Phuket Vacations, Phuket Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

A wonderful place to visit. On Patong Beach and in Phuket City you will find many bars, hotels and places to eat. The rest of this 550 square kilometre large island remains very relaxed. Phuket is very centrally located between a number of other beautiful islands and allows for easy travel between them (Phi Phi Islands, Similan Islands, Koh Islands).

Phuket is somehow as modern as Bangkok. In addition to daylife at the beaches, it offers wonderful nightlife to tourists lasting until the morning. Since the island is big, people usually have chance to stay and visit one of its beaches. It is a place to party, but find the day trip excursions and it'll open up a whole range of options to suit all tastes.

The Ph of "Phuket" is an aspirated "P", so the name is pronounced (roughly) "Poock-get". The name Phuket is apparently derived from the word bukit in Malay which means mountain or hill, as this is what the island appears like from a distance.

Before that its old name was Ta-lang, derived from the old Malay "Telong" which means "Cape". The northern district of the province, which was the location of the old capital, still uses this name.