Phuket Travel Forum

1) I miss Jatujak. A lot! Does Phuket has a similar place like that? Im craving to shop.

2) My fren has been bugging me to book PP tours(the one that comes with snorkeling) online. He said that if we dont book early, there will be no more available. is it true? my only concern is that, it will be way cheaper there and more choices. right? advice on prices on PP tours and the water activities(banana boat, parasailing, etc), warnings on touting. any prices incur to chill at the beach( i heard u have to pay est. 800Baht to sit at the deck. )

3) What great clubs to shake ur booty? Hip places to go. Clubs that play great RnB music or reggae.

4) will 8000Bt/pax (food&expenditures) be enough for 5 days?

sorry for asking to many qn. the last time i went Bkk i overspend and came back penniless. :( i need to set my budget rite.

5) im going 8 - 12 may. anyone coming same day? :)

cheers!

oh yah. i need to add. should i a) hire a car b) hire a motorcycle c) just hire the tuktuk? and i oso want to do wat the locals do. suggestions? thanks

Answers:
1) JJ is just a giant version of the little markets that pop up every single day all over the island. The biggest one is in Phuket City, near the fountain roundabout.

2) No need to book ahead at this time of year. The tourists have mostly gone home by now and NOTHING is sold out. The only way you are going to get "way cheaper" with any tour you book locally is by getting a low value one. You pay peanuts, you get monkeys, y'know? You can sit on the beach for free if you are right on the sand. Nobody owns the beach. You will have to pay to rent a "sun bed."

3) Go to Patong and just do the crawl.

4) It will be a real challenge to stay within that very small amount of fun money if you do all those activities you have listed, (shopping, watersports, club crawling, tours). But if you just sit on the beach most of the time you will be okay. The cheapest snorkel tour to Racha Yai that I sell costs THB 1500 (this is a proper tour company, with insurance and TAT license, etc.), so if you do one similarly cheap activity each day, that's already THB 6000, which would leave you just THB 500 per day for all the rest.

5) I will be gone, anyway.

For your follow up posting:

Transportation: you sound like the type who is looking for a very inexpensive Patong guesthouse-type holiday. From Patong your transportation options are very limited. Tuk-tuks are quite expensive. Motorcycles are pretty cheap to rent, but beware. More tourists are killed or injured riding these every single day than any other bad thing that happens to our tourists. What the locals do, in all honesty, is ride on motorcycle taxis.

Thanks Quero. You are such a great help! anyway, wats JJ?

JJ is Jat-u-jack or Chatuchak or any other way to spell the weekend market in Bangkok. Those who live there just call it JJ for short!