Thailand Day Four and Five

Great flight on Bangkok Air to Phuket and even got to use the lounge beforehand, very nice. Upon arrival we trotted outside to find our hotelier holding a sign with our name on it--unfortunately he wasn't there. We phoned and he suggested we take a taxi, but as we understood that the pickup was included and the taxi fare was 400 Baht, we said we'd wait the 45 minutes it would take to get us. Well, after nearly an hour we phoned again and he said yes my friend is outside looking for you. However, she was holding a sign with someone else's name and it took a little longer to connect. Finally arriving at Summer Breeze In n,we discovered it to be 4 km from downtown Phuket Town, no buses or tuk-tuks, clean room but totally unsuitable for our purposes. We left our luggage and got him to drive us to the downtown core. We went to a travel agent and booked the next 4 nights on the beach in Karon. Beers and dinner, then we tried to get a taxi back to Summer Breeze. It is so out of the way that none of the drivers knew where it was. The hotel's card was written in English so that didn't help them, and when we called the cell number on the card it didn't work. Turns out he'd left off the first 2 numbers! Well we finally arrived back, and asked for breakfast at 7:30, then in our room discovered on a card that the charge for b'fast was 250 baht per person, or $8 each! Back to the owner and expressed our displeasure and that we would leave in the morning. Turns out no money had been paid so that would be okay. Huh! This morning , upon being presented with the bill, there was a 450 baht charge for the airport pickup! Well, he had already said that he would drive us to our new hotel, so in the end we paid up. However, we will be reporting his deceitful business practice to the Thai website where we found him. Anyway, by 9:30 a.m. we were settled into the Karon Beach Hotel and are very happy, and doesn't cost much more than Summer Breeze. We are 2 minutes from the beach and lots of restaurants, etc. Today we booked our tours for caving canoe trip around James Bond Island! and Sunday's snorkel. Then it was to the beach with our books and large umbrella.