By 7:00 am, I am awake already preparing for a short time shopping. We have decided to look for other souvenir items for our Filipino colleagues in Singapore and for our love ones in the Philippines.
We found Jinda shop near our hotel, Grande Hotel. If you want the best price for Sarong, bags and shirts, we are recommending this shop. The owner is awesome and friendly. Sarong price is 90 baht as compare to 100 baht to other stores. Bags are 150-200 baht. Shirts can be buy 150-200 Baht.
When you do shopping around the area, we encourage you to do some haggling to save. Some seller sells their item for a very high price.
After buying the souvenir items, we were in a hurry because we booked a car at 9:30 am. Our flight going back to Singapore is 12:30pm. We do not have any breakfast by that time because of time constraint.
From our hotel, we took 1.05 hour to reach the International airport. We ate our brunch (breakfast and lunch) at Thai express. I ate my favorite foods; glutinous rice with mango and Seafood Pad Thai. Those foods are highly recommended. If you plan to go to Thailand for the first time I encourage you to try it. For sure you will love it also and no regret.
Glutinous Rice
Pad Thai @ Thai Express
By 12:31 in the afternoon, we left Phuket filled our minds with good memories of experiences.
I am planning to go back to Phuket again to enjoy water rafting, visit Maya Beach, and see some other attractions we haven’t seen due to time constraint. We failed to visit the temples as well.
Hope you guys enjoy reading my travel experience to Phuket, Thailand.
If you plan to go there by your own and lazy enough here are the our itinerary and budget breakdown. You can also email me at info@betterandfree.co for more inquiries or you can comment below. Please don’t forget to check my video blogs in youtube and like my facebook page.
By the way we booked our flight last May 2018 to get promo fare from Jetstar.
Here is the breakdown of my budget.
Round Trip Airfare – S$173.00
One day Island Tour Package – S$ 84.00
Hotel Accommodation (2 Nights) – S$56.12
Below is our pocket money which includes our shopping, foods, and other fees we paid in our tour.
Pocket Money for Shopping – S$200.00
Here is our itinerary.
Day 1: ARRIVAL 7:15pm – Changi Airport, Singapore Check In 9:OOpm – Changi Airport, Singapore Fly out 10:30pm – Arrival at Phuket International Airport 11:00pm – Transfer to Grande Hotel at Patong 12:45am – Hotel check-in, rest 2:00am – Sleep
Day 2: Island Tour (PhiPhi Lei, PhiPhi Don, Khai Island) 07:05am – Wake Up 07:30pm – Pick Up at the Hotel 09:30pm – Breakfast at the Travel Agency 11:00am – Start the Island Travel 12:15pm – Lunch at the Beach 4:30pm – Arrived at the Travel Agency (End of the Island Hopping) 6:25pm – Go Back to the Hotel 07:00pm – Dinner 8:00pm – Shopping 01:00am – Sleep
Day 3: Shopping and Go Back to Singapore 07:00am – Wake Up 07:30am – Shopping 09:30pm – Hotel Check Out 09:40pm – Travel to airport 010:45pm – Flight check-in at Phuket International Airport 12:30pm – Flight out
Three days will not be enough to explore the beauty of Phuket, but you can save a life for that days. Been there before the pandemic strike and I wish I can go here again. Thank you for sharing this and I was able to reminisce my trip.
Three days will not be enough to explore the beauty of Phuket, but you can save a life for that days. Been there before the pandemic strike and I wish I can go here again. Thank you for sharing this and I was able to reminisce my trip.