The boat bus boat trip to Koh Tao

So we booked our ticket, the taxi boat was to take us to the mainland pier at 2pm, where a bus was to pick us up, drive us 4 or 5 hours to Chumphon where we were to catch an overnight ferry at 11:00pm to arrive on the Island of Koh Tao.


Ok, first things first, they dropped us off at a massive long pier which took 15 minutes to walk down where there was 3 buses waiting in which none are ours and all the other people climbed onto and carried on leaving us in the dust in the middle of a nowhere road.

After almost giving up hope our deluxe air con van pulled up with only the two of us jumping in- now a bit skeptical we picked up another passenger Matt and he took us all the way to the pier.

Now the traveling bit of traveling is always a little bit tougher than anything else but this was luxurious, the 3 of us cruising in the back watching Minority report all the 4 hour way to Chumphon where we were to catch a night ferry over to Koh Tao.

Now we thought we had it made, our night ferry was going to be the sweetest thing ever, only to our surprise turned out to be taking off again from the middle of nowhere, not even a pier and it was a dinky old fishing boat/ tug boat that was green white and blue with a layer of thin mattresses for us to sleep.

Now we had a laugh to begin with, because hey- this is pretty cool, however Matt then told us we could potentially be robbed or chucked to sea or something horrible. When travelling you generally tend to be wary of your things ( all our money/ passports) always kept in our packsafes on our body at all times but this was a 6 hour night ferry departing at 11pm and going all through the night with the only passengers being us, another couple ( Katerina and Tadej) and Matt who were all asleep within 5 minutes of the journey. Tom and I wary that 7 Thai men were walking around us all night and barely slept at all. Quite the ride, we eventually fell asleep cuddling our big bags and awoke at the pier safe and sound with our bags and packsafes in tow. Phheeeuuuff!