The journey from home to Khao Lak took about 24 hours and involved 4 different forms of transport.
While we were getting the tickets for the transfer from one Bangkok airport to the other David had to open the section on his bag where the tickets and Laptop were.
In the rush to get on the bus he forgot to do the zip up and as he swung the bag onto his back the laptop went flying across the pavement.
We grabbed all the bits of computer and jumped on the bus, David dreading that he had broken the computer. After 10 minutes snapping all the bits back together we turned it on, and it worked! Apart from a crack in the plastic in on corner the computer had survived flying a few metres through the air and hitting the pavement from at least 2m above ground. Well done HP. (David puts it down to no beer in his system)
The resort we booked was very nice, with rooms scattered in a large grassy area shaded by palm trees.
This is our first trip to Thailand, and we were quite surprised by the way the locals interact with tourists. Everyway you turn they have their hands out trying to separate you from your money. Every few yards along the street you are accosted by tailors trying to sell you a bespoke suit, or a cafe owner trying to get you into the establishment, or a souvenir shop trying to get you to buy their goods.
Once we got used to it and avoided eye contact and just kept repeating No, No, No, we managed to get around the town a bit more quickly.
We were very impressed with the ease of getting access to our money, almost every convenience store had at least 1 ATM. Within about 200 metres of our resort we had over 30 ATM machines, and this is in a small town in the jungle!
Another plus is that every bar, restaurant dive shop and even beach bar has free high speed wi-fi - the speeds were often better than you can get in most towns in Spain.