出了机场，我们按照guide book上所说的，去找mini bus。因为比较便宜，每人只要150铢，而计程车要400铢。看到有一个计程车服务台，就去问那些工作人员，他们回答这机场没有什么mini bus 站，只有计程车。我们给他们看我们的书，他们这才指着旁边一处说，就在那里。那车把我们载到旅馆下面的山底，说你们自己上去吧，我只拉到这里。我们两人费了九牛二虎之力，终于到了山顶。妈呀！这山好高哦，路又不好走，从服务台到我们的房间，我看至少要有十层楼高，而且没电梯，全凭双腿，给我锻炼身体提供了良好的机会。看来定旅馆时还真要小心才行哪。因为我们看到有游泳池，房间也蛮漂亮，于是就订了，可不便宜呢，每晚93新币。到那儿一看，游泳池倒是有，只是还没俺家的大嘞。算了吧。优点嘛，倒也不是没有，比如说绝对不许怕海啸，就是全城都淹了，俺们这里也是绝对安全的馁。
说是离海边很近，其实呢，乘车也要最少15分钟。他们只提供有限的几趟小巴载送至Patong Beach. 其他的均要收费，而且还不便宜。我们那晚到海滩的时候，天正下小雨，见没什么好玩的，我们就去按摩。这里按摩不贵，感觉还挺享受的。
Finally we were going to our holiday. After so many difficulties, I received my ticket to Phuket. I got up very early in the morning on 6/12/08, then rushed to the airport. After I had checked in, 香 and me went for our breakfast. However, when we went for boarding, we heard some more shocking news. Our flight had been delayed for almost 4 hours. They said they had announced that a complementary breakfast would be provided. Unfortunately, it was extremely noisy at the airport. We did not even hear the announcement that the flight had been delayed and we paid for our own breakfast. We wished at least we could receive a partial refund but, our request was refused. We were not happy about this. You know it's not a budget airline, it's quite expensive. We wondered why these events added to our unhappiness. The unprofessional behaviors of these people was not at all acceptable. Besides, we had already booked the elephant tour in the afternoon. Now we could not make it. It was a severe loss to us. But the staff there insisted they could not do anything. The only way was to write to the airline and so we did. Finally we reached our destination safely. But it took us exactly 1 hour to check out at the Phuket airport. What to do? We had chosen to visit this country.
After walking out of the airport, we followed the instructions of the guidebook and looked for the mini bus stop. It's much cheaper than a taxi. The mini bus only costs 150 Bhat/person while taxi cost 400 Bhat. We saw a taxi service counter. So we asked them where the mini bus stop was. They said there was no mini bus service at the airport, only taxi service. We showed them the guidebook. Then the lady answer it was near us. The mini bus brought us to the foot of the mountain. The driver said he would only stop there, asked us to go to the top ourselves. It's really a good climbing. My God, this mountain was quite a big one and the road was meandering. I think it at least 10-storey high from the reception to our room and there was no elevators. Alright, it provided me a good opportunity for exercise. It seems that we must be careful when we book the hotel. We saw the picture on the internet, there was a swimming pool and the room looked very decent. So we booked it. It's not cheap, cost S$93/night. It really has one swimming pool, but it's just slightly bigger that a fishpond. Never mind. The good thing was we definitely did not need to worry about a tsunami. Even if the whole city was swallowed by water, we would still survive.The hotel homepage stated that their hotel is very near to the sea. However, the actual distance is quite far. It at least took 15 min, even by bus, to reach the sea. The Hotel only provided very limited mini bus transport to Patong Beach. The for the rest of your transportation needs you must pay and it's not cheap. It was drizzling when we reached the beach. At the beach, we didn’t see much interesting. We then went for Thai massage. The massage here was not very expensive and we enjoyed it.
