos it was high tide, the tour guide said that usually that place was low tide only small boats can enter. The sea was so beautiful and clear, makes you feel like jumping into the sea for snorkeling. Sadly we didn't cos it was not in the package. Then we passed by Loh Sama Bay and Pileh Cove, while we set off to our next destination.
Next off, we stopped at Maya Bay. The place is JUST AWESOME. We spent bout 40mins at that lovely beach. I love the sand and the sea. So clear and the sand is just so smooth. We saw one angmo took naked photo there (posing on the sand).. haha.. and some were sun bathing naked. Well, nothing much to say cos they are foreigners. Right after that we went for a 30mins snorkeling just outside Maya Bay.. water wasn't clear and its really deep, can't see much of corals just fishes. Later we stop at a place for buffet lunch, we have to walked bit further to that place for lunch. Beautiful scenery, facing mountains and seas. And I met a lady whose daughter gonna have a wedding at that place. How romantic huh! Really beautiful.
Our last stop was Khai Island, took another 40mins to reach. We spent bout an hour and half at that last island. You can go snorkeling, swim around, go sun bathing and even enjoy a cup of cocktail or beer at the bar. You need to pay la of course.. haha.. That place not too bad la.. but compare to the other beach that we went... I still love Maya Bay (the tour guide said it was called monkey island cos there's monkeys around).
After our last island, we set back to Phuket Island which took bout 15mins. I think they bring us to the furthest island and come back on the way. We reach back to the jetty bout 4.30pm and head straight back to our hotel which takes another 45mins. We feel so sticky cos of the sea water (salt water.. haha), the first thing we had in mind was to jump into the pool once we reach our hotel. I just love swimming, the pool was so nice and warm and the jacuzzi... I missed it so much.
On Friday (Apr 11, 08), we went for our breakfast at bout 9:20am cos we waited for the guy to call and confirm our trip to Laguna (the guy we met @ Carrefour). He didn't call us so we went for our breakfast, and we sort of waited for them to pick us up @ the lobby at 10am (we were on time). Guess what! They didn't turn up!!! We were bit pissed and we waited for 30mins and still no one turn up to pick us. So, we change our plan and decided to go to Phuket Town taking the mini bus. We waited by the side walk, no mini bus... so a tut-tut guy asked us where we want to go and we said to Town. So he offered us 350baht to Town and he'll drop us at Cashew Nut Factory to buy some Cashew Nuts before heading to Town. So as we hop on to the tut-tut, there comes the mini bus. Shish! missed it! If not we would have saved some money to buy other stuff than spending on that tut-tut. Town area was bit boring cos nothing much to see. We went hunting for Cashew Nuts and some peanuts around that area. But its hard to find lor... We walked around then a taxi man offer some helped and he'll bring us around Town to visit. Well, we hoped onto his taxi and that cost us 500baht.. he bring us to everywhere we want and he said if we helped him, he'll helped us.. like dropping us to those tourist area to get some stamp so he can earn some money. He brought us to this Gems shop which we thought we'll walked one round and off we go but then.. haha.. we bought some souvenirs. After that the taxi man fetch us back to the first mall that we saw the peanuts, and he fetch us back to our hotel. We went for a swim again after we reach back. And get ourselves ready for our FantaSea trip. FantaSea was cool. Love that place but its not enough time for us to walked around cos when we reach there, we head to the buffet palace. Not enough time cos we have only 30mins to walk around to take pictures and looked at some stuff. We were bit late for our show which starts @ 9pm. The show was fantastic.. too bad we cannot capture some video of it cos they don't allow video recording and photo taking, they want you to buy from them. So we smuggle in our camera but still didn't take any. I manage to buy a tshirt and a toy elephant for myself and a tshirt for my niece. That's all I bought for myself la.. oh.. and a bag and shorts while we were walking along the streets at Patong which I didn't write it down. We were rushing cos the guy who suppose to fetch us back asked us to meet at entrance bout 10:40pm and we were like 5mins late but then again, we waited for like another 10mins for 2 elderly couples that came out late. Sigh! If we went to the Laguna Beach in the morning we wouldn't have waste money for our transport and lunch. Anyway, BB get to buy a new bag and his peanuts and cashew nuts.. is a good thing also la. Phuket stuff is so much expensive, I think I rather spend @ Hatyai.
Saturday Apr 12,08. Our last day @ Phuket. We woke up early for breakfast and we went out to Patong Beach to snap some photos. Well, after visiting Phi Phi Island, we thought that Patong Beach is just like Penang Beach... nothing fantastic bout it. We walked around but nothing much during daytime, so we head back to hotel to rest till we checked out.
Hired a taxi to Phuket Airport that cost us 550baht. All we left was 220baht, just enough for a Burger King meal at Airport. We shared our meal le... we used up all our money which we thought we could save some on our 3rd day. haha.
That's the end of the story of our trip to Phuket. We spent the rest of the hour at the airport, resting cos we were there so early. Will post up some photos shortly and bit of captions, won't elaborate more on it cos I've said it all. ^_^