Cruises Thailand – Lifestyle Cruising

When I landed in Singapore I went straight to my boat and fired up the laptop. I did a Google search for Phuket Yacht Charter and picked the first boat that came up.

Hey presto, there was a 70ft Catamaran which can sleep up to 16 guests, this was very similar to the boat I was currently on in Singapore however I wasn’t going to waste time and fuel sailing down to Phuket on my Cat.

This was great, I have my sister’s 40th birthday next week and she had only just been saying the other week that she did not know what to do for the celebration. This was the solution!

This looked like it was a fantastic boat for a larger group of guests that wanted absolute luxury on a cruise.

So I booked us all in as a surprise dream cruise for 3 days to the East Coast of Phuket. Im told that cruises to this part of the Island are unbelievable with the magical views of the world famous Phang Nga Bay.

Once this was done I needed to book flights, the best and cheapest I could find after looking around were Tiger Airway budget flights, which only cost around $260USD each return to Singapore so this was great, we were set!

We arrived at Phuket Airport all a little hung-over from the previous nights drinking, where the Shangani Captain, was waiting patiently with a banner. After getting everyone together, we jumped in the minibus and were all transferred to the Ao Po Marina, which is at the entrance to Phang Nga Bay.

WOW! We arrive and it is exactly as it was described! Fantastic! (A few people murmured). The limestone karsts of Phang Nga Bay were ahead of us. This really is like something out of a film, I’m not joking!

We all boarded the boat, and set sail to this Xanadu called Phang Nga Bay, in Phuket where we popped open the first of many bottles of Dom Perignon Champagne, at this point I knew my sister was going to have a 40th birthday that we would all cherish! Until her 50th that is!

This was the first time that many of the party had embarked on a yacht of this kind and many had never been on cruises before, let alone in Thailand so there was a good all round feel onboard!

After the first days cruising around these spectacular islands we Arrive at Ko Hong Phang Nga, were we anchored up for the first Night. There are fantastic surroundings here, we explored all of the sea caves and hidden lagoons by Kayak, which were supplied by the Yacht, all the guys in the party loved these adventures, but many of the ladies stayed on board and enjoyed their champagne and strawberry’s.

The next day after a late evening singing, drinking and dancing (hung-over yet again) on board the yacht, we set sail to Koh Hong Krabi. The beaches are beautiful here. So we all went for a swim and chilled out from the night before.

Now I feel like I’m on holiday! Was one comment I heard from a member of the party, as we swam in the clear waters and viewed the picturesque rock formations. We decided to Anchor up here overnight.

We all enjoyed a lovely dinner cooked buy the Cordon Bleu Chef. Now we were in Paradise!

The next morning we took a memorable scenic cruise down to Ko Naka this has a great long stretch of sandy beach, and a very characteristic little Thai Reggae, Caribbean Beach Shack bar, where one of my brothers friends had a guitar, so we all had a sing song with our feet in the sand sipping cold beer on the beach until sunset.

A lot of the blokes were being absolute kids as usual playing hermit crab racing against each other this was great fun to watch actually!

We enjoyed our last night onboard this fabulous yacht in the Phang Nga Bay which I have to say was as recommended on the Hong Kong to Singapore flight a week earlier, definitely correctly as one of the most magical places in the world! And I will definitely be returning for my 50th!