Pleasant little journey. Caught a plane from Saigon to Bangkok. Had a few hours stopover in Bangkok. Then hopped on a local flight to Phuket, then caught a local minibus to Patong. Started at 9 am, arrived at our hotel 8.30 pm. A place called 'BT Inn'. Nice little room for £15.
They do seem to have some (almost) unfortunate names for places e.g Phuket, Urin beach....
Patong is only for a couple of nights until we catch the ferry to Ko lanta, our island of choice for a week or so, (see how it pans out).
Patong is okay if you like Blackpool, Hastings or Poole. Brash, loud, a tacky party place. Lots of bars, women who promise you a good time, clubs and disco's.
One photograph sums it up, and all its promises comes out of one greasy, snake oil, bottle.
Perhaps I'm being a little hard on the place.... Let me consider... Ermm NOT!!!
Hardly a family location, or indeed where you might take your pet dog/cat/goldfish....
Having said that it does look better in the daylight. The beach is clean, and the sea inviting.
Wouldn't miss it for the world.
It is the right place to be to arrange our ferry, and it is fun to people watch.
Very sophisticated at parting the tourist from his/her baht Just get the hook in "do you speak English?", and before you know it you have agreed to a 100 year time share at a very reasonable £10 a week, 10% of the total as down payment... lol.
Both Mike and Yvonne adopt the 'we don't understand anything you are saying' look, or even better the 'you can't be talking to us' look. Just smile and say nein!!
We did take a couple of photographs, one of our hotel, and one tourist attraction.
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