Memoir of Katathani

Katathani hotel had provided more than a comfortable accomodation to us. At here, we have experienced the total relaxation and satisfaction that worth all the money we've spent. This place has left us with many valuable memories that I will remember for a long time.

If there is anything to complain about this hotel, it's the toilet paper they put in the guestroom. The paper is very low quality type. Even though we folded it to 4-6 plies , it would still smear into many small pieces when rubbed. Anyway, this is so negligible if compare to all of the good things that the hotel had given us.

Chom Talaj Restaurant, one of the 6 restaurants in this hotel. Every morning, we took breakfast in this same restaurant.

The variety of the food is good enough for me. I especially like the very fresh and juicy local fruits they served, like pineapple, Thai pomelo, rambutan, mango, tangerine..etc They all are sold pretty expensive in HK, over here, I can eat-all-I-can. How great !!

After practicing buffet style dining for consecutive 5 days, they basically knew buffet is about eat-all-they-can now.

Saw this giant grass hopper somewhere in the hotel. Its length is about 7 inch. Just when I wanted to approach it, it flied away very fast. Boy, it can fly very high, like a bird.

There are many cocunut trees aound, so the workers would need to carry out a routine precaution measures to ensure the safety of the guests. For example, the worker will climb up the coconut tree and chop off some of the the branches / nuts to prevent it fell on somebody' head.

In front of the restaurant, there is a small lotus pond. Apparently, this is the good habitate for tadpoles. For the 1st two days, the boys just stood there and looked.

After that, they upgraded their action. Vincent started to bring his sand spade along when we went for the breakfast. At first, I didn't pay attention to his purpose. When I saw he used that to catch the tadpoles, then I know.

On the last day, they even brought this small pail along when we went for breakfast. They quickly finished up their foods, then ran straight to this pond and began their big project.

No one had ever tried to stop them from doing this. A restaurant's waiter, who supposed to do that, casually chatted with them while watching all this. Seems like he was trying to make friend with hem though...funny.

When we went to check them out after finished our breakfast, they have already caught that many tadpoles and kept them in the pail. We ordered the boys to free them. Hopefully, they would continue to grow up and survive all right after the trauma.

Besides tadpoles, they also like to collect many other things everywhere, anytime. If we didn't make them to move away, they would just stick to this kind of activity for a very long time.

Absolutely beatiful. I'm going to miss this place for a very very long time.

Just want to take more photos at this beatiful place...




The pool at the other side.


This place is really so beautiful that make us want to take more and more photos...

See how tanned they became...

Ever since the tsunami tragedy, this sign board can been seen everywhere in Phuket Island.

The other phase of Katathani Hotel, separated from the beach front by a street. The atmostphere is ok too, though need to walk around 500m to reach the beach.

The Chang Noi Kids Club is located in this phase of the hotel.

Heard that those boys had been sitting there since 8am to play the PSP game. Really addicted.

The spacious lobby is quiet and calm at night time.

When we came back from dinner one night, we sat here for a while to wait the boys to finish up their ice-cream. They really ate too much ice-cream in Phuket. Sigh.

A night market in front of the lobby. Well, hardly see anyone to check out the things there. Really not a good place to do business.

This restaurant is called Fisherman Wharf, nickname "Sunset Restaurant". How romantic to watch the sunset while chewing up the foods, only when no kids are tagging along.

He looks so grown up in this photo. Anyway, he is a pretty mature 3.5 years old boy.

This is our room, 2036.

The night view, looking out from the room's balcony.

Finally, it's time to fly back HK. The hotel people was very kind to extend our check-out time to 2.30pm. We took our lunch at this restaurant for the last time. This is the kid's meal. Basically the portion is almost the same like normal adult's meal, but the price is 50% less. How lovely.

My favourite dish, Bai-Thai (Thai fried noddle). I love to squeeze the lime juice and then mix the noddle with the bean sprout together. The natural sweet and sour taste, and the crunchy texture, really make my saliva drooling.

We left for the Phuket International Airport around 3pm. After checking in, I quickly shop for some local snacks to treat my colleagues before we get into the plane. The plane took off at scheduled time, i.e. 6pm, though we heard that typhoon was approaching HK that night. We arrived home around 12 midnight. Feel so exhausted that we all slept sound that night.

That's all for the Phuket's trip.
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Just when everyone thought the typhoon won't hit HK cause the trajectory show that it had passed HK safe zone, this typhoon suddenly made a U turn. And it moved back to HK in a very fast speed. Within 2 hours, no.8 typhoon was hoisted in a hurry. It had created such a mess that the HK government was condemned by the public again, haha...