Phu Quoc Island is increasingly getting Touristy – Phu Quoc Island Guide
“Thanks” to descending Phu Quoc tour prices which derives from competition of local tourism companies making Phu Quoc touristy, crowded especially. Also the crowd make peaceful atmosphere which pertains to beautiful secluded islands disappear completely. In consequence of a combination of numerous tourists and loosen management, it has been creating bad effect on natural ecosystem, especially coral reefs. You need to be smart in choosing Phu Quoc Trips.
Nowadays, come to Phu Quoc and get on Phu Quoc Trips, aside from beautiful landscape, you will absolutely experience crowded atmosphere at most of places. Especially if you are going on shared tours from most of tourist company in Phu Quoc, as they are selling at cheap prices but actually in the light of experiences you will obtain from those Phu Quoc trips (bad snorkeling with detailed guidelines, the crowd, ordinary places, touristy places) then those prices are not really cheap as you will encounter uncomfortable feeling of narrow space on the boat, noisy ambiance on the boat or speedboat, islands teem with hundreds of people.
For those who are keen on snorkeling or natural places, peaceful atmosphere then you will certainly meet these circumstances. Of course, many people probably justify these annoyance with cheap prices, but indeed these cheap prices even do not correspond to supplied services, then the cheap prices turn out expensive. As usual, tourist companies will take people on the identical itineraries with similar time-frame, subsequently, customers will meet one another numerous tourist groups on the same place, in the same period.
At worst, you will be completely enjoying noisy atmosphere, meet hundreds of people during half-day trip, it would become a kind of torture, torture to your mind and torture to your feelings as most of those kinds of shared trip are big group tours, they are not capable of providing or guiding customers with necessary things related to environmental protection, such as the depth of watery area, type of corals or is it suitable to wear flipper, should you put on sun-cream, best coral-admiring areas…? You will be actually missing many things that you should have got to make your day on the Phu Quoc sea instead of an enjoyable trip as you hoped.
After not really interesting experience at snorkeling spots, in an ordinary way, tourist companies will take you to island for lunch, many tourists are too focused on inclusions of food or provisions from snorkeling trips, marine trips, thereby that issue drives them to wrong way in making decision on choosing snorkeling trip providers. For 99% of tour providers in Phu Quoc include lunch to customers, among thay most of them are sharing the same lunch-having place – Fingernail Island which is always in a extremely crowded state as some people have been ruining the initial pristine beauty by building up steel and cement-made restaurant, just a small island with a super tiny beach which is around 50 meter long, but every day in either dry or rainy season, it has to accommodate hunderds of people and many big wooden boats as well as speedboats in a same period of time. Besides, Fingernail Island then other islands (May Rut Trong – Hon Vong Island, May Rut Ngoai Island) are also falling into the same circumstance.
The photo above is ordinary day’s state at the small beach at Fingernail Island, and at peak times we could find the appearance of 5 or 6 big wooden boats but not only 1 or 2, subsequently, the safety area of swimming for tourist is narrowed down to 4 – 5 meters from the beach as speedboats occupy tourist’s relaxation space for anchoring.
Either in the water in the front of Fingernail Island or on the island, you will certainly encounter crowded atmosphere with uncomfortable ambiance from many groups of tourist speaking loudly. And the most concerned things is lunch, if you ever wondered if they cock your food at good hygiene standard with clean eating utensil? For my own experience, I saw how did they clean eating utensil, consequently i’m always afraid of what they provide customers with, i’m probably a fastidious but my point of view everything need treating at high hygiene standard.
How to avoid these worst circumstances and avoid bad Phu Quoc Trips? You could do it if you will be escorted by top tier guides who comprehend the island, please make a reference to here – the crowd-avoiding Phu Quoc trips
