Phuket

Phuket is the largest island located in the southern part of Thailand. Moreover, Phuket is regarded as "the pearl of the south" because of its beautiful natural resources that can draw a lot of tourists. Also, Phuket hospitality can impress people from all walks of life.

Phuket is hot and humid throughout the year. The high season is generally considered to be from November to May. During the summer monsoon season, mornings and afternoons are still sunny and clear, but it tends to rain in the evenings and water clarity goes down. Locals consider May to October the "cool" season, and the weather is quite tolerable, much more so than in the tourism centers around the Gulf coast. It's comparable to Florida's summer weather in temperature and intensity of rain storms: 25-33 deg C, flying clouds, short and thunderous rainfalls in the afternoons and evenings. Surfing is possible off the western beaches.

Festivals

In Phuket, there are many festivals that are periodically held because Phuket is one of travel destinations in southern part. The sample of festivals holds in Phuket is Phuket travel fair normally starting from the first of November mainly for welcoming the tourist season and promoting tourism industry.

Attractions

Phuket has various kinds of attractions such as traditional ones, natural ones or traveling ones in different areas. For instance, one of Phuket's natural attractions is Patong beach that is the most developed, vivacious and visited beach of Phuket. In this beach, there are also many accommodations and shopping malls.

Getting there

Accommodations

These are the recommended accommodations.

The Andaman Beach Suites is surrounded by luxurious landscaped gardens in Patong Beach.

Kata Thani Resort and Spa can be imagined as a tropical island paradise.

Kata Thani BHURI Beach Resort is located located on the Kata Noi beach, at the southern end of Phuket.

The Mangosteen Resort and Spa is is surrounded by beaches and attractions.

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