Phuket Day 1: Half Day City Tour

Another outdated post.

After the Krabi trip on March, we hop to Phuket on April. 

Not a wise choice, as both are neighboring and the activities is almost similar. But not too same.

Accommodation at Phuket town is booked through Air Asia Go - We Hotel @ Sansabai. I booked this during promotion and the price per night for this room is only RM90! A great deal for such a spacious room. The only bad comment is that the toilet tends to get stuck and the hot water is not consistent.

After checked in and had a short nap, we proceed to walk around looking for our brunch. We finally decided to stop by Aloha Restaurant (which located inside Aloha hotel).

Green Curry! Yum!

Garlic Fried Pork. Too hard to chew in.

Sweet and sour chicken. This lunch cost us THB925, which is quite overpriced.

We then begin our half day Phuket City Tour, where the nightmare begins.

Before I proceed, our Half Day City Tour and PhiPhi transfer (return ticket inclusive transfer from hotel to jetty) cost us THB6900 for 4 pax. Where do we get this tour from? While taking the airport taxi to our hotel, the taxi driver stop by a travel agency and force us to get down and buy some tours. I will post the picture/ name card of the tour agent when I found it. I will definitely recommend to everyone if the service of the tour is good, but too bad, this time I would say PLEASE AVOID! Although the price is a little lower compare to those I had surveyed through internet but the services is so sucks!

Basically our half day city tour involves shopping. First we were brought to Pornthip, where you can purchase souvenirs and cashew nuts. For me, the items is overpriced and obviously it's a place for tourist.

We were then being fetch to a shop selling t-shirts. After this second shopping stop, we told the driver that we don't want shopping trip! Driver doesn't look pleasant with our request and starts to drive like mad bull fetching us to Elephant Camp.

 We then have our 30 minute horrifying elephant ride. In the middle of the ride, they stop and took out all those 'jeweleries' made from elephant trunk and start to force us to buy. We refused. And they started to curse us in Thai language and stab the elephant with knife. WTH! Please avoid this elephant camp at all cost. I'm sorry that I'm unable to tell you the name or location of this elephant camp, so at the first place, avoid this travel agency!

Next stop, he stop us at Karon View Point. Finally  a stop for us to calm down a little bit.

Hilltop view.

This is the only view point we were brought to. Although I had read that there were suppose to be like, what, 3 or 4 view point in Phuket?!

Then we were being brought to a mini seaside, in which all of us had no idea what place is this.

Due to the sun shine too bright and killing us, we request to move on to the next spot, not wanting to stay too long.

We were then being fetch to the next spot, thePhromthep Cape View Point.

And Big Buddha Phuket.

It's almost 6pm and driver said that he is off work. But we insist to have our last stop at Wat Chalong. He pull by for us to stop for a short prayer, in which after that he revenge by speeding and driving recklessly which made me feel sick and puke. Damn him!

Anyhow, we glad that this horrible trips end. We back to hotel for a bath and short rest. Then we are out on the town to search for dinner. The location of this hotel is very strategic, as it is accessible to Bangla Road and Phuket Central Festival.

We had our dinner at Pizzeria Hut, looking forward to the woodfire pizza.

Garlic Pizza.

Salmon Pizza.

Hawaiian Pizza. Overall taste .. not satisfactory. Maybe I expect too much. Total bill for this dinner is THB800, which is quite reasonable.

We then have a short walk along Bangla Road before calling it a day.