CHECKED OUT OF OUR HILLTOP SUITE IN BANS DIVE RESORT AND INTO A SLIGHTLY SMALLER ONE.WE LIKE BANS SO MUCH WE DECIDED TO STAY UNTIL WE HEAD BACK UP TO BANGKOK ON JUNE 9TH.THE RESORT (AS IS KOH TAO) DEFINATELY NOT FULL SO I GOT QUITE A GOOD REDUCTION FOR THE ROOM.THE POOL IS GREAT,IT HAS A JACUZZI,A BAR AND IS SURROUNDED BY TROPICAL GARDENS.THE BEST THING IS THAT AS SO MANY PEOPLE WHO STAY HERE DO SOME KIND OF DIVING COURSE -ITS NICE AND QUIET MOST OF THE DAY! THE ...

GREETINGS ALL. WE LEFT BANGKOK LAST FRIDAY AND CAUGHT THE 6AM COACH DOWN TO CHUMPHON.THE COACH WAS QUITE COMFY BUT SITTING ANYWHERE FOR SEVEN HOURS IS NOT IDEAL,NOT UNLESS YOUR NAME IS MIMI-SHE SLEPT NEARLY THE ENTIRE JOURNEY WHILST I PLAYED SWAT THE MOSQUITO (WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THE COACH COMPANY COULD HAVE FUMIGATED IT AT BANGKOK!)AT CHUMPHON WE TOOK A HIGH SPEED CATAMARAN TO KOH TAO OTHERWISE KNOWN AS TURTLE ISLAND.IT TOOK 90 MINUTES AND THE SEA WAS A BIT CHOP...

Dave Arrived in Bangkok about 1545 Saturday 2nd May 2009.Flight with Quantas very good-luckily for me it was not bumpy!Very modern airport was full of Thai medical staff wearing face masks and pointing heat sensitive cameras at us to check for possible swine flu!Queued for ages at immigration then when it was our turn we sailed through.We only applied for a 60 day tourist visa but oddly they gave us until 29th October?! Bags were already on the conveyerbelt and w...