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( 08 1893 5330;
www.woodland-koh-jum.com
; Hat Yao; standard/family bungalows 1000/1500B)
This place
has tasteful, clean huts with polished wood floors and verandahs. The exceptionally
friendly British-Thai owners can organise boat trips and fishing and have an excellent, so-
ciable restaurant.
Koh Jum Lodge
( 0 7561 8275;
www.kohjumlodge.com
; Hat Yao; bungalows 4500-5500B; )
An ecolodge with
style: imagine lots of hardwoods and bamboo, gauzy mosquito netting, potted orchids,
Thai carvings, manicured grounds and a hammock-strewn curve of white sand out the
front. It strikes that hard-to-get-perfect balance of authenticity and comfort.
HOTEL
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Getting There & Away
From December to April, boats between Krabi and Ko Lanta can drop you at Ko Jum, but
you'll pay full fare (400B, one hour). In the fringe months of November and May only the
early boat will drop you. In the high season there's a long-tail ferry to Ko Phi Phi (600B,
1½ hours) that leaves between 8am and 9am and picks guests up from the Hat Yao resorts.
There are also small boats to Ko Jum from Ban Laem Kruat, a village about 30km
southeast of Krabi, at the end of Rte 4036, off Hwy 4. The boat (100B) leaves at 9am,
10am, 11.30am, 1pm, 2pm, 4pm, 5.30pm and 6.15pm, and returns the following day at
6.30am, 7.15am, 7.35am, 7.55am, 8.15am, 1.30pm, 2.30pm and 4pm. Private charters cost
1200B to 1500B.
If you plan to arrive in Ko Jum via Laem Kruat, make sure to call your guesthouse in
advance so they can arrange your transfer from the pier. Otherwise, you may be relying on
the kindness of drunk strangers with a motorbike (helmet not included). A handful of
places on the main road in Ban Ko Jum rent out bicycles (100B), mountain bikes (130B to
150B) and motorbikes (250B) at standard rates.
Boats to Ko Si Boya (50B) make the 10-minute hop from Laem Hin, just north of Ban
Laem Kruat hourly between 8am and 5pm. Call Siboya Resort to arrange transfer from the
pier.
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