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 Traveller's Tales: Entertainment suggestions in Samui, Thailand
Sample the happening nightlife near in Samui, Thailand. You may read about their entertainment tips and guides. Find out about entertainment centres, recreation, theatre, arts and night life. Also, you might want to read our
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| R Scott |
28 May 2004 |
Stayed at Muang Kulaypan Hotel - Samui, Thailand.
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I've been to Phuket before and I would have to say that I enjoyed Koh Samui more. It is much less developed and therfore not the madhouse that the other island is. The one downside is that it can be hard to find a good meal as most of the restaurants cater to European palates (ie blander than average food). Koh Samui is a great island to relax by the beach and catch some sun and just plain unwind. In addition to the Muang Kulaypan hotel and its restaurant I also enjoyed Arc Bar (great place to spend a few hours at sunset with a drink, the cool crowd, and great music) and Eat Sense Restaurant. It has a perfect location and better than average food.
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| T Lim ming tiong |
13 May 2004 |
Stayed at Arayaburi Boutique Resort (Bayview Village) - Samui, Thailand.
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If you are at koh samui, rent a jeep to travel around at koh samui at least 1 day.
As for where to eat, you can choose Drop In Restaurant. It's cheap and good(Chaweng). If you like to lay around at beach and have same drinks, go to chaweng beach and you can find few pubs and restaurants along the beach and spend a great evening with your loved one.
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| K Gunnar |
22 June 2002 |
Stayed at Pavilion Samui Boutique Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Koh Samui is a very beautiful island with very nice white-sand beaches and really clean water, which is remarkably seldome for Asian beaches. Though in the water there are also cliffs covering about half of Lamai beach making it not the perfect experience to swim there. But in contrast to Phuket there are no jellyfishes in the water.
But everything what comes behind the nice beaches and the fitted resort- and hotel-front is not so nice in Caweng and Lamai beach, which I saw. Both beach-towns gave me more the impression of a meeting-point for tattooed bike-driving yuppies than a relaxing holiday-destination for families. The beach-roads of Chaweng and Lamai have a dirty, neglected and noisy athmosphere. The average picture of Chaweng and especially Lamai beach road is a alternation of beer-bars, girly-bars, restaurants, small supermarkets and copy-product shops. There is no continuous pedestrian area, so you have to step up and down all the time and walk on the busy street, which is quite dangerous - especialy for children. The motorbikes drive some times by far too fast.
Restaurants serving good food and are quite cheap, but you are heavily exposed to the noise of the street. Every evening they used to drive for 3 hours up and down the beachroad with a pickup packed with big boxes advertising noisily for the next 'ritual' techno-rave party taking place every week.
This athmosphere yuppies may find 'funky' but its definitely not suitable for families with young children. Especially because the general price-level of the hotels and resort is much higher compare to Phuket, I have expected 'quality-holiday' with clean streets and restaurants. The administration of Koh Samui will have to invest heavily in an upgrade to lift the apperance of Chaweng and Lamai. And stop noisy advertising of beach-parties. Who wonders that no international Hotel-chain wants to construct hotels on those beaches. Le Meridien has constructed their 5-star resort on a remote west-beach.
I have been told that other beaches in the north and west are much better, so most probably the above said doesn't apply to them.
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| A Davies |
20 February 2002 |
Stayed at Chaweng Buri Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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The main drag of Cheweng beach is very touristy, noisy (taxi's motorbikes), dusty. But there are heaps of restaurants, shops bars etc. If you take a trip out to the marine park at Ang Thong on a speedboat, make sure you go on a calm day as the boat crew seem to get a real kick out of riding the waves and making everyone feel very seasick. There are some great restarants on the island.
We picked up the Samui Dining Guide when we got to the island and found some great places to eat in it (Betelnut, Upstairs and Budsaba)
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| P Lageweg |
09 December 2001 |
Stayed at Central Samui Beach Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Koh Samui is a nice beach resort with decent shopping area and night life. It is far from a deserted island, but it has protected its beautiful natural scenery. For instance, you won't find many fat Germans looking for a young Thai girl like in Phuket and Pattaya. Beautiful tropical style airport. Excellent tourist service throughout. Highly advisable destination for a relaxed beach oriented holiday. Nice young crowd and at 20 min. From the best fool moon party in the world.
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| H Smith |
19 July 2001 |
Stayed at Chaweng Buri Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Koh Samui is a beautiful island located just over one hours' flight from Bangkok. The Chaweng region of the island is great, long sandy beaches, the warmest sea water I have ever been, hundreds of places to eat, drink, shop. Great nightlife too.
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| D Wood |
28 April 2001 |
Stayed at Central Samui Beach Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Love Ko Samui. We have been to Ko-Pee pee and think Ko Samui is the better choice for an overall good time of beach, pool, expoloring and shopping fun. David
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