Phuket Trip - Day 1: Sugar Palm Grand Hillside Hotel

Done with the tour and travel money matters, we continue our trip to our hotel. The hotel was 5 minutes away from the Tour Manager office. We continue using our funkier van. Yes, we switched van as mentioned in the post entry before this. Our driver until the end of the day will be Jaruad. The van was modified and Jaruad usually played the music loudly :D. 

Our funky second car =D

Arrived at the hotel, I went to the front desk to proceed with the check-in. People checked in are 6 people although actually there were 7 of us. Agoda was really helpful, aside the cheap price we got for this hotel, the check in procedure was simple. We only need to copy our passport according to the hotel room. Since our belonging were not that big, we decided to take our belonging by ourself. The hotel room was at the top of the hotel. I really forgot to mention that we prefer a nearer room since according to Heru, the hike to the top was quite energy wasting. Along with the bell boy, we went up to our room. At the first elevator, we were amazed by the buttonless elevator. There were no button at the elevator, it was using the touch sensor. 

Buttonless Elevator ^^

We were going to the 4th floor with this elevator. Then we go to the next elevator located in the middle of the hotel. In this second elevator, we go to the 6th floor (which actually 9th floor if you sum up with the first elevator). We thought it was not really bad, they have elevator and we don't really have to do the hike. But we were wrong!!!! went out from the second elevator, we have to hike another 2 floor till we reached the building where our room are located. On that building, we went by the stair to the second floor. And we are there.....


What a long journey, just inside the hotel. The girls took the nearest room to the stair, next to their room was mine and Alvin's room. Pdik and Juan's room were the 4th room (the 3rd room was occupied). At the hotel, we prepare ourself for the beach, as planned. However, the preparation was not that fast. By the time we were ready, the sky was already a bit dark. We decided to explore the hotel pool area before went down to our van. On our way down, unfortunately, we forgot our way!!!! yes, we have a couple of wrong turns before we reached the second elevator. When we get down from the elevator, again, we were shocked since the way that we were passing on the way up was not this way. After several minutes, we look at the room number and realized that we went down at the wrong floor @_@" 

Our way down took us around 15 minutes. By the time we arrived at the hotel's lobby, its already dark and we have to cancel our beach schedule today T.T This hotel was really confusing at first. The topic we were talking about on the way down, aside from which was the correct way, was how could we manage to go back to the hotel if we are not sober ?_?


Soon, I am going to upload our video. We have several video showing the way back from our hotel room to the lobby. The video shown are original, unedited.....enjoy!!!!

The Hotel Room

Way Back to the Hotel's Lobby 1

Way Back to the Hotel's Lobby 2

Way Back to the Hotel's Lobby 3