Having left Phuket where we seemed well below the average age of the current holiday makers we were very pleased when we arrived in Koh Phi Phi to find the reverse situation. Most of the island just seems to be backpackers with only a few things in mind; drinking, chilling out and for some a little bit of diving.
We originally only booked into our hostel for one night but ended staying three. As we had been travelling that day the first night we just did a little tour of the area which really doesn't take long in Phi Phi. You could fit the main part of the island into a football pitch and this includes the majority of bars, restaurants and hotels. We decided to go for a few drinks in a bar that had a good happy hour on and I bought my first bucket (like a bucket a child would have at the seaside but filled with alcohol) for a couple of pounds. We sat drinking our drinks and got taking to a couple because the guy had just ordered the bars challenge meal. The challenge was if you could eat 3 beef burgers, about 3 potatoes worth of wedges and 2 onions worth of onion rings in the thickest batter known to man in half an hour the meal would be free. Needless to say the bar won and I ended up eating loads of the left overs. On the down side it seemed my bucket had next to no alcohol in it. We left the bar to go and see what was going on down at the beach but the heavens opened, we had to head home to dry ourselves off and ended up crashing.
The next night we headed out for a proper drinking session. Having realised the buckets were a bit of a rip off I decided to take some of my own vodka out with me to top them up nicely. This turned out to be a great idea. We spent the whole evening at beach bars watching light and fire shows, meeting lots of people and dancing.
I have no idea what time we got home from our night out but what ever time it was it meant I woke up 5 minutes before check out so I had to rush to reception and book in for another night. Our last full day on the island was spent in the room with Charlotte emptying the contents of her stomach several times an hour.
We both loved Phi Phi and my only regret was not taking a boat trip around the surrounding islands to see some more of its beauty, who knows though I may be back there before I go home.
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