Upon arrival in Phi Phi it felt like an amazing place!! The water was crystal clear and it felt like we had landed in paradise. We made our way to the hostel we booked and soon realised that the hostel was a real s-t hole. So, in order to make our stay a bit nicer we upgraded to another room and got cable TVJ and a toilet seat not covered in old dried in blood…Every morning they were showing horror movies (during prime time for children). It did suit us perfect to wake up to this instead of BBC news (as back in London).
Compared to 2007, the place had developed even more to a tourist destination with more buildings and boats. The only disappointing thing with this is all the rubbish scattered all over the place and the risk of being ripped off all the time. We joined a snorkelling trip we thought was going to be amazing. The company promised it to be a total of ten people in the boat, otherwise they would use two boats. On the day we quickly realised we were instead cramped in 16 people in the boat. When we confronted the tour operator about it he was really rude and said we did not have to go if we did not want to. Stupid as we were, we went anyway. It took ages for the boat to go anywhere and we ended up not having time to go to all places that we were promised. At times it even felt like the boat was going to tip over…The “monkey beach” we were taken to, was so full of rubbish it was a bit depressing. It felt disappointing the place was not looked after more.
Disregarding this we had a lovely time in Phi Phi. The diving we did was still amazing full with beautiful corals. Because of things being quite expensive we could not afford to dive as much as we wanted. We still have many beautiful pictures from our trip. Unfortunately most of them are censored from being displayed on the blog as Graham has refused to upgrade his 80’s speedos.
During the days we went swimming in the sea at Long Beach. Graham decided for the second time to step on a sea urchin. He had about 20 spikes sticking out of his foot and we had to do first aid on the beach trying to remove them. Things are better now but Graham has still not managed to get all of them out from his foot.
Second thing that happened to Graham was when he injured his lower back falling on his bum on the rocks along the beach. My storey is that he fell after I tried to give him a caring hug. His version soon developed into me trying to throw him of the rock face.. Anyway, he survived limping all the way home.
Compared to 2007, the place had developed even more to a tourist destination with more buildings and boats. The only disappointing thing with this is all the rubbish scattered all over the place and the risk of being ripped off all the time. We joined a snorkelling trip we thought was going to be amazing. The company promised it to be a total of ten people in the boat, otherwise they would use two boats. On the day we quickly realised we were instead cramped in 16 people in the boat. When we confronted the tour operator about it he was really rude and said we did not have to go if we did not want to. Stupid as we were, we went anyway. It took ages for the boat to go anywhere and we ended up not having time to go to all places that we were promised. At times it even felt like the boat was going to tip over…The “monkey beach” we were taken to, was so full of rubbish it was a bit depressing. It felt disappointing the place was not looked after more.
Disregarding this we had a lovely time in Phi Phi. The diving we did was still amazing full with beautiful corals. Because of things being quite expensive we could not afford to dive as much as we wanted. We still have many beautiful pictures from our trip. Unfortunately most of them are censored from being displayed on the blog as Graham has refused to upgrade his 80’s speedos.
During the days we went swimming in the sea at Long Beach. Graham decided for the second time to step on a sea urchin. He had about 20 spikes sticking out of his foot and we had to do first aid on the beach trying to remove them. Things are better now but Graham has still not managed to get all of them out from his foot.
Second thing that happened to Graham was when he injured his lower back falling on his bum on the rocks along the beach. My storey is that he fell after I tried to give him a caring hug. His version soon developed into me trying to throw him of the rock face.. Anyway, he survived limping all the way home.
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