There are Central stores in Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Pattaya and Phuket, besides Bangkok.
Boats to the Surin Islands depart from Khuraburi, 115 miles north of Phuket by bus.
In the pipeline are new resorts in Phuket and Bali and 15 business hotels in India.
Much of Thailand was not hit, though half of the hotels in Phuket have been destroyed.
Wisut Tangwitthayaporn, was the owner of the Inside Phuket newspaper and editor of Phuket E-news.
PHUKET, Thailand (CNN) -- What do you do when you see a huge wave-wall coming at you?
Among this year's faves: Conde Nast readers selected the Banyan Tree Phuket as the world's best spa resort.
If you're playing Phuket's Blue Canyon--good luck on number 14--the drop is worse than any devaluation ever was.
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The cutting ceremonies take place at the six temples located around Phuket Town.
My wife is holidaying in Phuket, staying at the Kabina Beach Hotel (now destroyed) when the first wave hit.
This year speaking gigs took me from Montreal to Los Angeles to Phuket.
"PPI is trashed, " says Noah Shepherd, a British environmental tourism consultant in Phuket.
Ferries run several times a day to Ko Yao Noi from Bang Rong pier, situated at the northern end of Phuket.
East of Phuket, 86 people were killed in Phangnga, and north of the resort island, in Ranong, 23 people were killed.
After the first dive, which was unusually strong current, we heard a report that something had gone terribly wrong at Patong Beach, Phuket.
Phi Phi, smaller and less-well known than Phuket, suffered a "clean sweep" of its hotels, officials said, which will have to be rebuilt.
Thai police said the injured man, Mr. Moradi, entered Thailand through the southern resort island of Phuket and arrived at Bangkok International Airport.
He also reported on the Tsunami tragedy from Phuket where he documented heartbreaking stories of tourists from 27 nations caught in the disaster in December 2004.
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Do you really want to try to make your own tee times at courses around Phuket and then figure out how to get to them?
If you are visiting Phuket specifically for the festival, you will not want to miss the closing ceremony - the final send-off to the gods.
Officials in Bangkok said 117 people are reported dead on the resort island of Phuket, and another 60 people on the island of Phi Phi.
Try brash Pattaya or the popular beaches of Phuket for that.
The 24-year-old finished two shots behind Jyoti Randhawa to be second in the Asian Tour event with a 15-under-par 265 at Laguna Phuket Golf Club.
Friends started to call me about a massive tsunami in Phuket.
"Everyone has seen Phuket and Thailand over and over, " he explains.
Phuket's airport closed when its runways flooded, but later reopened.
An evacuation order and a tsunami alert were issued in two southern Thai provinces, Phuket and Phangnga, where some 5, 000 people were killed in the tsunami eight years ago.
In the Thai resort city of Phuket, where some of the most ferocious waves crashed ashore, teachers are keeping a close eye on children returning to school this week.
In the category for hotels of 425 rooms or fewer, the Amandari and Amankila hotels in Bali and the Amanpuri in Phuket were ranked first, second and fifth, respectively.
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