Category: Features

In our Features section of the site, we post all our regular updates, tips and recommendations from the Koh Chang Islands.

We have grouped them into following categories to help you find them easily or you can just scroll down the full list below:-


Koh Chang Accommodation - Home to our Top Ten Lists for luxury or boutique resorts ,  budget options, mid range and many more. We post our best of  recommendations too, so you'll not be short of ideas when picking that perfect place to stay.  Also in this category, we feature a selection of resorts in more detail including Awa, Nest Sense, Emerald Cove.

Travel - Head here for Airport guides to Suvarnabhumi (BKK), Don Mueang (DMK) and Trat (TDX). In addition to their travel tips on getting to Koh Chang, we post features on travel from Suvarnabhumi, Trat and transfers from Bangkok. Cambodia Transfers - Siem Reap to Koh Chang or Koh Kood,  Phnom Penh too.

Koh Chang Activities.  - Complimenting our Things to Do pages in the main Koh Chang area of the site, here we bring you features on specific days out.  From trekking up mountain peaks to private speedboats around the small islands or visits to the waterfalls, we give you some ideas for time away from the beach.

Koh Chang East Coast Beaches - quick guides to Long Beach and Wai Chek as well as the east coast areas of Dan Khao and Dan Mai.

Koh Chang Restaurant Reviews and Food - We review some of the top places to eat around Koh Chang. There's also  a couple of fun Thai food articles on durian and bananas.

Bangkok - With our snippet guides to a few temples, we take you sightseeing in the capital city.

News from the Islands - Updates on festivals like Songkran and events, local news, it's all here.

Koh Chang Islands Seasons - guides to the hot and the rainy seasons.

Trat - a tour around the markets and a guide on Places to stay.

Visa - new Thailand visas such as the STV (Special Tourist Visa).

Use these features and articles in conjunction with the main site pages as per the menus.


Ruan Thai Seafood – Bang Bao – Restaurant Review

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A review of Ruan Thai Seafood in Bang Bao Koh Chang. Perhaps the best of the diners on the pier, we put their kitchen to the test with orders of sea-bass in chilli sauce and soft shelled crab with black pepper.

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Chinese New Year – Firecrackers and Sticky Cakes

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Our guide to Chinese New Year, the temples on Koh Chang at Klong Son and down in Dan Mai on the east coast. Shops full of traditional Thai desserts and firecrackers at dawn.

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Change in Trat – Slow Development of the Market Town

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With a steady rise in tourism on Koh Chang and the islands, Trat, the nearest mainland town, shows its own signs of creeping change.

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Long Beach Koh Chang – A Holiday Adventure

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Our take on one of the least known of the Koh Chang beaches, Long Beach, down in the far south east corner of the island. We take you along its awful ever-crumbling road, give a sense of its adventure and throw in some tips on what to find when you get there.

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Koh Chang Diving Gets Second Wreck

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Wreck diving on Koh Chang – news here from the early days when the first wrecks were sent to the bottom of which HTMS Chang is a huge success.

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Koh Kood – The Secret Waterfall Laid Bare

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A curious road in the forest opens up Koh Kood’s secret waterfall and combined with ancient trees nearby, it is worth getting on a motorbike and having a closer look.

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