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Rose, if you have the time could you report back here after your trip and tell us what you found out? I've taken a couple of holidays on Noi but have not done the Phang Nga islands from there yet.

Hi,

As promised - some details on our trip, although I doubt I am adding anything knew bearing in mind you have visited the island twice already.

We loved Koh Yao Noi it was the highlight of our tour of Thailand. We had a disappointing guided kayak expedition from Ko Lanta so really wanted to find more bespoke kayak trips. We travelled all over the island on bike and motorbike and in the end so taken with the place we were quite happy not to stray too far and hire sit on top kayaks that were readily available along the beaches and paddle to small islands nearby. We got a kayak,wet bag and snorkles to ourselves for the full day for 500baht.

Outside Coconut Corner there is a tour hut with some some hi-spec sit in kayaks available to hire with an advert for bespoke tours - this sounded really promising but we did not look into it further, but will do so when we return to the island.

Lamsai hotel had individual kayaks and is well positioned to allow easy crossing to Koh Yao Yai but I don't know how much they charge and if its just for guests or not.

We took a speedboat from Tha Kaho (200 baht) to Ao Talen /Tha len pier on the mainland on our journey home(having arrived via Phuket). It took 20 minutes to get across and there was a large kayak company with hundreds of kayaks next to the pier with tours of of the karsts. I think we couldn'be easily taken a day trip to the mainland or spent one night/day at Ao Talen (the pier is in a stunningly picturesque setting) and do a tour from there in future perhaps: http://www.seakayak-krabi.com/ there was a bungalow place nearby http://www.bananas-bungalows.com/bungalows/bungalow-krabi.html