July 26, 2025 • 4 mins
Megan Singleton's continued her travels, and she's recently taken in Thailand's Koh Samui.
Koh Samui is an island in the Gulf of Thailand, about half-way down the country, and it's an easy destination for those looking to skip Bangkok.
She recapped her highlights from the trip here.
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB Travel with Wendy Wuturs Where the
World Is Yours book.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now Meghan is back in New Zealand. Meghan Singleton, our
travel correspondent. Good morning, good morning, Good to have you home.
You just home.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Good home on Friday and I went straight to work
in the Howick market on Saturday. And here I am
with a blog post published on pros Samil by Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Look at you now, kosamuis Is that in a safe
area at the moment?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yes, so I was looking at all that as well.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So at the moment, obviously we know that Thailand and
Cambodia having a bit of jibaji and then also down
in Peruquette you've seen a lot of flooding. So Kosimili
is situated in the Gulf of Thailand, so it's really
far south of Bangkok. It couldn't probably be further from
the troubles up there, and it's also protected on its
west by the mainland from all the flooding that hit Perquet,
(01:10):
which is out in the ocean out that side. So
we're in the golf and there's andemancy we're in the golf.
And it's also it's an international airport, so we flew
directly from their home via Singapore, so it's actually if
you didn't want to go to Bangkok, you don't have to.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We did.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's about an hour's flight between them. We started at
Bangkok over sets we spoke to you from last week,
and then finished in Kosamu for four nights, which certainly
was not long enough.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Honestly, it was just so beautiful, and I'd.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Spent ages working out where we were going to stay,
what beaches, which resorts we wanted to stay at, what
we were going to do. So I've whipped this blog
post up and put a few photos in and even
made a little video of me swimming around the resort.
Not of me, I've got the camera in front of me.
(02:04):
I'm just showing you around the resort swimming, and it's
make you a bit Jellywillie in this kind of you know,
New Zealand where the I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, So when you stay there, is it all about
the resort or there are other things that you can
do around there? Can you leave to dine out in
other places and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Like that absolutely, and in fact, some of the girls
on the tour hired a driver for a couple of
hours and went around the whole island and saw like
amazing things and they said, oh my gosh, that was
even better than our island hopping boat trip.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That we did. So you've got all of those things.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
There's there's lots of lovely beaches, there's night markets, there's
We had our final dinner at a beautiful hilltop restaurant
overlooking like three sixty degree views high up on the hill,
overlooking Chowing Beach, which is another really beautiful beach, but
that's a bit more crowded, so I've written about that.
(03:00):
That's where we found a shopping mall on Glory Beech
and that also had a night market in front, so
you got the best of It's a bit of air
conditioning when you're about to pass out and then head
out back into the tents again because it is rainy season.
But however, we only experienced a torrential downpourt for about
two hours when we landed, and that was it for
the four days, so you know, I really recommend it
(03:23):
was my first time visiting Kosamui. I've been to Poquette
lots of times, and I definitely will be back. There's
so much I didn't get to see and I would
definitely want to go and do again.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And getting there and back because Thailand Airways haven't returned
to New Zealand since COVID have they.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
No, So you can do a Star Alliance code share
with the air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines through Singapore
and then you're about an hour's flight from Kosamui or
an hours hour and a half from Bangkok. So that's
how we did it with Bangkok Airways. So we just
we just had the travel agent book us all through
on the one ticket, so that made it easy. And
(03:58):
then yeah, you're just going to have to change planes
at Singapore or where you might go through Malaysia.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
You know, there's other options to get there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Thank you so much, Megan, appreciate it. You can find
that blog at blogger at large dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks a B from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB Travel with Wendy Wuturs Where the
World Is Yours book.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Now Meghan is back in New Zealand. Meghan Singleton, our
travel correspondent. Good morning, good morning, Good to have you home.
You just home.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Good home on Friday and I went straight to work
in the Howick market on Saturday. And here I am
with a blog post published on pros Samil by Sunday.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Look at you now, kosamuis Is that in a safe
area at the moment?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yes, so I was looking at all that as well.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
So at the moment, obviously we know that Thailand and
Cambodia having a bit of jibaji and then also down
in Peruquette you've seen a lot of flooding. So Kosimili
is situated in the Gulf of Thailand, so it's really
far south of Bangkok. It couldn't probably be further from
the troubles up there, and it's also protected on its
west by the mainland from all the flooding that hit Perquet,
(01:10):
which is out in the ocean out that side. So
we're in the golf and there's andemancy we're in the golf.
And it's also it's an international airport, so we flew
directly from their home via Singapore, so it's actually if
you didn't want to go to Bangkok, you don't have to.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
We did.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's about an hour's flight between them. We started at
Bangkok over sets we spoke to you from last week,
and then finished in Kosamu for four nights, which certainly
was not long enough.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Honestly, it was just so beautiful, and I'd.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Spent ages working out where we were going to stay,
what beaches, which resorts we wanted to stay at, what
we were going to do. So I've whipped this blog
post up and put a few photos in and even
made a little video of me swimming around the resort.
Not of me, I've got the camera in front of me.
(02:04):
I'm just showing you around the resort swimming, and it's
make you a bit Jellywillie in this kind of you know,
New Zealand where the I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Okay, So when you stay there, is it all about
the resort or there are other things that you can
do around there? Can you leave to dine out in
other places and stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Like that absolutely, and in fact, some of the girls
on the tour hired a driver for a couple of
hours and went around the whole island and saw like
amazing things and they said, oh my gosh, that was
even better than our island hopping boat trip.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That we did. So you've got all of those things.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
There's there's lots of lovely beaches, there's night markets, there's
We had our final dinner at a beautiful hilltop restaurant
overlooking like three sixty degree views high up on the hill,
overlooking Chowing Beach, which is another really beautiful beach, but
that's a bit more crowded, so I've written about that.
(03:00):
That's where we found a shopping mall on Glory Beech
and that also had a night market in front, so
you got the best of It's a bit of air
conditioning when you're about to pass out and then head
out back into the tents again because it is rainy season.
But however, we only experienced a torrential downpourt for about
two hours when we landed, and that was it for
the four days, so you know, I really recommend it
(03:23):
was my first time visiting Kosamui. I've been to Poquette
lots of times, and I definitely will be back. There's
so much I didn't get to see and I would
definitely want to go and do again.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And getting there and back because Thailand Airways haven't returned
to New Zealand since COVID have they.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
No, So you can do a Star Alliance code share
with the air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines through Singapore
and then you're about an hour's flight from Kosamui or
an hours hour and a half from Bangkok. So that's
how we did it with Bangkok Airways. So we just
we just had the travel agent book us all through
on the one ticket, so that made it easy. And
(03:58):
then yeah, you're just going to have to change planes
at Singapore or where you might go through Malaysia.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
You know, there's other options to get there.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Thank you so much, Megan, appreciate it. You can find
that blog at blogger at large dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks a B from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com