Koh Samet – Paradise Island Close to Bangkok, Thailand!

In this Thailand Travel Vlog, we head to Koh Samet – the closest paradise island to Bangkok! You can get there in just a few short hours by taking a minibus to Rayong, Thailand plus a 15 minute speed boat! We had a 3 day weekend and decided the day of to change our plans and head to this gorgeous beach for the first time!
As it was so last minute we really didn’t prepare much! When you arrive on the Koh Samet pier, you need to pay the national park fee (cash only) to enter the island, motorbike rentals are 400 baht/day all over the island (luckily it includes gas) which is the most we’ve paid for a bike in Thailand, and the island only has 3 ATMs ALL OF WHICH WERE BROKEN THE ENTIRE WEEKEND!!! 😱 Definitely make sure you take cash incase the same thing happens again! We were lucky we could use my Thai bank account still to pay for most things, however if we didn’t have a Thai bank account we would’ve been in trouble!
Koh Samet (Koh Samed) is a small island. It’s also very long. Right by the pier you can walk to many different restaurants, a 7 eleven, and a great beach! There are many other beaches you can get to either on a motorbike or by using one of the many songthaews. There was a cute little boardwalk area at the very bottom of the island.
Koh Samet is also cool at night! The entire beach transforms and is covered by beach chairs and bright lights. There are even fire shows on Koh Samet! We definitely recommend heading to this island is you’re in Bangkok and you don’t have much time to travel very far!

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00:01 songthaew from Rayong to Ban Phe Pier
00:44 Ban Phe Pier to Koh Samet
01:03 Koh Samet National Park fee
03:01 Sai Kaew Beach Koh Samet
04:14 Thai food on Koh Samet beach
05:03 nighttime on Koh Samet
06:12 renting a motorbike on Koh Samet
06:35 bottom of Koh Samet
07:35 Koh Samet boardwalk
08:33 rock towers at Laem Toei on Koh Samet
09:55 best restaurant on Koh Samet – Apache
12:57 Prao Beach Koh Samet
17:10 beach dinner on Koh Samet
19:05 Ferry from Koh Samet back to Rayong

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