Looking for a moving company from USM to KPG

[Makhao]

As stated above we are moving from Samui to Phangan end of the month and looking for a moving truck (including a driver) and a moving guy. I guess, one truck is enough, if it's not a very small one.

Any recommendations out there?

Thx in advance...

[samuijimmy]

When I moved to Samui from KP, it was a bit of a search to find a large "truck".... but finally found one by getting locals to track down... so ask around.

You need to ask for a "lorry" ..... not a truck.... that is the term for bigger trucks here. I doubt there would be a specific moving company around... so make sure you supervise loading and probably supply your own boxes...

(Honda shop in Maenam usually has lots of clean broken down boxes, which you can get cheap.... just re tape them )

Sorry no idea who would do it here... but get a local to ask around for you....

[angiud]

FYI: there is not a direct ferry Nathon to Thong Sala, so a truck should go before to Donsak (mainland) and then back to Koh Phangan; but there is a weekly (friday night) slow boat carrying goods with the same route and not so expensive to deliver crates.

[Makhao]

Thanks for that, it will help already. In the meantime I found a company in Nathon, they want to have 15.000 Baht and offer only small "lorry", in my imagination thats quite expensive, but I have no comparison, yet.

About the slow boat, I didn't know that, even after living at Samui for 3 years. Its a good fallback: If the lorry is too small, I could leave some big things at friends and they send it later with the slow boat.

What company and pier the slow boat is leaving?

Has anyone experiences about the price for a lorry for two days? I assume, they will load in the afternoon and go to mainland the first ferry in the next morning.

Samuijimmy, you remember, how much you paid?

[samuijimmy]

Thanks for that, it will help already. In the meantime I found a company in Nathon, they want to have 15.000 Baht and offer only small "lorry", in my imagination thats quite expensive, but I have no comparison, yet.

About the slow boat, I didn't know that, even after living at Samui for 3 years. Its a good fallback: If the lorry is too small, I could leave some big things at friends and they send it later with the slow boat.

What company and pier the slow boat is leaving?

Has anyone experiences about the price for a lorry for two days? I assume, they will load in the afternoon and go to mainland the first ferry in the next morning.

Samuijimmy, you remember, how much you paid?

It was about five years ago now, memory fading! But 6000 baht comes to mind, plus cost of ferry... in those days there was a ferry in morning direct to Samui.... / KP...

I would keep asking around... and see what you come up with

[Makhao]

We finally moved to Phangan. If someone looks for a moving company and stumbles upon this thread, our research might be helpful:

There is an Esaan guy making transports from Esaan to Samui every month (the typical rice etc.) with a long truck (about 10m). You can rent this car for 5000 Baht per day plus 1000 Baht for Diesel plus the ferry costs (about 6000 for USM-Surat-KPG and back), so about 12000 Baht in total. Any upporting staff is NOT included and the driver mentioned enough times, that he will NOT help with anything except driving the truck :-)

Another option is Bunsong Transport in Nathon (direction south, after the market after the bridge on the right side is a small parking place with a lot of trucks, there they stay). They offered a closed lorry with a cargo area of 5.2m length by 2.10m width and about 4m height. Included in the price is 4 ppl working staff, all ferry costs, Diesel etc. with 15000 Baht. We agreed and were very happy with them. The employees even disassembled our furniture and reassembled it in the new house, also unloaded our car, all without any additional costs.

As we were too late for the ferry from Surat Thani to Phangan, they also managed to call someone (they said "the boss") from the ferry and make it waiting for us, although the ticket counter said, its too late and we have to wait 3 hours for the next one. When we arrived, the ferry was really waiting with all cars loaded already and closed right after our arrival. Nice

So strong recommendation for Bunsong (and no, we get no money for this advertisement :-)