Originally Posted by
Kacee
Our personal experience is that it's become very difficult to find really good southern food even in Phuket City, where we tried several of the highly rated supposedly "local" places. Contrast with Krabi, where we've had some incredible local meals.
Yes. Definitely better places to eat in or near Krabi. We have a couple places we liked near Mai Khao, but such bland offerings in Phuket downtown. My Thai GF is from Isaan so we eat spicy.
Kacee's right. Try the river area for few nights. Avani, Anantara, even a decent Hilton, though we have done some staycations at the ROSheraton when we lived in Bangkok.