Useful Phuket

What everybody works out again in their first week: who to call, where to extend a visa, what counts as rude here and which apps to install before you land. It is the same handbook that lives in the community app.

• Emergency numbers

  The numbers you need once, and need immediately. Tourist police is the first call for anything: they answer in English and the call is free from any phone.

  6 numbers

• Immigration offices

  Visas, 90-day reports, TM30 — all of it happens here. The branches split the island between them, and the one your address belongs to is the one to drive to.

  4 entries

• Frequent questions

  What newcomers ask most — about the island, and about the community itself.

  13 entries

• Rules of the island

  Some of this is manners and some of it is law, and the difference occasionally costs a deportation. Ordered by what matters on your first day.

  15 entries

• Apps

  Eight apps people here use every day. Install the first two before you fly.

  8 entries