Patong Beach

As our adventure of Phuket continues, we were off to Patong for the day to explore the area and see the sights. I think we were both going there believing it was to be this amazing city, with a gorgeous beach, and a fun beach town, but we were also both wrong. 

In its defense, we did not visit Patong on the nicest day possible, but it is monsoon season over hear so you just have to take what you can get. Weather forecast aside, Patong is gross...

Patong Parasailing, involving a
little Thai man hanging onto the ropes
for the duration of your ride

The city is hectic and crowded, the beach is dirty and the water full of trash, and if we thought that the items for sale on Samui was bad, here it is worse... Nonetheless we set out to make the best of the city since we had the day here, and after grabbing some food seafront, we rented a lounge chair and enjoyed the overcast day by the ocean. 

After this, it was off to get massages and explore the sights of Patong. Fun fact about Patong, there are in fact 7 McDonald locations in the city limits, one of which we got to visit! I promise the request for McDonald's was entirely Jonathan's but I certainly didn't protest... Thai people are actually quite lucky as they have McDelivery here, call 1741 from anywhere and they are there, McDonald's in hand, lucky bunch they are!

After this we set out to explore Bangla Street which is the center of all nightlife that takes place in the town, but we probably made it about 15 minutes there... Although you expect to run into your fair share of hookers in this country, the amount on the street was a little much... that combined with men with exotic animals chasing you around to pet them and in turn pay them and finally the 'massage' girls which by no means are offering pleasant beach side massages for 400 Baht were a little much. We left the street and set off to find a recommended bar from our guide book which we were unable to do, so settled instead upon the giant mall area that had been built dead center in all the madness. Here we had some drinks, browsed the stores, ate some food, and still got to experience all that is Patong but with a little less debauchery along the way...

The ever talented room service group can make swans too...

(The views of this blog are not entirely endorsed by Jonathan David Riff, aka McDonald's)