Замечательный отель Wonderful hotel

We rested in this hotel in the period 22.03-02.04. 2013 as a family of 5 people: three adults, a child and a grandmother. Everyone liked the hotel! Away from the hustle and bustle of the city (we were passing through Katya - music, lights, shops all around - you live like in Shanghai! ). I don’t know how many stars there are - 3 or 4, we got everything we wanted and even more for all 5 *! The rooms are large, comfortable, each superior contains 4 areas: a living area (TV, corner sofa, coffee table, two chairs, if necessary, you can put a bed for a third family member), a bedroom area (double bed, chest of drawers, wardrobe with hangers, free safe , two bedside tables, floor lamps, a dressing table with a mirror, a beach bag with beach towels, 2 umbrellas, after-sun lotion, a sewing kit), a kitchen area (refrigerator, cooking stove, kitchen set, sink, dishes on request, paid minibar, free tea and coffee sets - every day they put), bathroom (shower, bathtub, sink with a large mirror, toilet, clothes dryer, shower gel, shampoo, hair conditioner, soap, bathrobes, large, medium and small towels, disposable toothbrushes, toothpaste, razors, shower caps - all consumables are new every day for free), the rooms are cleaned every day, bed linen and towels are clean every day. There are two more near the hotel. No noise, no sprees, not many tourists - peace and quiet. During our stay at the hotel there were a lot of Russians - everyone went here in the hope that they would not meet their compatriots, which is probably why everyone turned out to be very well-mannered and calm - they were never ashamed of their homeland.
Breakfasts are varied (though without seafood): fruits, pastries, juices, omelettes, meat, rice, vegetables, yogurts - we are picky, we were very tasty and liked everything. Lunch and dinner in the restaurant at the hotel is expensive (any dish is 150 baht), but very, very tasty, drinks are expensive. Sometimes they include Russian music a & # 61602; la 80s. In addition to breakfast, we ate in this restaurant only once, then we ate at the On The Beach cafe, which is run by Mr. Tai, a very friendly person, speaks a little Russian. There are also a couple of cafes on the beach, but they cannot attract visitors either with live music or prices. The charm of Tai and the waiter Tong did not allow us to even think about eating somewhere else. Although his prices are not cheap - meals for 80 baht, beer 0.7 l for 100 baht, soft drinks for 50 baht. The food is delicious, the portions are large, the menu is in Russian. The five of us with drinks we ate for 1000-1200 baht. In the last days of rest, Tai gave us discounts on beer, although we did not ask.
The beach is located at the hotel, towels and sun loungers (as well as canoes, bicycles) are free of charge. We read a lot about the ebb and flow in this part of Phuket, but somehow we were not mentally ready anyway. Upon arrival, we were met by low tide (not the strongest), we could not swim, the son scratched his leg on the coral, the beach seemed ugly, in a word, we were very upset. The next day we went to Phuket Town, and when we returned, there was a tide, and even then we bought plenty. Sand, small waves, sun - beauty!! ! Then they got used to it: they hang out the time of maximum high and low tide for the day near the pool, adjusted their schedule to this schedule: on average, you can swim completely freely for 5 hours a day, the rest of the time you sunbathed, walked, or spent in the pool.

I would like to write a few words about the tour operator. The meeting at the airport went off with a bang, excellent organization: Pegasus representatives stand at the exit of the airport and indicate where to go, then you show a voucher for a transfer to the hotel, they read the barcode and call the number of the bus that you are lucky, they issue SIM cards: it didn’t pass and 10 minutes, as we were already driving to the hotel. Unfortunately, this is where the good impression about the operator ended. The hotel guide Olesya (a girl with dollars in her eyes) immediately made it clear that the only reason she should call is the absence of a tour bus if the tour was taken from Pegasus. We lost a lot of time due to the fact that the drivers of the sightseeing buses were not informed that the tourists had canceled the trip, and the drivers patiently waited for those who were not even going to. When leaving, I had to be nervous: I received information that the flight was delayed by 12 hours, we were taken to another hotel for dinner, the driver dropped me off and drove off somewhere with all the luggage. We didn’t meet in another hotel, there was no information at the reception, we ran and looked for everything ourselves.
They took Fantasy from Pegasus (price: 2.200 baht) and a free shopping tour. On the shopping tour, we got such an explosion of the brain that we left the tour at the third stop. The guide (I don’t remember the name), a native of Azerbaijan, in a very crooked Russian insistently (rudely) and in raised tones, talked about where he was born and studied and how old he was, while not allowing anyone to talk to each other! He built tourists like in a pioneer detachment, not a step to the side! He carried such nonsense about honey from marijuana - it just rang in his ears !! ! Before the trip to Thailand, we got acquainted via the Internet with the approximate prices of the island and just climbed our eyes on our foreheads from the arrogance of the organizers. Prices for a shopping tour are not 2 or 3 times higher than the market prices, but 5 times!! ! At the same time, when Pegasus is taking you on a sightseeing tour, you visit, for example, a pearl farm, where you can buy souvenirs from river pearls in silver-plated metal for 250 baht, a pearl string for yourself on average for 1.800 baht, but when you travel with Pegasus on a shopping tour, then the pearl farm is already different, there are freshwater pearls in silver-plated metal already from 1.100 baht !! ! The wildest prices in the pharmacy, in any other pharmacy on the island you can buy the same thing (albeit without the Russian annotation), but 2-3-4-5 times cheaper!! ! So a free tour results for naive tourists in what a “penny”! We did not go further, we handed over the tags to the guide.
And in the end, for respected compatriots, something about excursions in general. We, again, having read information about the island), about excursions on the Internet, decided not to take any excursions from Pegasus for money, only on the spot we already decided on Fantasy, because. the price tag on it is not particularly inflated. Our whole program was compiled based on the prices of the "chip tour", upon arrival they called by the phone number indicated in the price list. It turned out that representatives of the company did not go to the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ our hotel (Cape Panwa), the office is located in Patong, they offered to drive up to their office. We had already set out to go to Patong, but in the evening, having dinner at Tai, we met a local resident (he introduces himself as Capitan Mhad - he is constantly on the beach and offers to buy excursions from him), he showed us his price list in Russian. His English with a Thai accent, our English of the school curriculum, his desire to earn money, our desire to receive a service at an adequate price - did their job, we understood each other and for a start (although with some suspicion) we bought a tour to Khao Sok from him. The price is slightly higher than the chips, but given the remoteness of the hotel and the need to pay extra for the transfer to the chips, I think that would have happened. They left an advance payment of 1.000 baht. At the appointed time, the bus was waiting for us, the cap was waiting for us at the reception, we paid him the rest and went to enjoy the elephants, nature, fruits. The Russian guide throughout the tour is a very interesting young man Alexei (he used to live in Novosibirsk), he told us all day about Thailand, Phuket, history, legends and much more. It was just magical!!!
After that, without fear, we bought a tour to the Similans from the cap (2.700 baht for an adult, 1.900 baht for a child), where we sat in the same boat with those who went from Pegasus (4.500 baht for an adult). He took us shopping (we told him what we wanted to buy, he took us where he saw fit: for example, he brought us to a pearl farm, where they conduct a sightseeing tour, there they stuck some marks on our clothes, looking at which the girls immediately called the price , less than half the price on the label, even though the cap received some commission for our purchases, in any case we spent much less with him), bought alcohol, bags, clothes, souvenirs, also the cap took us to the aquarium . And after all the doubting Russian tourists sent to us for recommendations. I don’t know if they went with the cap where or not, but we gave him the most positive recommendations. Women who bought three excursions from the tour operator on the first day (receiving a promised discount of 900 baht per person for this, but overpaying about 4.000 baht), after talking with the cap, lamented their promptness and, in order to smooth out the bitterness, went shopping with him, their cap pleased! We do not urge anyone to apply to him (or to the chip tour), we simply state the fact: we applied and got everything we expected. Everyone decides for himself.

Mr. Tai and Cap Mhead said goodbye to us in a very touching way! Didn't want to leave! The hotel and everything connected with it, we recommend!