Had booked in advance a small family run hotel close to the airport in Phuket
The rooms came with a free airport transfer as it is literally less than 5 minutes in the car.
Tanamas House Hotel has rooms at from about $22 / night.
We booked in at about 10.30 pm local time making the whole travel time about 21 hrs
Rooms were large and the bathroom similar. We had what appeared two newer rooms but were across the lane way
from the original Thai style rooms.
Our only fault was that the beds were too hard.
The kids woke up earlier than expected and complained that they were hungry. We had not booked breakfast with
the rooms as we thought that the walk of about a km to the beach would be enough to get up an appetite.
We had arranged to checkout at about 9 am ish and they would look after our bags until our return at about 2 pm
for the taxi transfer to Kata Beach at the southern end of the island.
It is hot here about 31'c but the humidity is high and looks and feels like jungle.
Phuket is far more green and lush than I previously remember from 16 years ago.
which is at the start or the national parkA short walk with the kids whinging its too hot and I am hungry doesn't help.
Everything seems to be pretty quite for about 9 in the morning.
We reach the juction where the road hits the sea front and the National park starts 1 way and the main part of the beach the other. I had checked out on street view earlier so I new there would be some places to eat.
Everything appeared to be closed from the night before some of the beach restaurants were starting to clean up
but most were seafood or Pizza.
Nothing was open so we back tracked to the junction where we found a little cafe called Bread and Butter had open
up and was the only chance for breakfast apart from the small 7 11 type store we had passed.
We each had scrambled egg on toast with bacon and some juice of various flavours.
And two teas to go.
A short stroll across to the beach forshore I spied some local wild life teathered to a tree.
Without telling the kids we approached the large Water Buffalo.
He was bit smelly and the kids did not want to give him a pat.
The kids were more impatient to get to the beach and have a swim.
Part of Nai yang beach is a bit rough for young kids but the southern part improves the further along one goes.
There is a swim between the flags section available but the Life Guard was having an easy day as I think anybody
that was swimming at this time was not between the flags.
Nai Yang beach is a pleasantly quiet beach only about 6-700 meteres long no sellers hasseling you.
in the distance.
The sea is warm around 24'c and pleasure to get in.
My self and the boys were in the sea and Nicola and Emily were on the beach Nicola trying to get some sleep we had
a bout 3 hrs to kill
Next I observed Emily and Nicola trying to shooo a young water buffalo that had wandered on to the beach and was sniffing the bags.
The buffalo was quite relaxed about patting it a first but then became quite frisk and started buck and
jump around abit.
another family with young kids that had arrived on the beach about 50 metres away started to look a little
nervous as the Buffalo wandered across
to investigate.
The boys had taken to the sea and then a local appeared and encouraged it back to where it had come from.
Plenty more swimming in the sea and chasing the shade up the beach was all that was left to do.
Until one of the boys picked up a coconut then I had to start and peal it. This took about 20 minutes until
finally we were able to crack the coconut against a tree. I took a bite of the coconut and managed to
chip/crack my bottom front tooth. Oh well not to worry I had booked a dentist for a few days time.
Harry was obviously tired and wanted to go home so we packed up and strolled past the market that was setting up
had an ice cream and wandered back to the hotel for our taxi.
The taxi was the a family car that took us to Kata this took about an hour in time for our 3pm check in a Club Med Phuket.
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