The Beautiful Metropole

Phuket

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December 24th 2006
We arrived after a very short flight from Ko Samui in Phuket airport. We had decided we were going to treat ourselves to a posh hotel for Christmas. We arranged at the airport to stay at the "Metropole Hotel" in Phuket town and got a taxi directly there. The hotel was a million miles away from anywhere we have stayed in for the past 5 months and a nice treat. After some dinner we had an early nigh ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more