Tour was awesome!! Quick little visit to a local market and great facts galore from our guide. Beautiful view from viewpoint, fun and laughs watching the monkeys at the monkey temple followed by relaxing and fun kayak down the river where we spotted monkeys, lizards, frogs, birds and 3 trees snakes. Very lucky!! Lunch at the treehouse hotel was substantial and good for people who aren't into spice. Unfortunately no monkeys to be spotted there but looks like a lovely place to stay. Unfortunately straight after lunch the rains arrived and by rains I mean heavy torrential rains!! We arrived at the elephants to go and wash them in the pouring rain. Tour operator couldn't do anything about the rain but definitely would have preferred no rain for this activity but if rains were to hit out of all the activities on the tour this was the most suitable as you get wet anyway. Learnt lots about the elephant and got to make them some fibre balls and feed them bananas. Our kids loved washing them!!
All in all it was a good tour and our guide Dee was great! The speed boat was modern and in good condition, and the islands where stunning. Even though it is an early bird tour there were a lot of people in the locations already (although not as bad as later in the day). The lunch that was served wasn't very good and I recommend eating a lunch at e.g. McDonald's or any of the other restaurants on Phi Phi if you want to have better meal.
Wonderful guide gift and our driver aek who navigated horrendous traffic. Could have left earlier to avoid worst of crowd at Sunday market thought I would faint at one point managed to duck into a side street literally for air. Shopping centre was lovely would rather spend more time there
Tour was awesome!! Quick little visit...