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to go with others
would you like to go
with me
would you like to go
with others
would you like to go
with me
i am officially speechless i am
so happy that i decided
to come to thailand when i
did everybody's gonna have their own
opinion about
whether anybody should be traveling
right now i am aware of that
and maybe it doesn't really make sense
for people who are
trying to do short trips but if
you are able to work from anywhere
and are able to get into a country like
thailand and stay for three or four
months
my god it is
worth it so i just arrived in my new
hotel
uh here still in phuket but i decided
to finally try out one of the resorts
i'm currently on quran beach
staying at the beyond resort i'm gonna
give you guys a room tour in just a
minute here
but this is a four-star hotel
that usually retails for like a hundred
and
fifty us dollars per
night if it wasn't coveted times or at
least that's what booking.com tells me
but right now i was able to get
this room literally right on the beach
for 50 us dollars a night
all right so when you walk into the
hotel room you have the washroom right
here
on the left super spacious
everything is really modern and
nice has a beautiful probably meant to
be
romantic shower but you know since i'm
here
by myself and have that window open i
will have to remember
to close that freaking blind because i
don't need people peeping in here
but this is the main part of
the hotel room and my god this bed
looks amazing little seating area
and the best part really is the fact
that i am
right on the beach right on the water
koran beach is right there we have the
hotel pool
we have some beautiful deck
and sun chair sort of situations going
on
the pool bar is right there then there's
a restaurant
over there and is this just not
perfection
is this not perfection
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would you like to go
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all right so this is me being a super
basic tourist but
what come on guys pad thais are good
this looks delicious one thing though
that i definitely forgot
that's happening right now in thailand
is they are having restrictions
in different um parts of the country
that have high cova cases
so there is no alcohol being served
right now
got club soda but you know what i don't
even care
because this view is just is just
something else
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um okay i'm eating my meal and
they just dropped off this
there is no way there is no way
that i'm gonna eat all this how
all right friends we are going to go on
a bit of a walk
a bit of an adventure and uh
walking down here last night when i went
and got some groceries
was shocking to say the least
because as you can see behind me
and as you'll see right as we go up to
this former bar that had dinosaurs i
guess
um it is a ghost town
to put it slightly there's literally
like no businesses there's no businesses
that are open on this whole
block i actually had some people that um
messaged me yesterday when i posted
walking through here on my instagram
stories that they were just aghast
that they had spent time in this area
and usually it is
bustling there's like so much going on
and now it's just dead
i think this is the first time that i'm
actually realizing
just how much the thai tourism industry
has been
impacted by kovid it's hard to say
what's going to happen
once travel resumes uh you know once
thailand is fully open and more people
are vaccinated
it's hard to say if these places are
just gonna you know bounce back
what that's going to look like but for
now it is just dead
it looks like starbucks even with the
bajillions of dollars
that they have couldn't afford
to keep this location open
but i guess i mean why would they when
there's really next to no people here
for those of you who haven't been to
phuket before
there is a huge amount of russian
tourists that uh come here
so you will see a whole bunch of signs
up tiaka in uh the russian
language almost every restaurant also
has
like a russian version
of their menu so if you are
a russian speaker and don't speak
english super well this is actually
a great destination for you
this place looks like it's open rhonda
ruskaya daisukai akukna russian anti
kitchen or cuisine wow
i don't know if you guys can see right
in front of me but it says
massage 50 discount 150.
that is so insanely inexpensive that's
only like
six dollars oh my god
even though it's all fun and games when
you think oh wow
you know even in my case getting a
four-star hotel
for like 70 than it usually costs
it's actually really sad because all of
these businesses
have had to discount their services so
much
to try and stay competitive to get some
kind of
you know business so not only have they
lost so much
money because the clientele just isn't
there but now they're kind of
forced to discount their services even
more
here we are coming up to kata beach
kata and koran are actually quite close
um
together and it's kind of its own
district to stay in
but i hear that this beach is really
really nice
well this is great i don't know if you
guys can see but there's some
surfboards over there and it says surf
school
and there are
some people in the water that i assume
are with the school because they're
definitely just learning and there's a
guy
that's like taking pictures of them so
it's great that
it looks like some businesses are doing
good
wow
next
uh
all right i am overheating i need to pop
into
a cafe or something with ac and i think
the only one that was
open is this guy
over here
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so i decided to get a thai iced tea
wrap i've had plenty of thai iced tea
before
but never in a trap i don't actually
know what that means
i guess let's try this and see
okay 100 in love um it's almost like a
milkshake
at least the way they've made it it's
like super creamy and cool
perfect for a super hot blazing day like
this
highly recommend
looks like billabong is still in service
and then over here i see
a quicksilver also
looks open i guess those kinds of big
brands can
overall afford to keep their shops open
here
so for supper i've decided
to go to the thai russian restaurant
foreign
oh god what is this
i think i've come to a children's
restaurant
i got like a coloring thing and some uh
some puzzles uh it's going to be a great
time guys
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like a bunch of family restaurants
oh this is so cute this is so
cute salads
zakuski thank you very much lagman
that's more of like a um kazakhstan
sort of dish as far as i know we got
more dumplings
i'm wondering where the thai food is so
far i don't really see any
oh here we go here we go spicy thai
salads
fried rice we got some soups oh my god
okay so far i recommend this restaurant
because they literally
have everything so to start off with
i got a greek salad
and a fresh watermelon juice
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well i did not anticipate
that i would be in phuket with
almost everything shut down eating
pelmenia these actually look legit let's
give it a try here
oh my god that is actually so
freaking good the broth
is legit has really good flavor but many
fantastic i do have to say that this is
definitely one of the
weirdest trips i have ever taken
obviously with everything just
being completely different than it is so
i hope you guys enjoyed today's video
let me know your thoughts in the
comments do you think that um
tourism is going to bounce back here in
phuket
later this year and as always i hope you
guys are having a fantastic day
keep being your own kind of beautiful
bye guys
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