{"id":6007,"date":"2023-08-28T07:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T00:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farparents.com\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2024-09-27T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T06:45:45","slug":"make-sure-all-your-booked-transfers-before-you-are-traveling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farparents.com\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"Make sure all your booked transfers are confirmed before you are traveling. [farparents tip]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<div id=\"gap-1096692062\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; height:auto;\">\n\t\t\n<style>\n#gap-1096692062 {\n  padding-top: 30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Surprisingly many guests who are coming to stay on many islands (Koh Samui, Koh Tao, and Koh Phangan),<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">are not aware if they have all the transfers booked by travel agencies or even by themself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please be careful about this if you don\u2019t want to wait for your invisible transfer at the pier which will never come to pick you up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Because you or your travel agencies did not correctly book it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Let\u2019s examine some scenarios: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">You plan to stay in a hotel in Koh Samui and then for the next 5 days in a hotel in Koh Phangan. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Make sure you have a transfer <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><strong> (step1)<\/strong> from the Airport to the hotel in Samui <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Then in 5 days <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><strong> (step2)<\/strong> from the hotel in Samui to the pier<br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"> (step3) Boat or ferry from the pier to Koh Phangan<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><strong> (step4)<\/strong> Then Bus-transfer from Koh Phangan pier to the hotel in Koh Phangan<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><strong> (step5)<\/strong> Bus transfer from the hotel in Koh Phangan to the pier<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><strong> (step6)<\/strong> Boat\/ferry from the pier to Koh Samui<br \/><br \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;style&quot;:101,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><strong> (step7)<\/strong> Bus transfer from Pier Koh Samui to the airport <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Sometimes you are sure that you have booked it, but if the booking was not correctly done, even by travel agencies, you will not get the transfer on site. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">The common issues would be: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Your agencies forget to put it system or they put it in a system with an incorrect date or time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">To prevent this problem, check again with transfer providers at least 3 days before moving to the next location. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Before you fly from your home, make sure the transfer from the airport to the hotel in Samui is confirmed! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">now you are staying in Hotel Koh Samui and are moving to Koh Phangan in the next 3 days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Make sure you have confirmation for transfer from the Hotel in Samui to the pier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"> And ferry\/boat ticket. And transfer from Koh Phangan pier to the hotel in Koh Phangan and the same step, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">or you can check, that your all transfers are confirmed before you do not even fry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Sometimes you will not get a boat ticket even if your boat\/transfers are already confirmed because the boat belongs to the hotel directly. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">In other words, the hotel you are checking in owns that boat and transfers their guests by themself (do not use other transfer companies).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">So you do not need the tickets. See Chapter X <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">One important thing, even though you have checked and everything is correctly booked, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">you can still not get the transfers because you did not come to meet your driver at the correct meeting point. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">It happens very often at the airport. Many travelers miss their booked transfer at the airport because they don\u2019t know where the meeting point is. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">Luckily, some of them still had a clue and called their agencies on site, then were led to the meeting point and still got their booked transfer. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">But!!! Some of them didn\u2019t want to try and get the public taxi to the hotel by themself, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">I know maybe they got so tired and wanted to relax at the hotel very fast. The problem is they come back to the travel agencies to attempt to claim for transfer cost later with the reason below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">\u201eWe were there but no transfer came to us at the airport&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\" data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\">So, read this chapter carefully and follow it. I am sure your vacation will run smoothly. <\/span><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-with-transfers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Make sure all your booked transfers are confirmed before you are traveling. 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