Nonetheless, it is the first time I enjoyed luxurious accomodations on a holiday, and it was quite pleasant. The 'Central Karon Beach Resort' gave us its best room with a private jacuzzi pool outside, and just seeing that makes me happy.
The room had nice touches, and there's small pieces of origami done with towels and napkins and even toilet paper everywhere. The most pretty one is this elephant on the bed - notice it's tusks and nails!
The sky was overcast and it drizzled sporadically for two days, and all we did was to watch shows through a laptop-TV link, use the swimming pool, and walked around the vicinity. We stood at the beach, took a photo, and then I decided that I'm not much of a beach person after all.
Weird huh, go phuket without frolicking in the sea.
The second day was spent at Patong beach, the commercial tourist trap. Transport to and from there is ridiculous, 300 baht (approx. $13) from our beach place to there! We're look happy here but we're actually resigned to being 'chopped'.
Shops variety is scarce with most of them selling the same few things, but I got to buy 2 Adidas polo tees and one t-shirt at their boutique there for $60! Other than that, you only just think about the bleeding taxi fare.
I toyed with the idea of renting a car and driving round the island to explore it, but it seems a bit too much of a hassle to arrange. The weather cleared up on the 3rd day unexpectedly just after we dropped the idea of going Phi Phi to snorkel out at sea. Oh well, lounging around in the room is still the cheapest thing to do. We get free cocktails every evening and canapés to enjoy, so we drink dessert wine by the pool and think that we're living the good life ha.
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