Finally, our long awaited Birthday vacation time is here! We choose to visit Phuket and stay around Patong area because we want to see the crowd and the nightlife near the famous Patong beach.
June 09, 2015 – Tuesday, I asked my boss to leave early in the office to catch the flight at 8:30PM. EJ, stayed in the house to prepared all the things we need to bring. We take the MRT, from Aljunied MRT to Changi airport MRT is about 20 minutes travel time. We reached Changi airport Terminal 1 at 7:00PM. After we finished checking in at Jetstar, we had our quick dinner at KFC.
This is the arrival/departure card, flight attendants gave us the form. Foreign visitors arriving or departing Thailand are required to fill this out. This form should be filled out before you hand over your passport to a Thai immigration officer. Keep this in your bag so you won’t miss it.
We arrived in Phuket Thailand at 09:20PM. Outside you need to queue for the immigration. There’s special ASEAN Lane for the group of ASEAN passport holders.
Outside the Phuket International airport, you will see different transportation service.
We booked for the hotel service for the peace of mind, it only cost 900 baht but we keep on waiting for about 15 minutes we can’t see the hotel logo with our printed names. I started to worry so I activated my cellular data to email the Holiday Inn Express hotel and call to check what happened.
Update: I received email from the hotel.
First of all, please kindly accept our deep apologize for the limousine service due to the misunderstand from the driver regards to the timing. From our hotel side already called and investigated with limousine company since we got information from you last night. Please kindly advise your convenience time that we would like to meet you for apologize.
Once again, sorry for the inconvenience occurs last night.
Best Regards,
Nan
After the call, the staff advised us to get the taxi instead. We choosed the metered taxi located far right on the terminal exit. We asked for the price and they said 750. The taxi driver don’t speak and understand English, he don’t know when we told him to drop us at Holiday Inn Express Patong. We activated again our cellular data and showed to him the address/map and the hotel. Luckily, we reached the hotel before midnight (local time). It was 11:47 in the evening when we arrived at the hotel. We paid our reservation fee ฿6,664.17 for 5 days.
We thanked God we arrived safe.
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