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Originally Posted by player bets
POKERSPIV,
you around ? i have a question for you as i believe you stay in koh samui yeah? i just had like an hour long conversation with a friend about it and i was just curious why you prefer there over say phuket? i assume youve been there. thanks in advance should you see this. the way he broke it down it sounded pretty nice.
There are a lot of reasons I prefer Samui (specifically Lamai) to Phuket but here are the main ones:
1) I have been going there for a long time and know a lot of the locals
2) Samui is a lot quieter than Phuket. You can find a quiet place to live without having to ride 5km through jungle on your motorbike to find a 7/11 like you do in Phuket.
3) Everything is much cheaper in Samui, you get more for your money so don't have to grind as much.
4) People don't hassle the **** out of you when you walk down the street in Samui, even in the nightlife areas.
The only real thing Samui doesn't have that Phuket doesn't is surf. Karon beach has a proper ocean swell whereas beaches in Samui have no surf at all.
Note that most of the above applies to Lamai beach in Samui, Chaweng Beach is more like Phuket. I've been to Patong, Karon, Kata and Chalong in Phuket and I prefer Lamai to all of those for the reasons above.