• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • About Us
  • Work With Us
  • Shop
  • Blog Coaching
  • Disclosures
  • Contact
  • Nav Social Menu

    • Amazon
    • Email
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • TikTok
    • YouTube
It’s officially Fall! It definitely doesn’t fe It’s officially Fall! It definitely doesn’t feel like it in Miami, it really never does but that just gives us a reason to explore other states. West Virginia is one of them, fun fact I actually lived here between undergrad and grad school! Here are Things to do in West Virginia (SAVE + SHARE): 

1. Enjoy New River Gorge National Park & Preserve, or visit any of the states 35 state parks as West Virginia has 1.5 million acres of parks and public land. We personally walked the Shavers Lake Trail and canoed on the lake. 

2. Enjoy some serious adventures! We’re always trying something new and West Virginia offers a lot of options from whitewater rafting, to 1,000+ miles of off-road ATV trails, to rock climbing, caving and mountain biking . 

3. Take a train ride on the Cass Scenic Railroad which stops at the Whittaker Camp where those who worked in the lumber and coal industry lived during the work season. 

4. Explore Cranberry Glades Botanical Area where you might just get to see some black bears! 

5. Walk the Falls of Hills Creak trail to get up close to some gorgeous waterfalls! 

This week I’ll be sharing various cities and states you can experience a beautiful Fall getaway. What are some of your favorite places to enjoy autumn?

Tap the link in my bio for my West Virginia blog post and a blog post of the best places to experience Fall in the US!
Still not over our day exploring the waters of For Still not over our day exploring the waters of Fort Pierce. We danced, snorkeled, fished and went tubing. Definitely want more days like this and still pinch myself that this is what a day of work looks like for me sometimes. Thank you @seadoo for the opportunity.
If you know my husband you know water activities a If you know my husband you know water activities are his favorite! Fishing, jet skiing, just being on a boat on the ocean relaxing, name it, he’s there. So we couldn’t be more excited than to not only get the chance to test out the new @seadoo Switch but be the stars of a whole commercial for it. We had entirely too much fun filming this. Of course now he wants to buy one!

Do you like getting out on the water? Favorite activity?
Our 3 Day London Itinerary (SAVE + SHARE): 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Day 1: Walked across the Tower Bridge (you can take a tour of London of Tower as well), walked along the River Thames and took a make a fascination hat class with @create_your_own_hat! 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Day 2: Harry Potter walking tour, checked out Borough Market and went on a night ghost bus tour. 

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Day 3: Morning Tea at Peggy Porschen, Buckingham Palace for Changing of the Guards, and explore Westminster for the infamous red telephone booths, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey.

If you have more time on previous visits to London we have taken a day trip to check out Stonehenge, Bath and Windsor Castle, rode the London Eye, took a ferry ride down the Thames River, checked out Warner Brother Studios, and did a graffiti/street art tour.

Is London on your list? If you’ve been what did you do that you think is a must for visitors?

Things to do in London, London with kids, family travel
Then vs Now (swipe left)!🥹🥰 My babies are no Then vs Now (swipe left)!🥹🥰 My babies are not babies anymore. Where has the time gone? Excuse me while I go cry in the corner 😭😭😭😭. 

Too in my feelings to provide an informational post, I’ll be back tomorrow.
Why is this man always trying to stop my fun? List Why is this man always trying to stop my fun? Listen replace husband with whoever you need to but why these ppl keep acting like we can take our money when we’re gone?!? Y’all feel me or nah? 😅😬😩
Morning Tea in London! Afternoon or High Tea is us Morning Tea in London! Afternoon or High Tea is usually on everyone’s things to do in London list but since the girls and I don’t eat beef or pork the menus for most places didn’t make sense for us as they are filled with ham sandwiches and other things we don’t eat. I ended up finding Morning Tea at Peggy Porschen instead which offers a tea menu with breakfast items, while not traditional it worked best for us! It cost £35 pp.

For a traditional Afternoon or High Tea Try:

🫖Palm Court at The Ritz
🫖The Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon at Fortnum & Mason
🫖Theatre Royal Drury Lane
🫖The Grill Room Hotel Cafe Royal (has vegetarian an vegan options)
🫖Coronation Afternoon Tea at Cellarium, Westminster Abbey
🫖The Rosebery Coronation Afternoon Tea at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
🫖The Goring Hotel

Afternoon Teas Geared Towards Families:

☕️Peter Pan Afternoon Tea at Aqua at The Shard
☕️Jurassic Afternoon Tea at the Ampersand Hotel
☕️Jungle Book Afternoon Tea at Brown’s Hotel
☕️Secret Garden Afternoon Tea at Taj 51
☕️The Buzzy Bees Afternoon Tea at St. Ermin’s Hotel
☕️Grover’s Children’s Tea at Grosvenor House Hotel
☕️The Peppa Pig Afternoon Tea Bus Tour
☕️Sherlock Holmes Inspired Afternoon Tea at the Mind Palace
☕️Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Tea at One Aldwych
☕️Mad Hatter Afternoon Tea at The Sanderson
☕️Wizard of Oz Afternoon Tea at The Soho Hotel

Have you done a proper Afternoon or High Tea in London before? Was the one you did on this list, if so what did you think of it? If you have additional recommendations please do leave a comment!

The Traveling Child

If kids live there, kids can visit!

  • Affording Travel
  • Destinations
    • Africa
      • Kenya
      • Morocco
    • Asia
      • Singapore
      • Thailand
    • Australia
    • Caribbean
      • Aruba
      • The Bahamas
      • Barbados
      • Cuba
      • Grand Cayman
      • Jamaica
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad
    • Central America
      • Costa Rica
    • Europe
      • Austria
      • Belgium
      • Denmark
      • France
      • Italy
      • Spain
      • The Netherlands
    • North America
      • Alaska
      • Arizona
      • California
      • Colorado
      • Florida
      • Georgia
      • Hawaii
      • Idaho
      • Illinois
      • Kansas
      • Louisiana
      • Mexico
      • Nevada
      • New York
      • South Carolina
      • South Dakota
      • Tennessee
      • Texas
      • Utah
      • West Virginia
      • Wisconsin
    • South America
      • Brazil
      • Colombia
  • Travel Tips
    • Tips on Traveling with Kids
    • Trip Planning Tips
  • Reviews
    • Airline Reviews
    • Hotel Reviews
    • Product Reviews
  • Lifestyle
  • Buy Our Book
  • Blog Coaching

3 Days in Phuket with Kids

January 16, 2017      Asia, Destinations, Thailand

This post contains affiliate links. If you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no cost to you. Please see our disclosure policy for more information. All opinions are my own.

Thailand has been a dream of ours but many people said it was too exotic to bring kids. Of course, we didn’t listen and we are glad we didn’t. We planned a one week trip to Thailand, a multi-city tour visiting Phuket, Bangkok and Chiang Mai. Here’s how to spend 3 days in Phuket with kids (or without)!

dad holding baby daughter in the pool

How to Get to Phuket with Kids

When flying from the United States flights directly to Phuket can be quite expensive. We avoided this by getting a flight deal to a country that has cheap flights to Phuket. We found an amazing deal on Skyscanner for flights from Miami to Singapore on Qatar Airways for $400RT per person. From Singapore to Phuket was less than a 2hr flight and flights were as low as $40. Plus we got an extended layover in Singapore and were able to explore the city. You can download the free Skyscanner app here.

Phuket Airport Transfer

We arranged our Phuket airport transfer with Easy Day Thailand. If you’re traveling to Phuket with kids they are perfect as they provided a car seat for both our infant and toddler. It was a private transfer and cost 1300 baht.

Where We Stayed in Phuket with Kids

There are so many choices on where to stay in Phuket. After much research we chose The Vijitt Resort Phuket in Rawai Beach. The resort was gorgeous!! It was in a quiet area and had great amenities. Breakfast was included, served from 6AM-10AM and included a buffet plus made to order items like eggs and pancakes. We splurged a bit since we saved so much on the airfare and got a villa with a private pool. Our girls enjoyed it but the resort’s pool is so nice we could have gotten a regular villa and saved money.

pool with beautiful sunrise and island in the background

bedroom at a hotel in Phuket, Thailand

Child Amenities At Vijitt Resort Phuket

The Vijitt Resort is a great option for visiting Phuket with kids with to the amazing child amenities they offer. There is a kids club with a kids pool and playground. They also offer thai boxing classes for the little ones. The hotel provided a baby cot for our infant with a mosquito net for it. They also provided baby soap, baby oil, baby lotion, and baby powder. The bathroom is equipped with a tub making it easy to bathe the little ones too. The on-sight restaurant had high-chairs and you could borrow sand castle toys, floaties, and other pool toys from the kids club. It’s definitely the best family resort in Phuket.

Things to Do in Phuket

Day One: Vijitt Resort Phuket, Chalong Pier, and Kan Eang

We relaxed at our private pool in our villa recovering from our 24hrs of flying. In the evening we ventured to Chalong Pier and had dinner at Kan Eang overlooking the water.
dad holding daughters on the side of the pool with hotel room in the background

Day Two in Phuket with Kids: Coral Island and Phuket City

We went to Phuket and we didn’t go to Phi Phi Island!!! Why? Phi Phi Island is a 2hr ride from Phuket by speedboat. It’s hard to visit during monsoon season, May-Oct, due to rough seas. Even during the better weather months of Nov-April the ride can be a little bumpy and while some tour companies don’t recommend the trip for pregnant women or young children many flat out won’t allow them on their tours. We weren’t really interested in either of the kids becoming sick on such a long boat ride so we went to Coral Island and visited Banana Beach instead. It’s a quick 30min long tail boat ride from Rawaii Beach. You can get there whenever you want and negotiate the price of your ride. You can also take this private speedboat charter tour to Coral Island.

sbaby sitting on the beach with island in the background

We were the first to arrive on the beach. At first, I was a bit disappointed by “Banana Beach”, there were a lot of rocks and the beach wasn’t the cleanest. They had signs for a viewpoint that we climbed up the hill to see but there was no view. About an hour after we got there other tourists started arriving by the boatloads and the beach got pretty crowded. Most people were there to snorkel. A major plus of the beach is there is tons to do, you can rent snorkeling gear, go scuba diving, paddle boarding, canoeing, etc. The water is very clear and we were able to see tons of colorful fish even without snorkel gear.

We left the beach around 11AM to head back to the hotel and explore the city. We hired a taxi for $500 baht per hour who took us to lunch, Chalong Temple, Old Phuket City, Patong Beach area, and the Karon Viewing Point. Old Phuket wasn’t much and when we got to Patong Beach I was so happy we didn’t stay there. It was a mix of South Beach during Spring Break and New Orleans during Mardi Gras, it was just so crowded I couldn’t imagine us having a good time there with the kids.
​
dad facing temple with baby on his back in a carrier and holding his daughters hand

Both photos were taken at Wat Chalong Temple
mom and daughter stading in front of a temple in Thailand

On the way to the Karon Viewing Point (pictured below), we got to see Karon beach which was very family friendly, tons of families walking around and about 6 playgrounds along the beach.

family in front of mountainside overlook

Day Three: Private Phang Nga Bay Tour of Big Buddha, James Bong Island, and the Monkey Cave

We did this tour through Easy Day Thailand. I chose them because instead of taking a long boat ride all the way to Phang Nga Bay they drove to the mainland and then we just took a quick long tail boat ride to visit James Bond Island. It was also fully customized private tour so we were able to add anything we wanted as well as skip whatever we wanted. As mentioned before I loved that they provide car seats at no additional charge and the van even had wifi. The vans are extremely spacious with the ability to seat 10 passengers and the seats recline which we were able to take advantage of since it was just us! We started the trip visiting Big Buddha arriving around 8AM. There were literally 3 other people there and it was so nice to experience this magnificent sculpture without the large crowds. There are two beautiful viewpoints and a smaller gold Buddha.

mom and daughter standing in front of a golden buddha in Thailand dad with child on his shoulders standing in front of a white huge buddha in Thailand
After visiting Big Buddha we traveled to the mainland. Our first stop was the Monkey Cave where there is a reclining Buddha, a few caves, and tons of wild monkeys waiting for tourists to feed them. Every vendor sells old bananas, corn, and seeds so you can attract the monkeys and give them some food and snap some pictures. We stayed here about an hour before heading to Phang Nga National Park.

family sitting in front of a golden reclining buddha girl feeding monkey a banana

Lunch was included in our tour and we ate at a restaurant in the National Park along the canal. After lunch, we got in our private longtail boat and took a 30min ride to James Bond Island. The Island was packed and the vendors can be a bit aggressive but overall we still enjoyed the visit.

On the way back we stopped at the Muslim village on stilts and walked around. We had already decided we didn’t want to do the nearby canoeing and when we saw how crowded it was I was so glad we made that decision. The operators are the ones who actually paddle so that’s a plus but the sun was so hot the last thing I wanted to do was be canoeing with no shade and being packed like sardines on the floating dock while we waited our turn. When we left Phang Nga National Park Easy Day Thailand dropped us to the airport so we could catch our flight to Chiang Mai.

mom holding daughter on shoulders in front of rock formation spewing from the ocean

Easy Day Thailand provided both a driver and a tour guide. The driver was always with the van which was nice to know as we had our luggage stored in it.

We had Papootip as a guide and she was excellent. She was so helpful with Jordyn and the two of them def became friends. We paid a little more than some of the other tours offered but the ability to customize what we did was important. Avoiding a bus with 40 other people and the ability to move at our pace was worth the extra money. The company does not charge for kids 4 and under which was a major plus!

We enjoyed our 3 days in Phuket but if we go back I would love to stay on a different island. This is because the nice beaches are still a bit of a trek from Phuket. It would have been nice to wake up and be on the beautiful beaches rather than having to take a 2hr boat ride.

After spending 3 days in Phuket with kids we headed to spend 48 hours in Chiang Mai. Did you find this article helpful? Please share it!

The Traveling Child is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.ca. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

Share
Tweet
Pin17
Email
Share
17 Shares

Newsletter Subscribtion

 
Join Our Mailing List
You'll get tips on affordable travel, flight deals and detailed itineraries for every trip we've been on (family, girlfriends getaway, baecations and solo) to make your planning process easier.
Thank you for subscribing!

Primary Sidebar

  • Amazon
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • TikTok
  • YouTube

Hi! We’re The Hambricks

Hi! We’re The Hambricks

If kids live there, kids can visit! That's our motto and you'll often find us exploring destinations most don't find "kid friendly". We've traveled to 35 countries on 6 continents with our children since they were 10 weeks old and share tips to make it easier and affordable. But mom and dad are people too so we also write about solo travel, baecations and girlfriend getaways.

Newsletter

Subscribe to Our Newsletter
You'll get tips on affordable travel, flight deals and detailed itineraries for every trip we've been on (family, girlfriends getaway, baecations and solo) to make your planning process easier.
Thank you for subscribing!

Recent Posts

  • Warm Places to Visit in December (January and February)
  • How to Travel Hack Long Layover Flights
  • Best Snowy Places to Visit for Winter Vacation
  • Best Tips for Planning a Group Trip
  • Things to do in Long Beach with Kids

LIKE US ON FACEBOOK

Facebook

FOLLOW US ON PINTEREST

Copyright © 2023 The Traveling Child, LLC.