26 Oct 2022
We have chosen this tour as it combines a cooking class with a tour around the main sights which was ideal for our fairly short stay. It was suppose to be tour first, then cooking and eating, but we have received a message if we could change to cooking first. It actually worked out better, we think. We were picked up by Woody, taken to a market to buy the ingredients and then taken to do the cooking. Woody pointed all the beaches we were driving past and other sights, showed us all the ingredients as well as some tropical fruit at the market, some don't even have a name in English.
The cooking was well organised and it was also suitable for our 9 and 12 year old. Our 9 year old was helped by one of the ladies there. All ingredients were named and explained and allowances for spice levels were also made. We have thoroughly enjoyed this bit and will be recreating the recipes when we get home (although we forgot to take our printed recipes but were promised by Woody they would be emailed to us).
After we ate what we cooked we were picked up by Woody's friend. We visited the Big Buddha, Vat Chalong, cashew factory, monkey Hill, where we had a smoothie as we don't like coconut water and a snack of banana fritters and then made our way to Phuket Old Town, where we were dropped off and picked up again after agreed time and were taken back to the hotel. This was just the right amount of sightseeing for us and we have enjoyed every bit of it. The driver had a good knowledge of all the places he has taken us to, told us the history, explained the cashew nut growth and process.
The communication via WhatsApp was great.
We would definitely recommend this tour to anyone visiting Phuket