I'm on Soi Buakao and would like to try my hand at getting to the pier to Koh Samet by bus. I assume I'll need to catch a white baht bus heading southbound on Sukhumvit. What are the steps from there?

 

Thanks for any advice.

I’m not sure what you are thinking when you talk about the baht bus because that bus will not get you to Rayong. So by Baht bus, taxi, Motorcyle taxi or whatever, go to the bus station and take a bus to Rayong. Then when you arrive take a motorcycle taxi to the pier.

18 minutes ago, wmlc said:

a bus to Rayong. Then when you arrive take a motorcycle taxi to the pier.

There is no direct connection from Rayong to Koh Samet. The pier to Koh Samet is in Ban Phe. 

 

Take a Bus from Nord-Terminal/Pattaya Nua to Rayong. 

From there a Bus to Ban Phe. 

From there the Ferry to Koh Samet. 

As a slight aside, I love Samet but getting there from Bangkok is an absolute nightmare unless u r prepared to pay for a taxi or risk life and limb in the minibus Grand Prix. Last time I tried the public 'big' bus service from Ekkamai it took nearly 2 hours of crawling thru traffic to reach the motorway road signs to Suvarnabhumi where I had just come from via the airport rail link, and almost 6 hours in total to reach Bam Phe! There is now no bus service to Rayong from Suvarnabhumi bus station as there used to be. The OP might be interested to know that the Ekkamai crawler bus does pass through Chonburi (Stop on Sukumvit Road I think) where he could join it. I dont understand why there isnt a good direct private 16 seat bus service as there is to Hua Hin. Im sure that it would pay. I think It stinks of it being some sort of mafia controlled route.

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