Is KOH KOOD Really Thailand’s Most Beautiful Island?
good morning from our cozy bungalow here in the middle of the coconut plantation and this is Echo but we came up with that name for her cuz she keeps going is it yummy somehow we always have cat treats in our bag we should make it a habit to always have some yeah cuz there are a bunch of stray cats on the island so we have been on this island for 3 days already and saying at this bungalow called Suan Maprao and I like it I like it a lot yeah it's super chill we actually chose this place because it was relatively one of the cheap cheaper ones not cheap but it's like 1,500 Baht per night but unfortunately they only have three nights available that's why we're moving to another place today that is closer to where the mangroves are and also to one of the beautiful beaches so we thought we'd show you a little bit of this place but also the new place we're going to but the new place won't have Echo yeah I'm a bit sad leaving Echo behind she's the cutest and we asked around and she is a stray but she has friends around and she's pretty healthy so all the guests will be taking good care of her yeah at one point we got three cats and two dogs here so if you like cats and dogs this is a great place to stay because you'll be enjoy it so much yeah you'll be loved and you can love them too the car is here let's go to the next place I'll take my backpack with me and I'll take the bike yeah oh we're going to keep the bike yeah let's keep the bike continue renting it from from here and then they will come and pick it up at the new hotel okay good because he did mention before that it's probably cheaper for us to rent it here right it's 300 Baht per day but at the beach front resorts it might be more yeah bye little cute bungalow bye bye Echo Echo's gone Echo's gone it's too hot I'll see you on the road okay goodbye bye see you see you so this next place we're going to it's only 3 minutes away we're probably going to arrive soon you will notice that Koh Kood is a very small island and it's not only just small but the really busy part the occupied part of the island is only on this small stretch around the West Side see we're here already I'm so excited to see our new place we're closer to the beach now should we take the bag he will bring them okay so this new place we're at is called The Little White Bird Hostel it doesn't look like a hostel though it's just very cute little little houses villas nice I'm going first oh this is nice wow even a working desk yeah wow this is so nice we were missing this in the other place but all the decorations and everything is really really nice in here it has a holiday vibe to it yeah but this place is a bit more expensive it was about 2,200 Baht a night it includes breakfast yeah that's true it includes breakfast and we can even use their kayaks um at the kind of like the mother resort of this place because this is the same owner as the Peter Pan Resort which is on a really nice beach and we can actually access the beach through their resort just next to us and use some of the equipments so we'll do that maybe maybe tomorrow in the morning yeah very nice I like it a lot hop on but be careful the seat is extremely hot it's a hot hot one oh I'm glad I didn't wear shorts a nice bum warmer burn my bum here we go so because we're going to have plenty of time to enjoy the beach that is just right next to Little White Bird we thought we would go further first to do a little beach hopping to see some of the other beaches that locals have shared with us are their favorite beaches but we'll make a quick stop to this beach anyway just to show you how beautiful it is this is called White Beach or a lot of people call it Tinker Bell Beach because it's right in front of Tinker Bell Hotel this is the same beach that is connected to the beach that we are close to but this side it just looks epic wow this is a gorgeous beach though picture perfect the sand is white the water is blue and look at her she got the ultimate spot under the two coconut trees wow we got lucky today is a beautiful day yesterday it was storming pretty hard because we're kind of in rainy season already right now which is from May until almost October so high season here is end of October or mid October until end of April so for 6 to 7 months but because it's low season the beaches are quite empty and I believe the hotel prices are also a little bit lower but the downside is that we noticed that quite a lot of restaurants do close during this rainy season so you may be looking at Google reviews and trying to find restaurants and they may be closed but it's not permanent it's usually only because it's the low season at the moment get some gas first yeah we only have one bar left just in case there's no big gas stations on this island so if you need to get gas for your scooters then this is where you have to get it it's like a little vending machine for gas how much are you putting in maybe just 80 Baht that seems like a lot you think that's too much for the next 3 days maybe 60 okay the island is not that big there's only one main street that takes you from the North which is where the pier is all the way to the South where the local fishing village is take this out put the nozzle in here oh I need to press the green button for you tell me when you're ready ready quick and easy we're here there are a few bikes around but doesn't look that bad probably going to be quiet too that was actually pretty quick 10 minutes real quick once again thank you to Squarespace for supporting our channel and for making it super easy for anyone to build a professional looking website whether you need a portfolio website an online store or a personal blog you can start by using one of Squarespace's award-winning templates and with their easy to use drag and drop editor you can design your website to look exactly the way you want it they also have a Squarespace App so you can manage your business on the go just head to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch go to squarespace.com/floraandnote to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain now let's get back to the video so a lot of the beaches here on Koh Kood you cannot drive your bike to the beach you have to park and then go by foot but which is actually nice because you don't have bikes around the beach area it's usually really nice and clean mhm and it also won't disturb people who live on the beach like all the beach front houses so this beach Khlong Hin Beach was highly recommended by the owner of the first hotel we were staying at he says it's one of the most beautiful beaches that he thinks and he's from the island so we trust him wow it's a gorgeous day this is so incredible there's no one actually swimming right now in this area this is crazy this is what paradise would look like amazing this place is crazy beautiful this is perfect lots of options how are the prices not bad 120 Baht, 80 Baht, 150 Baht not bad for beach front and island price so that's the owner of the resort and I briefly spoke to her and she said this is not the best time to be on this beach because it's not as beautiful but for us this is like mindblowing yeah she said in October the beach is even more white than this and soft that's crazy I'm happy I'm happy with this I couldn't believe when she said this is not beautiful because this and having it kind of to ourselves she said you're cute I know but yeah as I was saying if this is not beautiful but not busy I'm so happy with this rather than it's so beautiful and it's so busy true we do tend to like to go to places kind of off season a little bit so we have a chance to really explore and look at how colorful these drinks are I got mango shake and you got watermelon shake made by her sister by the way so the sisters own all the bungalows restaurants yeah there are three sisters thank you this is perfect so three sisters one owns the restaurant one owns the bar right there behind you and one owns the the resort and how much would one of the Bungalow 2500 Baht beach front not bad oh by the way this is pad grapao goong which is stir fried prawns with basil and it looks quite spicy usually I'll just have it with pork but we're on an island got to have seafood it smells really good it's spicy it's very spicy but it's really good nice set up perfect just enough shade there's one thing missing though what's missing I came for one coconut she gave me all this what what is all that I wanted one coconut but she gave me all this two coconuts one water and some rambutan from the island from her garden they're so nice they're so friendly wow now we are all set up yeah and the coconuts are cold and they're only 50 Baht each that's one of the cheapest coconuts on the island so far yeah that is some days I feel super lucky this is our life this is our work when we were planning to do an island series we got so excited I think Thailand is pretty amazing in the way that you have a lot of options like many islands to choose from and you don't have to go far and Koh Kood it's not that difficult to get to you can drive if you choose to drive it's 5 hours from Bangkok and then another hour speed boat but if you want to fly you can fly to Trat and then hop on the taxi to the pier and then hop on the speed boat I think you can also book a shuttle bus from Bangkok as well so if you aren't planning to drive you can still go by land I mean because flying is probably the most expensive way to get here but a shuttle bus for probably reasonable price to get down here and then the speed boat was another 400 or 450 Baht per person I'm not exactly sure but it's the most organized and one of the best island arrival experiences for us because once we got everything sorted got on the speedboat got here it the ticket includes the transfer to your hotel so we got to Koh Kood and basically someone's like oh you're in truck 38 go to Suan Maprao Hotel it was just really easy you don't have to bargain your way through to get a ride to your hotel basically yeah it was awesome how's the rambutan it's actually really good I prefer lychee over rambutan but these ones are pretty delicious you want one how do you say rambutan in Thai "ngoc" very good good you like it yeah look how beautiful it is eating tropical fruit on a tropical island paradise life is good that's going to be the video title eating tropical fruits on Tropical Paradise (life is good) did you see that no what did you see there was a school of jumping fish that just went like I thought it was a speedboat that was crazy how can you think it's a speedboat I was looking this way and then I just heard vroom vroom vroom so I turned around and I I just saw like hundreds of fish jumping at once a mini speedboat you're cute you like it when I say you're cute I don't know it sounds like you're basket case no not at all not at all you're cute the water's kind of interesting isn't it it's like warm and cold and it just kind of keeps mixing you can stand in the same spot and suddenly it's like really warm and then suddenly it's really cold it's quite nice the owner said this is probably the best beach to swim oh okay because it's safe there's no underwater currents yeah and it's all sand underneath I mean you can see if there's a rock it's so clear and I think we agree cuz we have been to other beaches as well yesterday just to explore the island we were in Ao Prao was nice but I think it's because of the storm it washed up a lot of garbage to the beach so we spent most of the time trying to clean it yesterday I just saw like a huge plastic basket like a laundry basket in the water so once I pulled that out of the water and I was like okay now I noticed all these little bottles and little bottle caps and straws and yeah I do agree that it's because of the season because that happens in Samui too like different seasons kind of brings the trash to different parts of the island so at the moment for us end of May we think Khlong Hin is the most beautiful but of course when you come during high season maybe Ao Prao will be more beautiful we don't know this is by luck really so you got to check all the beaches basically that's what we're saying just around the corner here is another one we want to check out Ao Jak and there were a couple resorts around that one I think that's the Neverland Resort beach area it's so interesting because you noticed that yeah I noticed it the resorts are Neverland there's Peter Pan near our place there's the Tinker Bell at the beach that we were this morning what else oh Oh Captain Hook oh yeah Captain Hook so this island Koh Kood is the Neverland yeah we're all Lost Boys in this paradise here we went back to our hotel cleaned up and now we are here at the final beach we want to show you this is the perfect sunset beach that we have found that we think it's amazing it's gorgeous it doesn't have a name on Google Map but we call it Huggy Beach because there is a Huggy Beach Resort here oh my goodness this is even nicer than last time when we were here look at the colors holy moly wow this is funny because the clouds looked a bit dark we brought an umbrella just in case just in case cuz there's no shade here to hide should we go on the bridge and watch the sunset yeah let's do that it's happening I have to open the umbrella I'm coming I felt some raindrops okay it's okay this is still chill right yeah this is romantic we have something prepared this truly deserves a Chang we usually don't drink much but today just felt like an awesome day we should celebrate with a Chang at the end Cheers Cheers Cheers haven't had these in a while yeah that's good that's refreshing though we're going to be drunk after this can our tolerance is so low now I think for beaches wise and just the chill vibe wise Koh Kood is probably the number one paradise island in Thailand but definitely it's not a nightlife kind of Island we don't get that kind of vibe from this place which is good for us but like yeah once it's dark there's not even it stays dark yeah there's not even street lights around so I think it's more just like sunset and chill and then enjoy the day kind of island but next video we will be taking you from Koh Kood to Koh Mak is that what it's called Koh Mak it is another even smaller Island really close to here but we will have to get there by speedboat so we'll show you that journey and that island um this is not the end of the video yet we have to kayak into the mangrove in the morning tomorrow oh I totally forgot I totally forgot okay yeah we still have to kayak to the mangrove okay then see you tomorrow Safety First oh look that's what we were talking about yesterday yeah Captain Hook Resort Peter Pan Wendy what's that one Tinker Bell wait if it's all on the same (life jacket) maybe they're the same owner could be but I asked the local people they said they're not the same owner they could also not know yeah or it's just that they're all in this area maybe are you comfy yeah this is very nice did they say how long we have it for as long as you want but with this heat I don't think we're going to be out that long this is really nice though we always enjoy kayaking in the mangroves nice and calm and peaceful we've only been really exploring the different beaches in Koh Kood but coming down the mangroves here you notice a lot of home stays are actually on here which is quite lovely as well so you basically have a choice of staying in a coconut plantation on the beach in the mangrove forest I think that makes Koh Kood quite unique you might even want to split up your stay to just try out different places on the island too like this is so peaceful compared to the beachfront properties because it's quite windy and louder there this is really really nice and these are kind of old wooden houses on stilts very beautiful so what do you think about Koh Kood would you come back again yeah I would it's already I would say my second or third favorite island in Thailand it bumped out Koh Samet unfortunately yeah I think if you're looking for a real getaway island Koh Kood is the place for you my top is still like it's still Koh Samui there's some sort of bias you know we used to live there and people might think it's so commercial but we have found our kind of hidden gems favorite spots so it's still number one number two is actually Koh Lipe which we did a video probably like almost two years ago there but it's like a honeymoon island I love it I agree with you yeah so this is actually number three for me but we still have one more Island to check out it might even bump Koh Kood down to number four who knows so stay tuned thank you again for watching and as always have a wonderful day we'll see you in the next one say bye bye
2024-07-17 14:19
