Full description of Koh Samui Airport in Thailand

The incredibly beautiful island of Koh Samui will surprise you with more than just natural attractions.

Samui Airport Scheme

Samui Airport Scheme in Russian

Most airports around the world have gift stores to find. But not on Koh Samui, where it is the only indoor facility. Many tourists, arriving on Koh Samui by airplane for the first time, assume they are in an amusement park right off the plane. The thing is that they are transported to the airport building by ridiculous electric cars, which are more suitable for driving visitors to some Disneyland.

Samui International Airport

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Don’t think of this air harbor as some sort of semi-abandoned runway with a dispatcher’s booth on the edge. In fact Thailand’s Koh Samui Airport is the sixth busiest and the tenth busiest in the world in terms of service. It is owned by Bangkok Airways and is 100% privately owned.

Samui International Airport

Monopoly ownership makes direct flights to Samui quite ruinous for tourists. Therefore, many of them prefer to fly to Tha Kat Yang airport, located 14 km west of Surat Thani, and then transfer transfers (bus, steam) to Samui, book them at the 12 Go Asia website. Check out the high cost of airfare on the search form below, you can even book them if you want (read more about how to get to Thailand cheap):

The popularity of the circular budget route has even spawned a somewhat misleading name for Tha Kat Yang airport, which is referred to in travel agencies as Samui Airport in Surat Thani province.

Flight directions

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Samui International Airport, as this air harbor is officially called, is actually a medium-range airport. Its runway is 2 kilometers 60 meters long. The most frequent flights there are twin-engine turboprops Bombardier and ATR-72s, carrying 40 to 72 passengers.

The airport is a medium-haul airport.

Airport on Koh Samui is open to only five airlines – Bangkok Airways, Thai Airways (national Thai carrier), Firefly (Malaysia), China Southern (China), Silk Air (Singapore).

Samui International Airport

International flights are to Suvarnabhumi, Chiang Mai, Utapao, and airport in Krabi Province and Phuket. International – to Hong Kong, Guangzhou (seasonal flights), Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Pinang.

International – to Hong Kong, Guangzhou (seasonal flights), Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Pinang.

Since this air harbor is private, each passenger, in addition to the cost of the ticket, is charged an additional fee on departure. It is 500 baht on international flights and 400 baht on domestic flights. When buying a ticket, check whether the fee is included in its price, so as not to have a pale look at check-in.

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To keep track of expected, delayed or cancelled flights, we recommend you check the informative Samui Airport Online Flight Board. You’ll find out what time your flight arrives or the flight you’re rendezvousing with friends and family. Samui airport code is USM.

How to get to Samui Airport

The international air harbor is located in the northeastern part of Koh Samui, next to the causeway leading to Phan Island, where the Big Buddha Temple is located. The whole island is surrounded by a ring road, so the answer to the question, “How to get to Samui Airport?” is obvious – no matter where you go, you’ll still end up there.

How to get to Samui Airport.

The range of transportation on Koh Samui is pretty standard in Thailand: cabs, minibuses and tuk-tuk. The prices are quite high. To the Temple of Big Buddha will bring you for 70 baht per person, and that at a distance of two kilometers from the international airport. A trip to the nearby village of Chaweng (and its namesake chaweng beach), standing on the eastern shore of the island, at 100 baht per person. In general, Moscow cab drivers can nervously smoke on the sidelines and envy the appetites of their Thai colleagues.

Samui Airport Transfer

It’s definitely cheaper to take a taxi to Koh Samui Airport as a group. If you rent the whole car for a trip to Lamai Beach, where the ferries leave for the mainland, the odyssey to the opposite end of the island will cost you 500 baht – just over a hundred per person. If you can book a transfer to and from Koh Samui’s airport, you can get it from kiwitaxi.ru.and if you travel thailand with children, you can get a children’s seat, which is excellent value!

An even cheaper way to get around the island is the tuk-tuk passenger scooter, popular throughout Thailand. Their owners take passengers to any part of the island for 60-80 baht, but that’s assuming that you do not change to another local transport somewhere on the way. Then the price doubles. However, as darkness falls, tuk-tuks become more expensive than cabs.

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