I took the bus from Chaweng to get to Haad Rin recently and it was a doddle. I was staying BB Chaweng and we got a ticket form the reception for Haad rin the next day.

The bus came island style, a bit late but in plenty of time for the ferry. We got on this rediculously large bus but I after we realized why. After about 5 more stops at different hotels the bus filled up. When we got out to Big Buddha pier we showed our tickets to the ferry man and he lead us off down the old wooden pier to our ferry the Haad Rin Queen.

This was a fine old wooden ferry which plodded out to Koh Phangan, time to take in the views and get into the slow style of island life even more.

The Haad Rin Queen took us right in to Haad rin west and we had done it. Our hotel was right there and the famous full moon party beach just 200 meteres away.... easy peasy lemon squeasy!!!

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I took the lompraya Ferry from Thong Sala to Samui last month and it was a fast modern ride that got me to Samui airport very smoothly. The pick up on Samui was handled very professionally and I made my 5.45pm flight with time to spare.

The other ferry from Big Buddha Beach to Haad Rin was an old wooden boat which was great slow way to get out to Phangan but when youare on a time budget use the lompraya Ferry from Thong Sala

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