Patong Promenade & the Sixth Phuket

The Sixth Phuket

At the back of Patong Promenade stands an L-shaped row of 19 brightly coloured Sino-Portuguese shop-houses. This is ‘Sixth Phuket’, a 30-million baht development that houses cafés, boutiques, banks and restaurants.

It’s a vivid sight to behold – a sort of retro-futuristic version of Phuket shopping 100 years ago with an Andy Warhol makeover. Interesting and certainly worth a visit.

Patong Promenade

At the Rat-U-Thit entrance opposite Jungceylon shopping centre you’ll find several T-shirt and flip-flops outlets and you can have a tattoo done there if you’re that way inclined. Further inside the mall, the alleys take on a more spacious feel with high ceilings and a ‘cobblestone’ effect under foot.

Of the few business open, you can browse Kanjana, selling ladies’ accessories and bags, Elegant Doggies, ladies’ hats and trinkets, House of Leather (no, not a sado-masochist outlet) bags and boots, a mobile phone outlet, quite a few ice cream stalls, and when you’re done there you could either have a fish massage or sit in one of the brightly coloured cafés at the mall’s southern end. Food wise, there’s a preponderance of kebab stalls.

Patong Promenade is designed in a cross shape and is flanked to the east by Rat-U-Thit Road, to the north by Bangla Road and the western side is made up of the massive Tiger Club. Watch this space for future developments…

Patong Promenade & The Sixth Phuket