There are 2 areas in Krabi called Krabi Town (city area) and Ao Nang. Krabi (nearer to beach). We decided to stay in Beach area so it is easier for us to commute.
Flight
There are 2 direct flights from Singapore to Krabi such as AirAsia and Tiger. For this trip, we chose Tiger due to its better timing and the journey took about 1h45m. There was a delay during our departure, do not remember how long but if i am not mistaken it was less than 1 hour.
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| Room decorated for our Wedding Anniversary |
I chose this hotel because of its good review from TripAdvisor and it is located in Ao Nang and i was not disappointed at all.
Location : This hotel is strategically located next to McDonalds, Starbucks, 7-11 to name a few. We did not eat either from McDonalds nor Starbucks but located few steps away from 7-11 is very convenient for us as we always buy our drinking waters from there.
Room : I am very particular about cleanliness of the hotel room and thankfully this hotel did not disappoint me. The room that was given to me was spacious, big and it has Cliff view.
This hotel has some extension and some of the rooms are located uphill and requires more walking. Lucky for us, our room is located at the front building, hence less walking. However some of the rooms are away from the lift which are not sheltered and it was a hassle to walk especially when it was raining.
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| View from my Hotel Room |
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| View from Hotel's Infinity Pool |
1) Airport to Ao Nang
As we were there for only 4D3N, we traveled light and decided to take bus to Ao Nang instead of taking taxi.. The bus fare was 150Baht per person which can be purchased from the official counter inside the airport (after exit from baggage claim). Thereafter, proceed to outside the airport to look for white colored bus and informed a personnel who collected the receipt on your hotel name.
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| Receipt of the Bus |
2) Ao Nang to Krabi Town
There is a night market at Krabi Town. Noted from my research that it is only available from Friday and weekend nights. Please confirm with the locals if you wish to go on weekday nights. For me, i went on Saturday night.
There are few options available to travel from Ao Nang to Krabi Town
1. Take a tuk-tuk taxi.
2. Use a public transport called Songthaew (white-colored pick-up trucks with two benches installed in the back). This should take about forty-five minutes and will cost about 60B one-way. You can wait at the bus stop in Ao Nang – it will have a huge sign “Ao Nang- Krabi Town”.
3.I saw a lot of tourists renting a motorbike in Krabi. You may wish to do so as well to travel around within Krabi.
4. Hotel/resort may provide transport to Krabi Town, please check with them.
5. Some travel agents along Ao Nang Beach will have a package tied with their Island Hopping package. We took this option as the car will pick up and send back to our hotel.
3) Island Hopping
I normally prefer to walk within air-con area than under the sun. However, since we have decided to travel to Krabi which is famous for its island hopping, i guess it is incomplete without trying them out.
We walked from our hotel to Ao Nang Beach and noted that there were sooo many shops selling their island hopping packages. Since they know that we are foreigners, normally we are charged higher than the local Thai people. Hence please do not buy your package from the first shop that you went. We went to a few places to compare the places and prices.
We decided to choose Stronger Travel & Tour which was located on the main street facing to the Ao Nang Beach. I could not remember the exact price of our package but it includes going to Hong Island, Kayaking and return transport to Krabi Town. Please remember to bargain with them.
Review on the Stronger Travel & Tour as follow:-
1) Transport from hotel to Krabi Town and return
There was a slight delay from the agreed time to fetch us from hotel. They picked us with a van with air-con. Noted that the van is not solely for me and hubby but they also fetch other guests in their respective hotels. Hence i am not sure if taking the public transport is better than private van like us due to the time of fetching each guests.However maybe with the air-con, it is better to use the private van, considering the weather in Krabi is hot like Singapore.
Once they send us to Krabi Town, they would tell us to meet them at designated place at certain time.
There are a lot of local food available in Krabi Town Night market, we also bought some snacks to bring back to Singapore, For shopping, most of them are T-Shirt, hence not many things to buy.
2) Island Hopping
There was a slight delay from the agreed time to fetch us from hotel. They picked us with a sheltered pick up truck which installed with two benches installed at the back (no air-con). Similar to above, they would go to other hotels to pick up other guests, hence the journey from Ao Nang to the designated boat terminal varies.
Once we reached the designated terminal, we have to wait another few cars which carries other guests and apparently we have to wait one of the car which was late for more than 2 hour and some of the guests were unhappy and cancel the trip and requested for a refund. We also thought of cancelling the trip but we thought of wasting time to travel here again tomorrow, hence we just waited and proceed.
Instead of longtail boat as per what we have paid, we took the speed boat and it cuts the travelling time.
(i) Our first island - for photo taking only
(ii) Our second island - for snorkeling and having lunch (lunch provided by the tour agent)
(iii) Our third island - cannot alight here, just take pics from the boat
(iv) Our forth island - can swim here and it has benches for people to sit while having snacks and toilet.
The island hopping ended after the forth island trip around 3pm. On the journey back, we were given a tin which we passed around to give tips for our tour guide. For hubby and i, since we had kayaking, we did not alight with the rest of the guests and being transferred to Ao Thalene.
3) Kayaking
Since my husband and i traveled to Krabi in May (rainy season), it was not advisable to do Kayaking in open sea. Hence we opt to Kayak in Ao Thalene.
It was my first Kayaking and it was not easy as it used a lot of arm muscle. However the view at Ao Thalene was breathtaking. The guide who brought us to Kayak was super good, he was funny and patient. He brought us to the mangrove and took a break in the middle of the sea where there were thousands of crabs and starfish.
There is a night market at Krabi Town. Noted from my research that it is only available from Friday and weekend nights. Please confirm with the locals if you wish to go on weekday nights. For me, i went on Saturday night.
There are few options available to travel from Ao Nang to Krabi Town
1. Take a tuk-tuk taxi.
2. Use a public transport called Songthaew (white-colored pick-up trucks with two benches installed in the back). This should take about forty-five minutes and will cost about 60B one-way. You can wait at the bus stop in Ao Nang – it will have a huge sign “Ao Nang- Krabi Town”.
3.I saw a lot of tourists renting a motorbike in Krabi. You may wish to do so as well to travel around within Krabi.
4. Hotel/resort may provide transport to Krabi Town, please check with them.
5. Some travel agents along Ao Nang Beach will have a package tied with their Island Hopping package. We took this option as the car will pick up and send back to our hotel.
3) Island Hopping
I normally prefer to walk within air-con area than under the sun. However, since we have decided to travel to Krabi which is famous for its island hopping, i guess it is incomplete without trying them out.
We walked from our hotel to Ao Nang Beach and noted that there were sooo many shops selling their island hopping packages. Since they know that we are foreigners, normally we are charged higher than the local Thai people. Hence please do not buy your package from the first shop that you went. We went to a few places to compare the places and prices.
We decided to choose Stronger Travel & Tour which was located on the main street facing to the Ao Nang Beach. I could not remember the exact price of our package but it includes going to Hong Island, Kayaking and return transport to Krabi Town. Please remember to bargain with them.
Review on the Stronger Travel & Tour as follow:-
1) Transport from hotel to Krabi Town and return
There was a slight delay from the agreed time to fetch us from hotel. They picked us with a van with air-con. Noted that the van is not solely for me and hubby but they also fetch other guests in their respective hotels. Hence i am not sure if taking the public transport is better than private van like us due to the time of fetching each guests.However maybe with the air-con, it is better to use the private van, considering the weather in Krabi is hot like Singapore.
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| Our transport to and from Hotel to Krabi Town |
There are a lot of local food available in Krabi Town Night market, we also bought some snacks to bring back to Singapore, For shopping, most of them are T-Shirt, hence not many things to buy.
2) Island Hopping
There was a slight delay from the agreed time to fetch us from hotel. They picked us with a sheltered pick up truck which installed with two benches installed at the back (no air-con). Similar to above, they would go to other hotels to pick up other guests, hence the journey from Ao Nang to the designated boat terminal varies.
Once we reached the designated terminal, we have to wait another few cars which carries other guests and apparently we have to wait one of the car which was late for more than 2 hour and some of the guests were unhappy and cancel the trip and requested for a refund. We also thought of cancelling the trip but we thought of wasting time to travel here again tomorrow, hence we just waited and proceed.
Instead of longtail boat as per what we have paid, we took the speed boat and it cuts the travelling time.
(i) Our first island - for photo taking only
(iii) Our third island - cannot alight here, just take pics from the boat
(iv) Our forth island - can swim here and it has benches for people to sit while having snacks and toilet.
The island hopping ended after the forth island trip around 3pm. On the journey back, we were given a tin which we passed around to give tips for our tour guide. For hubby and i, since we had kayaking, we did not alight with the rest of the guests and being transferred to Ao Thalene.
3) Kayaking
Since my husband and i traveled to Krabi in May (rainy season), it was not advisable to do Kayaking in open sea. Hence we opt to Kayak in Ao Thalene.
It was my first Kayaking and it was not easy as it used a lot of arm muscle. However the view at Ao Thalene was breathtaking. The guide who brought us to Kayak was super good, he was funny and patient. He brought us to the mangrove and took a break in the middle of the sea where there were thousands of crabs and starfish.
Ao Nang Beach
We walked along Ao Nang Beach for some photo taking.
Random place nearby our hotel
Food
1) AoNang Boat Noodle
This place is located few minutes away from our Hotel AoNang Cliff Beach Resort.
We were seated on the 2nd floor and the place was made from bamboo, hence it makes us feel colder than the outside temperature.
Our First meal in Krabi was at this place. We tried few dishes (ie Boat noodles soup with Pork, Grilled Pork, Tom yum soup and Thai iced milk tea). Our fav was Grilled Pork as it was cripsy and yet juicy. Both soups were good too. They also gave us watermelon as dessert.
After trying other places for our other meals, we came back to this place again for our lunch on the 2nd last day. We ordered Papaya salad Thai spicy, Fried spicy kale with grilled pork, Green curry, Coconut shake and Green tea with lemon shake.
Green curry is too sweet for our taste and we preferred the Grilled Pork instead of with the vegetable as it was less crispy. For drink, i opt for Coconut shake instead of Green tea with lemon shake.
2) Street stall Food
When we were looking for a place for dinner, we saw some people at this stall and decided to give it a try.
Review: the place is alongside the road, hence please be aware of the mosquito around. The food is normal and not worth to go back.
3) Bangboo Seafood Restaurant
We decided to give this place a try because we saw a lot of people was eating there.
Review: We have to wait for very long for our food to be served and the food served were warm instead of hot. The taste wise was normal and the price is at the higher side compared to Ao Nang Boat Noodle which served better food.
4) Mango Shake and Banana pancake with chocolate filling
I heard the banana pancake with chocolate filling is famous in Krabi, so decided to give it a try.
There were a lot of stalls nearby our hotel.
Review: The skin is similar to our prata in Singapore but thinner and crispier. The combination of banana and chocolate is nice. Please try it when you are there.
For drink, we opted for mango shake. It was because the weather in Krabi is super hot and Thailand is famous for its mango. So kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
5) Coconut ice cream
Another famous snack from Krabi is Coconut Ice Cream and there were some of stalls selling it nearby our hotel.
Review: It is refreshing but the portion is quite small, please order 1 per pax if you want to be fully satisfied.
Massage
AttA-Rak
This place is higly recommended from the TripAdvisor and blogs. Despite there were so many massage places nearby, we decided to give this place a try.
I love massage and i always try to always go for massage in every places that i visited.
Review: The front desk is located in the basement. There is a booklet with different prices for different type of massages and all written in english. My hubby and i picked the Back and Shoulder and Hand & Foot Massage for a total of 1.5 hours.
We were given a hot ginger drink before our massage and a towel to refresh ourselves. Thereafter we were directed to a place for us to soak our feet and foot scrub. Thereafter we were directed to a room for our massage, each bed is divided by a cloth as a curtain.
The massage was good and i felt rejuvenated after that.
AttA-Rak
This place is higly recommended from the TripAdvisor and blogs. Despite there were so many massage places nearby, we decided to give this place a try.
I love massage and i always try to always go for massage in every places that i visited.
Review: The front desk is located in the basement. There is a booklet with different prices for different type of massages and all written in english. My hubby and i picked the Back and Shoulder and Hand & Foot Massage for a total of 1.5 hours.
We were given a hot ginger drink before our massage and a towel to refresh ourselves. Thereafter we were directed to a place for us to soak our feet and foot scrub. Thereafter we were directed to a room for our massage, each bed is divided by a cloth as a curtain.
The massage was good and i felt rejuvenated after that.
Thank you for reading my blog and hopefully it helps in your planning trip.
For our Krabi Trip video to show more scenery, please go to my hubby's youtube found in Krabi Trip.
