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We took a flight from the Adaman Sea to the Gulf of Thailand to check out some of the islands on the eastern front. We heard that Koh Samui was similar to Phuket so instead of spending much time there we just used it as a stopover one night before heading out to Ko Pha Ngan the next morning. Up to this point our lodging has been great. It seemed the further you wander into island life the quality of the lodging seemed to dwindle off (more on the Koh Tao report). I would have to say that our lodging in Koh Samui was bad. Embarrassed to say I was the one that booked it. It was through the phone with a lady who barely spoke English....I was a tad skeptical, but was trying to be optmistic....too optimistic. They did have rooms for us, but not the ones we asked for and basically none of the rooms were good. Thank God we were there for only one night. The boys called it the Reptilarium because they saw a huge lizard crawl back into our headboard before I came in the room.

Venturing out into Thai Island Life

Casey Lary
2006-02-20 15:13:02

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We took a flight from the Adaman Sea to the Gulf of Thailand to check out some of the islands on the eastern front. We heard that Koh Samui was similar to Phuket so instead of spending much time there we just used it as a stopover one night before heading out to Ko Pha Ngan the next morning. Up to this point our lodging has been great. It seemed the further you wander into island life the quality of the lodging seemed to dwindle off (more on the Koh Tao report). I would have to say that our lodging in Koh Samui was bad. Embarrassed to say I was the one that booked it. It was through the phone with a lady who barely spoke English....I was a tad skeptical, but was trying to be optmistic....too optimistic. They did have rooms for us, but not the ones we asked for and basically none of the rooms were good. Thank God we were there for only one night. The boys called it the Reptilarium because they saw a huge lizard crawl back into our headboard before I came in the room.

This is near the Koh Samui dock. They are supposed to bring you good luckafterwe left. If I knew there was a huge lizard that could easily crawl across my face in the middle of the night (maybe the boys were hoping this would happen???) I do not think I could have slept all night. Samui...did not see much and from what I have heard we did not miss too much. There were HUGE long sand beaches, and we were not even on the main beach. Those were beautiful. Walking along our beach it was resort after resort. If you are into that stuff, then Samui is your place. They were absolutely amazing...but we were looking for something more original. Early in the morning we left the Reptilarium and headed out to Ko Pha Ngan.

Approaching Ko Pha Ngan I was so excited. The weather was amazing, it looked awesome...yes!!! There are literally no real roads on Ko Pha Ngan. Everything is dirt. We got off the boat and headed to our next GREAT (sense the sarcasm) lodging, the Leela Bungalows. ...

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