bliprogers
backpacker
Posts: 20

#1 Posted: 2/6/2008 - 22:57


Looking to do 10 days in Phuket (or Krabi or Phi-Phi!??)at end of August or maybe beginning of September and wondered if we would be ok with the weather. Looking for a chill out in nice surroundings but the possibility of having a "night out" if needed. We've done the travelling bit a few years back but now looking to chill by pool and dangle feet in clear waters.........

Any help on weather, cheap flights, good locations and accomodation would be gratefully received!!

Many Thanks

Matt

somtam2000
admin
mahout
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#2 Posted: 3/6/2008 - 07:21


Hi Matt,

August gets pretty wet in Phuket -- see our Thailand weather map to see what the weather is like each month.

attakwas
newbie
Posts: 1

#3 Posted: 24/7/2008 - 15:43


Hi,
looking for any advice on best ways to travel from Phuket to Ko Pha Ngan/Ko Tao whilst trying to maintain a balance between reliability, comfort and cost.
Many Thanks,
Dave

tezza
tuk tuk driver
Posts: 155

#4 Posted: 24/7/2008 - 18:35


MATT, August is wet season on Phuket but travel is usually okay - I've seen plenty of posts saying people had a good holiday with the usual daily mixture of one or a few showers/storms and sunshine/scattered cloud, some days with no rain.

This has been the pattern in all my wet season visits. The latest, last August, I was on Phi Phi and Phuket in what the newspapers called the wettest period for some years. In 15 days got 2 days virtually cloudless, about 2 where it rained more often than not (but these still had some sunny breaks and were not write-offs), and the rest were the normal mixture of one or a few showers, sun/scattered cloud. I had a great holiday. Check the uncredited shots on the 2 PP pages and 1 Phuket page in the link below, lots of sunshine in them. BTW, Phi Phi/Phuket and Krabi are within sight of each other, so weather patterns are similar.

The southern Gulf islands (Samui, Phangan, Tao) are usually real good in August - still well short of their normal wet season of Oct into Jan. It does rain, but sunshine usually dominates

The driest of the non-Southern Gulf islands tends to be Ko Samet near Bangkok. Most of Samet's beaches face east and are sheltered from the prevailing wet season winds which on the days when they get stronger can cause rough seas and blow a lot of flotsam and jetsom onto the beach.

The wettest are Big Ko Chang and neighbours + the Ranong area islands. Nevertheless I have seen plenty of posts from visitors to the former in the wet season saying they enjoyed themselves.

DAVE - if a flight to Surathani is too expensive, the most cost effective/comfortable is a bus there and then a ferry.
An alternative is a bus to Chumpon and a ferry to Tao - shorter ferry trip, longer bus trip.
Phuket bus station is in Phuket town abt 35km from the airport - all the buses pass abt 3km from the airport, so to save time you could get a taxi, motorcycle taxi out to the main road bus stop and wave down a bus - most have English and Thai destination script on the front.