Chad and Sharon Moore

After a lovely week at Lanta Emerald we thought we'd better reduce our accommodation costs.  We had a look at a couple of other bays but couldn't really find anything that compared to Klong Khong.  The touristy areas cost more and the quieter areas that were cheap were just too quiet.  We struck gold though when after some hard bargaining we moved to another place on the same beach.   Sea Sand Sun Resort bungalow has air con, sat t.v., fridge and a lovely pool, all for 600 baht per night.  We even got the front bungalow so another sea view :-)  Another bonus of the off-peak season is that we haven't shared the pool once!

During the last week we've totally chilled out, worked on our tans, finished our books, played games, had massages, drunk too much but eaten really healthily :-)  We…

We waved a fond farewell to Phi Phi and headed off to Ko Lanta.  The boat trip would have been lovely if we hadn't been pestered by touts - instead of waiting on the pier for you they come on the boat ! eeeeeek !

Anyway, we had about 6 or 7 people speak to us - all of their places looked great which made it difficult to decide where to stay.  We decided to look at two places.  We ended up staying somewhere else totally different, just next door to the first place we looked at, saved money on transport...... he he :-)

We stayed in the beachfront bungalow at Lanta Emerald which was fab, we could see and hear the waves from our room and were no more than 20 metres from the sea, which was lovely and warm.... ahhhhhhhhhh, this is the life :-)  We quickly got into the…