That's Life: AMAZING PHUKET ~ DAY 3 & 4

Woke up to this beautiful sight outside my room.

The view from my hotel room (Orange Restaurant is on the bottom right)

There’s no rush this morning, all of us had a good rest before setting out to explore Phuket on our own. So this is the day when my homemade research map comes in handy (^-^)

First stop ~ breakfast.

We decided to try the breakfast set at Orange Restaurant, just a few steps away from our hotel. It is actually just right in front of our hotel. The price was considered cheap for such a good breakfast ~ only 99Bht and we get this!

Our Breakfast Menu

All the sets came with 2 slices of toasted bread, Butter & jam, orange juice & either coffee or tea.

We had such a great start today with this satisfying meal!!

Patong Beach is just a 5 minute walk from our hotel. The roads leading to the beach are lined with small shop lots, which were mostly still closed as it was still early.

PATONG BEACH

A stall selling skewered ‘goodies’ by the beach ~ they are practically everywhere! (Lucky for us =)

From the beach, we headed towards Sainamyen Road looking for a Duck Noodle shop that a friend recommended but only to find it closed for the day. So we headed back towards the beach area for some shopping before going back to the hotel. We ended up mostly window shopping as the things there are rather pricey.

Enquiring back at the hotel, the receptionist said that we can find souvenirs at a much cheaper price at Junceylon Mall, which was the next stop on our list.... but before that, we just had to have a nice cool dip in the hotel pool....so refreshing on a hot day. It wasn’t a very big pool but we enjoyed the Jacuzzi at the pool =)

JUNGCEYLON MALL

The biggest mall in Patong, we were there for hours & couldn’t even finish walking around the whole mall. There are 2 McDonald in this huge mall, one at each end of the shopping complex, and true enough there were many varieties of souvenirs at very cheap prices...who would have thought that things at the Mall would be cheaper than those sold outside..lol

The main entrance with lovely decorations for Chinese New Year

The main concourse are with beautifully decorated stalls selling from food to souvenirs

The icon of Jungceylon ~ A life sized Junk right smack in the middle of the mall

Lunch at McDonald

I would have preferred the 7Eleven Pork burgers mainly because we can stuff in all the veggies we want at no extra cost (^-^)

Sawadikap from Ronald McDonald (^-^)

Come evening, it was time to get ready for the much awaited PHUKET FANTASEA

We had made booking with Golden Beach Tours for the Gold Seat without dinner for 1500Bht each. We again had Phuket’s fabulous street foods & of course our favourite, 7Eleven Pork Burgers (^-^)b

This stall was just along the road to our hotel

Deliciously BBQ skewers of sausages & chicken

All ready & waiting for our van transport to Phuket Fantasea

Our van arrived at 6.50pm, it made several pick up at a few hotels around Patong before starting the journey to Phuket Fantasea which took almost an hour. It travelled along the costal roads, passing by Kamala Beach before reaching our destination. We were dropped off at the ticketing counters to collect our entrance ticket. The ticketing booth itself was awesome!

The Ticketing Booth

Park entrance

Inside the Park

Can you believe it..these are actually Shopping venues in the park

Phuket Fantasea Theatre Entrance ~ Palace of the Elephants

(Photography is not allowed inside the theatre)

After the show ~ the exit area

Souvenir section

Outside the theatre after the show

Random photos around the park

Free photoshoot with elephant after the show

While we were starting to leave the park, it began to drizzle and soon enough it started to rain heavily. Hurriedly we went to queue for our transportation back to Patong...it was a long queue & it was quite a while before we finally got into our van back to the hotel.

While waiting for our turn to get into our van.....

Actually all of us were a bit wet, even standing in the shade as the rain was splashing in from both sides of the shade blown in by the wind.

The transportation van

Our Phuket Fantasea ticket

Believe me, you may think 1500Bht is rather pricey (I thought so too at first) but this is the show you would not want to miss. It’s really worth it. Fantastic presentation, lighting & performance!!

Do check out this link for more information

www.phuket-fantasea.com/eng/index.php

We were famished when we arrived back at the hotel. We decided to walk out for look for something to appease our rumbling tummies before getting to our rooms. Most restaurant were already starting to close for the night as it was already past midnight, so we went in to the 1^st shop that was still open & made our orders....and boy...were we disappointed. Not only the service was bad (maybe due to the fact that they still had to serve us at this hour), the food was terrible!!!

Maybe it’s a good idea to give this place a miss next time you are in Patong ~ Gia Mas 88

Looks good..but taste terrible, even the drinks were flat!!

Tonight is our last night in Phuket......tomorrow will be ‘Last Minute shopping day’ before we check out at noon =)

DAY 4 ~ FINAL DAY

I have decided not to write a separate blog posting on our last day here in Phuket as I do not have many photos to share on my last day here.

Last night, my faithful camera decided it was time to go to ‘heaven’....Haizzzzzz

But I can also consider myself lucky that it happened only on our last night here. So the rest of the photos are mostly taken by my daughter with her camera & handphone. She’s not a camera fanatic like me so there’s not much photos to share..hahahaha

Today since we had so much time before our 9.15pm flight back to Kuala Lumpur, we decided to go to the beach again in the morning.

Last day at Patong Beach

Enjoying a nice fruity ice-cream from 7-Eleven after the beach & doing last minute shopping for Phuket yummies to take back home (^-^)

We rushed back to the hotel to pack our stuff (which was quite a lot of work, especially with all the extra load of FOOD!!)

After checking out at 1.00pm, we left our baggage at the reception & went for brunch at Patong Corner Restaurant just opposite to Orange Restaurant which we had our breakfast yesterday.

Praises to the good food served there at very affordable prices.

Crab meat fried rice

Seafood Tomyam Noodles

Pad Thai Pork

Spaghetti Bacon

Pad Siew Pork

Drinks ~ Mango Juice, Mixed Berries Juice & Mixed Fruit Juice

Our Bill

Then it’s off for last minuite shopping again!!

We had been looking for this shop since the 1^st day we were in Phuket ~ I Love Phuket Shop selling all T-shirts for just 100Bht, good quality & a good bargain.

We went for another final round to Jungceylon Mall for some last minute shopping. So much walking today...all our feet were worn out tired. We decided to hail a Tuk-Tuk to take us back to the hotel. Being peak season, all the tuk-tuk charged a standard 200Bht.. this is our 1^st & last ride before leaving Phuket...and we really enjoyed the ride back to the hotel =)

Enjoying the Tuk-Tuk ride back to our hotel

Again there was a last minute packing at the lobby before our pre-arranged van transport for the airport arrived at 5.30pm

Being too early for dinner, we ‘tapao’ our all-time favourite from Phuket ~ Pork Burgers from 7-Eleven to the airport.

The road to the airport was jam-packed (no wonder we had to leave this early ~ the traffic was terrible!!) The supposedly 50 mins journey to the airport took us almost close to 2hrs to reach due to the traffic snarl all the way. Most of us being so tired out the whole day dozed off, only waking-up upon reaching the airport.

Checking in went smoothly without a hitch & we had ample time to rest & have our dinner before our flight back to Malaysia. I still had some balance Thai bht coins ~ just enough for some additional Dunkin’ Donuts for dinner =)