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 Samui, Thailand travel tales
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| U Schmidt |
09 August 2002 |
Stayed at Koh Tao Coral Grand Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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The island is very beautiful, but there is a waste problem. Transport is well organised and it is no problem to move around. Snorkeling at Tanote Bay is fantastic.
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| B Taylor |
17 July 2002 |
Stayed at Samui Natien Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Mask Bar on the beach was a nice place to have a drink & watch the sunset. Staff were very friendly.
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| F Ding |
13 July 2002 |
Stayed at Le Royal Meridien Baan Taling Ngam - Samui, Thailand.
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Grossly overcharging for trips to the marine park and Ko Tao - about three times the market rate. Also very limited in airport transportation choices.
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| F Ding |
11 July 2002 |
Stayed at Imperial Samui Hotel, The - Samui, Thailand.
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A bit outside the main strip - need to take shared
taxi to get in town
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| R Han |
29 June 2002 |
Stayed at Central Samui Village - Samui, Thailand.
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I used the Samui International Diving School. It was excellent! It's all English speaking dive masters were helpful and very trustworthy. I got the Scuba Diver limited certification in only 2 days. They even let my friend that didn't want to dive along on the dive trip to snorkel.
I went on the Blue Skies Kayaking tour of the National Reserves. Definitely an awesome experience. We saw the other tours out in the Reserve as well, but they didn't do the caves and lagoons and tunnels that we got to go to. Blue Skies costs a little more, but it totally worth it.
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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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| P Manning |
13 May 2002 |
Stayed at Central Samui Village - Samui, Thailand.
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The free bus from the hotel was useful for travelling to the two main resort areas. I would not bother with a trip to the capital Nathon.
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| M Tobata |
06 May 2002 |
Stayed at Central Samui Beach Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Compared with Phuket Patong, there are less shops and restaurants but the environment here is better for families.
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| I Zere |
05 March 2002 |
Stayed at Central Samui Beach Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Koh Samui is a great place for relaxation.
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| E Amir |
21 February 2002 |
Stayed at Pavilion Samui Boutique Resort - Samui, Thailand.
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Excellent destination, very accessible by hiring a car or public transportation. Also easy to travel with small children.
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