普吉岛海岛游：皮皮岛、攀牙湾、斯米兰、珊瑚岛与拉查岛（2026年9月）

Phuket sells five island days and they leave from four different piers, which matters more than the brochures admit because the pickup loop and the drive to the pier are where the hours go. Phi Phi speedboats leave Rassada Pier in 普吉镇 on the sheltered east coast. Phang Nga Bay boats — the James Bond trip — leave Ao Po Grand Marina or Bang Rong Pier in the north-east corner near Pa Khlok. Coral Island, Racha and most sunset boats leave Chalong Pier in the south-east. The Similan speedboats do not leave Phuket at all: they run from Tab Lamu, south of Khao Lak on the mainland, an hour and a half to two hours by van from a Phuket hotel. The Khai islands, a half-day beach stop ten kilometres east of the island, go from Rassada too and are often the last stop of a Phi Phi day.

The four trips sit in two kinds of water. Phi Phi and the Similans are open-water crossings — forty-five to sixty minutes to Phi Phi Leh, an hour to an hour and a half to Koh Miang — and they feel every metre of Andaman swell. Coral Island and Racha are short runs south of 查龙: fifteen to twenty minutes to Koh Hey and thirty-five to forty-five to Racha Yai, with Chalong Bay sheltered behind the island. Phang Nga Bay is enclosed on three sides by the mainland and Phuket's east coast, so the water inside it stays workable when the west coast is white.

Three of the five trips enter a national park and pay for it in cash on the day, outside the ticket: 400 THB per foreign adult (200 THB per child) at Hat Noppharat Thara–Mu Ko Phi Phi, 300 THB (150 THB) at Ao Phang Nga, and 500 THB (250 THB) at Mu Ko Similan, rates checked 2026年9月5日. Coral Island, Racha and the Khai islands are outside any park and charge nothing at the beach beyond sunbeds and drinks. The Phi Phi ticket covers Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon and Bamboo Island on the same day; the Phang Nga fee is collected before landing on Khao Phing Kan; the Similan fee at the park headquarters on Koh Miang.

For the photographs, Phi Phi — $63 (range $43–$91, n = 6) —: Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon, the Viking Cave, lunch on Phi Phi Don and a beach in the afternoon, eight to ten hours with six or seven on the water. For water clarity and snorkelling over hard coral, the Similans — $76 (range $67–$120, n = 6) —, at the cost of a 05:00 pickup and a twelve-to-fourteen-hour day. For children, non-swimmers, older travellers and anyone visiting between May and October, Phang Nga Bay — $52 (range $35–$109, n = 12) —: sea-canoeing through tidal caves with a paddler doing the work, the James Bond rock, lunch in the stilt village of Koh Panyee, and calm water when the west coast is not. For a short, cheap sea day with no fee and no early start, Coral and Racha — $39 (range $33–$60, n = 7) —, or the Khai islands if a half-day is all the holiday can spare.

The pier table below gives straight-line kilometres from each area's centre to each pier, and minutes from a stated model — 1.4 × the straight line at 30 km/h on the island (55 km/h on the mainland highway to Tab Lamu), rounded to 5 minutes — indicative, not measured. The model is there to show which pier is close to which area, not to promise a time: a hotel pickup runs a loop through several hotels before the pier, which adds twenty to forty minutes, and the west-coast hill roads slow to a crawl on a wet-season afternoon. 普吉镇, 攀瓦 and 查龙 are the natural bases for Rassada and Chalong Pier; 邦涛, 拉扬, 苏林 and the northern beaches are closest to Ao Po and Bang Rong for Phang Nga Bay and to the highway north for Tab Lamu; 芭东, 卡塔 and 卡伦 sit in the middle of every loop and are collected first and dropped last. Guests who want the Similans without the drive stay a night in Khao Lak, where the same boats leave with a short pickup.

The operator's own price is the lowest published one, the marketplace price is within a few dollars of it with a refund policy attached, and the hotel-desk price is the same seat with a commission added on the day. Booking a day ahead removes the third price; the buttons under the table are marketplace links for the standard version of each trip, disclosed as affiliate links, and the medians on this page do not depend on them. Carry baht for the park fee, fins and the paddler's tip, confirm the pickup time in writing — 06:30–07:30 for Phi Phi from the west coast, 05:00–06:30 for the Similans — and, in the swell months, keep the last calm morning of the week free for the open-water crossing.