Phuket Holidays: Travel Tips and Holiday Ideas 

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Vacation Ideas for Planning a Holiday in Phuket

Travel agents do a great job and can provide you with lots of ideas on where to stay and the best deals they have to offer.

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If you find a great holiday package you can usually book this at the local agency or over the phone with one of their travel specialists.

Using the services of a travel agent to book your holidays works well if your not confident booking your own flights to Phuket or accommodation online.

However, we suggest that you look around our site to see how affordable the room rates are for hotels in Phuket before booking your hotel or resort based on a travel agents recommendation alone.

With just a small amount of research you could save yourself some extra spending money that you can use to go shopping or do extra day trips on your holidays.

Never be afraid of taking the information you find online back to your travel agent to get them to offer you a better deal.

Planning you're Phuket Holidays

There are many options for planning your Phuket holidays.

If you just want to enjoy the nightlife and shopping you would be best to stay around Patong Beach.

However, if you would prefer to take in all that Phuket has to offer, look outside of Phuket and maybe do a combination holiday.

A combination holiday will allow you the best of both worlds, where you can enjoy the busy streets and beach of Patong and the beauty of Ko Phi Phi, Krabi, or one of the nearby islands for a few days to relax, it is well worth the extra effort.

Ideas for your Holiday in Phuket

As mentioned, there is more to Phuket then just Patong Beach.

Here are a couple of ideas for you to consider for your Phuket holidays.

A short tuk tuk ride north of Patong Beach will have you at Surin or Kamala beach, or travel south to Karon and Kata beaches or the quiet beach coves of Tri Tra, Tri Trang, Paradise or Freedom Beaches.

You will find these area’s far more relaxing and more laid back than Patong Beach.

If you go onto any travel forum, everybody asks the following question.

"Where should I stay in Phuket"
 

Hopefully this short breakdown will help.

Patong Beach is fun, if you want to party, shop and don’t mind the crowded beach and busy streets, especially during the high season. If this is what you are looking for while on holiday in Phuket, than Patong is definitely the place to stay.

Some people love it and cannot get enough of Patong, but for others they find a 10 night stay in Patong is too much, and say that a 5 night stay would have been better.

If you want to party and shop in Patong, but would also like to enjoy a more relaxed atmosphere with great restaurants, local bars, markets and relaxing beaches. I would look at, Kamala or Surin beaches to the North or south or Karon, Kata and Kata Noi beaches. These beaches are within easy access to Patong, but much more relaxing.

If you only want to go into Patong once or twice during your Phuket holidays and would prefer to relax on the beach and enjoy the surrounds of a Five Star Resort have a look at the beaches that we have listed below that are located further north.

One area to consider if you want to experience what Phuket was like when we first visited 34 years ago, is to stay around Nai Yang near the luxury five star Slate Resort or Bang Tao Beach.

Once you have sorted out a location of where you would like to stay for you Phuket holidays, its now time to research some of the different hotels and resorts options.

As mentioned on our accommodation pages we find some of the best hotel deals using Agoda to decide were we are going to stay . We find their site offers great location maps, photo’s and honest reviews. 

Suggestions for a 14 Day Holiday in Phuket

If you just want to stay in one location for your Phuket holiday, just use the above suggestions, however if you want to soak up the best Phuket holidays, then I would suggest the following.

Start in the deep-end with a 5 night stay at Patong Beach, where you can enjoy the nightlife and shopping and all that Patong Beach has to offer.

Go and see the Phuket Fantasea Show and explore Phuket with a half day island tour, or a visit to an elephant sanctuary.

For further information on all Phuket tours, we recommend you contact Easy Day Thailand.

Take a ride on the local songthaew or a taxi into Phuket Town and take in the shopping, movies or bowling in Central festival or the weekend markets for some great bargains.

On the 6th day catch the ferry over to Phi Phi and stay for 4 or 5 nights to explore these must see islands.

Whilst at the Phi Phi Islands, get out and see as much as you can, not to be missed are the stunning views from the Pee Pee Viewpoint, where you will see magical sunsets. 

And get up early and catch a local longtail boat over to Phi Phi Leh and Maya bay before the tours from Phuket arrive or explore a special secret cove that is a favorite of your tour guide or longtail boat driver.

After exploring the sights of Koh Phi Phi take the ferry back to Phuket and stay at either Karon beach or Kata Beach if you still want to be close to Patong.

Also to be included in your Phuket holidays, you should also include a day trip to Phang Nga National Park and take in the beauty of the limestone cliffs and visit the famous James Bond island.

Or take in the last days of your Phuket holidays the way it used to be, by heading up to to Nai Yang Beach to chill out before your flight home.

Phuket Holidays Travel Tips

• Never ask a tuk tuk or taxi driver for a recommendation on where to stay! Good or bad, they will take you to where they get paid the best commission
  
  
• If you are travelling in the high season around December and January book in early
  
  
• If you are travelling in the monsoon season you will find bargains galore

• Do your research before you go, and drop back in here to get loads of tips

• If you are comfortable booking flights and accommodation for your holidays online that's great

• If not, grab as much information as you can from websites like ours and take this information to your travel agent to compare

• Always take out appropriate travel insurance that will cover you for activities that you might do while on your Phuket holiday, for example you might decide to hire a car or a motorbike to explore the island or have the urge to hire a jet ski.
  
  

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