Coral Bay Resort Koh Samui

Heading down to Koh Samui from Chiang Mai with food poisoning was not the most pleasurable part of our trip so far, and finding out that the islands were being hit by the worst monsoons they had seen for 70 yrs didn't do much to liven our spirits. Reports ...

... Aussies and some English people and have a great night. THere are so many more details that I will add from my journal when I get home... Look at my photos here: Koh Samui: ...

... the hotels we finally find our ideal place to stay and moved the next day - we are now staying at the absolutely delightful Coral Bay Resort In North Chaweng - GBP 60 a day and utterly lovely and luxurious - I even have a hair dryer. Saturday night we ...

... spa resort called the sanctuary just past Hat Rind, waiting for her return. I ended up at a very trendy beach resort called Coral Bay, complete with swimming pool, bar in pool and trendy restaurant with 3 other people from the retreat. A ...

After an extra 3 days recouperating in Ao Nang we hobbled to our awaiting van to take us over to the island of Koh Samui, some 4 hrs away by road and car ferry. Both CK and I were allowed to stay in the van while the other girls had to walk through with ...

... 't keep us on Samui for long and we soon moved to our next island, Ko Phang Nan. here we headed to the ven more remore Long Bay resort. This time our bungalow was even closer to the sea and much to my delight the food was very good. The rest is a sad tale ...

Having touched down in Bangkok around 11pm from Sydney we now had 7 hours to kill before our 6am flight to Koh Samui, so finding a relatively quiet spot or the airport we try and get our heads down and make camp for the night, literally! Out comes the ...

... day,earlier that day we were waiting on the beach an hour before our trip and bumped into 1 of the australian guys we met on Koh-samui(small world) we went out that night with the 2 aussies blake and john and a few others they met  and introduced us ...

... ’ which meant we would be able at a later stage to use the ticket again to get from Koh Tao to our final island destination, Koh Samui. We knew that we would arrive in Chumphon in the early morning and we were told that we would be stuck there for a ...

... journey to the pier where we had to wait around 20 minutes for the boat to arrive then people got off then we jumped on.  Koh Samui is just ok, but I wouldnt really recommend it for a honeymoon and i dont know if its changed over the years as this ...

Hey Everyone Well made it to Koh Tao. Koh Tao is a small island north of Koh Samui. It is about an hour by speed boat. As soon as we pulled in, I knew I would love it. Water was crystal clear, probably could see 15-20 feet down off the end of the ...

... door) for chicken with noodles. Take a walk to Bophut village down the beach - a stark contrast from the village near Wanna resort. Consists mainly of T-shirt shops, tourist nic-nacs and photomats. Go back and fall asleep. Wake up in the early hours ...

... roads, with some extremeley steep gradients. Our accomodation was set in Jansom Bay and although it was a small bay it was exclusive to the resort so there werent many people. It was a beautiful bay with smooth granite boulders spilling into a pristine ...

... before he goes back to norway which is cool. Got a trap cart to Hat Chaweang which is the longest stretch of beach on Koh Samui, its very beautiful, white sand and crystal clear water. Found a reasonable bungalow right on the beach with a pool and stuff ...

... our not so healthy shrimp instant noodles in tow. After the 2.5 hour journey we arrived at the ferry terminal and caught a boat to Koh Samui, the largest and most touristy of the Thai islands. Funnily, but not at the time, the engines on the boat were ...

... running our of water id shower this morning, and move to luxury, at four times the price (thats 6 quid then!) and Long Bay Resort is the choice - spend an hour relaxing in the pool overlooking the ocean.... Thursday 2nd September 2004 Off to Sail ...

... Nhat airport, half an hour outside Ho Chi Minh City. This time we had a two hour wait for an international departure to Koh Samui, via Singapore. Jet-setters or what? Our uncanny knack of always choosing the slowest check-in queue came up trumps yet ...

... we took the boat into Koh Som where we could at least get a beer and something to eat.    As we sat at lunch Koh Samui disappeared from view and we thought we were in for a long stay.     To cut a long story short, the ...

... not problem to get a songathew (that's just a fancy way to say we sat in the flatbed of a pickup) to our new lovely resort, Koh Tao Tropicana.  We got a big airy semi-detached bungalow in a gorgeous cool and shady meditation garden right beside a ...

... , then we are part of a lucky few;-) The journey was a relatively long one but an easy one at that – a ferry ride from Koh Samui to the mainland town of Surat Thani; a bus across the Thai peninsula to Krabi and from there it was another ferry to Koh ...