About excursions and entertainment (Recommendation from Ekaterina)

Written: 10 august 2011
Travel time: 23 december 2010 — 12 january 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 8.0
About excursions and entertainment:
Excursions can be bought from your tour operator: Pegasus, Tez tour, or on the street. With your operator, everything is twice as expensive, but a Russian guide, one hundred percent safety and help if something happens. There are a million travel agencies on the street that sell everything much cheaper, but the guides are English-speaking or Thai with little knowledge of Russian. We took everything on the street at the BENIMO travel agency, exit the hotel to the right, go to the second turn to the right and there will be a sign in Russian on the left. A Russian boy named Ben sells excursions, rents out housing, motorbikes, cars, you can make cheap calls from him, buy SIM cards, flash drives, etc.
Take two-day excursions, it's just super, you will have time to see other provinces and islands in a calm rhythm, because there is nothing to do on Katya at all.
Khao Sok Nature Reserve 2 days 1 night, eat for 1 day

I highly recommend the tour from which we were just wildly delighted (we are 27 and 29 years old and we are active guys), maybe it will be unacceptable for older people, the tour is very energetic. You need to go to the mainland, the road is 3 hours, so it’s hard to go for 1 day. We had a Thai guide, a boy-girl named Yoshik, spoke Russian poorly, but understandably.
Day 1: Feeding the monkeys, visiting the temple of Buddha in the rock, 1-hour elephant ride through the jungle, visiting the hot spring, 1-hour boat ride on the freshwater lake to the overnight stay. Spend the night in bamboo bungalows right on the lake-house in which there are only 2 mattresses with pillows  , they give out a towel and a blanket, meals 3 times a day with Thai specific food  . In the evening you will have a night safari on the lake and the jungle, where you can see or hear wild animals .
There are canoes near the houses, where you can ride for free at any time, swim to the neighboring islands. The nature around is amazing, silence, mountains, islands, fog, a clean warm lake, you start to run wild in a day .
Day 2: In the morning you will have a walk through the jungle, rafting on bamboo rafts, visiting a cave with stolactites, stolagmites. Further swimming, sunbathing, meals and a trip back. If there is time, it will be possible to ask the guide to stop by to look at monitor lizards.
Phi Phi Islands (Phi Phi) 2 days 1 night / eat for 1 day
Consist of Pi-Pi Don (hotels, beaches, restaurants) and Pi-Pi Lay (beaches, nature reserves, the movie Beach with DiCaprio was filmed there)
The road from the hotel by bus to the port is 1 hour and on a large ship 2 hours, you can go faster on a speedboat, but it pumps more on the waves.

If you don’t want to worry about organizing a trip, buy a tour with a transfer and a hotel right away, but you can organize everything yourself and cheaper: take a taxi from the hotel to the port, buy tickets for the ship there, upon arrival at the port there are a million agents offering bungalows and hotels, and you can book a hotel in advance online, it's cheaper. Everything is much cooler on Pi-Pi than in Katya, a lot of small coves, a lot of cool, cozy cafes and restaurants, food, drinks and souvenirs are cheaper. The night life is in full swing: everywhere there are shows with lights, music, dancing, there are no prostitutes  . All hotels are located on the beach or a 3-minute walk.
Take a boat for 1200 baht for 3 hours (you can take it for the whole day) and go to Phi Phi Ley, you will swim around the island, enter wonderful bays with many beautiful fish. All in all, this is heaven!
James Bond Islands 1 day
It takes 1 hour by bus to the port, then 40 minutes by speedboat.
Includes a boat trip with a tour of the islands, kayaking through the caves, then relaxing on the beach. At 16 o'clock you are already returning back.
Raya Island (Racha)
It takes 20 minutes to the port (the port is already different) and further on a speedboat 20 minutes, there you will find snorkeling, a lot of fish and a coral island. The beauty! BUT, we didn’t manage to get there, there was a storm and waves of 3 meters, our boat rocked so that people could hardly hold on, everyone was flooded with water, the guide said that the island would have waves of 6 meters and it was dangerous, I had to return and get the money back  .
Show Fantasy
This is a Thai circus, in which about 200 people participate, elephants, crocodiles and other animals, first you walk in the park, see the palaces, then you will have dinner and a show. All this takes place in the evening.
Thai boxing
Takes place in Patong, costs 1700-2500 baht, depending on who is performing. Boxing is real, not staged, it lasts about 3 hours.
simon show
Tranny show, cabaret
Ping pong show

I was amazed at the scale of sex tourism, then what is going on in Pattaya, if this is the case in Phuket)))) Patong is a nest of debauchery, a bunch of bars and places of entertainment where a million Thai prostitutes lure men, even though a man walks by the hand or in an embrace with a woman, crazy secrets rush at him anyway! Taek is removed from one day to a week or two. Everywhere, just everywhere, grandfathers walk with secrets, on beaches, in restaurants, in cafes, Thais faithfully accompany their companions)). Be careful, in massage parlors and bars you can run into a lady of the fight))). And our friend was robbed by a Thai woman who drove him to the hotel on a motorbike, whom he refused to have sex))) she stole the phone and money).

Ben - thank you Ekaterina!
thanks a lot
very good information
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