Crew make everyone stack there bags in one place at the front of the boat and then do nothing to assist customers collect their bags to disembark leaving chaos. This made us late for our train connection. The boat was also late departing.
The boat to Koh Tao was extremely crowded and hot, so it felt a bit like a COVID trap. No AC, no fans, and no way to get outside to the deck or to an upper deck outside. The return boat was much better with spacing and AC.
travel was ok. Were on time at airport, with two unexpected stops (one at railway station chumphon and one in the middle of the highway to pick up an additional passenger from another bus). This was a potentially dangerous stop, next to the road at a very busy part!
Very good. Speedboat Koh Tao to chumphon. Van to airport. Then we booked a flight with Nok air to DMK.
For anyone reading this: if you have a flight from BKK you can take a free shuttle bus from DMK -> BKK. It’s located in the ground floor of DMK terminal 1, exit 6
Departure Time was set to 14:45p.m. Lucky for us we were allready checked in and on Board of the ship at 14:15p.m. because the Ship departured at 14:20p.m. without any warning or reason or announcemend. Being too Late I can understand and tolerate. But leaving 25min ahead of shedule I can Not understand and accept. What about the people who were left behind without them being too Late???
Can’t condemn it too much, it’s probably just the nature of the thing. Not a good alternative available, anyway; but the sleeping quartes were in a windowless cargo hold with no ventilation. Woke with a nasty cough feeling rather unrested.