Since the weather wasn't looking great we booked a day trip to explore some of the island. It was an eco tour on a 4x4 jeep. The jeep arrived at the hostel an hour before it was due so obviously we were still in bed. We rushed around getting ready and were downstairs 15 minutes later to be told by the hostel owner that the jeep had left. Great I thought, we'll never get our money back as refunds don't seem to exist as far as tourists are concerned. We headed to t...

After a well deserved lie in and nice hot showers, we headed downstairs and heard the sound of heavy rain on the roof. Great! We'd planned to have a nice relaxing beach day but this plan was ruined. We've found that when it rains, it's normally for an hour at most but usually the clouds always linger afterwards. We got some breakfast at the hostel and waited for the rain to pass. With my breakfast, I ordered a cup of tea expecting it to be awful as usual with p...

We had booked a hostel on the island of Koh Samui so once off the train we would need to take a bus to the port, a ferry to Koh Samui and then another bus to the hostel. By this point we were knackered! We got off the train and hoped someone would be at the station selling tickets to get to the island as we didn't pay in advance as we were quoted 500B each (£10) and thought we'd get it cheaper on the day. Thankfully we were right and bought tickets to take us to...