At first sight, the airport didn’t seem to have changed all that much: The unmistakable open air reception area of the airport sticks in everyone’s mind. We are taken in the open wagons to the open air reception. Here we booked 2 bungalows (a mate was with us as well) in “Chaweng Buri” for nearly 4000 Baht, which is expensive, but we were very satisfied with the hotel. Due to it always being fully booked, we were, later in the holiday, not able to haggle the price down. One is in fact, able to book it for about half the price than when booking here, for example by Meier’s World Travels: Wasted some money again, I was not very well prepared. At the airport one is able to exchange some cash at the ATM (cash point). We took a 15 minute trip with a taxi to Chaweng for 300 Baht.