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Originally Posted by BobMac  I'm a tight wad too, that's why I stay at Ban Phe and just go to Samet for the day, then back to Ban Phe in the late afternoon. I can't afford the prices they charge at Samet. We (my Thai wife and I) both love Samet and go there often. In fact last year we made our first trip to Koh Chang and stayed 1 night, we weren't impressed at all, so we cut the stay there short and went to Koh Samet instead on the way back. In our opinion Samet is way better than Chang. There are many things I don't like about Samet (all the things Fio has mentioned) but warts & all we like the island and feel it's the nearest best place for us. We usually walk down the beach to Tok Little Hut and rent a couple of deckchairs there, under the trees, with an esky of beer. No complaints from us. |
Yes we were also a bit dissapointed with koh Chang at first and wished we had gone to Samet instead! But after riding around the island a bit we found some great cheap bungalows on Kai Bae beach(Bit quite and isolated though) and had a good few days there,was also close to the fishing village,but alas even the high rise building work had spread to there and i think the bungalows have now become part of a much bigger development!
The main strip at white sand beach was constant jack hammers and cement trucks and I dont think I would bother with Chang again.
That is what I meant about Samet being low rise and unspoilt if you can call it unspoilt,there is no major building works going on along the beach and although crowded somtimes I have never had to remove sombodies left beach towel to free up a beach chair.
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