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Hi,

First, calm down, it's not like you're leaving tomorrow right?

The best is usually not the cheapest, and the cheapest is not usually the quickest, but it looks like Air Asia has a promotion on flights from Phuket to Bali around those dates. It's around 3,500 baht one-way, which is half of what it would cost from Bangkok to Bali, and Phuket's closer to Ko Phangan anyway. Of course, you would need to ferry from Phangan to Surat Thani then bus or mini bus from there to Phuket, so you might end up needing to spend one night in Phuket if they don't have late flights that day. Otherwise you could always fly from Surat Thani to Bangkok and then Bangkok to Bali, but that would be considerably more expensive. Or, you could maybe fly Surat Thani to Kuala Lumpur and then onwards to Bali.

If I were you, I'd go to www.airasia.com and try some different possibilities (i.e. Surat Thani to Kuala Lumpur to Bali / Phuket to Bali / Bangkok to Bali / etc. You'll probably want to fly direct from Bali to Bangkok for the way back, but if Bali to Phuket is much cheaper you could see what the cost of Bali to Phuket to Bangkok would be, or bus from Phuket to Bangkok.

Be patient and just figure out what's best for you.

Yes we were considering flying from phuket to bali also but where can I get good information on bus or ferry times? That is the part where I get confused are they available quite frequently? Is there a website that I can pre arrange tickets?

?/ does not really that troll-ish to-me-but more tipical 1st time newbie ignorance.Obviously you can + should prebook flights.
There is NO site and NO way to prebook the other land-trips-just imagine (yes, i understand that looks soooooooo 20th century to hyper-cyber-young-20y-Icannotbelieve thatall-)plus that your anxiety is way over the top for that anyway. There is no need for it, no discount-this is Th and we live happily that way without much fuss. When on P-A simply pop in 5 mins to any of the multitude of tr-agents and let you inform. ALWAYS distrust any saying that it take ''just 4-5 hrs''=add a few more if a flight has to be caught. Or-also very, very oldfashioned; open that guidebook and read what it says-it might even still hold.

This person has already got everything sorted Somtam. In spite of being advised to calm down because there was no rush, he/she decided to rush off and book a ticket on a morning flight from Surat Thani on the 5th (which probably means they'll have to leave KPN on the 4th, either still totally wasted or at least with a massive hangover)

Apparently this person didn't want to go to Bali ... actually wanted to go to Bangkok for a RETURN flight (somewhere) and although they asked about the cheapest way to get to Bali, money appears to be no object.

http://www.travelfish.org/board/post/thailand/18361_travel-from-koh-phangan-to-surat-thani

I still reckon this one has got to be a troll...if it were a typical clueless hyper-cyber-young-20y it would have been able to figure out the search terms needed to google KPN ferry schedules.

*wai*

No need to get all hysterical my dear. You've got two threads on this forum and cross referencing them so that people are aware of all the inconsistencies in your story is not being rude. You've been posting deliberately misleading information about this so called "itinerary" of yours... I'm not the person wasting other people's time around here.