How to get back to Samet Island in Bangkok? Travel and transportation guide

Thailand’s Samet Island is also a good attraction. Now the editor will tell you about the travel and transportation guide to Samet Island. You can pay attention to the relevant transportation information when you go there.

There is a minibus from Bangkok Airport directly to Koh Samet. On Khao San Road, where foreign tourists are concentrated in Bangkok, almost every travel agency sells transportation packages to Koh Samet, including a van from Bangkok to the pier on the other side of Koh Samet (the journey takes about 3 and a half hours), and also includes a trip to Koh Samet. Ferry tickets to the island (the boat trip takes about 40 minutes). If you take the morning bus, it is best to buy the ticket the day before. If you buy it at last minute, you may not have a seat.

1) From Bangkok city to Koh Samet (including return trip)

You can choose to take the BTS Skytrain to the bus station to buy a ticket, take a bus to the pier, and then buy a ferry ticket to go there Samet Island. The method is as follows:

From Bangkok Ekkamai Terminal East Bus Station

We go to Ekkamai Terminal East Bus Station and take a bus to Ban Phe Pier

, and then transfer to Samet. Island. From BTSEkkamai Station, get off Exit 2 and walk to the intersection where you will find EasternBus

Terminal. There are buses from the East Bus Station to the eastern provinces of Thailand such as Pattaya, Rayong, and Koh Samed.

Enter the station from the main entrance. There are many ticket offices in the lobby. Most of them go to Pattya's 117B on the right. Look to the left hand side for the BANPHE_KOHSAMED window No. 5 to buy tickets (BANPHE

is bound for Koh Samet. Entrance and exit), the ferry ticket to and from Ko Samet is 173B + 100B per person. Remember to ask if it is a nonstop bus. There is a bus every hour and it takes 3 minutes to arrive at BanPhe

Pier. Tickets can also be purchased at the pier.

There is a luggage storage room in the bus station. It costs 60b per day regardless of size. The service staff will issue a receipt to you by hand. You need to pay in advance. If it exceeds the original reserved storage days, you can come back to collect it and pay the difference. No There is an overtime fee.

The final stop is BANPHE station, and you can take the return trip here.

After a 3-hour drive, get off the bus and walk across the street next to the 7-11. It goes directly to BanPhePier to take the boat. There is a window before the boat that charges government tax to enter the Koh Samet Island

It is 200B per person, because the government stipulates that entering the mainland of the Koh Samet control area requires a tax. Tax is charged by our hotel. (Koh

Samed is a national park and requires payment of entrance fee, 200b for foreigners and 40b for Thais. The administrator will walk to the car to charge one by one)

There will be 7 piers at the pier after disembarking. -11, there are only 2 on the island, so it’s better to buy more things to go to the hotel. The only transportation on the island is motor and Songtiao buses. Songtiao buses cost 20B each to go anywhere

Leave Koh Samet and return to Bangkok or Pattaya

There is a minibus from Ban Phe Pier to Bangkok or Pattaya. You can also take a bus back to Bangkok.

After having breakfast early in the morning, we were ready to go to Pattaya, another seaside. From the hotel front desk, we learned that there is a minibus going to BanPhe

Pier. There are three buses a day, 250B per person. But it turns out that there will be other minibuses as soon as you walk out of the pier. The ones that are full are only 200B. But be careful and ask if you want to go to your hotel first, because they usually only take the air to Pattaya

ConditionedBusTerminal, when you get to the hotel, you have to take a motorbike or Songtiao bus. We just didn't say hello and the driver left us there to take a motorbike to the hotel. We were dizzy.

The following information is for reference:

Bangkok East Bus Terminal-BanPhePier bus timetable

Departure time: 7 am - 3 pm ( Departs on the hour).

Also, 16:30, 18:00, 19:00, 20:30

Return time: 05:00, 07:00, 09:00-19:00 (departure on the hour).

Rayong to Koh Samet ferry timetable

Outbound time: 11:00, 13:30, 16:00

Return time: 10:00 , 12:30, 15:00

2) From Bangkok Airport to Koh Samet (including return trip)

First take a bus to Pattaya, and then take a bus from Pattaya to Rayong Pier .

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport->Pattaya

It is recommended to take the belltravelservice car, 200B (1.5hr) directly to the hotel door

At the airport There is a counter at gate 1/F8 with the word "pattaya" written on it.

Timetable: The bus starts at 8:00 in the morning, and the last bus is at 22:00. The bus departs every hour on average, which is convenient and fast.

Pattaya~Rayong Pier

minibus350B with one-way boat (1hr)

Timetable: 08:00/12:00/15:30

At the hotel, you can ask the front desk clerk to help reserve a minibus, which will take you to the pier in 1 hour

Rayong Pier ~ Samet Island

Big boat (45-60mins) and package tickets

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It is very slow but you can enjoy the nearby islands and scenery

In fact, you can also take a speedboat on the outbound trip, and white speedboat is 250B per person

The location is as follows (X place) - homemade Map:

Same Island~Rayong Pier

*Speedboat speedboat 250B (15mins)

Only available when staying at SamedVillaResort><

Some designated The time will be 100B cheaper!

Rayong Pier~Bangkok

*minibus200B(2.5-3hr)

*Bus157B(3-3.5hr)<--Suitable Passengers with large luggage

Please pay attention to the self-made map for the boarding location

Timetable:

In fact, I believe the journey only takes 2hr

Because it takes a long time for the driver to refuel and pick up guests from different places

The drop-off location is the victorymounmentbts roundabout

From Pattaya to Koh Samet

Take a bus from Pattaya South to Rayong. In Pattaya, you can directly find a motorcycle driver and tell him to take you for a ride. You are going to Rayong. He will take you to wait for the bus under a bridge. There is a shuttle bus to Rayong there. When you arrive at the station in Rayong, There will be a bunch of people asking you if you are going to Ko Samet in the car. Among them, there is "Song Tiao", which only costs 20 baht. There are also taxis, which cost 200 baht. Then, they will take you to the one going to Ko Samet. At the port, you need to buy a ticket first and then get on the boat, it’s 50 baht. . . For speedboat, it’s 100 to 200.

PS: It takes about an hour from Pattaya to Rayong, and 30 to 40 minutes from Rayong to the pier in Samet.

From the pier in Samet On the island, it takes 30 to 40 minutes. When you get to the island, you have to take the "Song Tiao" to enter the park area. To enter the beach in the park area, foreigners have to pay an entrance fee of 200 baht and Thais 40.

Book a car from a roadside travel shop in Pattaya (TAXI1100B/car, 1 hour journey), and take it directly from the hotel to Vongduern on Banpen Pier

Resort office, 10:00, 13: 30 free shuttle boats to the hotel (return trip 11:30). (VAN in Pattaya is 300B/person, departs at 9:00, and the journey is 1.5 hours). It is recommended that if 2-4 people take a direct taxi, it is really not much more expensive than taking a VAN. Save time and effort.

For the return trip from banpen to bangkok, book a van from the hotel office for 300B/person, and send it directly to Victoria Station. The whole trip is 3 hours

Snorkeling is available on the island at the same price for the entire island. Itinerary from 12:00-17:00, 600B, including a lunch of fried rice. The snorkeling environment was OK, and we even snorkeled in a cave, which was very unique.

Transportation on Samet Island: We asked the hotel front desk to book a car and shared a van to go to Rayong Pier for 300 baht per person. The official ferry ticket from Rayong to Koh Samet is 100 baht per person round trip.

On Koh Samet, you mainly rely on your own rented means of transportation. You can rent bicycles, motorcycles, and ATVs.

Generally speaking, the cheapest motorcycle is 300 baht a day, but we two mentally retarded people rented a 500 baht at the hotel front desk. It was already full of gas, and we couldn’t use it up even after running for two days and two nights. That kind of thing.

Samei Island also has its own taxis, which are actually the cargo seats of pickup trucks.