С Пегасом на Пхукет With Pegasus to Phuket

Avista Resort & Spa was selected for a short stay while traveling to Koh Samui via Phuket.
Great hotel. Located next to Kata Beach.
Lived in a deluxe room. Very good number not a record size. Large balcony. On the balcony, to paraphrase the obscene saying, "there is no panty dryer. " Therefore, everything is on the railing and the view is appropriate. As I already wrote in one of the reviews - "the view of the Odessa courtyard from the film" Liquidation "". Badly! However, the room itself is very good. The bathroom was especially impressive. Wonderful. Safe, TV, refrigerator, umbrella,... everything is standard. Just new and very good quality. Good hotel.
Quite a large, two-level pool. Lots of sunbeds and umbrellas. But also packed with vacationers to the eyeballs. All day. From morning to evening! There are no seats! Later you will understand why.

Close to the sea (Kata). No more than 300 meters. But what! To the sea it seems to be nothing, but back! The mountain is just unbearable! I climbed a maximum of four times in all the days of my stay. This is a real mockery! That's why the pool is full.
At the exit of the hotel "helpfully" they offer to use a taxi service, including to the beach. Many take a taxi "to the beach", that is, three hundred meters. There is also a rental of mopeds, which I took advantage of.
Breakfast at the hotel left a mixed impression. To one side is a large, well-appointed restaurant. On the other hand, an extremely poor assortment. I have never met worse. At the same time, food warmers are placed at a great distance from each other, apparently to create the illusion of abundance. But in any case, you won’t die of hunger, and in ordinary life hardly any of us have such a variety for breakfast. I just compare with other hotels. Poorer really did not meet, especially considering the price of staying at the hotel.
The same three hundred meters from the hotel to civilization. Shopping, food. But the mountain is the same!
There is another reason why the pool is full of vacationers from morning to evening. For unknown reasons, Phuket has banned sun loungers and umbrellas on the beach. Previously, for 100 baht, you could rent a couple of sun loungers and an umbrella. At the same time, the entire infrastructure was attached in the form of WiFi, panicles for sweeping sand from sun loungers, simple food in the form of shrimp, corn, beer and other things. So this is all banned. And the Thais who handed over these sunbeds and umbrellas to vacationers left. But after all, rakes and brooms and garbage bags “gone” with them. Gone. But the tourists stayed. And all the rubbish of tourists remained. The coast and the sea are terribly dirty!

We used to go swimming on a small beach in the south of Phuket. Between the wind farm and the lighthouse. There used to be sun loungers, umbrellas, toilets, showers, changing cabins, food and more. We came this time and were amazed. The dirt is impassable. There are very few tourists. Who wants to wallow in this mud? At low tide, all the garbage is on the shore, and the sea is cleaner. At high tide, it's full of horror. At least a two-meter strip of garbage floats in the water! It really doesn't even come close to the Andaman Sea before the ban on sunbed rentals.
But everything has disappeared. Not only an umbrella and WiFi but also toilets. And people come to the beach for a long time. Is the answer clear? Catch up with Sochi is called. It's disgusting.
That's why people in the pool.
Now I will look for the website of the Ministry of Tourism of Thailand to write my bewilderment.