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 Samui, Thailand travel tales
Our customers share their travelling experiences in Samui, Thailand.
Read about first hand stories on travel tips and guides, events, entertainment,shopping, food, business and transportation.
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| B Sullivan |
21 September 2001 |
Stayed at Pavilion Samui Boutique Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Recommend Samui Int'l Diving School.
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| T Jost |
09 September 2001 |
Stayed at Central Samui Village - Samui, Thailand.
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The hotel is located rather on the periphery of the tourist zones. Which makes it a nice place to stay if you are seeking something quiet.
We took a diving course which was VERY nice and took place daily at the hotel (SCUBA Diving).
Recommended restaurants are: Sawasdee House on the Lamai Beach (cheap and very tasty).
As the island is very small you can easily rent a motorbike to get to every spot in a decent amount of time.
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| G Bailey |
22 August 2001 |
Stayed at Chaweng Buri Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Koh Samui is idyllic and a great resort for chilling out
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| M Chadha |
03 August 2001 |
Stayed at Paradise Beach Resort Samui - Samui, Thailand.
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Go to Beverly Hills Restaurant. It is a view point, with excellent view of the sea.
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| S Spielman |
23 July 2001 |
Stayed at Samui Marina Cottage - Samui, Thailand.
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Koh Sumui is OK but the beaches not particularly stunning and the night-life pretty much standard Thai resort fare. Not exactly a paradise but a nice place. Rate as equal to Phuket (mostly)
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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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| 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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| G Neufeld |
21 May 2001 |
Stayed at Samui Marina Cottage - Samui, Thailand.
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If you stay at this resort make sure you take advantage of cheep moterbike rentals and go to Lami beach for the best beach atmosphere or Chewang beach for the best snokelling and swimming. Also take in an Elephant trek to the waterfalls...a great experience.
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| K Dubauskas |
13 May 2001 |
Stayed at Samui Marina Cottage - Samui, Thailand.
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Koh Samui is beautiful. I would recommend it to anyone. Shopping is great there, market style only. Make sure you stay somewhere with a pool as the beaches aren't great swimming beaches, except for Lamai which was my personal favourite....beautiful. Eating is FANTASTIC.....make sure you give the local cuisine a go, look for the busy and non-fancy looking places for the best and cheapest thai food. Also WILL WAIT bakery is great and cheap and every night they show movies (as do plenty of other places) and it's yummy! Rent a jeep and spend a day driving around the whole island......beautiful!!
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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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