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Rested from 6 to 16 October 2008 (like “rainy season”)
about. Phuket 7 days + Bangkok 2 days
Departure from Kyiv at 14:00 flight VV171 arrives in Bangkok at 3:30 am local time. Then we waited until 11-45 for the flight to the island. The most painful moment of our holiday. For your peace of mind, luggage can be checked in at the airport. 1 seat will cost $ 3 / 100 baht, and then you can sleep peacefully on benches with a warm and soft dermontine coating. What I do not recommend doing on metal chairs, which are located directly near the "Gates" - the places from where the plane is boarded. To change money and eat at the airport - this is not a problem at all. Same as with the visa application. Experienced tourists say that there were big problems with this before.

They flew in the rainy season. In any case, the Internet showed that Thailand does not dry out ...But in the end, we saw a good tropical downpour once, it lasted no more than an hour.

There were clouds in the sky, in some places, many thanks to them for this, because the sun here is not childish! So warm clothes are not useful even in the evening.

We rested on the island at the Le Meridien Phuket 5 * hotel, which has its own bay. Huge green area. Clean, pleasant sea. White sand. During the day the birds sing and at night the sound of a powerful surf. Super breakfasts! Watermelons, pineapples, local fruits - super! Girls usually work in hotels, restaurants, markets. Men usually taxi. It so happened historically ...The hotel is located south of Patong's tusnyak center, a taxi (tuk-tuk) can be reached with a breeze for $ 5 / 150 baht (necessarily bargain! ). School English is enough for mutual understanding, Thais also learn it, the second language at school. Forgotten a word, there is a language of gestures and facial expressions ...It's usually fun.

Patong.
Cafes. I saw it but didn't go...
Restaurants with Eastern and European cuisine. Prices can be previewed on billboards at the entrance.
In a normal restaurant, a dinner with alcohol for two will cost at least $ 60 / 2000 baht. Tasty! I recommend the Japanese restaurant ZEN.
If you want cheap - no problem, you can eat at a street vendor: chicken skewers, fish, barbecue corn, pineapples, watermelons - very cheap!
Bars. Beer...in the evening...cool...Ehh!
Shops with souvenirs, watches, cheap clothes, good quality (necessarily bargain! ). To reduce the price by 2 times is not a question!
Massage parlors with really low prices and pleasant relaxation for both men and women. (for 1 hour from $ 6 / 200 baht. ) At the hotel for half an hour 500 baht!
The ubiquitous McDonald's. Know comment. But it saves after poisoning unprepared shrimp, fish ...and all marine utensils.

go-go show. You walk around Patong and you are always offered to visit a free “eroticporn-shocking” show where local girls perform magic tricks. With fish, birds, ropes, balls, blades. Such tricks are not shown on TV and in the circus. It's funny.

It was more interesting for me to observe foreign guests. I will not forget the Arabs who went to such a show, it seems that people got into the future, to Mars, in a time machine and there they saw something that can only be dreamed of by teenage boys in mega-erotic dreams ...

A supermarket where you can buy drinks, fruits, products at sane, real prices in case some prices seem high to you. For example, a can of beer in a hotel is 110-130 baht. In the store 40 baht. Cola in the room 85bat, in the store 15bat. What surprised me: we go to the store with gift packages and ask where they can be left. We are shown - come in! There are no storage lockers provided. We bought local Thai sweets, they were sweet, but with salt! and pepper! - usually in our country such products are called - "with a surprise" and are served on holidays to guests to amuse the public.

Excursions on the island.
We ordered everything that was offered. And they didn't regret it later.
The service is top notch, in my opinion.
You will be satisfied. Were on a survey (included in the price), Simon show (transvestite show) $ 18, Aquarium $ 3 + get to it and back - $ 36 (we went on our own), Phi Phi and Khai Nok islands - $ 80 - for the whole day, I liked it ! , Khao Lak National Park $96 - riding elephants, swimming in a waterfall, sailing on bamboo rafts, walking through the jungle, hot radon springs ...SUPER!

Excursions in Bangkok.
Were in the temples, on the tower, on the canals...We rode on a parahode - Bangkok at night. I recommend to go everywhere, so that later it would not be excruciatingly painful ...
Bangkok is truly a city of contrasts. Everything is nearby - slums and skyscrapers with luxury hotels and megamarkets.
Taxi. Negotiate the price immediately! If you go by the counter, they will drive around the city in circles. Named the price cut it in 2-3 times! Guides say that you can drive around the city for 100 baht in any direction, we brought down the price from 500 to 150/200 baht ...these were long trips.

Would I like to visit Thailand again? Necessarily! To see what I didn't. And hear the pleasant “Kapun Kaa” from a smiling Thai woman. The mentality of the Thais is unique, such kindness is probably nowhere else. Maybe only in Paradise. The Thais were pleasantly surprised, before visiting this country, it seemed to me that beautiful girls were only with us.