Tee Pak Dee Resident

The rooms at Tee Pak Dee Resident run from a deluxe room with a king bed for two guests to a triple room with a double bed and a single bed that looks out over the garden. Rooms can have air conditioning, a private bathroom with a shower, a desk, a safe and a refrigerator.

Free bottled water and free instant coffee are among the in-room extras offered, and the hotel provides daily housekeeping and luggage storage. The twin room has a flat-screen TV with satellite and cable channels.

Tee Pak Dee Resident has a bar, a garden and a solarium, and the shared lounge/TV area and library give guests somewhere to sit between outings. Massage treatments are offered on site, and there is a terrace where guests can relax outdoors.

For getting around, there is an airport transfer, a shuttle service, car hire and bicycle rental, while tours can be arranged and hiking is available. Parking is free on site, and valet parking is also offered.

Eating options include a coffee shop, a snack bar and a kitchen, and a shared kitchen is available to guests. Laundry service, dry cleaning and ironing service are offered, and wheelchair accessible facilities are available.

Tee Pak Dee Resident stands on Luangpor Road in Taladyai, in the old town of Phuket Town, the provincial capital of Phuket. The streets here are lined with Sino-Portuguese shophouses, small museums and local food stalls, with plenty to see on foot. Within the old town, the streets are the simplest way to take in the shophouses and the museums, one after another.

The hotel is well placed for the museums of the old town. The Phuket Trickeye Museum is 350 m away, with its painted illusions, and the Phuket Philatelic Museum is 300 m away. Chaithararam Temple (Wat Chalong), the island's most revered Buddhist temple complex, is 7.7 km away, and the Phuket Town Local Bus Station (Terminal 1) is 200 m away for local bus routes.

Patong Beach, the island's best-known beach resort, is a longer journey by road, so many visitors pair a day on the sand with a morning among the old town's shophouses. The evenings are best spent at the Lard Yai Sunday Night Market on Thalang Road, which is open on Sunday evenings, with food stalls and local crafts. Phuket International Airport is the main gateway to the island, and the old town is the easiest part of the island to explore without a car.