With Nick feeling abit better we had breakfast at the hotel (Nick had good old dry toast!) and then decided to go to the beach. We wanted to go to long beach and to get there you have to get a long tail taxi boat - they have a set rate of 100 Baht per person to get there. Jumped into the boat but were then quite worried as the guy had some mechanical difficulties!! You have to paddle/drift near the pier which was all fine but the engine wouldn't start when we w...

Neither of us got much sleep lastnight so the early morning didn't bother us, we were just happy to get outside where it was cooler than our room! Used the same taxi driver again and at 0715 made our way to the Pier. We will also be needing to get a ferry to Ao Nang in a few days so we bought an open ticket that we use to get to Phi Phi today and can use in a few days to get to Ao Nang - it cost 1000 Baht each. We got free tean and coffee and croissant on the ...