A quick Phuket getaway with friends (2019)

In August 2019, we had a quick getaway to Phuket with a friend’s family. Our friends had an offer that involved attending a seminar and came with a dual-key hotel room, and we joined them for the trip.

We flew from Singapore to Phuket on Thai AirAsia on 8 August, and stayed at Marriott’s Phuket Beach Club. My photographs from the trip start the next morning, in the resort garden.

A resort garden with a bed of red-flowered plants, a curving path, boulders and palm trees, a two-storey building with dark red roofs and wooden balconies at the right, and the sea visible beyond a lawn. — The resort garden, 9 August.

An empty sandy beach with rough waves breaking along the shore under a grey sky, with wind-blown shrubs at the right. — The resort garden, 9 August.

The sky is overcast in most of my photographs.

We spent a lot of our time at the hotel’s swimming pool and enjoying its facilities. For a short getaway like this one, that was an important part of the trip.

An adult and a young child lying together in a black and white rope hammock on a wooden stand, on a lawn among palm trees and boulders. — A hammock in the resort garden.

Children playing with beach balls in a shallow pool under a shade sail, with a larger pool, umbrellas and dark-roofed pavilions beyond. — A hammock in the resort garden.

An evening by the bridges

On 10 August, we spent the late afternoon and evening at a restaurant by the water near the Sarasin Bridge, at the north end of Phuket, where the island is joined to the mainland.

The entrance to a restaurant under tall wind-blown trees, with covered walkways, potted plants, a sign in Thai at the left and the sea glimpsed beyond. — The restaurant by the water, 10 August.

A coconut palm with a lamp on its trunk leaning over a beach, with choppy water, wooded shores and a cloudy evening sky. — The restaurant by the water, 10 August.

Two young children on the sand below a wind-blown palm at dusk, with string lights overhead and the lit bridges across the water at the left. — On the sand by the restaurant at dusk.

An open-sided restaurant at dusk, with rows of empty wooden tables under a metal roof, yellow pillars and the lit bridges beyond the water. — On the sand by the restaurant at dusk.

Home on 11 August

It was raining on our last morning. Later that morning, we were at Phuket International Airport for our flight home to Singapore on Thai AirAsia.

Raindrops on a dark balcony rail, overlooking frangipani trees, palms and a resort pool with loungers and folded umbrellas. — Rain on the balcony, 11 August.

A wet airport apron under heavy cloud, with a white and teal airliner taxiing at the right and the sea beyond a line of trees. — Rain on the balcony, 11 August.