When to Visit Phuket

Andrew Gee, Outrigger vice-president of sales and marketing manager for Asia Pacific, said low and shoulder season is where bargain hunters should look. “We find peak season sells itself so a lot of our sales and marketing goes into pushing low and shoulder season,” he says.

At Outrigger’s two Thailand properties – on Phuket and Koh Samui – low season rates can be 35 to 45 per cent lower than in peak, “and hotels will bundle in free meals, cooking classes and the like”. Read more here in Escape.