What you get when you book with us

Every trip we book comes
with a guide like this one.

Not a PDF off the internet. Written for your dates, your hotel, your food, and the kind of trip you actually want.

Most people book a trip and then spend the first two days googling on their phone — and half of what they find is wrong.

So we do it before you go. For every booking, we write you a real guide: what to do each day, where to eat, what things cost, and what to avoid. It's written for your exact dates — because a place in August is not the same place in January.

What's inside

Six things every guide we write has in it.

👇 Tap any of these to jump straight to that part of a real guide.

We write it two ways

Tell us how you like to travel and we build the guide around that — not the other way round. Neither one is the cheap version.

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The money-smart guide

Every pound in the right place. Same research, pointed at a different question: what things actually cost, which free things are genuinely worth it, where locals eat, what to skip — and the traps that take your money without you noticing.

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The full trip guide

The best of the place, organised. Day by day, morning to evening, in an order that works — with a rain plan and one special night built into the week. This is what the Phuket couple got.

Where they take your money

These aren't tips off a list. Every one came out of researching an actual trip — and every one is a place people quietly lose cash without ever noticing.

💳 Always pay in the local currencyWhen a card machine or ATM offers to charge you in your home currency, that's 3–7% worse than your bank's rate. One tap, every time you pay. It adds up to real money over a week.
🏧 Withdraw large, withdraw rarelyIn Thailand every bank ATM charges a flat foreign-card fee per withdrawal — historically ฿220, some now ฿250–350 — on top of your own bank's charge. Four small withdrawals cost four times as much as one big one.
🛺 The tuk-tuk trapTuk-tuks in Phuket are unmetered. A ten-minute hop is ฿200–400; beach-to-beach ฿500–800. Two people defaulting to tuk-tuks burn ฿1,500–2,500 a day going nowhere. Grab is a fraction of it.
🎟️ Never buy at the gateAt Aquaria Phuket the walk-up price is roughly double the online price (~฿1,090–1,290 vs ~฿540–599). Same with the Muay Thai stadiums and the cabaret shows — the door price is the tourist price.
📄 The arrival card is freeThailand's digital arrival card costs nothing on the official government site. Search results are full of look-alikes charging $15–60 for it. We name the real URL in every guide.
🦐 Ask "per kilo or per piece?"At a pick-your-own seafood market, a lobster chalked at 1,200 is per kilo — so a 1.4 kg one is ฿1,680. Agree the price out loud, watch the scale, photograph the total. That one question is the difference between dinner and a row.
🏞️ Park fees are extra, and cashNational park entry is charged per person, in cash, and is usually not included in the tour price you paid. In Thailand that's ฿200–400 each. We tell you before you're standing at the gate.
🍜 Eat where the queue is localThe stall with the longest local queue has the freshest food and the normal price. The one with the English photo menu and an empty counter has neither.

And none of this is specific to Thailand. The same logic applies in Turkey, Georgia, Cyprus, Bosnia, Dubai — and everywhere else we book for you. The card-machine one alone will save you more than the trip guide costs, and it costs nothing.

🆓 And the free stuff — properly researched

Every destination has genuinely good free things and a pile of overpriced ones. We separate them. In the Phuket guide: the viewpoints, the Old Town walk, the temples, the beaches, the Sunday street — all free, all named, with the right time of day to go.

The best day in that whole week costs about ฿0 until dinner.

A real one — see for yourself

We wrote this for a couple on their honeymoon in Phuket, in August. Nothing in it is invented — every restaurant, every price, every warning was checked the day it was written.

We moved their boat dayWe found an official government weather warning covering their arrival — small boats told to stay ashore. Their island day was moved to the other side of the week before they ever left home.
We caught what Google got wrongThe top search result for "halal restaurants in Phuket" lists three famous pork restaurants as Muslim-owned. It's AI-generated. They didn't eat there.
We left two prices outTwo figures we couldn't confirm from an official source didn't go in. We told them to check on the day instead. A missing number costs nothing — a wrong one strands you.

📖 Read the full guide

Eight days, hour by hour. Halal food verified restaurant by restaurant. A rain plan for every day. This is exactly what our customers receive.

Open the Phuket honeymoon guide

Your guide comes with your booking 🎁

Free, written for you, before you fly. Tell us where you want to go and when — the rest is on us.

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