Day 4- off to phuket …power cut in airport, saved heaps on fantasea and phi phi island tours, swim , lost bikini and swim gear , replaced with new shorts , dinner at Karon cafe, yum food drunk … long island ice tea
The flight was quick only bout an hour. we tried the noodle soup at the airport, the beef was better than previous noodle soup, but wasn’t nowhere as yummy – and then some dunk’n donuts , they were also okay. Arrived at the airport and the power was off, stopping the conveyor belt, it came on but wasn’t on for long, it then turned off again and proceeded to stay off causing chaos. Everyone tried to find their bags all at once as the baggage handler bought them out one at a time into the darkened room, everyone was pushing in on the baggage holder and leaving no room for the baggage to actually touch the floor, and no-one could see. So after about a 30 min delay we found our driver – this time a mini-van but we were the only passengers- so that was cool – first impressions of Phuket were of a slightly rural more western looking place than Bangkok – as we got closer to the beaches the common street vendors reappeared along with fancier looking tuk-tuks and tons of motorcycles/scooters – most people seemed to get around this way – most without helmets and wearing ridiculous clothing like jandels.
Our hotel was being renovated at the front so looked a little run-down, but the lobby was nice and the interior of the room and the pool look flash. We have a pool view room, but not of our nice pool – but of some other algae infested green pool of the neighbour hotel. We went for a quick walk around and discovered the Karon beach only 2-3mins away, it was already 4:30 by now so it wasn’t very busy, but it did look nice and the water was warm- we headed back to the hotel with the intention of going for a swim, but we discovered we had left our togs behind in Bangkok hotel. This was a minor set beck so we then proceeded to buy three pairs of billabong shorts for 1500 B – $75NZ, of which Charlottes turned out to be real ones this time.
As it was getting late when we decided to check out the pool. Very nice but started to get wrinkly and hungry. Went to Karon Cafe, run by an American.western food was on the menu and we both had some yummy food and long island iced tea and singha beer. The street was similar to Khao San on a low key scale and we only had about 6 touts come up to us this time selling the same stuff as in Bangkok. Got very drunk very quickly, but Charlotte felt a bit sick so we headed back to the Hotel early, a 5 minute walk.
