>>461642I stayed on Koh Chang for a week, at Lonely Beach. It's a five-hour bus ride from Bangkok, followed by maybe an hour on the ferry and half an hour on a baht-bus.
Warapura Resort is gorgeous but expensive. I don't knwo what their prices are like now; in high season it was 2000 baht a night. You can get a beach hut for 300 to 500 baht. BB Divers has rooms for 500.
The first night, I stayed in a beach hut. A rat chewed into my backpack and destroyed everything in it. I didn't stay there another night. I went to BB Divers; you could hear the rats scrabbling in the ceiling, but they didn't come into the room.
Buy your own mosquito net and bring it with you.
I spent my last two nights at Warapura. It's gorgeous. If you can afford it, stay there.
For food, there are a dozen good places. Siam Hut has a really nice cheap patio. Joy's Kitchen has fresh fish brought in every evening. There's a restaurant down a dirt path that some French guy runs (he married a local), which is excellent. There's a bar that runs movies every night -- buy a beer and sit down to watch.
Buy doxycycline and start taking it before you arrive. Malaria.
