calbear09 Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Hello. I was hoping to visit in the next couple of months (likely a two week vacation) however I do not see any Phuket Town Hotels listed on the thaiembassy website as approved accommodations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salerno Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Five places listed here: https://thaiest.com/blog/phuket-sandbox-hotels-list-sha-plus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espanol Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 Yes, they are many SHA + hotel in Phuket Town. For instance, Pearl Hotel: https://www.facebook.com/pearlhotelphuket/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteBuffaloATM Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 cant think of any reason to come to somewhere like phuket and then stay somewhere like phuket town.....which btw is as dead as disco......along with the entire island.....better to stay (five star) in Karon for the fantastic deserted beach...... hire car for travel to phuket old town (great coffee shops, museum, architecture) and phuket town Central Mall ( restaurants, cinema, discount shopping).... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post stevenl Posted July 14, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 14, 2021 11 hours ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said: cant think of any reason to come to somewhere like phuket and then stay somewhere like phuket town.....which btw is as dead as disco......along with the entire island.....better to stay (five star) in Karon for the fantastic deserted beach...... hire car for travel to phuket old town (great coffee shops, museum, architecture) and phuket town Central Mall ( restaurants, cinema, discount shopping).... Phuket Town dead? Nonsense. First you say it is dead, then you recommend to go there for the fantastic coffeeshops, LOL. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteBuffaloATM Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 coffee shops are great....in design / interior./ product......just very few customers..... which is all great for me ......so yeah phuket town is pretty well dead.....but good for short day trip......just not as a tourist stay base..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espanol Posted July 14, 2021 Share Posted July 14, 2021 8 hours ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said: coffee shops are great....in design / interior./ product......just very few customers..... which is all great for me ......so yeah phuket town is pretty well dead.....but good for short day trip......just not as a tourist stay base..... I fully agree. I would better go to a beach resort and would go to Phuket Town for day trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganesh108 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 On 7/14/2021 at 12:27 AM, WhiteBuffaloATM said: ...... hire car for travel to phuket old town (great coffee shops, museum, architecture) and phuket town Central Mall ( restaurants, cinema, discount shopping).... Only problem is, the taxi fare to and from Phuket Town will set you back about 1200-1400 Baht (for 15 km one-way). Actually Phuket Town is 10 times livelier than Karon, and unless someone is a beach freak it's a much better place to stay IMO, at least in these dull times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post zzzzz Posted July 15, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted July 15, 2021 (edited) On 7/14/2021 at 12:27 AM, WhiteBuffaloATM said: cant think of any reason to come to somewhere like phuket and then stay somewhere like phuket town.....which btw is as dead as disco......along with the entire island.....better to stay (five star) in Karon for the fantastic deserted beach...... hire car for travel to phuket old town (great coffee shops, museum, architecture) and phuket town Central Mall ( restaurants, cinema, discount shopping).... HUH: phuket town is 90+% open with very few places closed , ( outside clubs and bars) BUT as a tourists its not the place i'd go for a vacation lasting more than a day or 2 Rather than an expensive taxi to town from the beach, take a leisurely ride on the public bus for 50 baht, only adds 15 or so more minutes vs a taxi Karon on the other hand is 90% closed along the beach road Edited July 15, 2021 by zzzzz 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganesh108 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 25 minutes ago, zzzzz said: Rather than an expensive taxi to town from the beach, take a leisurely ride on the public bus for 50 baht, only adds 15 or so more minutes vs a taxi Unfortunately these buses or songthaews now only run about once an hour or less. The last run would be around 4 p.m., so forget evening visits. Unless they've raised prices recently, it should be 40 Baht between town and Karon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteBuffaloATM Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 coffee shops are great....in design / interior./ product......just very few customers..... which is all great for me ......so yeah phuket town is pretty well dead.....but good for short day trip......just not as a tourist stay base..... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteBuffaloATM Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 i said hire car (self drive) not taxi. said whole island dead (for tourism). being open is stiil dead if very few punters (local or foreign). open does not mean busy. unbusy is fine. beaches & resorts best examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinginKata Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 3 hours ago, Ganesh108 said: Only problem is, the taxi fare to and from Phuket Town will set you back about 1200-1400 Baht (for 15 km one-way). Actually Phuket Town is 10 times livelier than Karon, and unless someone is a beach freak it's a much better place to stay IMO, at least in these dull times. That taxi price is not true. You are talking nonsense .... or a fool to pay that price. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espanol Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 10 hours ago, Ganesh108 said: Only problem is, the taxi fare to and from Phuket Town will set you back about 1200-1400 Baht (for 15 km one-way). There are cheap buses to/from Phuket town to every beach in Phuket ie Patong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganesh108 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 6 hours ago, LivinginKata said: That taxi price is not true. You are talking nonsense .... or a fool to pay that price. I may not have expressed myself clearly 1200-1400 Baht is return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ganesh108 Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 10 minutes ago, Espanol said: There are cheap buses to/from Phuket town to every beach in Phuket ie Patong. If you had been using those Phuket Town buses recently (actually the vast majority of 'buses' are just those old rattly songthaews), you would have known that their frequency has been much reduced, and at certain times of day you may wait one and a half hours for the next vehicle. So what's the use of them being cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinginKata Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 43 minutes ago, Ganesh108 said: I may not have expressed myself clearly 1200-1400 Baht is return. Bit more realistic but still too much. But hey Phuket prices, my wife did some freelance taxi work in the past and I challenged her on the prices charged and she just shrugged and said that the 'going' price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzzz Posted July 16, 2021 Share Posted July 16, 2021 (edited) 10 hours ago, Espanol said: There are cheap buses to/from Phuket town to every beach in Phuket ie Patong. buses go from Patong to town via Kathu buses go from Karon via kata, chalong buses go from Kamala via Surin & churn talay as to they only run once /hour, thats all they ever have run as r/t is abut 90+ minutes. service has NOT changed as the bus's are 90% used by locals and it seems Burmese. i had to use the kamala -phuket bus about 3 months ago an it as 50 baht and NO i dont overpay Edited July 16, 2021 by zzzzz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallecc Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 On 7/15/2021 at 9:28 PM, Ganesh108 said: I may not have expressed myself clearly 1200-1400 Baht is return. Still way too much. I don't use taxi myself, but every 2 months I hire it my parents from Kata to Phuket Town I/O, it's 700thb round trip and van taxi is waiting for us 1-2h outside I/O, and then 30min stop at Chalong Tesco Lotus, I think it's OK deal. You just need to find local tour agency near the place you stay and always book taxi with them, not those guys hanging on the street (aka mafia). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chilly07 Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Stay home- there's a pandemic on! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenl Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 7 hours ago, chilly07 said: Stay home- there's a pandemic on! Phuket is probably safer than many, many other places in the world. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espanol Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 1 minute ago, stevenl said: Phuket is probably safer than many, many other places in the world. At least, safer than any other place in Thailand 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre0720 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 On 7/15/2021 at 12:03 PM, zzzzz said: HUH: phuket town is 90+% open with very few places closed , ( outside clubs and bars) BUT as a tourists its not the place i'd go for a vacation lasting more than a day or 2 Rather than an expensive taxi to town from the beach, take a leisurely ride on the public bus for 50 baht, only adds 15 or so more minutes vs a taxi Karon on the other hand is 90% closed along the beach road HUH, Phuket town is 90% down. I have been going to Phuket town most days of the week for over 10 years. Been taking walks in the old town, Phang Na road, Dibuk, Thalang, old market, around Robinson etc. The town is slowly being demolished, Ocean near Robinson, all gone, the beautiful Shino Spa, demolished. A few surviving businesses, restaurants mainly, as Thais do not seem to want to cook at home. Mobile phone shops. Even the largest second hand shop, mainly for Thai people, fewer and fewer vendors each month. Not selling enough to pay the space rental. Of course, Kata, Karon were hardly hit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallecc Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, Andre0720 said: Edited July 24, 2021 by sallecc Mistake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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