Surat Thani Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We arrived in Surat Thani thinking that we only had a short bus ride and then a quick ferry over to Koh Samui. This turned out to be a 1.5 hour bus ride to Donsak pier followed by a 1.5 hour ferry ride to Koh Samui. Thankfully the bus was air-conditioned and the scenery along the way was beautiful. (There was also a man on the bus who seemed lik...

A quick boatride, and we were back on the mainland, heading north to Bangkok. *megs later comments watch your bags! there's a secrete door on overnight busses that allows the bus staff to get into the luggage compartment. kris got robbed, kev and i had been searched but we didn;t have anything nice enough to steal. lock your bags up tight!

As we still had another week before we had to head up to Bangkok and catch our flight to Vietnam, we decided to head over to Thailand's other coast, on the Andaman Sea, to Phuket. It was quite a distance from Ko Tao and our most feasible option was to take an overnight ferry to Surat Thani and then a bus continuing on to Phuket. The overnight fe...

Before the train had actually come to a standstill at Hat Yai station we were being harrassed by tuk-tuk drivers trying to drag us into their vehicles. A group of 8 of us got ourselves together before agreeing to being taken to the local bus station where Paul and I took a 5 hour coach to Surat Thani. This was a difficult journey as we'd been on...

after a two and a bit hrs. we arrive in Surat thani. At the local dock the only boats out tonight are freight boats. This would take 7hrs instead of 3hrs. We opp to stay the night and check out what this town has to offer. Well, not too much as far as hotel/bungalows go. We stayed at a cheap hotel (that's what they call it) for 200 baht. Cheap. ...

April 14, 2005 Left Phuket after surviving Songkhran, a week-long national holiday celebrating the Thai new year, punctuated halfway through by a massive countrywide waterfight where no one, not even the police - their guns and walkie talkies wrapped in plastic bags - is off limits. We had planned on leaving Phuket a few days before Songkhran, b...