Koh Samui to Bangkok - all flights booked out

[ajca]

Hi all,

I am stuck in a travel jam that I am hoping a clever AFFer might have a solution to.

I'm currently on Koh Samui with a Bangkok Air flight booked to take my partner & I back to Bangkok on the 9th January.

We need to change our plans and get back to Bangkok by the 5th January. The problem is this: every single flight out of Koh Samui is booked out until the 8th or the 9th.

I've looked at the alternatives - e.g. ferry to Surat Thani and then flight to Bangkok. But there is only one flight available and it's late at night, and this is not a terribly comfortable way of doing it.

Any other ideas? I'm even considering flying to Singapore and then on to Bangkok but this is prohibitively expensive. I am open to expensive solutions but going via Singapore would just be ridiculous.

Many thanks in advance!
Alex

 

[Aussie_flyer]

The ferry is fine, if you are desperate just do that.

There is also flights to coughet from Koh Samui, have you checked that.

 

[ajca]

The ferry is fine, if you are desperate just do that.

There is also flights to coughet from Koh Samui, have you checked that.

I've checked flights to coughet, Krabi and everywhere else I could find. All booked out. The only option available was via Singapore which would have been well over $1k which is just ridiculous.

The ferry, bus and flight combo on Nok Air looks like it would be 9 hours (!), plus an hour's drive from our hotel to the ferry. Doesn't sound like much fun but would be an ok last resort.

In the end I booked a Bangkok Air flight direct from Samui to Utapoa (Pattaya airport) and will get a limo from there to the hotel in Bangkok.

Anyone got any recommendations for a very comfortable limo service from Pattaya to Bangkok?