Ko Lanta Transport

Getting there & away

Most people come to Ko Lanta by boat or air-con minivan. If you’re coming under your own steam, you’ll need to use the vehicle ferries between Ban Hua Hin and Ban Khlong Mak (Ko Lanta Noi) and on to Ko Lanta Yai. These run frequently between 7am and 8pm daily (motorcycle and driver 10B; car/4WD and driver 50/100B).

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Boat

There are two piers at Ban Sala Dan. The passenger jetty is about 300m from the main strip of shops; vehicle ferries leave from a second jetty that’s several kilometres further east.

Passenger boats between Krabi’s Khlong Chilat passenger pier and Ko Lanta run from September through May and take 1½ hours. Boats depart from Ko Lanta at 8am and 1pm (350B). In the reverse direction boats leave at 10.30am and 1.30pm. These boats will also stop at Ko Jam (for the full 350B fare).

Boats between Ko Lanta and Ko Phi Phi run as long as there are enough passengers, which means that services peter out in the low season. Boats usually leave Ko Lanta at 8am and 1pm (400B, 1½ hours); in the opposite direction boats leave Ko Phi Phi at 11.30am and 2pm.

There’s also a high-season boat to Ko Ngai (400B, two hours), in Trang Province, that leaves Ban Sala Dan at 8.30am and returns from Ko Ngai at 3pm.