Transfer from Koh Chang to Utapao. Transfer to Koh Chang from Bangkok and Pattaya – prices and methods. Distance between points
Many tourists, soon after arriving, cannot withstand the intensity of passions and want to leave somewhere. Where there is silence, sea, palm trees, sand and nothing else unnecessary. For example, on . Just a few days of relaxation on its beaches have a beneficial effect on both body and soul. By the way, the sea there is much cleaner than here. Therefore the question is: “ How to get from Pattaya to Koh Chang on your own,” is very relevant.
Getting to Koh Chang on your own is quite possible. Especially because this destination is very popular among tourists and there are many offers to deliver there, varying in price and degree of extremeness. The distance from Pattaya to Koh Chang along the road to the pier is about 230 km; you can see the entire route on the map below.
Through a travel agency
This way to get to the island can only conditionally be called “independent”, because transfer Pattaya – Koh Chang(also called Mall Tour) consists of delivery from porch to porch. By contacting a local travel agency, of which there are many, you can be sure that you will get there and back to Pattaya without any problems - the price tag includes bus and ferry tickets. If you want, you can buy a return ticket right away. This way to get to Koh Chang will cost depending on the degree of luxury of the bus, they ask for it from 600 to 1000 baht, and this is one way!
Through a transport company
Tour Pattaya – Koh Chang You can buy without intermediaries - through a transport company. This way to get to Koh Chang allows you to save a couple of hundred baht. To do this, you need to find their office (will be indicated on the map at the end of the article). There are many similar carriers in Pattaya. The most proven and reliable - 35 Group Pattaya and their Vkontakte community. The only limitation is that you need to make arrangements to purchase a ticket at least 24 hours in advance, as they sell out too quickly.
Search tickets and flight schedules
Alternatively, you can book a minibus ticket online through any device with Internet access. To do this, you need to go to the 12 Go Asia website (or in the search form below), enter the points of departure and destination, the required date and click on the “Find” button. Read how to use the service.
By taxi
This is the most comfortable way to get to Koh Chang island. The delivery price just to can reach 3000-5000 baht. Taxis can be hailed on the street. Then you will negotiate everything with the driver yourself (it’s good if both he and you). A less extreme option is to order taxi Pattaya – Koh Chang via the KiwiTaxi.ru website. There are several advantages: you don’t need to negotiate anything with the driver, the car is yours, you can order it for the whole company at once (they will offer a minibus) and divide the price of the trip equally, which will be quite reasonable for the price. Also, if you do, they will provide him with a child restraint seat. For detailed instructions, read a separate article, and you can also use the taxi search form below:
By bus
If you want to get from Pattaya to Koh Chang by bus (read about), the road will seem like a real adventure.
To do this, you need to go to (Nakhon Chai Bus), which is located on Sukhumvit Road 100 meters from Central Pattaya Street, and buy a ticket for a comfortable bus there, or do it on the 12Go.Asia website.
Features of the return transfer from Koh Chang to Pattaya
If you decide to get to Koh Chang island with the help of a travel company, you should be aware of the landing features ferry Pattaya - Koh Chang. A company representative will meet you at the Trat pier 35 Group Pattaya(usually a girl). She will arrange for you to board the ferry, and if you have a return transfer booked (tell her about it), she will also give you a receipt that will be exchanged for a ticket on the day of departure from the island.
If you know exactly when you will go back, you can order a transfer to Pattaya with a fixed date through the same company. In this case, at the Koh Chang pier on the day of departure, change your receipt for a ticket and calmly sail to the mainland, knowing that a bus is waiting for you there.
This is what the minibass 35 Group Pattaya looks like
A return transfer with an open date requires you to call the office 35 Group Pattaya two days before departure and reserve your seat. Without doing this, you may see the tail of the bus in the province of Trat. This, of course, is not a disaster, but no one will compensate you for the cost of returning to Pattaya.
Ferries run frequently, but you need to choose a flight so that you can return to Trat in advance. After getting off the ferry, you must present your sea ticket at the office of the transport company from which you ordered the transfer. Try not to confuse the carrier. All minibass are white, so read the company names.
We have prepared information about taxis and transfers to Koh Chang from Pattaya and Bangkok: prices for the trip, travel time, where to book. We will give advice and recommendations, and tell you when a transfer should be preferred to public transport.
Briefly about the route:
- Distance: from Bangkok – about 295 km, from Pattaya – about 270 km.
- Travel time – approximately 5 hours
- Prices for individual transfer: from 123 dollars
The fastest and most convenient way to get to Koh Chang is. It’s more convenient and faster than a bus, and most importantly, it avoids hassles (you’re picked up from your hotel and taken to your hotel).
Note: Koh Chang is an island, so a trip to it will include transport on the mainland, a ferry crossing and a trip to the desired beach or hotel.
Transfer Bangkok – Koh Chang
The best option is to order in advance. In this case, you indicate what time and where to pick you up, and the car will be delivered there at the appointed time. Most often, a transfer is ordered from a hotel, but you can also specify any other location - a train station, an airport, or just any address in Bangkok.
Travel time from Bangkok – approx. 5 o'clock. For comparison: buses take 5-6 hours just to the city of Trat, from where you still need to get to the pier, take a ferry to Koh Chang Island, and then get to the hotel or beach.
Transfer cost Bangkok – Koh Chang (price per car for 3-4 passengers):
- Economy (for example, Ford Focus) – from $130
- Comfort (for example, Toyota Camry) – from $142
- Premium (BMW 7 Series) – on request
- Minibus for 4/7/10 passengers – 152$ / 159$ / 167$
The transfer price already includes the cost of the ferry from the mainland to Koh Chang, as well as a trip to your hotel on the island.
Approximate route map:
Transfer from Bangkok airport
If you arrive in the city by plane, it is more convenient to immediately book a transfer from Bangkok airport to Koh Chang. The service is available at both Suvarnabhumi (BKK) and Don Mueang (DMK) airports.
The driver will meet you in the arrivals hall with a sign (he will wait if the flight is delayed) and help you load your luggage into the car.
This option is especially suitable for holidays in Thailand with small children - you won’t have to juggle your suitcases on public transport, and you’ll get to the hotel faster.
The travel time will be slightly longer than if you travel from Bangkok:
- from Suvarnabhumi Airport – about 5 hours 30 minutes
- from Don Mueang Airport – about 5 hours 50 minutes
The cost of the trip is about the same - from 130-142 dollars for the entire car.
Taxi from the airport
From Suvarnabhumi Airport you can get to Koh Chang by taxi. There are special counters at the airport where you can order a taxi to the island.
Taxi cost to Koh Chang – 3500-4500 baht($110-140). Be sure to check whether this price includes a ferry ticket and further travel to the hotel on the island.
You can also try going outside and hailing a taxi yourself. True, this option is dubious - not every taxi driver will agree to go to Chang, and besides, there is a risk of fraud.
Photo: taxi in Bangkok © sharonang Transfer Pattaya – Koh Chang
No less popular among tourists is the transfer from Pattaya to Koh Chang. You also select your departure location (hotel, train or bus station, pier, etc.), desired time and destination in Koh Chang.
Prices depending on car class:
- Economy (for example, Audi A3) – from $123
- Comfort (Toyota Camry, etc.) – from $148
- Premium (e.g. Mercedes S-Class or Lexus GX) – on request
- Minibus for 4/7/10 passengers – 154$ / 171$ / 191$
Transfer to Koh Chang takes about 5 hours. The ferry ticket is already included in the price of the trip.
Approximate route from Pattaya:
Personal transfer and taxi are quite expensive. Therefore, if you are traveling alone, it makes sense to consider cheaper options to get to Koh Chang (bus or minibus).
Taxi and transfer should be preferred to public transport if...
The desire often arises among tourists who have spent some time in Pattaya and are somewhat tired of its unbridled fun and, in general, from the noise of a large resort city. In this respect, Koh Chang is the complete opposite of Pattaya and it is not surprising that the number of people wishing to spend a few days on a quiet island with magnificent beaches and tropical vegetation is constantly increasing. This article describes the most convenient and popular way to get from Pattaya to Koh Chang.
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Transfer Pattaya - Koh Chang
Despite the fact that an organized transfer from Pattaya to Koh Chang is not the most budget-friendly way to get to the island, it is recommended by all experienced travelers who have once been convinced of its advantages. And the very small overpayment for this transfer compared to other methods described at the end of this article, which also allow you to get to Koh Chang from Pattaya, is fully compensated by the convenience and simplicity. However, first things first. The advantage of the transfer is that, having paid once, you no longer have to worry about anything in the process of moving from Pattaya to Koh Chang.
Today in Pattaya it is easy to find many tourist offices that will be happy to take care of your transportation to Koh Chang island, however, prices are not the same everywhere and you can pay either 400 Thai baht or 500-600 for the same journey. This is due to the fact that not all offices themselves deliver passengers on the Pattaya - Koh Chang route: many are only intermediaries. As a result, the cost of a transfer for clients of such companies will be higher than for tourists who contacted the transfer organizers directly.
The company with the best prices and an excellent reputation today is 35 Group Pattaya, whose office is located on Third Street in Pattaya, near the intersection with South Street. If you walk from the beginning of Walking Street along South Street, you will need to go through several small intersections, i.e. Third Street is not the next intersection after Second Street, as many people think, but much further, but I always walked without problems.
Your landmark should be a traffic light at a larger intersection than the previous ones and a small motorbike repair shop in front of it, located in a building on the right in the direction of travel (although it is useless to describe establishments and signs in Pattaya, since everything is changing rapidly). At this intersection you need to turn left and go through several buildings until you see a 4-story pink building with balconies, again on the left side, a corresponding sign (see photo) and a glass door. By the way, on road signs the street is designated as Pattaya Tai (in Latin). Since the company moved to this office only last year, a currency exchange is located in the program in place of the Group’s office 35.
Before entering the office, I advise you to take off your shoes (you will see a lot of shoes in front of the door and remember this). At the office you will be asked where you want to book a transfer (Pattaya - Koh Chang), the desired date and time of departure. They will also be sure to ask for the name of your hotel and its address (if the hotel is small and little-known, take a business card with the address from the reception so that the driver can definitely find you before going to Koh Chang). I also advise you to leave your phone number in Thailand. The company operates three flights on the Pattaya - Koh Chang route per day: at 07:00 and 09:00 in the morning and at 13:00.
Transfer cost Pattaya – Koh Chang
in 2013 and at the beginning of 2014 it was 400 baht, while the indicated price includes a ticket for the Trat - Koh Chang ferry (which costs 80 baht when purchased separately). If you are planning to return from Koh Chang to Pattaya (and not to Bangkok for example), I advise you to immediately book a ticket in the opposite direction, i.e. transfer Koh Chang - Pattaya. This will save you another 100 baht (round trip transfer costs 700 baht). You can take a return ticket with an open date (tell the girl in the office that you need an “open ticket”). There are some nuances with the return transfer, which are described below on the page. 
After paying for the tickets, you can breathe easy: you will no longer need to do anything to get from Pattaya to Koh Chang, except to be in the right place at the right time. At the appointed time, you will be picked up directly from the hotel and taken in a comfortable Toyota minibus with a leather interior to the pier in Trat, from where ferries depart to Koh Chang. Having received ferry tickets upon arrival at the pier from an employee of the company “35 Group Pattaya” (they have a small office there), all that remains is to go through the waiting room and wait for the ferry, get on it and cover the distance to Koh Chang.
Since the pier on Koh Chang is on the eastern side of the island, and most hotels and beaches are on the western side, you will have to use a songthaew. To the nearest one, which is given in a separate article - White Sand Beach - the trip will cost 50-60 baht, to Kai Bae Beach - 100-150 baht (depending on the time of day and the total number of passengers in the pickup truck). By the way, even when ordering a transfer Pattaya - Koh Chang, you can order your delivery directly to a specific hotel on the island. Of course, this will cost more, like 550 (or 600) one way, but some will find this option convenient, especially if you managed to save a lot by using the hotel search form and comparing prices in various booking systems, which is located just below.
Please note: the company’s reputation is really good and not only among Russian-speaking tourists, so it is increasingly necessary to order a transfer Pattaya - Koh Chang in advance. I myself was faced with a situation where I had to postpone a trip to Koh Chang by one day due to the fact that all seats on two morning flights on the originally chosen day were sold out. Therefore, if you want to be guaranteed a cheap trip to Koh Chang from Pattaya, book a transfer in advance.
Return transfer Koh Chang – Pattaya
If you have ordered a return transfer, be sure to ask the 35 Group Pattaya employee who will meet you upon arrival at the pier to give you a receipt for the return ferry ticket. For some reason, the girl immediately refused to give me such a receipt; I had to demand more insistently, pointing out that there was a return ticket with an open date. If the return transfer was originally booked for a specific date, simply arrive a few hours before leaving for Pattaya at the island pier, exchange your receipt for a ticket and board the ferry.
If the opposite transfer Koh Chang – Pattaya with an open date, you should definitely call the company’s office two days before the planned departure from the island and reserve seats in the minibus. If this is not done, there may not be free seats on the bus and you will have to look for other options for returning to Pattaya and overpay for it. A small clarification: over the phone, employees speak only English (as in the company’s offices), so it is advisable to know this language a little and be able to put together a few words in it to explain what you need (you will need to indicate the transfer contract number, departure date and time from Trat to Pattaya).
The receipt for a ticket can be exchanged at the window at the entrance to the pier on the island (before departure to the mainland). You can get to the pier in the same way as when arriving on the island - using a songthaew. By the way, it is better to arrive at the pier in advance so as not to be late for your return transfer. Arriving by ferry to Trat, you must again go to the office of the 35 Group Pattaya company, from whose door the buses depart, and show your ticket. Often, a bright sticker with the name of the company will be placed on your T-shirt so that you do not get lost.
If a company minibus arrives at the time you choose, but they don’t want to let you into it, don’t panic and swear, “losing face.” Another one will arrive soon and you will definitely be taken to the hotel in Pattaya where you were initially picked up from. On the way there and back, the minibus stops a couple of times at a gas station, where you need to get out of the minibus. You can just stretch your legs, or you can have a bite of local food (from the makashnik), eat some fruit, or go to a 7/11 store (not at all gas stations) and buy beer there. Just don’t confuse the minibass, there are usually a lot of them and all are white. Therefore, pay attention to the name of the company (highlighted in the photo with a yellow marker) and remember your fellow travelers.
Why transfer Pattaya - Koh Chang is more profitable and convenient
bus
More accessible at first glance methods are regular buses passing through Pattaya to Trat. Their cost is about 200-220 baht. It would seem that the amount is almost two times less than the cost of an organized transfer to. However, if you add 80 baht for a ferry ticket to this amount, you already get about 300 baht. Plus, you need to get from the hotel to the North Bus Station in Pattaya or the Sukhumvit highway (10-20 baht for a songthaew or much more by taxi), find a suitable bus (and this is also not easy if you use the ones passing through Pattaya along the Sukhumvit highway, which you need stop yourself or ask local residents to do it, also for a small fee).
In addition, from Trat itself you will need to get to one of the ferry piers yourself, using local songthaews, which will again cost you about 50 baht. In other words, the amount turns out to be similar, plus or minus 30 baht, but there are much more difficulties, especially if there are problems with English. If you order a transfer in both directions, then this method turns out to be not only the fastest, but also the cheapest, and the method with regular buses cannot compete at all.
Also remember that a trip of about 270 km on a VIP minibus with comfortable leather seats will in any case be faster and more comfortable than on a regular intercity bus, which takes about six hours to Trat with many stops. Decide which way get from Pattaya to Koh Chang more convenient, in any case for you. I wish you a successful and comfortable trip!
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Our reader Victoria Kurilova At first I doubted: is an excursion from Pattaya to Koh Chang worth the time and money spent? Still, the road is long, you have to get up early, the trip is not cheap... Were her fears justified and is it worth going from Pattaya to Koh Chang? Victoria talks about this in today's article!
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Far and scary
I started looking for excursions in Pattaya long before my vacation. After studying various resources and excursion offers, we settled on Olya and Zhenya’s website. Uekhali.com is a very rich resource where you can find almost everything you need not only for a holiday in Pattaya, but also for living there. In addition, we liked both the prices and the programs, so we chose all the excursions in Pattaya in advance.
Or rather, almost everything 🙂 We liked the program of a two-day excursion from Pattaya to Koh Chang, but before the trip I read all sorts of horror stories on the Internet: that this island is very far away, that it rains there, that it’s a waste of time... In general, I screwed myself up and began to “peck” Olga and Evgenia on Viber. They conducted a very concise and careful dialogue with me and told me everything about Koh Chang as it is, without false promises. Of course, I understood that it was absurd to expect good or bad weather from an agency, tour operator or from a shaman with a tambourine, I just needed it at that moment.
In general, we decided that even if it rains, we are still ready to go to Koh Chang and get the most positive emotions from this excursion!
Koh Chang Island. And we still doubted whether it was worth going here :)
Fair weather land
The excursion to Koh Chang from Pattaya became our third order with Zhenya and Olya. You can read about our other trips in my articles on Uehali.com:
Since the excursion from Pattaya to Koh Chang is a two-day excursion, we paid a small deposit for it on the previous excursion. This is absolutely adequate and justified: you need to confirm in advance that your intentions are serious, because hotel rooms are reserved and paid for by us.
On the appointed day at about six in the morning we left our hotel in Pattaya. I won’t lie: yes, the road was quite long. On the way to Koh Chang, we sinfully even thought that we had gone in vain. Looking ahead, later my husband and I even admitted to each other that we should have even thought about it in vain! Everything went just wonderful, also thanks to the guide, a very friendly and sociable girl named Alexandra. She has been living in Thailand for 10 years, learned the Thai language and is already “one of her own” among the Thais.
A two-day excursion from Pattaya to Koh Chang begins with a stop at an unusual temple where monkeys live. Count how many monkeys are there in the photo? 😉
On the way to Koh Chang, we stopped at a temple built on a rock, where there were many, many monkeys. Yes, you need to be careful with them, which the guide, who provides instructions on communicating with these animals, always warns about. Here, bags of nuts are sold for pennies, which you can feed to your animals. It's very exciting: they carefully take food from their hands, run and jump around. By the way, there are Buddha statues near the temple, each for a different day of the week, and you can leave a coin near the Buddha of the day you were born and make a wish. I liked it very much!
After the temple, we were again waiting for the road along the “mainland”, a ferry crossing and - hello, Koh Chang!
Crossing to Koh Chang. The ferry carries not only local residents and tourists, but also food for the islanders.
At first sight we fell in love with the island. This is not even close to Pattaya, there are jungles all around, nature, the beauty is simply indescribable. We checked into the wonderful Grand Cabana hotel, the area is very green, well-groomed, beautiful, here you immediately immerse yourself in a fairy tale! After which a delicious and satisfying lunch awaited us, and then, of course, the sea! By the way, before this we only had “land” excursions, but they left much to be desired, so we can say that on Koh Chang we got to the sea for the first time during our vacation. And although there was a strong ebb and flow that day, we had great fun swimming. There were great waves, the water was warm. We met another couple and had a great time, splashing around on the waves like children)))
Well hello Koh Chang! Miracle Island greeted us with a delicious lunch, well-groomed hotel grounds…
...immediately behind which the stunningly beautiful beach began!
In the evening there was a fire show waiting for us, but we didn’t go to it. We had our own wonderful show: after dinner, our new friends and I sat on the terrace overlooking the bay and had a cultural relaxation with local pancakes and light alcohol (well, where would we be without it :-)). By the way, it was here that we “caught” rain for the first and only time during our entire vacation. Although it was raining there, it was drizzling a little. Which once again confirms: in this part of Thailand the weather is always good!
In general, the “rainy season in Pattaya” is a stereotype invented by tour operators. Yes, some parts of the country do experience tropical torrential rains, but Pattaya is the opposite! The weather there is wonderful all year round! We were in Pattaya for 15 days at the end of August and during the entire vacation, morning, afternoon, and evening, we never saw rain! Except that it rained a couple of times during the night - we only realized it from the freshness when we woke up in the morning. This is about the question.
An excursion from Pattaya to Koh Chang is an opportunity to see “the very” Bounty. Bounty is here at every step!
Three magical islands
Our two-day excursion from Pattaya to Koh Chang was based on the Premium program. That is, we included not only all the food (in the economy option - only breakfast), but also a cruise on three islands of the Koh Chang archipelago: Koh Lao Noi, Koh Wai, Koh Klum. This cruise took place on the second day of the trip. We were taken on a two-decker boat with a breeze. By the way, here too for tourists everything was, as they say, on a silver platter. Anti-sickness pills, as well as masks and snorkels were distributed to everyone who needed them. They swam and swam... and arrived at the first island. This is simply amazing, I simply have no other words! Here it is, the beauty and grandeur of nature, here it is, the bounty island, here they are, palm trees, white sand, crystal water... At that moment I thought: it means that my karma was well cleared in advance, since I ended up on these heavenly lands! And my husband Styopa really wanted to go snorkeling. Did you want to? Get it! Snorkeling on Koh Chang was such that all our fellow travelers and Styopa were simply in seventh heaven! For an hour he floundered with corals, fish, sea urchins and other creatures of the underwater world. But... it still burned))) Even though before that I very carefully smeared it with sunscreen. Therefore, friends, be very careful and do not forget about anti-/for/after-sun products!
A two-day excursion to Koh Chang from Pattaya is not only a holiday on the beautiful beaches of the “main” island, but also a cruise to three islands by ship with lunch, snorkeling, fishing and swimming in the open sea.
After that we visited two more islands. Each of them is beautiful and unique in its own way. Never before have I touched such wonderful sand with either my hands or feet; I have never swum in such crystal clear waters of the open sea. Well, isn't this a miracle? A special treat is for fishing enthusiasts, who were given fishing rods and bait: please, catch fish right away from the deck! By the way, when approaching the islands, Thais throw bread into the water and schools of colorful, incredibly beautiful fish swim to it!
In general, guys, be sure to go on a two-day excursion to Koh Chang from Pattaya. Yes, the road is not the closest, but believe me, the emotions you get from the trip will more than compensate for this!!!
Never before have I touched such wonderful sand with either my hands or feet; I have never swam in such crystal waters of the open sea...
P.S.: and in conclusion - a small lyrical digression. In the evening, talking with our new tourist friends on Koh Chang, we shared our impressions of the excursions we had already visited. Styopa and I excitedly talked about how successful our excursion had been, and the guys told us things that made us feel very sorry for them. I forgot the name of the agency from which they took the excursion to Kwai, but I remembered the name of the guide - Oleg. This Oleg ruined their entire impression of Thailand and their vacation. Not only did the tourists not hear anything interesting about the country: all he did was say all sorts of nasty things - how bad it was in Thailand, that there were bandits all around and life in general was a pain. We were shocked! Not only did the guys go on this “free excursion” from the tour operator, where they ride you like cannon fodder all day on a bus to 10 shops, but they were also unsuccessfully driven to Kwai. Well, but the excursion to Koh Chang island from Pattaya compensated them for their previous failures: they were truly happy both from the trip program and from communication with the guide Alexandra. This is what it means to choose the right company and guide for excursions!
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Pattaya - Koh Chang: how to get there on your own
The language of communication is minimal English. All you need to say there is: Koh Chang, choose the time, how many people, the name of your hotel and room number, your phone number. There is a Russian-language group on VKontakte, 35Group, through which transfers are sold. But I'm not sure if they are official representatives. Most likely some kind of agency.
Here are the prices for transfer Pattaya - Koh Chang at the office of 35 Pattaya Group:
Transfer Pattaya - Koh Chang price
By the way, we have already used such a transfer before. We drove through Trat 2 times, doing the first part of the journey by minibus.
Where can I order a transfer from the airport?
We use the service - KiwiTaxi
We ordered a taxi online and paid by card. We were met at the airport with a sign with our name on it. We were taken to the hotel in a comfortable car. You've already talked about your experience In this article.
Transfer cost
- 400 baht per person for one way trip. Price includes minibus + ferry
- 720 baht for round trip purchase. It's profitable. On Chang, return transfers are more expensive. You can buy a return ticket with an open date. To do this, you need to call them a day before departure.
You don't have to take a transfer directly to your hotel on Chang if you don't want to overpay. There will always be tuk-tuk taxis on site, which will cost a little cheaper.
Time
The minibus picks you up from the hotel, then collects other tourists around Pattaya and then goes towards the city of Trat, where there will be a transfer to the ferry.
- There are 3 departure times to choose from - 6 am, 8 am and 12 pm. We chose 8am. You don’t need to know the ferry schedule; they arrive at the right time.
- It takes about 4 hours to get to the ferry. There will be one stop on the way for 5 minutes. Toilet and 7-11.
Ferry
The bus takes you to the ferry pier. You are given tickets. 30 minutes before departure. The ferry is old and slow. It takes about 40 minutes to get to the island. There is a shop and a toilet on the ship. You can go to Koh Chang with your own bike or car. Additional payment is about 100 baht for a car and 50 baht for a moped.
Koh Chang Ferry
How to get to your hotel from the ferry
Immediately after the pier you go out onto the road where there will be songthaews (minibuses), similar to Pattaya tuk-tuks. They recruit people and take them to hotels. Prices are approximately like this:
- From the pier to White Sand Beach 50 baht per person
- To Chai Chet and Klong Prao 60 baht
- To Kai Bay 70 baht
- At Longley Beach 100 baht
Taxi Pattaya - Koh Chang
Order a taxi on Koh Chang online here →
The fastest and most comfortable way to get to Koh Chang from Pattaya is by taxi. A taxi will take you to Koh Chang from Pattaya in about 4-5 hours. The price includes a ferry ticket. A taxi for a large group will cost quite profitably. A minibus for 10 people will cost $22 each.
Order a taxi Pattaya - Koh Chang
Taxi is ordered and paid through the website Kiwitaxi. We ourselves used this service to order a taxi in Phuket. Everything went well, the cars were of high quality. See our reviews.
In Pattaya, a car from a local taxi service will pick you up. The driver is Thai, so he doesn’t speak Russian, only English. But there is no need to communicate; he will already have the entire route. Tipping is at your discretion.
You can pay for a taxi in full by bank card in rubles. Any Russian bank card Visa or Mastercard will do. Or make a prepayment by card and give the rest in cash to the driver.
Route "Pattaya - Koh Chang" on the map
The distance is about 250 km. The route on the map is marked to the pier from which ferries depart to the island.