Airport Express bus route starts to go from Airport of Phuket to Patong beach.

http://phuketairportbusexpress.com/en

It's only 120THB for full route (Airport-to-Pathong or Patong-to-Airport). Timetable and contacts available at the link above.

A good alternative to extremely expensive Phuket taxis from and to airport (about 1400-1600 THB now, so bus about 10x cheaper for the same).

Unfortunately taxi mafia refuses to allow to put a signs inside the airport building so not so much people knows about this service. Bus stop resides outside the airport ramp and parking.

Hope this info will be useful.

Thanks for that ...

Not sure it's the taxi mafia that are responsible for bus signs. The problem is with the airport authority as reported http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/674565-phuket-airport-boss-denies-ignoring-bus-service/

Really no need for another topic on this long sufferin story - this topic is CLOSED