Phuket Trip With Love - 1st Entry : Preparation & Checklist
Phuket with Love
We (me and Love, my hubby) went to Phuket end of last month (22-26 March 2012). The trip was wonderful and tanning our skin as well J. Even though we made some preparation but still, most of it, we just gamble and “nekad” on what we will do there. Of coz, with some info (from friends and website) for the trip. There are too many things to do, from islands hopping, elephant trekking, sight-seeing, and last but not least..some shopping (some said it’s not that cheap because it’s tourist place). It’s actually not that difficult to travel in Phuket, but still good plan will help you to full utilize your time, maximize your budget and in a same time, not that tiring. So that’s why we want to share our experience here. Hope it will help.
We (me and Love, my hubby) went to Phuket end of last month (22-26 March 2012). The trip was wonderful and tanning our skin as well J. Even though we made some preparation but still, most of it, we just gamble and “nekad” on what we will do there. Of coz, with some info (from friends and website) for the trip. There are too many things to do, from islands hopping, elephant trekking, sight-seeing, and last but not least..some shopping (some said it’s not that cheap because it’s tourist place). It’s actually not that difficult to travel in Phuket, but still good plan will help you to full utilize your time, maximize your budget and in a same time, not that tiring. So that’s why we want to share our experience here. Hope it will help.
Preparation
1. Booking our flight ticket (of coz) –
First is to determine when will be the best time to visit Phuket; whether to put a criteria on the most popular months in Phuket or the weather (hottest/wettest) or the cheapest month to visit Phuket.
We choose March coz it seems to be High Season Month, but slightly smaller crowds than January and February. Plus, the weather - low rainfall and mostly hot sunny days, and the sea conditions are good for swimming and trips. The accommodation prices tend to be lower than January and February because some of the hotels offering special discounts. Here we share the website that we use as guideline to choose the date :
But, most of the time, we just google.com J
AND, on Flight Depart & arrival Time – we make sure we manage to reach on time and do the prayer as well.
* Decide on where to stay (either Patong or Karon or Kata, etc)
3. Decide on what to do - searching around at net (website) to get some idea on the activity that we can do in Phuket
4. Transport to airport *Someone to send you to the airport/take a public transport
5. The most important things is to RENEW THE PASSPORT (if expired)
Cost :
1. Air Fare *Depends on Time & Airline
2. Hotel *Depends on Time & Hotel
3. International Passport (RM 100 for 2 years) or (RM 300 for 5 years- 32 pages) or (RM 600 for 5 years- 64 pages)
Checklist : List of Things To Do Before Depart :
1. Get the solat (prayer) time from the internet (for Muslim)
* We just Google and found it!
2. Bring compass.
* As we bring along the IPAD, we just installed the related software
3. Bring/print the hotel confirmation of booking (if you book online)
*the email that they sent to u, once u confirm your hotel booking
4. Print Phuket map *Trust me, it will help you there. We actually left the map at home, but alhamdulillah, we manage to get the map at the hotel.
5. Send an email to the embassy (Malaysian Embassy in Bangkok) telling that u will go to Phuket, where u staying, your family contact number, etc. So if something happened, they know u are there and who to contact in Malaysia (optional). But pray nothing bad will happened.
6. Call the bank to let them know that we are going overseas, just in case of emergency we can use the credit card
7. Call the telco, for roaming service
8. Web Check-in so that u don’t have to come so early in the morning at the airport if u got early flight
9. Money Exchange to Thai Baht.
*We also brought the USD and RM as our backup money there.
Note : They prefer BIG Notes. (USD 10-USD49, they will change it with a different rates compare to USD 50 and above, AND RM10 they won’t accept it at all)
10.Buy some Food! As a Muslim, we aware that we may not sure where we can get the halal food so we brought some Gardenia bread & MILO SEJUK (but not that much, just for our breakfast only)
11.Last but not least, of coz PACKING. Don’t forget your swimming attire + SUNBLOCK ya
Wah.. Lots of things to do ya? No worries, of coz you manage to do everything by a good planning. See you on the 2nd Entry on Day 1 – Phuket Trip With Love
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