Brian found a great little cheap room for 2 nights. It was €25 per night and was brand new, right beside the beach on Bo Phut, about ten minutes from Chaweng beach, the main tourist spot.
The Thai people always say "Same, same" when they are asking you if you want the same round again or if they're showing you the Thai equivalent of what you asked for, i.e. they'll try to give you some mad Thai concoction of madness when you ask for a vodka red bull and will say "same, same" with a big huge smile on their face. Anyone who has been to Thailand will have seen the t-shirts that they sell everywhere with the words "Same, Same" on the front and "But Different" on the back. They sell them in all the tourist spots.
Koh Samui island is same, same but same. It's similar to Phi Phi in that the beach is stunning looking but again, they're not looking after it and it has become really built up, especially around Chaweng. The towns are badly planned, or not planned a all, with smelly streets from overworked sewage systems and a million electricity cables running overhead.
It was good fun though with some cool beach bars but 2 days there was plenty. Maybe if the weather had been better we might have had a different opinion, everything looks nicer in the sunshine.
We decided to give Koh Phangan a miss as it's also meant to be "same, same" and we were looking for paradise and had heard Koh Tao was amazing and less travelled as its a bit further away.
Before we left for our boat to Koh Tao, we had a surprisingly good full Irish breakfast! With proper tea and all. Savage!
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