How painful is a border bounce from Koh Lanta to Satun for Canadian passport holders?

@Dan *******

2200baht return. Well, if you prefer to spend 5 hoursx2 driving in a van which has 0 maintenance, with a bus driver that has just a couple of hrs of sleep and often is on amphetamines/alcohol then is your business. I really doubt anyone would say the van driver are professional, they have a VERY BAD REPUTATION and you can read of accidents almost everyday involving those. Anyways, I'm not going to take a private jet so I don't get the point about the impact that I'd have by taking an airplane. Take your van, I'll still go with the plane instead ;)

@Michael *********

well I'm not going to call you a liar, but I'd love to see your booking confirmation at 2200 baht. Although Cheapest flight I ever saw was 1000 baht, so not impossible. Actually the vans are very well kept. My ex lived in a compound like place where the family ran a fleet of them out of. They were very proud of them, immaculately kept, cleaned and polished after every trip. Heads under the bonnet every day too. And the drivers are professional as I said. I think the problems are more with larger buses, night buses, and mostly in other SE Asian countries. I remember taking a car through a mountain pass in Laos and the roadside littered with carcasses of trucks and buses. Stopped for a toilet brake and saw a big bus down a shear drop, then noticed the skid marks and the exit point. It was fresh, only weeks old. Peoples stuff scattered for hundreds of meters. Haunting that was. And on the return leg, having done a u-turn to stop at a viewpoint there was a crash while we were stopped. A truck went of the road, taking a car with it, then landed on top the car crushing it, people had stopped to help, using another truck to try and pull it off. That could've been me. It was the difference between stopping for a cup of instant coffee, or a piss, or even at a red light or road junction. That shit is crazy. There, maintenance is lacking, drivers are wired. You can hear the water-cooled brakes hissing away, see the trails of water on the roads, I think that's a good sign. Anyways, whichever you prefer 👍

@Michael *********

and my first point, environmental impact.

@Dan *******

did you cycle to thailand 5555

@Michael *******

and how did I get to Malaysia ? Kayak. A fucking kayak. I swear to you. From Langkawi. I thought it would be the equivalent to Koh pha ngan to Samui, but it was more like Liverpool to New York. Like a shipping channel. Totally underestimated that. I was aiming for Satun, obviously but settled for the closest land I could see in my panic.

@Michael *******

ha fucking ha Michael. That's well overplayed that one. I actually fucking walked. Beat that. Go on. I fucking walked here, from Malaysia. Taxi wouldn't take me any further. It was pissing down with rain, it was getting dark, perfect conditions for me. I said "drop me here, this will be lovely". And to top it all off, some idiot crashed his car into one of the bollards protecting the immigration building from attacks by cars, and caused a panic and scare, just as I'm stepping into an empty line'.