Phuket Reports

[Member #3173]

Does anyone know if guest houses or hotels are full next week in Phi Phi
and if not full what will be the rates like.
Following the tsunami I think this time bungalows may not be full.
By the way how many bungalows are left and would it be easy to pick up chcks?

[Transaction]

Hi Mates,

Thanks and I think I will forget about going to haadyai from phuket this time around. Will go to Haadyai itself maybe in March.

Appreciate your information though and am looking fwd for the trip in 3 weeks time.

Trans

[Freeler]

Papercut,

I don't know what bus you were on, are you sure it wasn't a mini van?
The aircon bus from HY-Phuket is about B220!
Look for the buses with orange coloring on the sides, I believe the number is around 420(423? - ***********?). Too bad I can't find my notes...

Compare prices:
Nakhon Sri Tammarat-Krabi(fan)= B 70 (2002)
Krabi-Phuket(fan)= B 65 (2002)
Fan bus from HY would be about the same. Traveltime is about 8 hours.

[Beige]

Just back from Phuket. Best quality girls this year are at Dragon a go go on Soi Dragon- top quality- I heartlily recommend no 61! Avoid no 25- incredibly cute but a bit of a rip off merchant! Tiger and Taipan are the best discos to go- trust me, the place is awash with lovelies this year!

[Papercut]

Hi Trans,

The last bus fares for one way that I've paid is about 500bht (in 2004) from Hatyai to Phuket. I am not too sure the significant increases on bus fares thereafter causing by the global increases on fuels.

There will a few stops in between for lunch and coffee breaks for the passengers. The final stop will be at Krabi for 1/2 hours. The entire journeys will tooks your an approximately 8-9 hours, including the short intervals for breaks. This also depending on how clear the traffics flow leading to Phuket town on that time.

hope this information will enlighten your questions pertaining the journey from Hatyai to Phuket.

Papercut.

Hi All,

I will be coming to Phuket mid Feb 16 -20. I have booked myself at Malai Inn which is along patong. I think.

Anyone of you would like to meet up and have some beer, bacardi etc.

Btw, whats the rate or price of a bus to hatyai from Phuket? How long it takes to reach there?

Thank you all,

Trans

[All About Bob]

Hi all

I spend alot of time in Bangkok and Samui, but i fancy going to Phuket.

I am looking for a good hotel around 3-4k per night, from reading throught this thread Patong seems the place to go, can anyone reccomend a decent hotel.

Thanks

Bob

[WCP]

I will be in Patong February 13th to the 23rd. Anyone going to be out there at that time.

This will be my first time to Patong, I was in Pattaya about 18 years ago. I have been reading alot to get caught up. Seems to be almost overwhelming the amount of information out there. Any help in identifing the best clubs, bars, Agogos or pool bars. I will be diving so early nights (midnight or so) will be normal for me.

Thanks

[Dunleavy]

Sawadee krab! Pom will go to Phuket on Feb 1~5. Is anyone there .too? Maybe
we could cheong and have fun together. I'd stay in patong and phuket town for two nights respectively. Hope to have someone company playing with mm.

[Quickfix]

Hi Guys & Girls,

Planning a trip to Phuket in late March with a good mate, just wondered if you could supply any latest news. Restaurants, Good Massages Places, Private Ladies.

Kind regards

Quickfix

[Freeler]

Phantom,

Glad you at least gave it a try!
Check Reports of distiction for the ManOnTheStreet link.

Regards,
Freeler

PS Make note for self: 5.30pm

[Phantomtiger2]

Phantom and Bottler (via pm),

The thing to do in Phuket is NOT to stay in Patong (except low season - rooms can be very cheap in low season!) but in Phuket town.
Phuket town is just half an hour away by motorcycle or by bus (no bus after 6PM!).
There's a whole bunch of hotels in Phuket, starting at B200 to 'the sky is the limit'.
No, I'm not going to give you the addresses; I found them myself, so can you.
Like I've said a THOUSAND times: stay away from gogos and bars. Being a non-drinker helps in doing so. Chat up the girls that are on their way to the bar around 1-2 PM. Just ask the same lame dumbass questions they always ask: Pai nai ('where you go') and stuff.
Chat up the gogo girls en route for work around 7PM.
Both bar- and gogogirls will have nearby rooms, so ask where her room is - she'll love to show you!
Chat up the waitress in the B20-40 eatery where you eat.
If your room is half decent, she'd rather stay there than in her own room.
OK, B200 is bottom end, but make it your startingprice, anything from her over B400 should be answered with a firm 'Mei dai' (Cannot!).
Use as many Thai words as you can. Don't listen to the fuckheads who say that first you should learn to speak 'proper Thai'. Nobody ever learned a language by not speaking it.

Bottomline: Be nice and take advantage!

BTW Phuket town holds a couple of secrets of its own, search for Man on the Street's Phuket reports and find out about them!

Hi Freeler,
Thanks for the post.
I did go to Phuket town and the part about no bus after 6pm was slightly off, last bus back to beach was actually around 5:35pm when I visited. Found out the hard way as I reach bus stop at 5:45 and waited for 20min before an old man told me last bus left already. Then it was negot. with mototaxi for 200 (or 250b)? cant remember which , for ride back to beach.
As I am not familiar as you around Phukettown, I wont even know where to look for the "cheaper" places to stay next time I go there or best places for picking up the gals as you had suggested.
Perhaps a list (locations) of where to start looking would be greatly appreciated as not much current info on Phukettown available. This would be a big time saver as I don't have to start from scratch.

Thanks
PT

[Transaction]

Hi All,

I will be coming to Phuket mid Feb 16 -20. I have booked myself at Malai Inn which is along patong. I think.

Anyone of you would like to meet up and have some beer, bacardi etc.

Btw, whats the rate or price of a bus to hatyai from Phuket? How long it takes to reach there?

Thank you all,

Trans

[Tokyohomeboy]

ALLOVER - not quite sure if that place still there/offering the same service. Its been over a year since.

Talking to one of my mongering buddies, he told me that the "latest" place in Phuket for 'higher' class mongering is a sort of entertainment complex - i.e. K-OK, show production, nightclub etc - named something like "Fantasia" (Not to be confused with that amusement park "Fantasea" in Kamala). Supposedly where the local Phuket Big Wigs go to these days - as opposed to regular 'Farang' destinations offering mostly darker skinned Issan girls like Patong.

Anybody can give us more info on this Fantasia?

SE Asia Joe

I just googled "Fantasia" and "Phuket" and got this link:
http://www.************.com/nightnews.htm

Scroll down to July 2004. Is this the place you mean?

[Tokyohomeboy]

Allover - I wrote the flwg report a couple or so years ago. Is this what you're referring to? One thing tho, it certainly was NOT cheap by Phuket standards BUT the quality was absolutely first class

Guys,

Do you need to be taken by a local or can a farang just walk in? Do you take the main elevator up to 4/F or is the entrance around the side somewhere? I'm a Poseidon fan when 'm in BKK. I want to see how this place compares.

[Mangofan]

There is one guesthouse in Patong that is super cheap. 250 a night in low season and 300 in high season. Small room, but has a fan, tv, hot water, and a single bed. It's right behind Lamai Inn (or is it Lamai hotel?) Anyway, it's called Kaew Kong Guesthouse. The owner is a real asshole sometimes, especially if you don't pay everyday or in advance, but it's the cheapest I found in Patong.