Red Planet Patong 3 * (Thailand, Phuket): hotel description, service, reviews

Many tourists in our time have repeatedly visited both Turkey and Egypt, and would like to determine for themselves a promising inexpensive tour that would fill the content of their next vacation. The proposed recreation option is suitable for people creative and active, who are accustomed to independently and in advance make up their plan for active recreation and shopping. Not bad itself has recommended a compact, well located and providing good basic services of resort rest Hotel Red Planet Patong 3 *. The testimonies of people who have rested in it testify to their confidence in the correctness of such a choice.

Good economy

So, quite remote and in own way exotic country of rest - Thailand, a place of rest - island Phuket, resort city of Patong. And a budget that does not exceed the economy-rest in Turkey or Egypt. The task is not easy. However, the former guests of the hotel in question consider their choice of hotel as successful. The price of the tour is 172 709 rubles. With two adults for seven nights. Currently (under the action) it can be purchased under the same conditions for 158,355 rubles.

It is important that, along with the economy of the purchased tour, the transaction was not overshadowed by two standard and very common variants of the tourist business's wickedness towards tourists. The hotel of the second line of Red Planet Patong 3 * in this respect is clean and honest. Firstly, it looks on the sites of tour operators in exactly the same way as we can see in the presented illustrations. Secondly, its location - on the second line near the northern (most comfortable part) of Patong beach - also corresponds to reality. Seven minutes of walking - and you get to a huge beach, enjoy the smallest velvet white sand and gentle sea.

To whom this tour does not fit

What is the generalized portrait of a tourist staying in this hotel? He prefers a bright, dynamic beach and excursion vacation without children to passive "getting wet with beer" in the area near the hotel pool.

Indeed, the hotel Red Planet Patong 3 * initially is deprived of this temptation: it does not have passive recreation areas - open pools, neither adults nor children. There is also no buffet. The tourist completely plans his own rest, having only basic accommodation and breakfast in the hotel. It should be noted that visionary hotel managers have reduced the price of the tour in proportion to the absence of so-called surplus services. This is the correct marketing move! Savings when buying a tour money can be invested, for example, in excursions, visits to restaurants, diving lessons.

The supposed typical hotel guest flew to Tai with a couple, but without children, and found in it a place of accommodation with good basic spa services (bed and breakfast). He devotes his day to beach rest and excursions, and evenings to restaurants and discos. The lack of a mini-club and children's playground, special children's animators narrows the contingent of potential clients, reducing the interest in this hotel complex of families with young children.

About the hotel

The firm facade of a six-storey, modern white building with a bright red modern installation is remembered. It looks modern and well-groomed inside. Lifts are always in good working order and work noiselessly. The hotel complex by the efforts of the staff is constantly clean and cleaned, well-groomed and provides decent budget rest.

According to the generally accepted "star" classification of hotels in the world, the average (economy) class hotel is Red Planet Patong 3 *. Its services are typical for "three stars": several types of rooms, their cleaning and changing of towels are made daily, and change of bed linen - twice a week. Each room has a separate bathroom. The room is provided with home appliances (air conditioning, TV, mini-bar, safe). Drinking bottled water is delivered daily free of charge. The hotel has a laundry, parking, hairdresser. Opposite the hotel building - currency exchange. On request, guests can use the iron and ironing board.

In the rather spacious lobby of the hotel there is a reception that is open around the clock. The receptionists at the reception and the administrators are always ready to help in everyday matters and advise on the specifics of the holiday, they are English-speaking. So if your vocabulary of the British language is not rich, then communication will be reduced to a sequential review of Google-translator records on the tablet.

Red Planet Patong 3 *: the location of the hotel

The chosen hotel is built in a noisy holiday village, and rest is best suited for young people. Right opposite - a popular sports bar, which created a really pleasant and comfortable environment for watching companies match-ups and fights.

From the three-star Red Planet hotel, it's only fifteen minutes walk to the heart of the resort - Patong Beach, the profitable clothing and souvenir store Ocean Plaza, the best in Phuket store of women's underwear and Robinson's children's clothing and to the famous street of restaurants, massage parlors and red lanterns Bangla Road. It is also close to the local hypermarket Makro (it is similar to the famous "Metro"), where you can buy food at low prices. However, we will talk about shopping in the resort of Patong separately.

About the climate of Patong

Some emotional tourists tend to panic and delay the purchase of the tour, barely hearing the popular phrase "rainy season" in the context of "the weather in Phuket in September." Experienced tourist only grins, knowing well that the duration of the average rain in the Land of Smiles is only an hour and a half. And most often this rain passes at night. Rather, it is not rain, but a real warm tropical rain, lasting a couple of hours, and immediately after it, the sun will brighten and quite tropical.

The weather in Phuket in September is not at all similar to the velvety season of temperate latitudes. Solar radiation forces holiday-makers who are afraid to "burn", ignore beach holidays from 12-00 to 15-00, and in the rest of the time be under the shadow of a protective umbrella or tree.

It is recommended that tourists arriving in Patong, here, purchase a sunblock. After all, local products have the required level of SFF: from 50 to 70. For all that, staying all day outdoors, this cream should be used 3-4 times.

In addition, it is advisable to buy here the local moisturizing gel Aloe Vera, which is desirable to use as a night cream. The same gel in case you still burn, it will give you a tangible relief if it is rubbed by experienced Thai massage therapists.

Description of hotel rooms. Functionality and compactness

In compact but light, well-renovated and ergonomic rooms the guests of the small hotel Red Planet Patong 3 * live. The number of rooms in it is 144. The style of the interior design is minimalism. Accordingly, its classical canons, the walls - white, and the floor is lined with a laminate, imitating light wood. The amount of furniture specially chosen by the designers of the hotel has been minimized, and household appliances are located in such a way that they do not "steal" space. All these simple tricks visually increase the compact rooms of guests Red Planet Patong 3 *. Double rooms of it (others are not here) are divided into double rooms (rooms with two separate beds) and twin rooms (with a large double bed).

There is one double bed or two twin beds. Due to the compactness of the room, the beds occupy most of it. For the convenience of using PC beds are equipped with small bedside tables. Between them there is a nightstand, under which there is a mini-bar. On the wall - a mirror in the growth of a man. The room in Red Planet Patong 3 * is equipped with good air-conditioning, plasma TV, safe and ceiling fan. Instead of a cabinet the guests are served by a simple crossbar with shoulders.

A clear bonus for hotel guests is the presence in the bathroom of a good, non-expensive, functional shower cubicle.

Cleaning is daily and thorough, the guests always respond about the cleanliness in their rooms and public areas of the hotel. By the way, Wi-Fi in the hotel Red Planet Patong 3 * - very naduren.

Features of the organization of food

Gastronomic theme - not the most topical in the resort of Patong. It is not for nothing called a gastronomic paradise. After all, in the center of the resort, where people of different nations and religions rest, different cuisines do not compete, but complement each other. European cuisine is complemented by Thai, Turkish - Mediterranean.

Tourists often purchase a tour with limited meals - breakfasts. This is understandable: just enough sleep, the hotel guest wants to freeze the worm, then to go to the beach or on an excursion. It is breakfast included in the cost of the tour for the guests of Red Planet Patong 3 *. The hotel restaurant prepares them in two versions: American (scrambled eggs, ham, sausages, toast) and Thai (chicken, pork, rice or noodles). The hotel restaurant for breakfast also serves its customers with tea, coffee, pastries, fruit, juices, phantom, cola, sprite.

Dining and dining in the nearby makashnitsah (cafe), where they can order dishes from fish and seafood: red perch, tuna, tiger and king prawns, lobsters, lobsters, scallops, squids, oysters.

Beach holidays

Thai hotel complexes most often do not have their own beaches. Their guests use the services of the city beaches. Most guests of the hotel we are considering are resting on the beach of Patong, located 5 minutes walk. The favorable location of the Red Planet Patong Hotel 3 * (Phuket) allows its clients to use the services of another beach - Kata Beach.
What distinguishes Thai beaches? Their visiting card is fine white sand and turquoise sea. "And the deserted shore, as on the advertising" Bounty! "" - adds the reader. Also it will be right, but partly. It is naive to expect deserted people on the city beach.

However, the most persistent and inquisitive tourists still plunge into Thailand in the beach world of Bounty, buying a sea excursion to the island of Coral, located 10 kilometers from the coast.

Excursions

Hotel Red Planet Patong 3 * cooperates with tour operators not only in the implementation of tours, but also selling excursions. One of them will introduce the hotel guests to the unique large fresh lake Cheo Lan, surrounded by jungle. Near it there are mountains of karst origin, inside of which natural karst caves have been adapted to tourists' attractiveness.

The most popular among the excursions to the islands in Thailand is the sea trip to the islands of Phi Phi (the latter became extremely popular after the shooting of the movie "Beach" where DiCaprio played the main role, and the coral Similan Islands (there are 9 in all) will indeed show in kind Excursionists "the world of Bounty."

Tourists in their reviews also mention an excursion to the temple complex of Wat Yan. Impressive are the statues of gods they saw, wax figures of Buddhist monks, saints and gods of Buddhist and Taoist pantheons.

Shopping in the resort

Guests of the resort of Patong have all the opportunities for an exciting shopping, especially since most of the shopping centers are located within walking distance for hotel guests. All of Patong is buried in shops that sell artisan goods of poor quality.

A more civilized trading network stores. Perhaps the most popular is the huge hypermarket Jung Ceylon Shopping Center, consisting of two four-story buildings. Just behind him is the fruit market, where for a ridiculous price exotic fruits are bought. However, attention! Rules Red Planet Hotel Patong 3 * delicious, but durnopahnuschy durian in the hotel is forbidden to carry!

The Ocean Plaza Shopping Mall is located at the intersection of the red-light street of Bang la Road and the 2nd line. Here you can buy leather products, while bargaining, really reduce the price by 10 - 30%. However, for most tourists, an attempt to buy good branded things in Patong ended in disappointment, they realized that shopping is more effective in the country.

Entertainment of Patong

What are the guests of the hotel Red Planet Patong 3 * entertainment during the tour? Obviously, they are different. Gourmets will take a shower for seafood dishes and taste exotic fruits. Fans of an active lifestyle will experience the healing power of Thai massage and join the water sports, riding a wave or mastering the details of swimming in the aqualung. And in the evening, visiting discos and bars with a small company of the same tourists living in the hotel Red Planet Patong 3 *, will experience a drive.

Lovers of parties and "strawberries" will not be disappointed by the specific street Bang la Road. They are here, where the atmosphere of selling love is hanging, a lot gathers every year. Patong is not in vain considered the Asian center for sex tourism.

Diving, Thai massage

The results of studying the reviews of the guests of the Red Planet Patong Hotel 3 * allow you to recommend the individual facilities of the resort infrastructure of the resort of Patong.

As an option, the procedures of massage parlors located on the lower level of the Jung Ceylon Shopping Center and in the area of the Poppa Palace hotel deserve high praise. However, after all, the best massage at the resort is offered by the five-storeyed specialized showroom of Let's Relax. The highest rating deserves a variant of massage Thai Herbal Massage.

For diving lessons, the south-western beaches are more suitable for water purity: Kata, Karon, Kata Noi. Here there is a Russian diving center, preparing adherents for the international certificate of CMAS or PADI diver, NDL.

Instead of concluding

No wonder the economy-hotel Red Planet Patong 3 * is considered optimal by the criterion of "price / quality" by the hotel complex of Patong. After all, despite the attractive price of an economy tour, its spa services are kind, and the staff works in good faith and with dedication. Of course, the assortment of services for a three-star hotel is smaller than that of a similar establishment with four and five "stars."

But, it should be noted, to the credit of managers of the hotel complex Red Planet, if this hotel and provides a service, it is necessarily of high quality. In particular, not even all five-star hotels have a good free Wi-Fi in the whole territory, as is the case with the hotel complex we are considering. And far from all of them the bathroom of the client room is equipped with an ergonomic shower, as implemented in the Red Planet Hotel Patong 3 *. As they say, like a trifle, but nice.