Octie Appetie: Club Med Phuket - Part 1 Arrival Day

Previously:

Kanom Jeen Liew, Phuket

When I first heard about Club Med, I was not sold on this. My husband who used to be part of Club Med family finally convinced me to go to Club Med. The first place we visited was Club Med Bali. It completely blew my mind away and now I become a Club Meder (is there such a word? 😉). After that, I have been to Club Med Maldives and this time since we were coming back to Thailand, we included Club Med Phuket as part of our itinerary. We stayed there for four days three nights. So, keep reading and Octie Appetie all ...

For those who never been to Club Med, the first thought that comes to people mind would be why the price is so expensive for not even a five-star resort. I totally understand. Yes, because that was me before. But ... But with the perks they offer, they are incomparable. Let me go through one by one. This place is all inclusive. Yeah, you heard it right. The price you pay is covering all meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner and all snacks. Not only that, all day drinks, this includes non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks are included. Basically, once you get in, you can to NOT spend a single more cents for any meals and activities while in the resort. Still not convincing enough, next reason of staying here is there are plenty free activities to do inside the resort, but it depends on the resort. For somewhere hot and tropical like here in Phuket, they normally have tennis, flying trapeze, archery, wall climbing, ping pong and more. Everyday GO will arrange some fun events for adult or kids or even for families, for example foam party, giant bubble making, glow face painting and so on. Of course, there are other paid activities or excursions like snorkelling or scuba diving available too.

You can also freely participate in sport competitions with small prize given for the winner. The easiest way to keep track of all activities and competitions is to download their apps. All information is there. If these perks still couldn't buy you, feel free to scroll through pictures from my posts about Club Med and maybe, just maybe it will make you turn into a Club Meder 😁.

One more thing, Club Med Phuket itself is situated in a strategic location, just a few minutes away from convenient stores, near a night market and by the pristine and beautiful Kata beach. It isn't a private beach access but I would say more like semi-private because in the beach, I found, there are mainly club med guests and just a few guests from nearby hotels.

Oh and yes... they have this kids club as well. I will go into more details on my later post. So, parents with kids WATCH OUT!!! You may book this place right after finish reading.

They have a very high security. No outsider is allowed to pass this main gate. Even to go in and out the resort, you will need to sign-in/out providing your room number and time in and out.

Welcome drink with nice cold towels

Once arrived, one of the GOs will come and greet us. They then briefly explained how Club Med works and other general information needed to be around the resort before handling us the key and taking us to our very own room. By the way, Club Med charge customer per person per night. So, even my youngest is only four years old, we need to pay child price but then she will get her own bed too. Thus, for the four of us, normally in any hotels, we will only book for one room with an extra bed. But in Club Med, it is automatically that we get two rooms.

This bracelet tag will stay with us until the day we check out. Not only showing that we are the guest in this hotel but also function as a room key card. Very convenient, you definitely won't lose or forget your key no more.

First room

With the room, it is pretty efficient, they have all the basics that we need. It is quite spacious and clean as well.

Second room

All day bar - where you get your refreshing drinks and free popcorns

Drinks menu and yes, they are all free. There are a few premium items that cost extra but to be honest, I don't even need them because they have pretty wide ranges of drinks from juices to liquors that far good enough. Sometime, if you run out of idea of what to get, just let them make a surprise drink for you.

This is a surprise drink recipe. Her name is Gift and she named it 'Gift for you' drink

When morning tea or afternoon tea time arrived, they will set up tables near the bar filled with choices of snacks that changing every time. Sometimes they do hot waffles, some other time they have different cakes and sandwiches.

They have two restaurants here in Club Med Phuket. The main one is called Mamuang where all meals from breakfast to dinner are served. So, buffet breakfast is from 7 in the morning until 9:45. If in case you slept in and arrive the restaurant after the service is done, you still can order from ala carte menu available until 11am. Then lunch will start at 12pm until 2pm. Again, there is ala carte you can order for late lunch. Follow by dinner that start at 6:30pm until 9 at night. Then another 2 hours that they cater for an ala carte dinner.

Another restaurant is catered for a fine dining style dinner (No extra cost - but advance booking is needed).

Everyday, in here they run a different theme for the dress code and the night show. Tonight, dress code was something flowery and the show was about Diva.

In the main buffet room, there are separated into cuisine sections. They have Thai, Chinese, Italian, Indian and of course the bakery, vegetarian and dessert sections. You can find signature dishes of the meal which they show near the front door. The food is always rotating and you won't find the same dishes for the next few days.

Unlimited sweet mangoes - nothing can get better than this

It was my husband birthday when we arrived, so they organised this cake voucher that we can claim at the dinner time. They brought a nice colorful sponge cake with buttercream while were singing happy birthday song as well.