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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Can you make the trip Kanchanaburi – Koh Tao in one day?
Dear readers,
On August 15 we will leave for Thailand for the first time. We stay in Bangkok for a few days, and then stay on Koh Tao for a few days via Ayutthaya and Kanchanaburi.
Is it possible to make the trip Kanchanaburi – Koh Tao in one day?
How do we best approach this?
Thanks.
Dirk
You can of course take a taxi, but I often take the 8.00 bus from Hua Hin to Koh Tao. You can buy tickets for that bus in advance from a travel agent in Kanchanaburi. From Kanchanaburi you have to leave at about 5 o'clock, taxis are reasonably affordable.
With a helicopter you have a chance
Taxi to chumpon pier is the closest. You can check the times of the ferry Chumpon Ko Tao on the Internet.
Otherwise it will be the next morning. Means early leave from kanchanaburi. Why the rush?
Everything is possible, but I would take more time, it is about 600 km apart and there is enough to see to spend a few days here. I would adjust the Dutch pace to the Thai pace if you want to enjoy your trip a bit
see if you can get a connection with the night train to Chumphon and then transfer by boat to Koh Tao, then it is possible to make this trip within 24 hours.
There are several options, but all take about 10-12 hours, and if you feel like that in your holiday….
By train to Chumpon and then the ferry takes about 12 hours if you are lucky, bus to BKK, plane Koh Samui and ferry Koh Tao about 10 hours, or by taxi to Ratchaburi, there bus 872 to Chumpon and the ferry can be done in 11 hours.
Good luck if you want to do that in 1 day…
That is very possible in 1 day.
Minibus from Kanchanaburi to Huahin.
Hence buying a bus-boat combo ticket for 850 baht. Huahin – Chumpon speedboat Koh Tao.
Can also go directly to Chumpon from Kanchanaburie with a taxi, but is much more expensive.
I don't know if there is a bus from Kanchanaburie directly to Chumpon.
What you can also do is take the night bus when you are in Huahin. Then you arrive at Chumpon around 4 o'clock at night and then wait a few more hours for the 1st boat.
Hi Dirk,
From Kanchanaburi take a public transport bus to Bangkok (these run many times a day and are cheap at 150 baht per person). Get dropped off at Rambuttri (near Koh San road). From there take the bus from Lomprayah and it will take you to the pier in Chumpon, where you will take their high-speed catamaran to Koh Tao. Buses leave Bangkok at 6:00 am, arriving at Koh Tao at 14:45 or 21:00 pm, arriving at Koh Tao at 8:45 am the next morning. Costs p/p 100 baht one way all in, which is about 29 euros. Site to book http://www.lomprayah.com
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Rob
Hi Dirk,
Error in top message, costs are 1100 baht p/p/, typed too fast.
Rob
In 1 day is not that difficult.
You book a flight from Bangkok to Koh Samui via Nok Air.
You go from Kanchanaburi back to Bankok.
Flies from Bangkok to Koh Samui.
And in Koh Samui you take the boat.
Google it: ferry koh samui koh tao