Motorbike On Samui

[Inzaghi22]

Hi!

I am going to Samui in september and I am planning to rent a motorbike for about ten days. Does anybody know how much it will approximately cost to rent a motorbike?

THX, greetings

Matthias

[drummer]

about 200 THB / day. That is about the time of the big music festival, though, so theer is a chance for more expesive ride ... this last year was pretty slow, but if they get everything together, if could be a lot bigger this year

[suegha]

Also makes a difference how long you go for. The cheapest I got was 100 baht a day for very long term rental.

[gisele]

I generally pay 150 baht per day, we leave our car in Don Sak so we rent in Nathon right off the pier.

[IreMark]

150b Manual

200b Automatic

If you're renting for 10 days say so at the start and try haggle a few baht off.

[sbk]

At least on Koh Phangan you can get one month (for a manual) for 3000 baht if you pay in advance, I'd imagine the same sort of deal would be possible in Samui.

[Wes Turner]

Be careful or you will not leave the island alive, you gotta drive slow and know how the local idiots drive. I drive a jeep.

[Simbo]

Be careful or you will not leave the island alive, you gotta drive slow and know how the local idiots drive. I drive a jeep.

I thought superman could fly. With or without undies.

[LaoPo]

I generally pay 150 baht per day, we leave our car in Don Sak so we rent in Nathon right off the pier.

Gisele, I thought you had a family....? do you rent a motorbike with children? or am I wrong? hope so.

When I first came to Thailand (seems to be a hundreds years ago ) I gasped about the speeding motobikes on Phuket; once I even saw 6 people (including babies) on 1 bike speeding in a corner, almost flat, and the people on it just laughing unbelievable!

LaoPo

[Khun Jean]

Be careful or you will not leave the island alive, you gotta drive slow and know how the local idiots drive. I drive a jeep.

With the local idiots you also mean the 'temporary locals' who sometime forget you have to drive on the left in Thailand.

A Thai or Brit will have a reflex to the left, other foreigners mostly to the right. Very unfortunate.

I have seen to many headon collisions between two foreigners on motorbikes.

In front of my shop it happened 2-3 times a day. Most of them where small injuries and small damage to the bikes (a major cash earner for motorbike shops).

On the ringroad you are the lowest in the food chain. First you have the big trucks, then the big pickups, the small pickups, the big cars, the small cars, the big bikes, other small bikes with carzy drivers and at the end YOU.

And don't drive when the bars close.

The road will be full of drunken idiots with reflexes that take at least 30 seconds.

If you drive around the island using the small roads, it is very nice. If you want to go far, take a taxi. If you are holidaying the few hundred extra bahts will not make a difference. If your head is crushed you leave behind a lot of people in deep sorrow.

Skip the main road. Too many lives lost there already.

[IreMark]

Watch the sand on the road!!!

[Uma~~]

Please be careful on the bikes.

[suegha]

As long as you watch your speed and don't fall into the trap of adopting the habits of other road users, you should be okay. Speeding only gets you there seconds ahead.

Once a friend of mine (who drives like an idiot) and I were going to the same place. I said I'd meet him there. Sure enough, he took off like the hounds of he11. I just tootled along at my own pace. When I arrived he was still parking his bike!

ps Always were a safety helmet!

[limbos]

A safety helemt and sturdy shoes (not flip flops!).

[Wes Turner]

Be careful or you will not leave the island alive, you gotta drive slow and know how the local idiots drive. I drive a jeep.

With the local idiots you also mean the 'temporary locals' who sometime forget you have to drive on the left in Thailand.

A Thai or Brit will have a reflex to the left, other foreigners mostly to the right. Very unfortunate.

I have seen to many headon collisions between two foreigners on motorbikes.

In front of my shop it happened 2-3 times a day. Most of them where small injuries and small damage to the bikes (a major cash earner for motorbike shops).

On the ringroad you are the lowest in the food chain. First you have the big trucks, then the big pickups, the small pickups, the big cars, the small cars, the big bikes, other small bikes with carzy drivers and at the end YOU.

And don't drive when the bars close.

The road will be full of drunken idiots with reflexes that take at least 30 seconds.

If you drive around the island using the small roads, it is very nice. If you want to go far, take a taxi. If you are holidaying the few hundred extra bahts will not make a difference. If your head is crushed you leave behind a lot of people in deep sorrow.

Skip the main road. Too many lives lost there already.

I Mean that you have to learn how to drive like the Thais, they have there own stlyle of driving which is very caotic, you cant deny that.

[leemond]

Oh and dont forget about the individuals who are lying in wait to knock you off your bike and rob you whilst you lie bleeding and injured on the floor.!

Get a jeep!

[KhunMarco]

2500 baht for 1 month, yamaha 125.

me Italian keeniao? Nope , me Italian street smart!

[PoorSucker]

Matthias

Don't drive at all if it's the first time on Samui.

[Uma~~]

I know a British couple that were robbed on their way to nathon to get the ferry yesterday, they now have to wait three weeks for new passport. They did say the tousist police were very helpful indeed which was a nice surprise to hear, so its not all bad here.