Koh Phangan to Krabi Airport

By joint bus and ferry service the journey from Koh Phangan to Krabi Airport is scheduled to take 7 hours 00 minutes.

Ferry & Bus Times from Koh Phangan to Krabi Airport

There are currently 2 services a day from Koh Phangan to Krabi Airport available to book online.

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About Travel from Koh Phangan to Krabi Airport

There are 2 ways to travel by public transport from Koh Phangan to Krabi International Airport. One way is to take a ‘joint’ service of the kind which Seatran Discovery operates, where you purchase a single ticket for both the ferry and connecting bus and minivan services. The other way to travel is to buy separate tickets for each stage of the journey.

There is no cost saving in buying separate tickets for the journey, and the route which ‘joint’ services follow from Koh Phangan to Krabi International Airport is exactly the same as the route you would take if you travelled independently.

• Location of Koh Phangan Ferry Pier in Thong Sala:

The first stage of the journey from Koh Phangan to Krabi International Airport is by ferry to the mainland. There are two car ferry services from Koh Phangan to Donsak in Surat Thani Province: Raja Ferry and Seatran Ferry. Both services take about 2 hours 30 minutes to complete the sea crossing, both services use similar types of ferries, and the ferry ports the two services arrive into are adjacent to each other.

• Location of Donsak Seatran Ferry Pier (mainland):

The second stage of the journey from Koh Phangan to Krabi International Airport involves travelling around 65 km by road from Donsak to Surat Thani City. There are bus and minivan services from both Donsak Seatran Ferry Pier and Donsak Raja Ferry Port to Surat Thani City, but they need to be booked in advance at the same time as the ferry ticket.

Seatran Ferry and Raja Ferry both sell joint bus and ferry tickets from Koh Phangan to Surat Thani City. The connecting bus service from Donsak to Surat Thani City typically takes from 60 to 80 minutes depending on the traffic and the vehicle.

The third stage of the journey from Koh Phangan to Krabi International Airport is by road from Surat Thani City to Krabi Town. There are no scheduled bus or minivan services which travel direct from Surat Thani City to Krabi International Airport, so you need to travel via Krabi Town.

Lots of companies operate minivan services from Surat Thani City to Krabi Town, and these services leave from a variety of different locations in and around Surat Thani City. If you are planning on travelling independently from Surat Thani City we recommend going to the Talad Mai Road because this is the location of several travel agencies, including Phangan Tour 2000 and Phantip Travel, and also Surat Thani’s two city centre bus and minivan stations: Kaset 1 Market and Kaset 2 Market.

By road it’s around 165 km from Surat Thani City to Krabi Town, and the journey should take 2 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours depending upon which service you take. Some of the local bus services can be very slow because of the number of pick ups and detours during the journey.

• Location of Krabi Airport Bus Stop:

The fourth and final stage of the journey from Koh Phangan to Krabi International Airport is a 13 km journey by road from Krabi Town to Krabi International Airport.

If you are travelling independently, and do not want to pay for a taxi to the airport, then one option is to take the Black Tiger Tour service which operates hourly from 06:30 until 18:30 during the tourist high season and takes 30 minutes to travel from Krabi Town to the airport. Black Tiger Tour services depart from their office at Chao Fah Alley, Pak Nam, Mueang Krabi District, Krabi 81000, which is located 900 metres walking distance to the south of Krabi Town Night Market.