Island questions: Koh Samui & Koh Tao

Things change - thanks for the update Tim.
I'll stick to my opinion about most spectacular scenery having seen those other places. But Tao is not short on very good views - only Sairree and the pier area could be described as ordinary.

Resorts get bad press from time to time - a few years back the guy who ran Aow Leuk Bungalows was being castigated on this forum for harassing visitors to the beach who dared to bring their own food and didn't use his restaurant. And way back in the 90s the guy running Rocky at Shark Bay was sprung peering thru bungalow windows at cuties getting changed. More recently he or one of his successors was charging non-guests for use of the beach at Shark Bay.
Haven't seen similar complaints recently.

I'm revisiting in June - hope to update a lot of my stuff.

thanks Tezza

{quote:title=tezza wrote:} I'll stick to my opinion about most spectacular scenery having seen those other places {quote}

Pretty well explains that you are an opinionated kind of guy, never mind the advice of people that actually live there... Did you see them from a longtail or one of the cheap snorkel tours or have you actually spent some time in each place both above and under the water?

Maybe someone who had not set foot on Tao proper since 1997 should not be giving advise given its 2010 and a great deal has changed?