Pig Island Tours
Travel guides and tips for visiting Pig Island (Koh Madsum) from Koh Samui — best time to go, what to expect, how to book tours, and what to bring on the day.
Okay, Pig Island. Let me start with the obvious confusion — yes, this is a thing in Thailand, and no, it’s not the Bahamas one you’re probably thinking of. The Bahamas pigs (Exuma Cays) are the famous ones. They’ve been on Instagram for a decade. What people don’t always realize is Thailand has its own […]
Pig Island (Koh Madsum) is just a short speedboat ride from Koh Samui — but is it actually worth it? Here’s what to expect, which tour to book, and how to make the most of the day.
Look, packing for this trip is not complicated, and I nearly didn’t bother writing it down, because how much can there really be to say about a half-day boat ride to a beach. Then last year I watched a guy on Thong Krut pier trying to revive his phone in a bag of rice, rice […]
So you’re weighing up whether to bring the kids to Pig Island, and what you really want to know is whether it’s a genuinely good idea or just one of those things that photographs beautifully and then turns into a logistical headache the moment you’re actually doing it. That’s a reasonable thing to wonder about. […]
Koh Samui makes a good base. The airport’s right there, the hotels run the full range from backpacker to silly money, and the food scene’s better than it has any real right to be. For the first few days that’s plenty. But there’s a point, usually somewhere around day four, once you’ve done the beaches […]
People ask me which is better, Pig Island or Ang Thong, like there’s a clean answer sitting at the end of the question, and for years I didn’t have a tidy one, because I’d done the two of them ages apart and in completely different frames of mind. Then a couple of summers back an […]