I ran into a couple of guys at the Phuket airport who were taking a seaplane to PhiPhi, said it cost about $100US. Anyone heard of this? How scary is it?

I think we ran a thread on it last year or so SBK. I shall have a wee look. It does exist tho. Sounds a bit silly to me really

www.destinationair.com

There it is

I have booked with Destination Air for a group coming in December. An administrative nightmare which is still not over.....

They now have a special promtional price form Phi Phi - Phuket for about 5000B.

We have seen the planes around here for a while now. They do look a bit scary but the great advantge is getting straight to Phuket airport in 15 mins instead of wasting the better part of the last day of your holiday getting a ferry and taxi.

Worth considering I suppose if time is of the essence, or you want what must be a great an aerial view of the islands.

You can see some video of Destination Air's flight's on YouTube. I met the owner of the airline a few months ago in Hua Hin. He's a very nice Thai man with a lot of experience in aviation. The planes are new Cessna Caravans and very reliable. I'm pretty sure he's using American pilots.

Tiny! but I flew a pretty small prop plane from Phuket to Samui and it wasn't too scary. Actually kind of fun when the weather is good.