I remember when air asia first opened this route. There was a bus and boat service from the airport for about 400bht that air asia managed themselves....

Any ideas if they still offer this, or if there is any other way of getting to the pier and successfully and getting a boat in time to make it on the island for the same day?

I'll be arriving at Surat Thani around 3:30pm.

Any advice on this would be appreciated, gotta get the boat back on 1st Jan! Hope they operate that day :s

Edited November 23, 200916 yr by bangkok blue

1.A-A never ever run this bus/boat route-it may simply have had labels as adverstising.

2.situation still the same-in fact hardly worth even asking here.

It's easy, when you come out of arrivals you can book a joint ticket to Samui, you will have plenty time the last boat it 7pm.

Yes. No problem. The bus is run by Panthip. They run the same service in the reverse direction.