Phi Phi Islands are located in the Andaman Sea and consist of two islands, Phi Phi Don and Phi Phu Leu. Inhabit only the first.
The climate in this region of the province of Krabi depends on seasonal changes in air flow over the sea. Conditionally, the year on the islands can be divided into three seasons:
- Winter (from the end of November to the beginning of March). The most "cold" and comfortable for resting period. Nature, the sea at this time is the most beautiful. At this time, there are the highest prices for hotels, and book a room is 4-5 months before rest. The number of hotels on the island is very limited, especially if we are talking about hotels offering the best price-quality ratio. During this period, the cost of a good double room for two for 7 nights varies from $ 300 to $ 800. There is cheaper, but the location of the bungalow and the state of the numbers leaves much to be desired.
- Summer (March - beginning of June). The hottest months. The air temperature reaches +35 degrees and above may be very stuffy. Despite the deterioration of weather conditions, the prices for hotels decrease slightly, by 10-15%.
- The monsoon season (June - November). An incredibly hot and wet season. It was at that time in the Andaman Sea and on the west coast of Indochina falls the largest amount of moisture, a tropical shower with squall winds often go. An incredibly beautiful and crystal clear sea around the islands at this time is often a storm, the water is muddy, and the clouds walk most of the time. Here, in the monsoon season, the resort of Phi Phei is empty, and accommodation prices are reduced by 40% and more. However, taking into account the fact that the weather during this period will not please the sun and the calm, it is worth thinking carefully before going to the islands in Musson. It should also be noted that the entertainment infrastructure for Phi-Pihi is mainly concentrated on the sea, on trips to the neighboring Islands, diving and beach holidays. On the island there are no entertainment centers, shopping centers, discos. When the weather is bad, tourists have leisure to Phi Phi may seem quite boring enough, because even long-tailed boats do not go into the exciting sea, and what is already talking about the fabulous diving in these places in the high season. In the monsoon season it will not be possible to see.
The cost of food on the island is small, from $ 5 to $ 20 per person, of course, if not to order lunchors for lunch (about $ 50 per 500 grams of the live weight of crustacean).
Prices for excursions directly depend on the activity of tourists and from their desire to rent a boat individually or a lot of people at the same time. So, 4 hours of rent a boat for an individual walk to the neighboring Islands in 2014 cost $ 50-70. You can bargain.
An unforeseen expenses include tourist fees on each of the uninhabited islands, which belong to the National Reserve: about $ 7 per person. This amount is not included in the one that they paid the boat. Charges at the moment when the tourist stepped down the foot on the shore and does not depend on how long the tourist is going to on the island, 5 minutes or all day.
You can save on Phi-Pi-phi not only at the hotel, but also on food: restaurants in the village are cheaper by 20-40% than on Long Beach or on Laem Tong Beach.
