Saturday Jan 7, 2017
It’s a rainy morning. The weather forecast was showing rain for this area for these weeks, so I was a little nervous coming here to snorkel. But it’s felt like the song in Camelot – the rain’s only been coming during the night time (except for this morning… but it will probably clear up soon, I hope)
Last night I was trying to find a hotel for the night we finish with our upcoming 5-day snorkeling boat adventure. The next day we’ll be going to a remote Island Eco Resort further away. I kept looking, trying to find a place as close to the remote Island as reasonably possible and where 1) the boat people could leave us off the afternoon of Jan 15 and 2) where the Remote Island place could pick us up on Jan 16. I found a place that looked good, and reasonably priced. I wrote to the two organizations to see if the logistics would work (but it was late at night when I was doing this research). The boat people got back to me saying this location was fine and they could drop us off there on the 15th. The hotel site said there was only one room available (they only have 4 rooms). I assumed it would work out and broke it before going to sleep.
This morning I got an email from the folks at the remote island eco lodge… this “hotel” is out of their way, and they can’t arrange a pick up there on the 16th. Now for plan “2” (do we have a plan “2”?)
I’m comparing this hotel with the remote island eco lodge and this hotel looks pretty good to me – it looks remote, there’s no additional fee to hop a boat to get there (we’ll already be there), and the daily cost is much cheeper. Why leave one paradise to go to another paradise? I’ll look today to see if we can stay there for maybe 3-5 days and forget the original plans.
I feel like Fagan in the musical Oliver – “I think I need to think this out again!”
https://www.agoda.com/bangpling-nature-home-stay/hotel/khao-lak-th.html
Second thought (or 3rd… maybe 4th or 5th?) we might get tired of the elephants after a few days and be ready for new sites?
It’s still raining and it’s lunch time. This makes a quiet non-beach day.
An interesting observation – we’ve run into very few Americans… many Russians, Europeans, Chinese… but few Americans. I guess for those wanting to get to the beach, Costa Rica, The Caribbean, Florida, etc are so much closer. With so few Americans, I’d expect the music played by most of the local places would be Thai (for the flavor) or music from the majority of the tourists… but no, it’s American music from the 70’s – 90’s.