Phuket

One week after Singapore trip, I went to Phuket. Many people said that Phuket has beautiful beach. I always wonder, because I am Indonesian, my country has a lot of beautiful beach. For now, the most beautiful beach is still Peucang island, Ujung Kulon. Indonesia is still the best for me.

First day, 5th June 2010
My trip to Phuket is with my 2 other friend, Nenek and Uky, my collage friend. We arrive at Phuket ai 14.30. May – Oct is low season in Phuket, and I now know the reason. The weather is very bad!! When we arrived, it was raining. We took a taxi from air port to Ramez Hotel at Nanai road near Patong beach. It cost 450 Bath, include 100 Bath fro airport tax. At the night we buy Simon cabaret show for @600 Bath. The show was great. So many beautiful women (actually man) make a great show for us. At the end of the show they will stand out side and if we want to take a photograph with them, we have to pay 40 Bath for each person.

Second day, 6th June 2010

Raining day, all day was full of rain. We decided to rent a car because the rain. Nenek made a deal 450Bath for 8hour with Ms Ting, who provide the rent car. While we take a breakfast in front of our hotel, the car rent arrived. It was a tuk tuk.



Tuk tuk is a traditional transportation in Thailand. It is like opelet in Jakarta. We surprised, but I and Uky can accept the tuk tuk for today because when made a deal, Neneq didn't ask about the car type.We thought that it is nice to use the traditional car while we in the new county. But Nenek looked not so happy with the tuk tuk. I have try to tell her that we are okay for the tuk tuk but she still say No for tuk tuk.Tuk tuk looked so cute for me. After had a long conversation with the tuk tuk driver and Ms Ting in the phone, Nenek come to us and said that the car changed with the same price. What a surprise, what a good lobby. We have mini van and we went to Phuket city, Phuket old town, Chalong temple, and Naka Market.

Accident come
We decided to give additional tip for the driver 100 Bath, so totally we pay 550 Bath to the driver, and He got very angry to us. Why??? He said we must pay 1000 Bath! What?!! The driver told us that Miss Ting said 1000 Bath, but Miss Ting deal to Nenek 450 Bath. I didn’t know what happened between Miss Thing, tuk tuk driver, mini van driver and Nenek, because the deal is by phone with Nenek. Is Nenek was being tricked by them? I didn’t know. After a long conversation with the mini van driver, the tuk tuk driver come. They three spoke to miss Thing and try to finish this foolish thing. The final deal is: we have to pay 700Bath, and Miss Thing has to pay 300 Bath to the driver. Totally the driver still got 1000 Bath. What a foolish thing I thought. Just because change the tuk tuk to mini van we have to pay 350 Bath more and have to fight in front of the hotel. Not a worthed situation because for 8 hours we are not spent our time long in the car, we spent more time for shopping. Moral of this story: do not make a deal by phone.

Third day, 7 June 2010
It's time for Phi phi island trip. We took the trip with speed boat, because they guarantee that we can go to the Maya bay, which is the place of the movie “The Beach”. The cost for each person is 1100 Bath. We all seat at the front with the Malaysia group. This is my firs time use speed boat and I can say that it is crazy! For all my rest life that was my first time feel queasy on the sea! Moral of this story : do not seat at the front when using speed boat, because when I tried to seat back side, it was so normal and no queasy.



The sad things, the weather is not good! The wave is so scary so we can not get into the Maya bay. they promised that will be have snorkeling 2 times, but because the weather not support, we only get once. That’s why today is the low season for Phuket.

Moral of this story: do not visit Phuket at low season, because it is really has a bad bad weather to has a trip.

At the night we went to Patong beach…and get the sun set there.

Fourth day, 8 June 2010 the last day
Nothing happened because our flight is at 07.55 o’clock. We use the same taxi driver to pick us up to the air port. It cost 550 Bath, it's more expensive but it's okay because if we took the taxi from hotel the price is 650 bath.

Cost for Phuket trip is around 4800 bath = Rp 1.400.000. Cost for flight ticket Rp 570.000. Total cost for this trip is around Rp 1.970.000.

Sayonara Phuket, I have a nice trip even that some accident and rainy day.