Phuket tour careful chop

February 23, late I take China Eastern flights to Thailand from Phuket. Start a travel agency called Phuket tour (solid manner for three days). Aircraft 24, 4 am local time. In the hotel 5 hours later, we began to itinerary activity on the project. From the first day, I and my boyfriend have been found various chopped local guides who means. It seems all the tours has a similar situation.

The following I will bring my own personal experience, I hope you are well prepared before the trip.

1: local guides are very willing to exchange for tourists, RMB, USD is the Thai baht.

Our mission of tour guides give 1000 RMB/4400 baht, as regards the exchange rate with the dollar, was 41. In PATONG downtown has many currency exchange stores, the exchange rate of USD to 42.7 (50 USD and 100 dollars, exchange rates vary, most cost-effective 100 dollars). But when visitors ask where is the Bank or foreign exchange offices, local guides often will tell you there is no bank or the Exchange store, and will "kindly" remind you carefully for counterfeit money, a lot of domestic tourists, because of the lack of experience, often on a guided tour there. But when you want to leave the extra baht sell back to the Guide, you normally will be rejected. Let the person angry is that the domestic leader will help drumming, encouraging everyone to ask the tour guide to borrow, later on also, and so on. Me and her boyfriend went to the prior asked Thailand friends against some Thai baht. The next morning before setting out, spent some time walking in the vicinity of the hotel. Started asking the locals, go to a shop, from the hotel just 5 minutes walk from the past, and the exchange rate is very cost-effective. But when we go back and tell the visitor with the mission, guide urged everyone to go, said to lend us the results of other visitors, ask tour change, we lose a lot.

TIPS: his own shop, compared with USD.

Domestic travel agencies are mostly not tell visitors this important information.

Our mission in the former two days living in Phuket town, Phuket's Patong from the downtown area in the Southeast, with half an hour's drive (for Phuket was not large). We live near Phuket Hotel Garden, walk about 5 minutes, there is an Exchange store, the exchange rate is I in Phuket that few days found the best. Us $ 42.75, RMB 5.02. Nearby there are two banks, the Bank's exchange rate lower than there. Patong downtown changers are many, but we are no one better than we found this. If you have a friend that lives in Phuket, Phuket town, may wish to go there to see it. (Shop called Maeyai Shop, address: 25 Yaowarat Muang, phone: (076) 217930, or mobile (01) 8920160. Saturday rest, usually open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.). Patong town of changers, but mostly to 10 p.m. it was closed.

Second: all kinds of free activity of fees in serious condition.

Many tourists come back with tours will tell you in Thailand Tourism, water sports project charges are more than 500 baht, or even thousands. Such as parachute 500 baht (just a few minutes), snorkeling 600 baht/hour, Phang rubber dinghies 850 baht/hour, banana boat 600 baht (a spin), see the features of the performance of every 500 baht. But I and her boyfriend in addition to the stroke of the first free item inflatable boat due to lack of experience are invited to participate in, and chop the 850 baht a person, the rest are not through a guided tour of the province, a lot of money.

Phang rubber dinghies local has many small travel agency provides 1-day: including the car to the hotel's Shuttle, lunch, an afternoon sail boats, all charges for a total of 700 Baht.

In PhiPhi (PP) Island, me and her boyfriend take local boat boat to Long Peach, snorkeling (snorkling) best place, a person charged 50 baht, a snorkeling masks and frog Web total 100 baht and came back to the boat people 40 baht a person (because there are other tourists travelling on the same boat), and two people sharing a 380 baht. Other water sports (banana boat, parachute, undersea walk, etc) are mostly in coral island, and we found that all the items on the island, and by the monopoly mostly domestic tours (also many tourists from Korea, Japan), the beach is no good, PP Island all project charges consolidated (very high).

TIPS: PP Island beach is better, a lot of home water sports shop, charges are higher than the price of the tour open.

When you sign up for tour guides requirements, do not be hurry to sign up for, but themselves to several local shops, compare prices. Many European and American tourists are self-help, follow their cheesecake, luck is with you and others boarded a boat, the price will be lower. PP island is snorkeling (snorkling) and deep diving (diving) place, in Long beach, I stand at the waist water Department, you can think of many tropical fish with a feed on the bread, they are more joy.

Coral island on water sports project does not have the opportunity to find a cheap place, only to be trampled upon.

If in order to plan a stimulating, perhaps not so expensive.

At the same time to find a local travel agency.

In addition to the above mentioned Phang, these local travel agency also provides other package tour. Such as PP, 4 days diving package (deep dive), including the car hotel shuttle boat shuttle back and forth, and three different diving sites, daily lunch, for a total charge of 1200 baht per person. There are other items to help you understand the actual price in order to determine whether you are invited to participate in the tour Office or your own free activities.

See featured performances (e.g. renyao performances, qigong, wash-Thai bath etc) are free of charge if the field, as long as you can buy drinks, 70 baht a bottle of beer you can see a qigong.

Open air bar is 70 renyao performances baht a bottle of beer, indoor performances of formal renyao 100 baht a bottle of beer, free admission. But travel agency will charge per show 500 or 600 baht, no drink. Thai massage, the guide will charge 400 baht for 2 hours, but the actual time of only one massage hours more. Themselves to the outside, 200 baht an hour, you have also been price yet.

Three: tours provide meals are very bad, or even domestic team leader would say that Thailand food is very difficult to eat.

In fact, Thailand cuisine delicious world famous, not only is the travel arrangements. If we go to Phuket, must to Patong area Patong Seafood Restaurant, it is the most famous restaurant on the ground. I'm in Phuket's three dinner, where to eat, eat a lobster, crab, salad, spicy little point, white wine, the most expensive one person eat the equivalent of USD 70 million.

4: a guide to domestic tourists that don't speak, their own local and out of danger.

In fact, Thailand and order is quite good, people generally believe in Buddhism, we warmly. The Guide also speak to your local taxi, not necessarily. The local has a similar to the drag-and-Pocket car, called ta ta is very cheap. From my first day in Phuket town to Patong's downtown area, the trip is more than half an hour. The guide told us to take taxi to 400-450 baht, we travel to tata, 200 baht. To the airport from Patong, day time sat taxi (car than domestic large and comfortable), less than an hour by car from 500 baht (equivalent to 100 RMB).

Five: the English and the local exchanges, do not be afraid to go out.

General local taxi driver, shop salespersons, hotel waiter, changers and travel agency staff and offering water sports club of the project staff would simple English but are willing to help tourists, just ask.

6: go to Thailand's best tours.

I do this because you want to, go out with a passport, travel tour is unreasonable, then go to Phuket, but be sure to self-tour. I'll be in few days, you recommend Phuket's tours project, hope we can wait patiently.

Till we meet again.