Phuket - a little piece of paradise :)

We flew down to phuket from bangkok with air asia which I wasn't expecting to be great as it was a budget airline, like super budget but it was actually very good, people had wrote bad reviews about it but if it gets you from a to b safely what is there to complain about?....

......anyway arrived in Phuket safely and met our hotel transfer service a lovely new air condition car :) the journey was suppose to be an hour but due to traffic it took nearly 2, but we couldn't really care less! Arrival at centara Karon resort was smooth we were given an arrival drink, filled in all the forms blah blah and were shown to our room......a lovely corner superior room with a lovely view, it had a huge bed, walk in wardrobe big bathroom with bath and shower it as like heaven to us as we had been slumming it for about 6 weeks! We settled in and decidedw e would go to the hotel restaurant for dinner as it was all you could eat freshly cooked burgers of all meats including vegetarian :) it was sooo tasty, and there were all the trimmings there aswell it was sooo yummy :) there was loads of sald I was in my element I had been craving a good salad for weeks I was missing my weekly visits to the harvester with my cousin Becky and her gorgeous son Sami for salad cart :) we stayed in the restaurant fora while Luke ordered all you could drink beer for around £3 bargain! And I found a cat and two kittens that in my head were starving! So I was getting chicken breast for them and feeding them! Love animals :) everything at this resort was charged to your room which was fine but we didn't know until we got there that on tip of the price of things you had to pay 10% service charge and 7% or more goverment tax! We were shocked we didn't realise this before We booked we thought it was a bit cheeky, the prices of food and drink were quite reasonable for a resort like this but then you have to add nearly 20% so it made it more expensive :( anyway it was a lovely resort so be just forgot about it and had a good time, as this was our treat before slumming it again in newzealand! The hotel had 3 pools one which was shut for renovation which Luke was a bit disspointed about but the other pools had swim up to bars which he loved and one had 2 small flutes which when a adult went down them you kinda just flew off the end of it was fun! We had some fun times in the pool here, we bought a ball played some games it was nice and relaxing :) just what we needed :)

We spent lots of lovely evenings in the small town that surrounded us, in happy hour drinking some cocktails together eating some good food having some laughs :) it was so nice to relax properly ! We ate one night in a lovely restaurant called two chefs it was so romantic, low lighting, candles and a live band singing 3 Asian girls and they were simply perfect it was lovely so lovely Infact that we went back the next day! There was so much choice for restaurants as there always is in touristy places like this that you just had to go with your instinct and pick one! 

We hired a moped here for a couple of days to go out and explore on our own, it was great fun with my gorgeous driver Luke! He takes good care of me on the bike we always seem to get the big engined bikes! We rode and rode sometimes just to see what we could see! Other times to actually go places......we rode up this seriously steep hill to the "big Buddha".......

...it was a big Buddha ! With a temple belie it where there were monks chanting and blessing people! It was good! And the views were amazing up there, on the way up there and on the way down! .....

After the big Buddha we drove around, and found the lovely little resort of kata, the next town along from us, we parked up and went for a dip in the sea! it was so warm, like a bath :) ......

......we stated here for around 2 hours, it was quite touristy here, you can't sea it in the picture but the beach was super busy and there was so many people selling stuff along the beach! We got back on the bike and just rode to see where we would end up! It was a nice coastal ride and we ended up along the coastline of our local beach - karen beach! It was a long long stretch of sandy beach not as busy as kata beach. We drove as far as we could along the beach front then sat and had a cold drink looking out at the view......

......we spent the next few days at the beach and by the pool chilling out, trying to get a tan but getting more burnt then anything else! Even though we were using factor 50! We had great fun on the beach the waves were really strong and quite high......

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We had such fun :) the water was lovely and clear and clean, we headed back to the pool mist afternoons as it was so hot! We were loving phuket :) 

 

We enjoyed the quality time we spent together here, and were sad to be leaving, but also excited to be going to explore another island, we were off to koh samui :)