Samui Coconut

Still need to be VERY CAREFULL IN SAMUI these days:

Today :From a friend:

"My DIL works at Samui Airport she called us this morning saying thousands of tourist asked for living Samui to spend Songkran elsewhere in Thailand, also more scary she told us Police are looking for 2 other (supposed) bombs still somewhere on the island (?) "

There are still more than 10 flights available today to BKK alone, so not sure what the problem is of these "thousands of tourists".

Thank you very much for your replies, I guess a Beach Buggy is the way to go? I saw some for sale with plates so I assume they are road legal

ASSuME is the right word. You wont have much fun with them on Samui beaches.....

Not used her myself but heard very good things about Liz Luxen. http://www.liz-luxen.com/

Best there is!

If you could be a bit more specific, I might be able to help. Baking supplies as in flour, yeast (dry) decors etc. can find in several supermarkets. Equipment as in baking forms, tart shells, rolling pin can also be found. Otherwise try Schmidt Co. in Lamai.

Reality is different things to different folks.

Reality to me is having no rest and all of my staff are working their little socks off. They are desperate for a break (but they are earning lots of overtime). I have even had to hire a temp.

Yes we had guests checking out on the 5th, 6th and 7th as Carmine forecast, but then we had check-ins for the 6th, 7th and 8th.

All of the villas that I manage (and that are available for renting) are occupied until the end of Feb with more than half already booked out until mid April.

Maybe the depression is a Chaweng/Lamai thing.

All of the good restaurants (well the ones that I visit) are very busy, That's in Bangrak and Choengmon. Of course, there are those who never have enough money and grumble about how 'quiet' it is.

I was in Antica Locanda (Bangrak) the other night and they complained saying 'busy but now quiet'! By the time we finished our meal the place was full with people queueing. They could not take any more customers.

Another factor that I use for gauging how busy we are - car hire. Both companies that I use have no cars available for customers. They are having to borrow cars from their friends.

For those of you working out there - I hope that your businesses have a successful 2015 and if you are suffering in the deprssion - may things improve for you at Chinese New year. Or Easter. Or Songkhran.

Agree, I need a break too. Since just before Christmas non-stop action.....and the first week of this year started excellent too.

I think Fishermans Village is the nicest and most up-market area in Samui. Through April and May I stayed at The Lodge which is right on the beach in Walking Street. There are 50 restaurants and bars in its 400 metre length (no girly bars or massage parlours). I could lie on my bed and gaze out of my window at the ocean and Koh Phangan island and nothing stirred in the street until about 10AM. And the tastefully designed The Wharf shopping centre has just 20140519_123402.jpgopened in Walking Street with 120 outlets. I think I paid 24,000 per month all included.

Hope you are not serious! Agree with the Lodge though.

Not my cup of tea at all, too much concrete, restaurants have no own toilets (only public) and they are filthy...Anyway, one should give the project time, it just opened, Rom wasn't built over night either.

Who is the German Consul on Samui? Since when has one been appointed ?

I have contacted already the Deutsche Hilfsverein Thailand and should have an answer back by tomorrow morning.

I am more then happy to assist financially as well. Sadly she doesn't have a passport otherwise she could stay with us in Sakon Nakhon and leave this world with happiness.

Please let us know what they said. Whatever the answer, happy to help financially as this is what is needed most I understand.

The OP is asking for a CIMATE CONTROLLED (air-con) restaurant that serves BRUNCH on 25th December. So after you narrow it down to all air-con places (which I believe are not too many) and then check if they serve Brunch on 25th. None of the previous answers has addressed this, everyone is talking about Christmas DINNER...

Anyway, looking forward to see if there is such a place. I stick with Ocean 11 as the previous years....

Also try contacting your hotel again. It sounds strange that they don't answer, as every guest house is happy to provide pick up service. Who di you make your booking through? With hotel directly or agent ? If need any help, just PM me.

it is realy funny how all th TV members jump on every stupid interview of a thai official, this curfew never can happend because for this must be a law and it would means everybody would have to be at home at 10 pm,

how they prove this peopel are not tourists? I just meet last week 4 women from myamar in Chiang Mai who spent a weekend there.

Youu cant make a curfew on nationality or work even Thailand cant do!

But you all believe it, if a Thai say something stupid and not workable, even after more than 100 stupids interviews in the last months, still people react like it is real. So all the dive intructors working on the islands now ou will time to sleep early because your day finish at 10 pm

Well, apparently it is the law already for a while. Obviously one can see in the passports whether its a tourist or resident (at least here in the south). I guess there is not much diving up there in CM; but let me advise you that dive instructors usually finish much earlier than 10pm as they attend English classes before going to bed.

Next step, concentration camp!

Yes, did the governor think before he opened his mouth? What an utter nonsense....Koh Auschwitz, Koh Dachau and Koh Bergen Belsen...because migrant workers speak better English than most Thais they have to be in bed when the street lights come on??? There will come a time when the migrant worker will NOT pretend he/she is Thai....but be proud of his/her own nationality. And that time is not too far away.....

Imagine locking up Thai Nationals in your home country at 10pm daily......what a joke!

Interestingly enough Hong Kong is 16655 THB return (27th-31st Oct) and it is 30 miles further than Macau. So if they do a good promotion, then you never know.

That price is shockingly expensive anyway. A realistic figure would be 6500 baht return. Its just an obscene rip off.

People who fly from Samui to Macau go there for a reason, and possibly one reason only, so whether its 17,000 or 20,000 it doesn't really matter. There are enough people who are not short of a Baht or two....

Or you can go to Surat and fly to BKK on a low cost airline and then from BKK you have several choices.

Will try it at least once.....never been to Macau before, so great alternative for a long weekend.

Thanks I think your done here. Thailand is for a hustler like me I've run gambling games in the sois with all sorts of animals so don't go giving advice on who Thailand is good for I think I'm more worthy to dish it out.Its not for children that's my point millions of family's with young children travel to Thailand not expecting a small thing such as a waterfall to carry a significant risk. So people travelling to koh Samui should be wary and at times overlook glamourised street signs etc

What goes around comes around.

My thai wife told me a long time ago - if you have no rice to eat someone will give you rice but if you live in the south you will go hungry.

Stop going to these places and they might change - same as I wouldn't go to Magaluf , etc. ?!!

Yeah, right, go to Isaarn instead.....plenty of sticky rice there, unfortunately not enough internet coverage as otherwise one could read of all the horrific stories from up there too.....in the south you might not get rice, but you get fish and meat.....

Why do not they ask the German, the have the best experience (1938-45)!!how do do it properly !!!!

Pretty racist post for your first one, better use the time learning English so you won't make 4 mistakes in one sentence!

As there is sufficient info given, might as well close this thread.

I bought my Samsung at HomePro, had a small problem, they picked it up and fixed it. If you still have warrantee it will be easier obviously.

Southern end of Chaweng or Chaweng Noi also okay.....

Guys and girls, no need to bring Hitler into this (even though he was Austrian), which brings me to the point that Austrian and Australian is slightly different, specially when it comes to beaches and barby. Schmith could be German, Austrian, Swiss, there are so many variations of that name (Schmid, Schmidt, Schmitt, Schmit), but I guess it is just spelled wrong in the article. And last but not least, no foreign language here, only English please.

Where are the moderators when you need them......

I know of a German guy, but not sure whether he is available at present.....

At least he did not try to hide the boat......just parked it under the front porch in full view, give him at least some credit.

Who counted all this ?

Shamrock (Irish pub) in Lamai, Ovada Show Band (Filipino) (think no music Sunday)

the pub (think Australien) at the corner to the Boxing Square in Lamai use to have a band early in the evenings,

some more places in Lamai beach road often have live bands (all in Lamai within walking distance),

Raggae Pub has a (normally Okay) Thai band every night around 10.30pm to 1am, but Tuesdays,

Camp Beer further out behind Raggae Pub a genuing Thai place with noisy band and cheap beers and food,

and several Thai beer pubs with band around the island, either regular bands or some nights in the week...

- try to think of some (I don't go there): Opposite BigC at bit to Bo Phut a fairly new place - and at the Chaweng Beach end corner behind Thai International Hospital (opposite Tesco) - and of course the moving Night Market (wherever it is for the week) has a stange with typical Thai band from around 10pm til 1 or 2am...

Apparently the one opposite Big C is okay, mostly Thai clientele, but I have not been there personally. As for German Restaurants there is one in Bophut, after traffic lights another 500 meters (?) towards Maenam (I think owner is called Joachim). A branch of "Bei Otto" (very popular German Restaurant in Bangkok) is soon to open in Chaweng.