Nice thread, and cool that PhuketTopTeam refers to this post as a feedback post on their website:
http://phukettopteam.com/news/post.php?s=2012-09-26-new-3-month-white-to-blue-belt-bjj-training-camp
The discussion in here is mostly held by people who have not been to PTT and mostly focused on how long / how much training should go in to a blue belt. Always an interesting topic among us BJJ-practitioners.
Anyhow I have just been there for my second time these last couple weeks and have also done training at Tiger Muay Thai earlier, also located in Phuket.
What I can say about training there is that it's fucking awesome and if you love training you gonna love this little place outside Phuket town called Chalong. A short street just stacked with different gyms, Muay Thai, MMA, Wrestling, BJJ, No-gi, Boxing and different cardio and strength places like Olympic weightlifting and Crossfit. People are running and jogging along the street, some with chains around their necks, tires tied in a rope around their waist or weights in the hands.
You hear the sound of people yelling, laughing and hittings bags and pads and pushing themselves and each other.
There are small bars and hole-in-the-wall-restaurants that serv fresh juices and different super-food protein shakes. This place is ridiculously nice and so fucking fun to be at, train several times a day and eat good food. Sundays are off so everything is closed so you can just drive your bike to the beach or do whatever, it's paradise so it's lots to do and see.
I have been to Thailand 7 times in my life and totally over 15 months spent in the country, I've never been to a place like this street and I am in love with it.
But anyhow, even though I THOUGHT I knew how training there was just from reading, I had no idea because I had nothing to compare it to, which I think most people don't.
"Back home" most people have work and schedule and other shit to attend to, there it's just training, eating, recovering, enjoying life and training again. I was struggling to do 4 classes a week when I lived in Norway, here I did 8 without problems plus went out for a run in the mountains on Sunday. I am not a professional, just a happy amateur. You can't really compare it to home.
If you have the chance fucking go there! You'll be having so much fun blue belt or not you're not gonna care.
And regarding if the course is legit... I can just say that if you don't know Olavo Abreu you are missing a piece of BJJ-history so the knowledge there is tremendous and he is an awesome human being. Super-friendly with everyone, patient and loves to teach.
I saw several blue-belts come in and get choked by white belts who had been there for a while. The people doing 3 months of training all gi-classes with Olavo is gonna be fucking legit at rollig, just go there and roll with them yourself. It's like super-charging your bjj and fighting by being there.
Everyone around you loves fighting and training as much as yourself, you talk about it, think about it, do it and breath it. So many factors that you won't get in your "normal" life where you need to see people at work etc.
I loved it there and def. going back later this year.