Released: 14th September, 2008

How good is your guidebook for Phuket?

This Travelfish Guide is the most up-to-date guide to Phuket -- on or offline. With this 37-page PDF guide in hand, rest assured you'll have the most recently researched and written guide available.

Traditional guidebooks like Lonely Planet or Rough Guides take anywhere from six months to a year -- following the completion of on-the-ground research -- to get onto the bookshelves. Not only is there a long lag time, these traditional publishers work within tight word and page limits -- not us. This 37-page Travelfish Guide to Phuket comes packed with over 50,000 words of travel intelligence and includes nine maps -- 50% more than what you'll find in the latest Lonely Planet.

This Phuket PDF guide was researched on the ground in the through mid 2008 and was published in mid September 2008 -- travel guides don't get any fresher than that!

But don't listen to us, here's what Lonely Planet had to say about Travelfish in their 2008 Thailand's Beaches & Islands guidebook:

"Travelfish: The best independent travel site for backpackers coming to Thailand."

In this guide you'll be able to take advantage of over 200 detailed reviews of places to stay, restaurants, bars, sights and activities. Some of these reviews are supplemented by opinions from other Travelfish readers, so you'll get a variety of opinions -- not just our viewpoint. And need it be said, unlike some travel publishers, Travelfish researchers don't take freebies for any kind of coverage -- positive or negative -- so be comfortable in knowing there's no special interests at work.

Other features include suggestions for travelling to Phuket with kids, a surfers guide and even beach by beach suggestions for snorkelling. Of course, there's also detailed transport and bus timetable information. The PDF guide comes in two formats -- Letter for North American readers, and A4 for the rest of the world.

All this for just US$4.95 -- less than the cost of a massage -- and it's available for instant download immediately after purchase.

We're so sure of this, that we support all Travelfish Guides, including this Phuket edition, with a 7-day, money-back guarantee -- no questions asked. If you don't feel it's up to scratch, then email it back to us within seven days and we'll refund your money on a single Guide purchase*.

We've been visiting Phuket regularly since 1994 and this PDF guide is 100% original Asia travel intelligence authored by dedicated travellers who know what they're talking about -- try it out and you'll see.

Price: US$4.95