Phi Phi Hill Resort

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If going to book a hotel on Phi Phi you might recall this story.

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Philippe_Thaler has posted a reply to the thread entitled "26/12

Earthquakes and tsunamis - temporary sticky".

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Hello,

I was o Koh PhiPhi during the tsunami. My familly and I escaped with

only slight wounds with a bit of luck.

Once people realized what happened, it took time to understand indeed,

we got a lot of help from Thai and foreign people in Krabi and Phuket,

and from officials too.

However, now that the immediate trauma is over, I'd like to let

travellers know that not everybody was helpful and friendly in PhiPhi.

With many other tourists we had to spend the night on the top of the

island since our resort on Tonsai Bay was destroyed. Since we were on a

long tail boat when the waves arrived, we spent these two days and

nights with our swimming suit only. We were told to go to Phi Phi Hill

Resort, the safest place close to the beach were we were stranded.

But staff and management there were horrible! There attitude was a real

disgrace. Whereas hundred of refugees flocked there, many injured, they

did not show any compassion or even consideration but they just took

advantage of the situation to sell as much khao pad and beer they could!

They also charged unfair price for calls.

They even did not give a glass of water for free. Many tourists arrived

without any money, but the managers refused to give anything. Of course

they did not envisage organising accomodation share, or help for

injured people, so that many families spent the night outside. We were only

lucky that a Dane familly, full thanks to them, lent us a bungalow, when

they saw our 4 children completly exhausted.

The evacuation process was organised by foreigners running diving

business, without any help from local people. Only one fisherman accepted to

carry injured people in his long tail boat to the ferry, whereas the

others kept looking.

So if tourists wanting to go to Phi Phi again consider Phi Phi Hill

Resort as a valuable place because it will always be safe from any

tsunami, I'd like them to keep in mind the ignoble attitude of the staff and

management of this hotel during this terrible days.

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