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Diving in Phuket

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I have been diving for 5 years and never experience such a different diving structure in Phuket. Every diving centers in Phuket have their own timetable which is fixed to the same similar dive sites trip everyday. The dive sites trips in Phuket are just 3 which are Racha Yai & Racha Noi, King Cruiser & Anemone Reef/Sharks Point & Koh Doc Mai and lastly the most popular dive sites of all is the Phi-Phi Island. There are just this 3 dive trips. Unlike at any other diving places, you cannot be choosing specific dive sites you wish to go. Not sure how they cooperate with each other, every dive centers is working with a specific boat company to take the divers and non-divers to those dive spots. Most of the dive spots will include hotel transfer and meals in their diving package. The meals are inclusive of breakfast, lunch and tea time. Drinking water is refillable and they do provide sea sick pills onboard too. This package is cost roughly around 3700 baht onwards per day...

Getting to Phuket, Thailand

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Phuket is an island that never sleeps. It is still consider as an island even the government had already constructed a bridge to connect to the mainland just like our Penang Island. So now everyone can drive to Phuket from Malaysia. At Phuket has at least 32 beaches around the island but not all are clean and beautiful. Only just a handful that are astonishingly beautiful. However, any of the beaches in Phuket can easily outclass our one and only beach in Penang which is the Batu Feringghi beach.  Most people would prefer fly there since the flight ticket is so cheap and the journey just take about 30 mins to Phuket and 1 hour 30 mins back to Kuala Lumpur. Oh yes, Thai time is one hour later than us same like Indonesia. When reached the airport, there are limo taxi and metered taxi available. To be honest, not much difference between this two taxi charges especially you arrived late evening onwards. The reason is because the traffic is the worst during this hour so in the end...