Blogs from Ko Samui, South-West Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 26

I made it safely to Thailand. I had three flights, from Dalian to Koh Samui. the island I am staying for the time being, and due to my experience flying Chinese airlines I expected the flights to take much more than the allotted 12 hours. I flew China Southern Airlines, which like most Chinese airlines isn't very concerned with timeliness or convenient service, from Dalian to Guangzhou, and then from Guangzhou to Bangkok, to where my bags were being checked. However, the flight to Bangkok was delayed for an extra hour, for some reason unexplained to me but what from judging the scene outside the plane window seemed to be lazy baggage workers. Anwyays, I was met at the gate in Bangkok by a visibly agitated Bangkok Airways attendant, who rushed me and four other passengers ... read more

Hello, So this blog is about our trip to Thailand, which was intended for a visa run, but didn't quite end up working that way. That's OK though, because then we had more time to spend in the lovely Koh Samui (If we were to get our visas, we needed to spend more time in Bangkok where the embassy was!) So, we changed our flights and enjoyed the Thai island life! For our first few nights we splurged and stayed in the lovely Villa Nalinnadda. As you can see by the pictures, it was modeled to look very Mediterranean, and all of the rooms (there were only 8 in total) were very private and luxurious. I think our favorite part of staying here was the breakfast we received every morning on our little beachside terrace...lovely! Hopping ... read more

Hei alle sammen Vi er fortsatt på Koh Samui men har byttet hotell da nærmeste naboen til det forrige hotellet var en flokk med haner. Det er ikke moro å bli vekket hver morgen kl. 04:00 av en haug haner:( Vi bor nå på Baan Bophut, http://www.baanbophut.com/ Dette er et lite og koselig familedrevet hotell i Fishermans Village. Trond ankomm Thailand og Koh Samui i dag. Han hadde i forkant påstått at han kun skulle reise med håndbagasje... og ja det gjorde han. Han hadde med en liten sekk og i den hadde han vår post, firmaposten, ukeblader til meg og et par andre småting. Så det første vi måtte gjøre var å være med han ut for å shoppe shorts, badeshorts og slipperser!! Dette er Trond i et nøtteskall:)) I dag har vi vært ute ... read more

We both had a comfortable night’s sleep and arrived just after 6am the following morning in Koh Samui where it was a tuk-tuk ride to where we guessed we might be able to get accommodation. Trying to find a room at 7am is difficult as if places have been full up the night before, then no-one is likely to have checked out by this time in the morning. After lots of searching for places, Matt came across a nice looking place (way more than our budget) that we were going to check into, when they told us that no, actually the room had been booked already after all. I was not amused as we had looked at the room that hadn’t been cleaned since the previous guest, had agreed to wait while the room was cleaned ... read more

Well...here we are then. Been having a really really lovely time so far. Landed in Bangkok on saturday morning around 8:30, it was super hot and humid despite being so early. Got taxi into Dusit where our hostel was, around 10 mins from Khao San road. It was really really lovely - my friend Becs recommended it and did well, definately more hotel quality than hostel. At 1000bht a night though its quite expensive for backpacking budgets. My friend Sam was staying on the Khao San Road so we tried to walk down there later but were given wrong directions which resulted in some aimless wandering but we found her in the end. She's been out here since Dec and so is an old pro and was filling us in on all of the scams etc. ... read more