Phuket Travel Guide and Blog
In this ‘Best of Phuket’ section, you will find all our ‘Top 10’ lists, compiling the many things we love most in Phuket island and around. This page is a collection of 28 years of exploration to make your holiday planning easier, from the best beaches to night markets and nightlife in Patong Beach.
Phuket hardcore Thai food [toc] We had '10 Typical Phuket Dishes' and '10 Best Really Local Restaurants', and even '10 Fried Insects for Gourmets' now we need to move on to serious business: '10 Hardcore Thai Food, only for the Brave'... Will you dare? I will skip insects and focus on real dishes Thai people cook daily and really enjoy. After 22 years in Phuket, I still can't eat several
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Stuff to Buy in Phuket You Will Never Use Again [toc] A holiday is always a lot of fun and shopping is part of it. People often become someone else when travelling overseas, and while they may be very careful about spending when shopping at home, they seem to forget everything and fall for the silliest items. From our many years here in Phuket, we saw people buying some really
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Have you been in Thailand too often? [toc] Have you been in Thailand too long? After a few years of living in Phuket (or in Thailand), you just start doing a few unusual things without noticing them, and it suddenly strikes you; these are not the things I used to do at home! How long have I been here? When did I start doing these weird things without knowing it!?
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[toc] Phuket Travel Guide for lazy readers. We travel quite a lot and we know how it feels like to go to a place you never visited before... where to start, what to see, what not to miss? As a matter of fact this also applies to places you visited many times: What should you do the second time, what did you miss the first time, what can you still
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Top 10 Everything Phuket I travel quite a lot and I know how it feels like to go to a place you never visited before... where to start? As a matter of fact this also applies to places you visited too many times too. What should I do the first time, what did I miss the second time, what can I still do that I haven't done yet? So I
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10 Really Cheap Things to Do in Phuket (For Fun!) [toc] Phuket on half a shoestring? That sounds cliché or impossible! So just for fun, you can try the 10 items below and come back with a pretty fun story to tell. 1. Sleep at On On Hotel (it was 150, now 450 Baht) Internationally known for the movie 'The Beach', this cheap hotel actually looks like what you saw
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