28th Oct 2012

Early flight again! Feeling tired this morning.

Good flight with Bangkok airways. Koh samui airport is like a 5 star hotel, it's absolutely gorgeous!

When we arrived we hadn't had time to get any Thai Bhart yet so needed to go to ATM to get some money before we could get a taxi. For some reason none of our cards would work, there was a little panic!! Rang the bank and realised we were at exactly 2 am English time and clocks were going back! So bank were using this time to update systems and we wouldn't be able to get money out for at least the next 2 hours!! So we changed some Australian dollars instead and caught a taxi to the hotel.

The journey to the hotel was about 45mins in the taxi. We had used some of Ben's hotel points for the Intercontinental Hotel and knew it would be nice but were not prepared for exactly how nice it was!! Literally the poshiest and nicest hotel I have ever seen.

The hotel is on the side of a cliff overlooking the sea and on the horizon are gorgeous little islands making up the ang thong national park. The water was incredibly blue and still, surrounding the hotel was jungle! The setting was enchanting! The reception was all open an plenty of comfy places to sit and relax. I took quite a few photos (prob enough to do my own brochure!). After a lovely welcome drink of an iced tea we were taken to our room.

Again the room was gorgeous! Lovely comfy bed and huge with tv and seating area. The bathroom was again amazing- huge bath, huge rainfall shower head and of course loads of toiletries- bath salts, bubble bath, shampoo, conditioner, soap, shower gel, moisturiser, detergent- you name it we had it! There was also a lovely balcony- very private with a great view! AND there was English breakfast tea and FRESH milk- my first cup of tea in 3 weeks!

After staring at our room, looking at all the freebies and repeatedly saying-'I can't believe we are only spending one night here, gutted!', we walked down over a suspension bridge to the beach and beach pool ( I differentiate as there is 7 pools in the complex!). We sunbathed went in the sea and had lunch (a gorgeous seared tuna wrap!).

We had then ran out of suncream so we went in search of some, that meant that we had to cycle to the nearest 7-11- which is when we realised that there were a lot if equipment available for free hire! So we did as much as we could that afternoon!

Firstly the bike ride, then back to the beach and tried paddle boarding, then Ben was taught how to use the mini catamaran so he went out on that too! We then sat by the beach pool- a gorgeous infinity pool and thought about what else we could use!

Gym next! Overlooking the beach at sunset, drank the free bottles of water and Ben ate the free bananas! Was nice to have a run and do some weights, though its been a long period away from the gym and definitely lost some fitness!

Back to the room and treated myself to a bath and then a shower so not to miss out on anything! Then blow dried my hair for the first time in over 3weeks!

All the activities had tired us out I think and seeing as Ben had found the football (Liverpool vs Everton) on the tv playing live we decided the best thing to do was have room service and then bed.Read more