Definitely a hell hole... Do yourself a favour ands explore a better area than Patong, it's a haven for Dip shit tourists & senile expats living in the past.

I liked Patong in the days before Phuket opened up the airport to international flights. Now it's super commercial and touristy imo.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:13 am

Grand Barong wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 7:40 am Definitely a hell hole... Do yourself a favour ands explore a better area than Patong, it's a haven for Dip shit tourists & senile expats living in the past.

As a recent dipshit tourist (it's ok to be one occasionally), I enjoyed it for the 5 days I was there but was very glad to leave and have no intentions to return.

Annoyance #1 was the endless board-waving hawkers trying to get you into their bar or restaurant. It is constant along Bangla and the beach road around there and gets on your tits as soon as you arrive.

Everywhere else was ok-ish, nothing you can't see in Pattaya or BKK. The palm trees are nice. So is the beach. The most outstanding thing for me was the air conditioning in the room, which was excellent.

The whole place (Patong, not Phuket) was underwhelming, but I have wanted to go for a long time and it's now a box ticked.

However, I am sure I saw only 1%of the island, and probably the worst 1%, and I am sure Richard could name 99 places I would have enjoyed more. He recommended a day driving south to the beaches and that was a much nicer day!

i went down to Phuket 10 years ago, spent about 5 days there i think, luckily i was staying in Phuket town, nice little town to be fair, didnt rate Patong/Bangla Road at all, went there one evening lasted a couple of hours then fucked off back to Phuket town and ended up drinking with some girls in the Pink chamois/Lady karaoke bar at the end of the street i was staying on, @phuketrichard might know it
the 2nd night me and a friend talked some motodop driver to drive us to Patong, he got out of town then got a phonecall and had to leave us in the middle of nowhere, we ended up hitch hiking a ride to Patong and had a better night than the previous one, started off in hard rock then found a beerbar doing cockitails for 69baht and 6 tequilas for 100 baht lol rest of the night is a blur, think i ended up in the pink chamouis/lady in Phuket Town again lol
tried out Kata and Karan beaches, they were nice themselves but full of european tourists, felt like i was in spain lol

never had the desire to go back tbh

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 27, 2022 9:09 am

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 9:21 am

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 7:51 am I liked Patong in the days before Phuket opened up the airport to international flights. Now it's super commercial and touristy imo.

When were u there? i moved to Patong, Phuket in 84 and it was great, moved over to Kamala in 96
yes Patong is commercial& touristy, so what? HK, Singapore, Kathmandu, Bali are all commercial and touristy as well
yet millions travel there for business and tourism
an there is a LOT more to phuket than Patong

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:13 am It is constant along Bangla and the beach road around there and gets on your tits as soon as you arrive.

Soi Bangla is THE MOST touristy 200 meters on the entire island and for 2 years had no business. what did you expect??
would you travel to PP an only stay between riverside and Monivong road and street 172-108? and think you saw PP?

hater's gonna hate, no matter what.....

I'm not a hater, I enjoyed my trip. I thought I was being quite balanced and fair!

However, I am sure I saw only 1%of the island, and probably the worst 1%, and I am sure Richard could name 99 places I would have enjoyed more. He recommended a day driving south to the beaches and that was a much nicer day!

Yeah tbh knowing you, this was actually a very fair review