Tips for Travellers going to PHUKET

Tips For Travellers: -Golden Rule, never drink tap water always buy bottled, you’ll find your hotel will provide you with a bottle of water pp. Everyday, you can ask for more so empty your mini-bar fridge(place the drinks and so forth in the cupboard and stack the fridge with bottled water and drinks (turn the fridge on high). -Never Exchange money at the hotel, as you’ll find the exchange rate is alot better at the Exchange booths. (some exchange booths are better than others). Make sure you count your money and ask for the receipt.

- Local food at Local Restaurants cost around 30BHT - 70BHT a dish (not alot of meat, but when you order a few, it will fill you up). Other Tourist Restaurants can range from 120BHT a dish to 500BHT a dish. They say eating at small local stores is alot cheaper, authentic and the food is less likely to be off as they only have small refrigerators, unlike big restaurants that stack their food and keep it for days on end. As for Hotel food, very pricy..unless you feel like spending alot. -Taxi’s and Tuk Tuk’s, are usually a fixed price, where ever you go they will try to get every penny out of you, after a little bit of haggling you’ll get say 50 - 100BHT or so off the fixed price. -Buying stuff on the streets and local markets, everyone wants a bargain..as well as every shop owner wants to get the most out of you, always ask how much they want the item for, then drop it down to 75% off the price given, do not pay anything over 50% of the price.