Stearns Bank Na

Stearns Bank Na

Stearns Bank Na

As word spread about Samui’s pristine beauty, friendly inhabitants, unsophisticated charm and its cheapness this Thai Bali H’ai was discovered by the travelling classes looking for a different retreat for just two weeks of the year.

Getting to Kho Samui

There are three ways of getting to the island, the cheapest is by long distance coaches leave Bangkok’s Southern Bus Terminal every night on a bus-boat package for 900 baht, OR the preferable VIP bus. Both drop off at Surat Thani where the island ferry departs to Samui’s main port of Na Thon.

Thai railways have a good overnight train-bus-ferry service from Bangkok. A second class sleeper costs about 800 baht and a first class one slightly more.