Phuket Holiday in Dec 2011- Day 1

Phuket Phuket....here we come...Today we are flying to Phuket for a short holiday gateway.

Day 1: Phuket- Safari Beach Hotel 

Flying to Phuket from Singapore took 1.5 hours flight and the weather was quite good. Thanks, God...for a smooth weather and pleasant flight though I slept for the whole flight, hahaha...We reached Phuket International Airport at about 11am, found cab to take us to Safari Beach Hotel in Patong. Cab fee from International Airport to Patong is THB 900 and the journey was like 45 minutes. On the way to hotel, I felt it was like going home ( my home town is Jakarta), the hot *stinging* weather, the electricity pole (tiang listrik isn't it the correct translation!?), how messy the power cable tangled to each other and wonderfully tied to the electricity pole, people rides motor bike without helm or jacket, tuk tuk ( well its like *metromini* - public transport in Jakarta). Feels like home! :-D

Reached hotel, checked in our baggage, we strolling to nearby hotel area to feed our starving stomach...could not find a good restaurant, we decided to have a quick lunch in McDonald nearby hotel. It was like 5 minute walking distance from hotel.  There is Starbucks just besides McD. We settled our lunch with a good taste of Samurai Pork Burger...YES, PORK! yummy.... Here is a snap shot:

Samurai Pork Burger THB 160

Full and feel contented...We decided to go for strolling along the beach and plan to find a tour for tomorrow. The guys take charge of finding a cheap tour and bargaining all the stuff. The girls...you know what...shops bikini, hat, and all the beachie stuff, getting ready for hot beach summer, yeah!

Patong Beach me wearing beach hat

Sea horse statue!?

 

Strolling at Patong beach

Thumbs up to guys, they managed to find an affordable tour package to Phi Phi Island. Thanks to Ms Cha Cha to gave us such a very good discount, well she SHOULD gave us a more discount! I was truly amazed on how our guys did a bargain. In the end of the day, we got a full day tour package to Phi Phi Island worth THB 1625/pax and ticket to Simon Cabaret THB 550/pax... Good job, boys!

Oh we accidentally found this street food stall nearby our hotel. I am not sure what is the name of this food, but basically it contains glass noodle, fresh prawn, hot dog, crab stick, white fungus, vegetable, etc.....mixed with the special sauce taste like sour and sweet.

Salad glass noodle THB 100

Okie, It's time to be wild! yeay! We were fetched by tuk tuk in front of hotel at 7pm, the show starts at 7.45pm. I feel super duper excited to go to Simon Cabaret. Looking at the poster outside building, I was thinking to myself, these transsexual creature are much prettier than me! Jealous! Their skin complexion, boobs, hot legs, OMG! I was truly amazed on how plastic surgery can transform human and their life, interested to get a nose job, eh!? Here is a snap shot:

 

Before the show

The prettiest 

After the show, all these pretty ladies will line up at the exit door. Like to take picture with them? Yes, you can do it, with your own camera, just give them tips of average THB 40 per pose...At first I wanted to take with one of the ugliest yet the funniest actress lining up behind, but end up took picture with 2 actress, cost me THB 100 for a pose. Argghhh, got kiss (on the cheek, okie!?) somemore wtf. I wouldn't be so stupid to upload that photos here.


Then dinner time, we settled our dinner in a nice restaurant number 6. The food was so so, well... it was late at night and we were all starving...Finish the dinner at around 11 plus, it started to rain...I was tempted to walk in the rain. First night in Patong, walking in the rain in the middle of the night...sounds a good idea, eh?  But I hold my crazy idea after I spotted a walking aunty sell raincoat. So I bought the pink one which cost THB 50. Walking back to hotel, passing by Bangla Road in the middle of the rain, then home sweet home. I was very tired so I slept very quickly after a nice warm shower. Not to forget, pray before Lord and gave thanks to Him for today's journey. :-)

The end of day 1. To be continued.

-Deb-