Thailand

scaredycat

Hi...

I was just wondering if anyone has any info on koh samui in relation to bugs and insects? we're going on honeymoon there in 2 wks time and i have just been hearing nothing but horror stories this last few months about bites and diseases etc and i am freaking out now. We assumed when booking the honeymoon last year that once we got our vaccinations we'd be ok... apparently not. I am in general terrified of bugs (total drama queen!!!) and no matter where i go i get bitten. we are off to new zealand first for a sports hol and then to koh samui to supposedly chill out and ly in the beach. we have been told that u need to be covered up from nect to toe in order to stay safe... this is really not what we had in mind as we just wanted to chill out on the beach and do the usual out for dinner and drinks later on... and not have to be covered up the whole time. i have bought deet 100% but still i have heard this doesn't really work. If anyone has any info on this i would be really grateful... thanks:(

wallpaper12

I dont know who was telling you ridiculous stories like that but you will be fine.
The only insects I really saw were gheckos and they are good because they eat mosquitos!
Mosquitos come out mainly at dusk and dawn so its best to be a bit covered then but not really neccesarry as long as you spray deet. Also as far as I know 100% is extremely poisonous so I would not use that, get a lower precentage one

Benny_Cake

wallpaper12 wrote: »

I dont know who was telling you ridiculous stories like that but you will be fine.
The only insects I really saw were gheckos and they are good because they eat mosquitos!
Mosquitos come out mainly at dusk and dawn so its best to be a bit covered then but not really neccesarry as long as you spray deet. Also as far as I know 100% is extremely poisonous so I would not use that, get a lower precentage one

Geckos? Lizards surely

OP, I'd agree with wallflower. I'd add that I found mosquitoes to be a lot less of a problem on Samui than some of the other islands. It's usually a problem around dusk, and they do seem to like the ankles. If you do get bitten, it's more of an annoyance than anything else, there is no malaria there. Just use a DEET based spray and you should be fine. Enjoy your honeymoon and congratulations!

wallpaper12

In all my time in Asia never once did I hear someone call them lizards, always geckos!
But ya ankles are the big thing,dont think i ever got bit anywhere else

Paulj

Some days while i was there i didn't even put on the deet and still only got a couple of bites. You'll be fine. The 100% deet sounds a bit too high tbh, get one with a smaller percentage. There's no malaria there anyway so even if you do get bites it doesn't matter, as previous poster said it's just a mild inconvenience. Have a cream with you that will ease the itch of the pimple incase you do get bites.

killbillvol2

wallpaper12 wrote: »

In all my time in Asia never once did I hear someone call them lizards, always geckos!
But ya ankles are the big thing,dont think i ever got bit anywhere else

He meant that geckos are lizards and not insects.

Don't worry about it.. Just a bit at night time but even then, there's no malaria and fek all dengue. I don't think anything we say will calm you down though based on the hysteria in your original post.

After Hours

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Geckos? Lizards surely

OP, I'd agree with wallflower. I'd add that I found mosquitoes to be a lot less of a problem on Samui than some of the other islands. It's usually a problem around dusk, and they do seem to like the ankles. If you do get bitten, it's more of an annoyance than anything else, there is no malaria there. Just use a DEET based spray and you should be fine. Enjoy your honeymoon and congratulations!

Got to love how you call Wallpaper, Wallflower.
It's all roses and lollipops in Benny_Cakes world I'd say.
Keep it real. One of the good ones I'd say.
Peace

scaredycat

thanks a mill for all the replies.. being honest it has actually out my mind to rest... and i obviously went wat ott with the percentage deet, so i'll go get a lower percentage one now. thanks for all ur help

wallpaper12

I found the repellant over here to be terrible and way too expensive. There is one you can get over there its in small white bottle with orange label think its called sketolene and its really cheap and way better than anything like that jungle repellent **** you get here

mikedragon32

After Hours wrote:

Got to love how you call Wallpaper, Wallflower.
It's all roses and lollipops in Benny_Cakes world I'd say.
Keep it real. One of the good ones I'd say.
Peace

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D1976

I used to get badly bitten by mozzys anywhere I went but was told by a pharmacist that Vitamin B complex is good so I took it one week before i went away and kept taking it and didnt get stung.

Benny_Cake

After Hours wrote: »

Got to love how you call Wallpaper, Wallflower.
It's all roses and lollipops in Benny_Cakes world I'd say.
Keep it real. One of the good ones I'd say.
Peace [/QUOTE

Pedantic much? Apologies, Wallpaper. By the way, don't go near those citrus based sprays, they don't work and you'll smell like a sweaty lemon!

daveyboy_1ie

Went to Koh Samui on my own honeymoon and back two weeks now. I genuinly am surprised at the stories you have been hearing, it really is totally fine. Of course there are mosquitos but I was never bitten, and neither was my wife.

Stinicker

I was in Samui at the beginning of March and had no problems with Mozzies, I went out the back of a clothes shop with the shop assistant one evening to look for a different size t-shirt that I liked and was met by a hail of mozzys but that was because there was stagnent water there and they had not bothered much with cleaning it out.

Other than that the last time I encountered Mosquitos was whilst trekking north of Chiang Mai whilst staying overnight in a bamboo hut and I got eaten alive by the blighters. The only problem I had in Samui with Wildlife was when I found a massive cockroach in my room at the apartment complex at 1am, he was frekking massive like total roachzilla, I slept the other room for the remainder of my stay

The main thing about Samui to watch out for are not the wildlife but the local scumbags who will steal whatever they can, they target tourists coming across to the island by stealing their valuables in the hold underneath buses and I had €200 stolen :mad::mad::mad: Keep all valuables on your person if using the train, ferry and bus combo ticket or better still don't given them the opportunity and instead fly to the island instead.