The party Mecca of Phuket, I suggest you arrive in Patong with an open mind to fully enjoy it. It's all there in your face and it can be a bit overwhelming at first.

Patong Beach has a lot to offer, If you like shopping there are plenty of options for that. Jungceylon offers brand name stores, arcade games for the younger and an impressive water fountain show. Along the beach road you can buy copies of everything, DVDs, watches, games and most of all clothes. If you don't mind the quality go ahead and shop till you drop, you will find everything here.

The beach itself while beautiful it is very crowded during high season and the beach hawkers walk up and down all day long trying to sell things that you could find 10x cheaper elsewhere If you don't mind you will enjoy it here, the water is in that picture perfect color that you've seen in the brochure and the sand is exactly as smooth as you imagined it would be.