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Khao San Road Travel Agents |
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Written by Stephen Cleary
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Friday, 06 July 2007 |
Whatever you do, do not go from Khao Sarn Road to Koh Samui or Koh Phang-ngan via a Khao Sarn Road travel agent.
A couple of travelers from Sweden reported to me first-hand their very recent experience.
Heading for Koh Phang-ngan, they purchased one of those combined tickets (bus and boat etc.) Their bus from near Khao Sarn left at an awfully early time in the evening like 6pm (remember the bus to Surat Thani -ferry pier town- only takes 9 hours max.) Of course, they arrived in the middle of night even before the chickens got up. Besides that, the bus parked in the middle of nowhere.
Scam ONE: Next, everyone on the bus was split up into different groups. Some folk were going to other different destinations – as for the folk heading to south of Surat Thani, they were told that they would have to wait for a special bus to take them because of the risk of kidnap! (Geez, that liar ought to win an award for that one!)
Scam TWO: the travel agents don’t tell anyone buying a ticket to the South (except Surat Thani) that none of the buses are direct. On top of that, they are definitely not told, that they will have to wait a few hours for the connecting bus.
Scam THREE: Our Swedish friends, after being split up into the Pier songthaew (small bus) group, next had the pleasure of being driven around for an hour and being told to pay a so-called ‘gas fee’. The driver was so dumb to even think that foreigners are not that stupid – I mean..they know whether their choice of transportation is going in one direction or a friggin circle.
Nice one for the driver though, he earns an extra few hundred baht.
Scam FOUR: None of the travel agents tell their clients the utterly stupid amount of time they will be wasting waiting for their ferry to the islands, they are told “About one” but in reality however, it is quite a few.
WARNING: As witnessed by the Swedish couple lately, thieving gangs are still operating on these buses. Sneaking into the luggage department at night they can take whatever valuables they wish from passengers bags. Sure, the victims don’t realize til later in the day, but by that time it is too late to prove that they had their valuables stolen on that actual bus.
ADVICE: Do not take any bus from Khao Sarn Road, every one of them to the north/south etc. is a scam. Do instead, go from the Northern/Southern bus terminals – can purchase the ticket just prior to departure. Should you be heading to Koh Samui/Koh Phang-ngan, you can by a combined bus/boat ticket at the Southern Bus Terminal. I went that way before a couple of years back and was not scammed.
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