Thailand Travel
Thailand Islands Compared: Koh Chang, Koh Samui, Phuket
After our exhausting 28 days in Burma – we relaxed on a Thai island. I am a huge fan of Thai beaches and this time we went to Koh Chang, not one that I’d been to before. Koh Chang (Trat) Location Koh Chang (Elephant Island, because of it’s shape) – is actually Thailand’s second largest…
Read MoreHow To Get to Koh Lipe
Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! I first saw Koh Lipe from the window of the ferry from Langkawi, Malaysia. I haven’t often entered a country by sea. In fact when I thought about the last time was when I got on the wrong boat out…
Read MoreChaweng Beach Hotels and Accommodation
I written before about Chaweng Beach – Koh Samui’s most famous beach before. And yes its a beautiful beach. Which is why the picture below may shock you. Its one of the main beach access points for Chaweng – and yes the Beach Road area, is an ugly mess. Power lines are strung everywhere, footpaths…
Read MoreKoh Samui’s Chaweng Beach Guide
Driving into Chaweng Beach, Koh Samui’s most famous beach, for the first time, I wasn’t, to be honest, that impressed. I’d been told over and over that Koh Samui was so much nicer than Phuket, which we’d just left, but to be honest I wasn’t that sure. Koh Samui is basically a fairly circular island…
Read MoreWeather in Phuket, Thailand
Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! Let’s face it if you are planning a beach holiday in Phuket – the weather is pretty important. Most of us do not want to be dodging showers on the beach, or worse, tropical downpours! Phuket does have a wet…
Read MoreKoh Lipe Beach – Working on the beach NOT
I’ve used a version of this photo for a while as my “gravatar” around the Internets. It was taken outside our 800B resort on Koh Lipe in southern Thailand. Its a bit of a joke. You’ve heard of the dream – working anywhere, living anywhere? Well Koh Lipe is not the place to indulge it.…
Read MoreHotels Near Phuket Airport – Phuket Airport Guest Houses
Phuket airport is unusual. Although over 8 million people pass through it each year, the area around the international airport include some of the nicest, unspoilt beaches in Phuket and one of the few national parks. It is actually in one of the least developed part of Phuket island, and is around 35km to the…
Read MorePhuket International Airport: Arrivals, Transfers, Departures – All You Need To Know
Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! Phuket International Airport (code: HKT) is Thailand’s second busiest airport. I was surprised at that fact because having flown through the airport a couple of times – its fairly small, and feels like a medium-sized domestic airport, rather than one…
Read MoreCheap Flights to Koh Samui: Do Cheap Samui Flights Exist?
Content last updated – November 2016 – please contact me if you have an update! So you are little frustrated about the prices you’ve found for flights to Ko Samui? I’m not surprised, the route has very little competition on it, and until recently the ONLY airline that flew the route was Bangkok Airways –…
Read MoreThailand Prepaid Internet: Prepaid SIM Card for Thailand Visitors
OK – so you are planning to travel to Thailand and you want to stay in contact with the peeps back home. In today’s inter-connected world you may be just assuming that your smart phone/ iPad /netbook will just WORK. Well – yes it probably will – at a price. Not working out how you want…
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