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 Traveller's Tales: Events in Samui, Thailand
Find out about special events in Samui, Thailand. You may read about local events and festivals. Also, you might want to read our
Bangkok city guide,
Chiang Mai city guide,
Hua Hin city guide,
Koh Samet city guide,
Koh Samui city guide,
Krabi city guide,
Pattaya city guide,
and Phuket city guide.
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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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| E Allen |
07 June 2001 |
Stayed at Amari Palm Reef Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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I loved Koh Samui. For me it was the perfect tradeoff between idyllic tropical beaches and after beach entertainment. It has a more upscale feel than Patong with cleaner, nicer beaches, better restaurants and accomodations, younger, better looking people, yet still a laid back and casual atmosphere and not packed with tourists, at least not while I was there.
The full moon party is not to be missed for the younger or younger at heart crowd. Contrary to what I read, I would strongly recommend staying on Koh Phangan for the night rather than relying on the f****ed up boat shuttles from Koh Samui. Trust me; it's survival of the fittest, tallest, and most willing to get wet when trying to get off that island from 5am onward...there are at least 50 people trying to get on each 10 passenger boat, and there isn't a dock or organized method of boarding. Whoever gets to it first, gets on. You must take the same boat back as the one that brought you there, so if you miss it (all boats look the same at 5am) or can't get to it first, you have to wait for it to make the 80min round trip. As far as getting there, although it's only a 40 minute boat ride, you will spend at least 40 minutes riding to every hotel crammed into the back of a pickup truck, waiting for and picking up passengers. Same drill going back when the sun's coming up. Quite the buzzkill.
Koh Samui has many wild dogs roaming the beaches. Beware, not of the dogs, (although some have been seen foaming at the mouth), but how you lay on the beach. Be sure to lay on a chair or towel, and walk with shoes or sandals on the sand. I came back from Southeast Asia with an unusual condition called 'creeping eruption'. It is a worm that is carried in the intestines of dogs and cats in tropical areas, but passes into the skin of humans. Dogs dump, the worms (too small to see) remain in the sand, and enter humans through hair follicles. It's not a big deal; they can't get past the top layer of our skin and therefore can't regenerate in humans, and the symptoms are only a minor inconvenience, but it's a hassle nonetheless.
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