Day 323: Thanksgiving in Phuket

Today, we flew from Chiang Mai to Phuket, with the eventual destination of Koh Lanta. The original plan was not to stay in Phuket. We heard that it is very touristy and not worth staying for a few nights. Unfortunately, the ferry schedule with Koh Lanta had a mismatch with our flight schedules, making it impossible to get a ferry and flight on the same day. Plus a bus would be 24 hours.

The flight was an hour back to Bangkok, 3 hour layover, and then one more hour to Phuket. When we landed, we missed the public bus by 2-3 minutes so we had to wait 1 hour for the next one. This caused us to hit traffic so an hour bus became 2 hours.

So after waking up at 5am, we completed a 12 hour travel day on Thanksgiving 🥴 sometimes travel be like that…

We both felt pretty tired went searching for food. We ended up at burger joint selling Smash Burgers, drinks, and playing Metallica. We caved and chose hamburgers, dirty martinis, beer, and Metal for our Thanksgiving meal.

We took the long way back to our hostel and found a small event that looked like a celebration of Phuket. It had several artistic pieces, food trucks, and a dance show. We ended the evening calling family and friends.

So lessons learned, you can have a really tough travel day, but even venturing out a little can lead to wonderful and memorable experiences.

Hostel: Sunny Hostel Phuket

Food:
Hamburgers

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