Phuket Day 3

Woke up, had breakfast and proceeded to check out of Patong Villa Hotel. I was sick of the same breakfast for the past two mornings: omelette and bacon. We then went to check in at Deevana Patong Resort and Spa, which was further inland and pretty much inaccessible. Took us half an hour to walk there.

Upon arriving, we were greeted with a cold towel and a welcome drink. Great service! Also, the hotel was beautiful. Our room was in the Garden Wing, which was really nice with all those flowers and greenery. They had the Spa Wing where some rooms had their own jacuzzi pool, cool!

Our room

Fooling around at the garden

The swimming pool at the Spa Wing

They even had a recreation room with a pool table, a ping pong table and a soccer table. Sluggie and I eagerly had a few rounds of pool because it was free.

At the recreation room

Then we walked all the freaking way to Thai Thai restaurant at Bangla Road to have lunch, and shopping at Bangla Shopping Centre after that. It was a short walk to Patong Beach and yes, we went there for suntanning! We rented two beach chairs and a beach umbrella, and proceeded to lie there and snooze by the sea. As usual, all those sunbathing angmohs and the Thais ever eager to sell parasailing and jetskiing packages, and hair braiding and massage services. Sluggie and I had fun oogling at some topless angmohs with erm, saggy boobs. Some even wore G-strings. I mean, this is Thailand, how can they walk around like that?

Pardon my unsightly paunch

I was busy soaking up the sun while Sluggie was busy picking up little seashells for his fish tank. All was nice for a seaside nap when after a while, dark storm clouds started to gather and there was a blurry mist up at the hills. It was raining! Sluggie and I quickly fled for shelter at the shops and so did everyone. My bikini was too wet for me to put on my clothes, so I just wrapped my hotel towel and walked the streets like that. Sluggie walked around topless. I kind of felt weird walking around in a towel but it seemed okay here. I even saw female angmohs riding around on their scooters in their bikinis.

The rain was getting heavier and we escaped into a Baskin Robbins ice-cream boutique. There we shared a triple sundae with cookies n creme, strawberry cheesecake and macadamia nut ice-cream. The ice-cream was something that lifted our moods dampened by the rain, but eating ice-cream in cold weather was weird, though.

I love Baskin Robbin's ice-cream!

Our triple sundae topped with crushed nuts, chocolate sauce, rainbow sprinkles and cherry!

The weather was pretty much fucked up, and we soon got to know why. Just as we thought the rain had cleared, we left Baskin Robbins and headed for our hotel. Along the way, the rain poured again and we fled like mad. We washed up and watched some lame Thai commercials while waiting in our hotel room for the rain to stop, intending to go to Bangla Road which was many fricking miles away. Just as we thought it was clear, we ventured out only to get attacked by the rain again. We sought shelter at nearby tze char stall and conveniently had dinner there. We ordered deep fried prawns, stir fried pork and seafood guo tiao soup. We were running low on money and had to scale down our meals.

Halfway through the meal, the rain stopped and we were relieved. But as soon as we finished the meal and were on the way to Bangla Road, it came again and we were forced to turn back to our hotel. What an accursed weather. We were then forced to play pool at the recreation room for the rest of the night ...