We got the boat to Phuket early on Friday morning. It was a 3 hour journey, and we slept the whole way. We got a taxi driver to take us from the port to the hotel. We had read about 'The On-On Hotel' on the internet. It was the hotel used in the film 'The Beach' and hasn't changed since they finished filming back in 1995. If you have seen the film your probably thinking that place looks like a s**t hole! Correct, but we stayed there as we have stayed in worse and...

We were up early and didn't bother showering as we would be spending most of the day in the sea. We walked to the tour operators hut and we were picked up by a local lady who walked us to the equipment room. We got equipped with fins and snorkels and then walked to the boat. Our boat was filled up with a mixed bunch of people. Koreans, Japanese, Americans, Italians, Thai and ourselves the Brits! This boat looks like a canoe and it has what looks like a lorry engi...

We checked out of New Hut and waited on the road outside for our transport, bye bye paradise. So the journey went as follows'. Bus - bus - boat - bus - tuk tuk - bus, then boat to Phi Phi. Once on the boat we slumped into our seats. After a couple of hours sleeping on the boat we had arrived, and it did look amazing! We pulled into crystal clear waters and white glistening sand, all I wanted to do was jump straight in for a refreshing dip. Once the girls had got...

We had a shorter boat journey to Koh Samui, which was good as Lil is not keen on the boats recently. As soon as we were on the pier it was the normal gaggle of "Hello Man, Hello Lady, TAXI". We spotted someone holding a sign for Hat Lamai, which was where we had read the best/cheapest accommodation is to be found. We hopped in and got them to drop us at Beers house, which we had a look at but in the end went with New Hut next door. It was a simple 'A' f...

The morning after the night before! Breakfast at Sketchys. We had named this waiter, as you can guess he was a little sketchy. So was everyone else we saw that morning at breakfast. People not being able to eat their full monty breakfasts or sleeping on the tables, sights for score eyes, it was definitely a sunglasses day. The day went with as little brain function as possible. We decided to catch a movie at Lazy House where they show free films. You do have to b...