Phuket July 2010

I am back from my weekend getaway with Melly at Phuket!

I would say that it is certainly a relaxing trip as there isn't much activities for us other than sleeping, eating and drinking :)

We arrived late at night (11pm) and it's kinda scary and I won't anyone taking late night flights there (especially for girls). There were alot of touters at the airport and they are pretty aggressive. We braced through all the touting and went to the counter that wrote "Taxi Meter" and got onto a cab with a driver that we felt slightly more comfortable with.

We were totally anxious during the ride and it's real late and the road were literally empty with little street lights. We were super happy that we bought a bottle of wine at DFS cause if anything happens, we still can hit the person with the bottle. Hahahha..kua zhang right? But it is that scary.

Finally arrived at the hotel at 12 midnight :)

The room is pretty decent (which is very important to me) and I am glad that I chose this hotel as it has its own shopping mall connected to it.

Day 1: The barely awake face

Don't we look 5 years younger? Hahaha!

The shopping area filled with restaurants and bars and our hangout for the entire trip

Le Siam - Authentic Fine Thai Cuisine

Tasteless Pineapple Rice

The food here was so bad that I can't even bring myself to take pictures of the green curry and tom yam soup after tasting the above. It's the start of our food misery :(

We went to Wine connection for some western food for dinner (we had the above thai food at 530pm and barely touched it :( ) at 7pm.

The carbonara tasted a little different from what we normally had in Singapore, but still edible.

Garlic bread with chesse

Tasteless hawaiian pizza

Creme brulee

Apple Crumble

Decent wine

Day 2

It's a beach day! (basically Melly just wanna say "HI" to the beach ;p We were there for less than 5 minutes.

Evidence of us being at the beach ;p

Are you able to spot the very disgusting muddy brown sea? I am seriously disgusted by it.

Phuket today is very very different from what others had said years ago. Food was bad (seriously bad) and can't be compared to the ones in BKK at all! To think that I was all excited about Thai Food before I arrived. Service was really bad as well (probably only one or 2 restaurants have decent service) and lastly, even the sea is bad!

Gone were the days where Phuket had deep blue sea. The sea is only blue near the horizon. From the shore to the far far end, the sea is brown. Muddy brown. How gross can that be?!?!? The air near Patong beach smelt like some seriously stinky toilet or rubbish dump and I seriously can't understand how some people can eat n drink at the restaurants with the stinky air.

After we left the beach, we head to Haagen Dazs to grab some yummy ice-cream to cheer ourselves up and also to hid from the stinky air.

Mine!

Melly's!

We were so upset with the food and air outside and hence, we ordered room service for the last night ( I am a sucker for room service! Hahha)

Well, it is edible though not very nice. But it is cheap! only 700 baht for these :)

We ended our last afternoon with Chang beer. Always wanted to try it and it taste quite good and it's very light :) It's almost as if drinking a soft drink with a light beer taste and it's very smooth.

Guess this is truly a trip just to recharge (we were sleeping 65% of the time) and seriously, this kind of trip, once a year or once every 2 years is enough.

My next trip must be a shopping trip! If not must be somewhere with NICE food!