Taxi service
Those who planned a visit to several places throughout the day will be more profitable to order a car for the whole day. Eight hours of pokatushek at a taxi will cost approximately eight hundred baht. Drivers who do not have licenses for the provision of taxi services will travel you along the road on the road (they have an agreement with merchants, and they receive commissions or gasoline vouchers for each such stop). To avoid these unwanted "excursions", in advance convincingly ask the driver to follow exactly where you need to get. Taxi service cost - from fifty baht and higher, depending on the length of the route and travel time. The car can be called from the hotel, but with a definite surcharge for the pre-order service. The island rides unlicensed cars, especially in places of large concentration of tourists (for example, Patong Beach). When traveling on this transport about the price, you must negotiate in advance.
Taxi motorcycles
Such transport on Phuket has everywhere. The cost of the service is from ten Bat, but for the minimum price will have to bargain. Motorcyclists operating officially dress green or red vests with white numbers on the back. Use taxi-motorcycles is unsafe, however, if you need to quickly reach, and the distance is small - then this is the most convenient type of transport.
Buses of Tuk Tuki
Tuk-Tuki buses are on the whole island, but for the most part they work in Potong. Local Tuk-Tuk is such a small red van with open doors with sides and rear. At once, a maximum of five people fit into it. This transport is a four-wheeled, unlike the one that dulls on Bangkok. You need to negotiate about the cost of travel in advance, while again it is worth bargaining. The tariff is about two hundred baht ten kilometers. For example, the fare on the route of Kata - the Southern Surrian territory Karon should not exceed two hundredth of the BAT. In the case of active movement on the island, rent a Tuk-Tuk for a whole day. Price per hour will be two hundred baht. So it will be much more profitable than to enjoy different Tuk-Tuki.
Buses
There are regular buses - modern, air-conditioned, but they only go to Phuket, and there are no other territory the island. Travel on this public transport is about ten baht. They stop at special stops, but also at the request of passengers. To exit, press the driver button to the driver.
There are two main routes of such buses: on the first of them, transport comes from the shop Big C, Archeev College, Bangkok Road and Phuket Road; According to the second - between the medical center and the University of Rajabhat Lamchanin, past the super deposit department store, a provincial prison, bus station and the central market.
Passenger Bus (Songthaevs)
There is such a way of movement of cheap, this is one of the most affordable types of transport. It is a blue buses that carry passengers from the city to the beaches. Usually, on such a bus, a route is written (in English). There are no stops on Songthaevs, the bus you need to "catch" on the track. Near the output from the cabin there is a stop signal button.
Mostly buses Songthaevs stop in such places: near the tourist police, at the end of the Bengali route, in the south of Patong Beach, near the Hotel Patong Merlin. The main routes for which these buses travel are: Patong, Banks, Kamala, Kata, Karon, Makham Bay, Nai Harn, Nai Young, Rawai, Surin and Thalang. Interval of movement - half an hour. Drive will cost you fifteen baht. Bus Songthaevs drive from six o'clock in the morning to six evenings, without days off.
Get from the International Airport
The bus, which can be reached from the international airport to the central part of the city, departs every half an hour. How much will have to pay for the passage, it is difficult to say - it depends on the end item. The price will be 6-52 baht.
Rent a car on Phuket
At the international airport you can also rent a car, but in a much larger price than in any other rental point located on the island.
Cheaper than just rent a small suzuki jeep. Rental within a day will be worth eight hundred baht. If you drive not fastened safety belts, you can stop and finf. On the main roads of the island, there are police gearboxes, so that the local and oblasts are better not to joke and behave on the road as expected.
Car rental conditions on Phuket
The cost of car rental varies depending on the rental period - whether you take a car for a day, for seven days or for a month. The longer the period for which you take the car, the less costs for rent. Carrying a car can rent a citizen older than twenty years old who has international driver's license.
The cost of such a service includes car rental with air conditioning and insurance throughout the country. The car is issued with a fastened tank; When you return the car into the office, the cost of fuel will be deducted.
Motorcycle
When traveling on a motorcycle, you must wear a helmet. In the opposite case, you faces a fine of the local police. You can find the rental of bikes in the most tourist corners of the beach. The cost of rental starts from one and a half hundred BAT for Honda or Suzuki. Also do not forget about insurance, which is valid throughout the country - you must have it with you. Motorcycle on Phuket is the most unreliable way of movement, so that having insurance here is simply vital.
While driving on the highway on a motorcycle, hold the left strip and follow the overtaking of cars. In the event of an accident on a motorcycle, you will definitely be recognized as the culprit of the road accident.