Writer & editor
Ya Chai
Travel Editor at Phuket Airport Car Rental, writing practical guides on car hire, airport pick-ups and road trips across Phuket and southern Thailand.
About Ya Chai
Ya Chai is the Travel Editor at Phuket Airport Car Rental. She writes and updates the guides on this site – from where to find your rental desk at Phuket International Airport to driving times, one-way routes and road trips across southern Thailand.
Her aim is simple: a traveller who lands at HKT should know exactly where to go, what to bring and what the drive ahead looks like before they reach the rental desk.
What Ya Chai does
Writes the guidesLocation pages, car types, rental options, one-way routes and the travel guides for drivers.
Keeps pages up to dateUpdates desk locations, opening hours, prices and driving times when suppliers or roads change.
Plans the routesResearches each route – roads, distances, stops worth making and the time to allow for the drive back to the airport.
Answers reader questionsTurns the questions travellers ask most into the FAQs you see on each page.
How Ya Chai writes a page
- Step 1Every page starts with the questions people actually ask before renting a car in Phuket.
- Step 2Facts such as desk locations, opening hours and rental rules are checked against supplier location pages, rental conditions and VIP Cars data.
- Step 3Driving times are given for light traffic, with extra time for rush hour and heavy rain.
- Step 4Each page is then checked by our reviewer before it goes live, and reviewed again when something changes.
Read our full editorial policy to see how we research, check and update every page.
Pages Ya Chai writes
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