looking at holidays, wanted to go to Maldives but changed our minds and now looking into thailand, always wanted to go there.


Looking at Koh Samui, anyone been ?


What did you think ?

 

dave willl love the lady boys

 

yhpm

 

Its lovly worth going. Im sure you will like it. Depends what your going for.

If your planning honeymoon or something, try

http://www.santiburi.com/

 

pmsl @ Alex !


Not a honeymoon just a holiday, will be for 2 weeks. looking at Koh Samui as looks more relaxing than the likes of Bangkok or Phuket.

 

Helen, do all 3 places if your going for 2 weeks? Well at least do a few days in Bangkok if youve not been before. Its great fun, tonnes to do, great food and of course some interesting stuff to see of an evening...........

 

I like the idea of maybe a couple of days in Nabgkok before going onto Koh Samui.

 

Let me know if you decide to do that I can point you the direction of a some great places to eat and drink.

There is also this mad dutch guy that organises cycle trips all round the city and takes you out into the swamp areas to see real Thai life. Its an amzing day out and got to be done!

 

That is something i would love to do, go and explore lol And see real Thai life, been looking to see if i can find excursions etc but not found any as yet.

Where did you stay ?

Looking at this place at the moment, seems really nice.

http://www.tropicalcollection.co.uk/...FQVJ6ESLPF6WAE

 

was on koh samui over christmas

very nice, but places can be very different from very basic to spa resorts, quiet to like southend

 

We will be staying in a spa resort lol

 

Helen, the website for the company that runs the bike tours is:

http://www.realasia.net/

Go for the ABC day tour. Its about 25 quid all in and a great day out!

Any of the big chain hotels are good to stay in Bangkok. Stay somewhere around Sukhumvit Road and your central to most stuff from there.

Make sure you get on the Tuk Tuks for getting about!! Great fun and you can usually get them to race each other off the traffic lights late at night!!!

 

Taking your mrs to thailand?

Isnt that like taking sandwiches to a restaurant?

 

tuk tuks are getting ridiculously expensive these days for tourists - the taxi's on meter are far cheaper (unless you are accompanied by a local or can haggle like a good un)

i stayed in the sky hotel in bangkok - an 88 storey, 309m tower. my room was on the 74th floor (the highest that you can stay on ) and gave pretty good views of the city all the way out to the gulf the hotel was a bit past it's best though, but ok for the price

http://www.baiyokehotel.com/

 

Looks a nice hotel that.


Where did you stay in Koh Samui ?

 

Quality Chip,absolute quality
So true though

 

it looks better on the website than in real life. it's not that it's dirty or anything, just could do with a bit of decorating. still worth staying there for the views though - the rotating platform on the top floor is cool

this is a night view from our room



on koh samui we stayed in a small place called lolita bungalows at mae nam. beautiful, but not luxurious. our bungalows were beachfront with a/c, but quite basic. didn't need any more though

this is our bungalows viewed from the sea





and the beach



and the view from the deck out front



from koh samui you can get a speedboat tour of the ang thong national park area of islands - well worth doing

http://amazingsamui.com/angthong.htm

i would avoid the big places like chaweng and lamai as they're like southend or magalluf or wherever else has been ruined by seafront tat

 

I was trying to put that in the back of my head and not think about it

 

I was there with foreigneRS over christmas
mae nam was nice
but chaweng disgusted me now

we actually did a lot of ped riding and found that the south west corner where the main road doesn't go near can be very quiet

 

I have been to Thailand (Krabi) and the Maldives, I preferred Thailand as you get to see lots more culture and it's still nearly as stunning as the Maldives if you pick the right place.
The maldives was quite literally mind blowing but if you don't like snorkeling or diving there isn't much else to do.
Thai people are soooooo much friendlier too, and it's usually genuine.
We were asked to go out with one of the restaurant staff and her family one night, we went in their little pick-up with all of their friends sat in the back bit

I will go back to Thailand as soon as I can but don't have the same desire to go back to the Maldives

 

I looked at Krabi, looks some really nice places there.

Think we will defo go to Koh Samui tho, just got to pick a nice resort.

 

krabi town itself is a typical thai town. no resorts there as such, they all slightly out from there. we also stayed a week in Ao Nang, just down the road. golden beach resort, with a superb luxury bungalow

a pic of our resort's pool



again, if you stay there make sure to take a speedboat excursion - we went to several small deserted islands, as well as maya bay (where the beach was filmed) and both phi phi islands and snorkelled etc

 

hmm krabi you will be board stiff in two days nice for a day or two koi samui is the place to go, for a laugh go to the gun club what a laugh that is i went and shot a magnum ak47 and pump action shot gun,cost fook all, english bike hire do good deals on m/cycles and you can get insurance to.bangkok is good for a few days but check your wallet i put mine in hotel safe as we were there for a month fookin trany on front desk nicked my card no cash just card on the first night. the lil fooker was on when i banked it so it had to be him as he was the only fooker on at night. lovely place but bangkok is full of rouges lol pat pong is good for a laugh as well as the night markets, thialand is a wonderfull place and i will go back again just a bit wiser next time

 

Mark,, were in the world are you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

krabi is a fantastic place, stayed on ton sai beach just round the corner from Ao Nang.the resorts on riley beach were the best ones.
depends on what you want from the holiday can be pretty boring round that area. I went with a couple of mates & did a lot of rock climbing & some scuba. the people out there are so friendly its unreal, so chilled out & laid back.
if you aren't into rock climbing or just sitting around getting a tan you'd be better off with koh samui though imo

 

I'm quite happy to sit around with a book and get a tan LOL

Must admit would love to go to the place where the beach was filmed. May look further into Phi Phi Island.

 

Bangkok is dirty and filthy, wouldnt go back there. Krabi is very nice and some very exotic parts of it. Koh Sumui as above is nice but depends what you like. If you want somewhere to unwind next to a pool, very good but go out of season unless you want it heaving with tourists.

Some nice areas and some not so nice areas.

 

We be going in either Oct / Nov

 

do what we did then, went for a month in total, had 3 days in bangkok, a week on phi phi & the rest in ton sai. 'the beach' aint all that though there are better beaches.
you've got me started now, just looking at some pics from the holiday, will be digging out my rucksack & pricing flights shortly lol.

 

I wish we could go for a month, will be 2 weeks for us ! I aint looking forward to all the travelling LOL

By the sounds of it the best places for us are going to be either Koh Samui or Phi Phi.

 

Phi Phi is still under construction after the Tsunami. Lots of building work going on there.

 

I went the year after the tsunami & it was getting there, thought it would be done by now????

 

I'll still look into both places and see what i find

 

Its a beautiful place, but i would never go there, for lots of reasons!

 

Whats the reasons ?

 

maya beach was mental busy, and always will be. check it out. there were boats parked from end to the other. and there's nothing there, no hotels or anything..





railay beach was ok, but very overcrowded. but i was there at peak season. nothing much there though. to do anything you'd have to get a longtail around to ao nang.

for chilling out by a pool helen, ao nang was great and plenty of resorts there to choose from. however, on samui you don't need a pool as the sea is so nice.

 

So if i really wanted to visit Maya Beach, where would be best to stay ?

 

phi phi - its right next to it