I've been a long time Air New Zealand customer and booked flights in March 2022 amongst the uncertainty over border closures and vaccination requirements. Thailand had a Covid pass system and Covid insurance requirements in place that needed to be adhered to. I hadn't contracted Covid and was anxious about how catching it or even having a cold would create all sorts of problems.
The Thai Covid pass requirements were dropped 2 weeks before we left, but by then we had all the documentation anyway, and we had stayed Covid free. The flight went to plan, we left Auckland just after midnight on 4 July, flying to Singapore for an hour, then onto Phuket on a Singapore Airlines plane. We arrived in Phuket at 9.30am on 4 July.
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| Auckland Airport was deserted |
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| The route |
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| Singapore during our 1 hour transit stop |
We were met at Phuket International Airport by a hospital taxi van driver who drove us the 30 kms to our hotel in Patong in an air conditioned van. It was very humid, pouring with rain and the cool van was fantastic.
We arrived at the Andakira Hotel in Patong, and were pleased to have a large top floor unit, where we unpacked and decided to take a walk around Patong, which was wet and a bit overwhelming but helped us get our bearings. Later that afternoon we met with Nuya, our Phuket Beautiful You Holidays contact person, who drove us around to familiarise us with the area and gave us so much information.
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| Welcome to Phuket |
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| Trip to hotel from airport |
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| Patong was wet! |
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| Meeting and lunch with Nuya, our Phuket contact |
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| The view from the hotel (on a nice day, taken when I was back there two weeks after surgery) |
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