How to arrive without a panic.

Most guests fly into Bangkok, then transfer down to Samui, and from Samui take the ferry to Koh Phangan. It works, but it has three handoffs — and any one of them can wobble in monsoon weeks.

We've found two reliable shapes. The slow one: overnight in Bangkok, morning flight to Samui, lunch on the pier, ferry at 14:30, in the villa by sunset. The fast one: red-eye from Europe, direct connection in Bangkok, speedboat charter from Samui in the afternoon.

Either way, message us your flight numbers a week ahead and we'll line up the driver and the boat — and a backup if Bangkok Airways changes their schedule, which they will.