Phi Phi Day Tour with Seaview Lunch

The islands are beautiful - the English speaking guide didn’t give us a lot of information on the places we visited (he didn’t explain anything about maya bay or Viking cave) but he was friendly. The PhiPhi islands view point was not included which was a shame. I’ve done this type of trip before with a different tour operator and I have to say this one was definitely second best.

Lets take it in chronological order. 1. At Aochalong pier. The moment we got down from the bus, we went with the bus group to the instructor. She started speaking in Russian and we intereupt her to say to her that we are not speaking that language. She turned on us and told "you are not mine, you are with the international group". Lets stop here and think for a moment what means "international". We are in thailand, russian people are foreign too. First hit of racism. 2. After we searched out for our guide, we manage to find him but the first moment we realized that his english were awful. Our guide was Thai and probably his english were at beginners (tops) level. 3. We got together with a group of russian, with their own personal russian-speaking guide amd walked from parking to pier for around 10 minutes (as we found later there was a parking way closer and also there was a mini bus taking you through the pier to the boats -which we didnt use) 4. The boat trip was terrible. The boat was for 40 person approximately and we were 46. There were childern (who dont need too much space) and the rest of the tourist were also of average weight. So the squizing to sit is unacceptable. Imagine if those kids were also full grown ups! 5. The boat trip was also really painful for our backs. There were plenty of moments that we were flying over our sits due to the pumping of the speedboat on the waves. (Im not sure if that day, speedboats should go out in the open sea). We ask our guide if that is normal and he said "yes, everyday" but this is probably a lie too cause 2 days later we went again to the same sea for another trip and the sea was calm. Just another fact, next days we had terrible pain on our backs and need to take medication to tolarate the pain. 6. And here things are getting tricky cause we will need compare things. Lets compare the two guides the "russian" and the "international" guides. After the second stop we realized the angly truth, that our guide was useless. Why i m saying this? Because before each stop the "russian" guide was gibing a 10 to 15 minutes speech about the place, while our guide was tellimg us just the name of the location and the time of departure. Specifically we realized that at stop (probably at the blue lagoon), there were some hollywood information related to the location cause we were hearing some actors name from the "russian" guide but thats that. We never found out more about that place. 7. At one stop (a stop that we could go snorkeling -after the bamboo island) we noticed purple jelly fish floating around (alive). We told that to the guide who already allowed the russians to get in the water and he replied to us, mocking us "where are the jelly fish, i cant see them" 8. We went to eat at a buffet at a resort on Phi-phi Don. We got there at 13.40 (last of the boats). At 2 oclock they closed the buffet and left us without even water while the rest tourists of the other boats had already enjoy their meal without any time rush. Overall the whole tour was very touristic and by this i mean that in every island we disemparked there were already hundreds of tourist and boats spoilimg the view and leaving no space to enjoy the seaview. Howecer there was one good thing from the whole tour: Maya bay. A good place to snorkel (not the clearest waters bit a lot of fish to see). In our point of view the tour had to bypass the jellyfish place and give more time to the second snorkeling place. What is our final overview: bad boat, bad guide and bad services (except of the part of the water giving in each stop). The tour left us feeling left aside as we the "international" of 6 people among the 40 russians on the boat. We just lost time, money and health. Obviously we DONT RECOMMEND either this trip or this tour operator.

This was a great tour! The snorkeling, sightseeing, beaches, everything about it was totally worthwhile. If you are in Phuket you should definitely look into going.

Must visit and this is the best at this price as it fits every pocket covering every good island. The food they serve is also decent.

Tour organizzato alla perfezione, secondo quanto indicato nei dettagli dell'itinerario. La nostra guida Peam è stata fantastica: simpatica e attenta ad ogni richiesta. Consiglio questo tour vivamente!!