Phuket...the return

Phuket is much busier than I remembered. I'm sure it's the same but after Phi Phi island this place seems rammed.
At least the beach is still relatively quiet, at 3 kilometres long I'm not surprised. The sand is a soft flour-like consistency and with the intense heat the water is soo soothing. But don't forget, as we kept being told when we booked the trip, that this is rainy season. So what? It's hardly rained all through Asia. Here it rains once a day, at about 8 o'clock, for about half an hour, and it feels great. If this is low season then I think I'm coming back at this time!
At night we ate like kings on our freshly picked out steamed sea bass and pondered the amazing differences of Thailand. Then realised we were half pissed due to Chang beer being 6.4% here! Blimey! The Thai people really know how to do things!
It was time to move on yet again, this time to the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. But looking back at Thailand is great. The place we researched the least but surprised the most. The one-side dishonesty to the other-side total truth. Bangkok is the sex industry capital of the world and Phuket also has enough to keep any sad old man happy. You can also watch a bit of Thai boxing, they promote fights by driving round in a truck fighting the day before!
Bangkok had great buildings but a grotty underbelly and not a great deal to recommend. Phuket is a good location to visit the islands off the east coast of which Phi Phi really was amazing. Would I go back? To Bangkok? No. Phuket? Sort of. Phi Phi Island? Tomorrow in a shot!

As a side note, it turns out that not so long ago the same airline we took to Phuket, One-2-Go, crashed there. Quite why there is a huge sponsorship deal running with Manchester United I don't know, the stewardesses even wore Man U caps! It was a low budget airline but didn't seem too bad but you never know. Whilst in Bangkok we also saw one of the biggest plane crashes in Brazilian history on the news......from the same airport we fly out from in November.