Digital Nomad Essentials

📱 eSim: Airalo
💳 International Card: Wise
🌍 Visa for any country: Joinsherpa
👥 Neighborhood Vibes: Hoodmaps
🏥 Insurance: Credit-Card Built in Insurance
🏠 Housing: Airbnb Book 28 days for discounts
🎦 See the Experience: Youtube

PS: Not an affiliate of any of the providers mentioned above, we just use them on our travels.

Phuket Thailand

Average Expenses

💳 Visa Extension: ~$55 per person
🏠 Accommodation:
- Budget: !$600 a month
- Airbnb: $500-$700 a month
- Agoda: $50-$70 a day for short term travel
- 1st Stay (Phuket): $1,054.11 (exceeded monthly budget)
- 2nd Stay (Bangkok Airbnb Sukhumvit 50): $851.67
💱 Money Exchange: $500 AUD = ~17,806.25 BAHT
📱 Local Mobile SIM Card: True 5G: $42.50, 5GB Unli internet for 30 days, Unlimited Call, Unlimited Wifi, 100 thb calling credit for International Call
🚌 Transportation:
- Public Bus (Phuket to Old Town): $4.25 per person
- Grab (Old Town to Rawai): $21.24
🚌 Bus Phuket to Bangkok: $115 for 2 persons (13 Hrs Travel Time)
🦶 Relaxation: Foot Massage at Kims Massage: $12 per person
🍲 Food Budget: Target Daily: $30 = B706.12
🏢 Co-working Space:
- $7 per day, $150 a month
- Let’s Work Rawai Beach Area: 300 Baht 3hrs
- Grind Time Rawai Beach: 250 Baht 9-6PM
- Lub d hostel Patong coworking space: 1,500 Baht per week per person or 150 Baht for guest (half day 5hrs)

Highlights 🎖️

Access to massages almost any time all the way to midnight
Local Barbeque
General Vibe of the people, laid back and friendly
Pattaya Walking Street
How organised and accessible everything was
Affordable prices all across
Dog Cafes
Mark Weins Restaurant
Sleeping Buddha Temple

Not So Good 😢

It is ideal for adult fun, and it might not be friendly for all ages.
Sometimes too much smell of 🌿

Recommendations

Hotels

Lub D Hotel
- Best for young travelers, comes with its own co-working space.
- Website
- Directions

Beaches

Patong Beach
- One of the best beaches in Thailand, filled with local entertainment and good food nearby.
- Directions

Nightlife

Patong Beach Bangla Walking Street
- Good adult fun, not suitable for kids.
- Website & Directions

Dining

Night Food Market
- Night market with various choices, for a real authentic local vibe.
- Website & Directions

Youtube Videos

Digital Nomad Protips

🌔 Do not arrive in the airport at night.

It adds a layer of complexity trying to figure out how to get to your accomodation at night.

🚕 Taxis are notorious at overcharging at any country.

Arriving at night forces you to sometimes use them. Especially in countries where you can’t easily use Uber

🍇 Always know where the supermarket is

or better yet, live near the local supermarket. This will help you save tons of money and really simulate living like a local.

👩‍🍳 Find Restaurants/Cafes where the owner is constantly there

Frequently visit that place. They will start noticing you and become friendly. It helps you adjust to certain places when you know some of the locals and it’s one of the easiest ways to make friends.

🏦 Always bring cash.

around $100 worth, regardless if the country uses card in most places. There will almost always be an instance where you need cash. Do not bring too much cash as well.

🏂 Do not bring clothes for all seasons.

The worst case is that half of your clothes is for winter and the other half is summer. In most cases, it will either be too hot or too cold to where the other half of your clothes. Bring only a few set and look for local bazaars that sell affordable clothes for that season. You save in luggage expense, help local community, and get new clothes. win-win-win.

🚚 Understand crossing the road culture.

It’s surprising how different cultures treat crossing the road varies greatly, e.g vietnam versus australia, it could very well save your life.

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