Transportation
Ko Samui Airport is a private airport originally built by Bangkok Airways, which is still the main operator and was for a long time the only airline with services to Ko Samui from mainland Thailand. The airport is now additionally served by Thai Airways International to Bangkok, Firefly Airlines to Kuala Lumpur, and SilkAir to Singapore. The budget option of getting from Bangkok to Samui by plane is to fly AirAsia to Surat Thani Airport (URT), then take a bus to Don Sak, and finally take a ferry from Don Sak to Ko Samui. The service for both of these ferries actually starts at Surat Thani Airport.
Several ferries connect the island with the mainland, including the two aforementioned car/passenger ferries and from Don Sak to piers in the west of the island, near or in Nathon. Public buses to all parts of the mainland operate from a small bus station located in the south of Nathon. Songthaews (tuk-tuk style buses) circle the ring road, and private taxis are available throughout the island, although they do not use their meters and are quite expensive.
Lomprayah also offers an economical package service to and from Samui: by a high-speed, passenger only, motored catamaran to Chumphon, then onward by bus to Bangkok.
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