Phuket Fast Facts

Opening hours - 8.30am and 3.30pm (Monday to Friday) except public and bank holidays. Most major banks have ATM machines which accept major cards within the Cirrus/Maestro system. Read More...

Most hotels can provide telephone and fax services. You can also make your calls from one of the many business centres that offer this service. Read More...

Eight degrees north of the Equator, and well below the latitudes of destructive tropical storms, Phuket's balmy tropical climate is tempered by cool northeasterly breezes from November to March. Read More...

Phuket has a long history of playing host to foreigners. Phuket Town was founded in the first century by colonists from India. Ptolemy in the third century referred to it as ‘Jang Si Lang'.  Read More...

About 75 percent of the inhabitants of Thailand are Thai. The largest minority group consists of the Chinese, who make up about 14% of the total population, and most are Thai nationals. Read More...

As Phuket has become more cosmopolitan, education on the island has kept apace. Below is a list of Phuket preschools, schools, and universities with English-language curriculums. Read More...

The waters around Phuket contain some excellent underwater scenery and fringing coral reefs with the result that diving has become a major Phuket-based recreational industry. Read More...

Most of Thailand lies within the Indochinese Peninsula. The country's extreme dimensions are about 1770km from north to south and about 800km from east to west. Read More...

Tourism continues to grow rapidly with more than three million visitors every year. In recent years, tourism revenues have resulted in better roads, better hospitals and public utilities. Read More...

Phuket houses the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project. Set by Bang Pae waterfall, visitors are welcome to observe (from a distance) the process. Elephants come to Phuket to work in the tourist industry. Read More...