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kriskeogh
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We have five days there and don't really want it to be anything more than a place to sleep so what is worth doing as days out or combining two shorter trips into one day, like sea kayaking in a morning and then something else in the afternoon.
We definately want to do a trip to Phi Phi and to Ko Lanta but what else is worth doing?
#1 Posted: 16/2/2012 - 05:23
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then you have clearly chosen the wrong place to stay-why have all that trouble going in+out any day for visits-stay in Krabi town and enjoy the balmy evenings at the foodmarket pierside and lower prices. All those islands pretty much look the same to me-beach, bungalows etc. You might consider-if you stay Krabi-town, a trip out to a little further PangNga-with the James Bond scenery rocks in the sea.
#2 Posted: 17/2/2012 - 02:20
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Thanks for your reply, Ao Nang was more down to my wife than me as she wanted somewhere with a beach and some shops/bars and places to eat. We haven't booked the hotel there yet, it is pay on arrival or cancel before hand.
I want to do a trip to Ko Lanta too as originally we were gonna spend our last week in Thailand island hopping from Langkawi northwards finishing up at Krabi then flying back to BKK.
#3 Posted: 17/2/2012 - 06:07
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1. Krabi town-why even wonder about it-is full of bars. places to eat etc-remember that evening night market I mentioned?-but is not that noisy or scream+shout+drink too muth as Phuket or Samui.
The prob with ANg is the cumbersome way you have to make every day-first out to Krabi town-then to busstation-and back late afternoon (nothing runs after 18.00-except private hire)-if you stay there, sit put and do the beachy things. As any guidebook would also have explained.
As you asked about to Lanta: daft easy-and again a guidebook thing; the normal way (that means not for tourists who think they should go by boat-as its an island) is the hourly van Krabi town-via carferry into Lanta, also a lot faster and much more choice of times as that ferry. It uses the main orad and hence bypasses the airportturn off too. For a day out to there-need I really need to say you could also combine these 2 means?
#4 Posted: 21/2/2012 - 02:48