Lomphraya to Phuket

[islandguy]

Forgot about the the Full Moon party and didn't book a flight to Phuket from Samui in time. Since I was flying out of Phuket in the evening took the bus to get there, first time in many years. The Lomphraya part was fine, but in Surat they transferred us all to a Pantip bus. That was a local bus with something like 20 stops. At least it wasn't racing along, was warm instead of freezing, but not worth doing for it's own sake. Once I got to Phuket island I had a choice of getting off near the bridge and taking a 500baht taxi ride 5k to the airport, or going 25k more into Phuket town and taking the airport bus, neither a great choice. Meanwhile, the original big buses that started in Donsak continued on to Krabi without going into Surat. Next time, if I had all day again and good weather, I might try going to Krabi and taking the boat to Phuket, just for variety. Those buses probably still go to a transit center far from Krabi town, with every connection only with the same company. Mai pen rai........

[Birdman]

isn't there are public bus from the public busstation at the Nathon hospital street directly to the public busstation in Phuket town?

[islandguy]

isn't there are public bus from the public busstation at the Nathon hospital street directly to the public busstation in Phuket town?

Not sure about that one, but there are different bus services to Phuket without a doubt. I am not familiar with them since I rarely go there and would usually drive myself or fly. My post was just to let people know that they would be ending up on a slow local bus with another company with many stops (and the usual hard sell of onward tickets) if they booked a Samui to Phuket ticket with Lomphraya.