Casablanca Indian and Arabian Restaurant at the Royal Paradise Hotel & Spa serves up certified Halal food and it does so with panache.
Baluchi is a well-established, well-respected restaurant in Patong, known for its meticulous attention to details in recreating sub-continental cuisine.
A popular family-run restaurant, Curry Night has been established on Cape Panwa for many years and has developed quite a devoted fan-base of regular visitors.
Curry Delight Indian Restaurant is quite a modest-looking place at the southern end of Kata Beach, and its reputation for great Indian and Thai food is excellent.
Highway Curry has a very pleasant and friendly atmosphere with warm orange walls and a warm welcome from the staff.
Tantra is an odd combination of Indian restaurant and British-style pub, making it particularly ideal for those travelling from the UK who love a good curry.
Patong Carnival is an annual celebration marking the start of the high season in Phuket.
The Phuket International Boat Show (PIMEX) is one of the most interesting marine showcases in Asia.
Wat Chalong (Chalong Temple) Fair is probably the biggest of all temple fairs on the island.
Chinese New Year in Phuket is a time when the island enjoys vibrant celebrations, noisy firecrackers, and colourful processions. Excellent shopping bargains abound as Phuket's local Chinese community prepares for its most important festival.
Phuket’s Old Town Festival takes place every year in the island's historic centre. Throughout the event, all roads around the Old Town, including Thalang, Krabi, Dibuk, Phang Nga, Thepkrassatri and Phuket, are turned into walking streets.
Once you hear the roar of packs of big bikes rumbling around the hills and highways of Phuket Island, you’ll know that Phuket Bike Week is coming. This annual event is usually set in the month of April and is often organised to coincide with Songkran, Thailand’s biggest festival.
Coming to Phuket during April? Then you’re in for a big surprise if you’re here from April 13 to 15.
Kathu Festival, or the ‘Kathu Street Culture Festival’, is a more contemporary event compared to other well-known festivals on the island.
Por Tor (Hungry Ghost) Festival is an important merit-making event for the ethnic Chinese in Phuket. Special food, flowers and candles are offered to ancestors on altars. Offerings are also made to 'feed the ghosts without relatives', which locals believe to have been released from hell for the m...
The Phuket Vegetarian Festival is a colourful annual event held on the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, usually in September or October. The festival celebrates the Chinese community's belief that abstinence from meat and various stimulants will help them obtain good health and peace of m...
The King's Cup Regatta is one of Phuket's famous international yachting events. It's typically held in December for a week. of partying, sailing, good company and great fun. The sailing festival is a prominent event on the Asian yacht-racing calendar.
Super Cheap, just north of Phuket Town, is a sprawling warehouse-like market almost the size of a city block. Inside, it’s stacked high with every product you could possibly imagine and more. Retail chaos under one roof is hard to come by in the west, but here in Thailand it’s very much alive and...
Entering Expo, a bazaar-like shopping emporium in Phuket Town, is a little like going to the Phuket Weekend Market but without its extreme weather and jostling crowds. In other words, Expo has all the same goods but is a whole lot more comfortable as a shopping experience.
Limelight Avenue is a modern shopping mall on New Dibuk Road, right in the heart of Phuket Town.
Makro is an international cash-and-carry store that has just about everything you need when it comes to food.
Robinsons Department Store has a good range of satellite, brand-name shops, handicraft shops and stalls selling bargain clothing and shoes.
TESCO Lotus Extra Phuket was the first major modern shopping centre in Phuket.
Banana Walk is a shopping centre and is located just 100 metres south of Soi Bangla on Patong Beach Road, right next to Banana Disco.
OTOP Patong Market Phuket promotes locally made products sourced from subdistricts (tambon) throughout Thailand.
The Royal Paradise Night Market in Phuket has around 100 stalls selling items ranging from smartphone covers and sunhats to bedcovers, lamps, and beachwear.
Peppers Sports Bar is an English pub where sports fans can catch the latest matches while enjoying excellent pub grub and imported beers in Bangtao.
CUT Phuket is a high-quality steakhouse and lounge at Bangtao's Boat Avenue Complex.
The Siam Supper Club is a fine-dining restaurant in Bangtao, just outside Laguna Phuket.
360° Bar & Lounge is the signature nightlife venue of The Pavilions Phuket Resort, located in the northern end of Bangtao Beach.
Tatonka Phuket is a long-running Bangtao restaurant that serves inventive tapas in a friendly ambience.
Possibly one of the best-equipped gyms in Phuket, the Health Club at Royal Phuket Marina has multiple floors of first-class equipment, including an entire floor of just weight training and strength equipment.
A modern and well-equipped facility, Nai Harn Gym boasts a full selection of cardio equipment featuring mostly Stex brand machines, as well as a complete weights area and an Olympic bench area.
At 23 hectares, Thanyapura is one of the biggest sports training facility on Phuket.
Despite being apparently a hotel fitness room for Royal Phuket City Hotel, Club Asia Fitness is actually one of the top fitness clubs in Phuket, offering 1,000 sq m of Star Trac cardio machines – including Concept 2 rowers – as well as Body Solid and TechnoGym weight machines and a spacious free ...
A custom-built fitness, weight loss and conditioning centre, Unit 27 was the first official CrossFit-affiliated gym in Phuket.