I love white fluffy clouds

This is an important tip to everyone who wants to get to Phi Phi island straight from the airport - Be sure to reach the airport by 1.00pm or earlier (Thai time, 1 hr earlier, so it's 2.00pm local time here)

See AirAsia got our flight delayed and we only managed to reach the airport by 1.45pm and the only way to get to Phi Phi was by the ferry which always makes its last trip at 2.30pm and no more trips after that. The airport to the pier was not exactly near either, so we had to scrambled to get a taxi ride and there were many stations there offering taxi rides at cut-throat prices. Bottom line is, if you are asked to pay more than 350baht, be sure to bargain. We knew this beforehand because, yours truly did some research on the Internet earlier. Clever girl.  

But we still got ripped off nonetheless because we had no choice as the ferry leaves at 2.30pm. Blame it all on AirAsia

We stayed here for 2 nights

After about 1+ hour of ferry ride, we reached Phi Phi and got ourselves checked into Phi Phi Hotel. There are many other hotels and lodgings available there but through thorough research done by yours truly again (ahem ), this was the best choice. See, when I go for vacation, I hate to spend a bomb on luxurious hotels where most of our time are spent outdoor anyway. However, it need not be too cheap and shabby-looking either. So middle range hotels do best for me and Phi Phi Hotel is one of those hotels. For good hotel rates and reviews in Phi Phi, please go to www.sawadee.com. Booking online is much cheaper too.

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Thai pancake. They are abundant in the island. So many stalls but this stall was our favorite. We only bought from her  See the young girl in the pic, that was the stall should you want to go look for it. It is situated towards the end of the road. The pancakes here are light and crispy and definitely addictive as there were so many flavors to try from! Here in the pic, we shared between ourselves 2 pancakes: Banana + Honey and Chocolate. Banana + Honey was the best as we discovered when we had tried other flavors the next day.

There were like 1 million () of stalls selling accessories, clothes, paintings, but mostly accessories. Then at this quaint little shop, I saw this skirt.

But as you can see, it wouldn't fit so we went searching the whole island for this gorgeous DVB denim skirt in other shops but to no avail! Ok, I am a sucker for anything which has a crown on it. Plus it was a David Victoria Beckham skirt, fake one of course but I couldn't care less because... it has a crown on both pockets 

Random shots:

•  Me
•  Little buckets of liquor, soft drinks and ice sold for a mere 170baht (about RM16+) The art of consuming these is by just dumping / emptying EVERYTHING into the bucket, stir and drink up!
• Hotel slippers which bore the word "Perfect". Perfect, indeed
• Slippers
• This man handmakes the shoes that are sold in his shop, see last pic
• Gecko on baby's shoulders. Fake or real? *heehee*
• Bikinis which I've bought. Cheap cheap cheap! I know because I've hunted around the whole island before deciding on these. Originally priced at 450baht, sold to me at 250baht (that's like RM24 each) My rationale: Bikinis sold at The Curve flea market, starts from RM49.90

Walking around the beach at Phi Phi. Loved the colorful shade tops.

Here at Amico Resto, right infront of our hotel was the Best Pineapple Malibu cocktail ever. We had to have another one that night. We're heading to Tesco soon to load up on the pineapple juice since we have a huge bottle of Malibu sitting at home

To be continued...

In the meantime, the below shots were taken on the second day as we were heading out to the sea for some snorkeling action :)