Getting Here
Ko Lanta Overview Map
Getting to Ko Lanta is easy for even a first time visitor.
Here’s some quick tips for helping you decide how to get to Ko Lanta quickly (the more expensive way) or in a less time-sensitive, more cost-effective manner.
Quick Tips
The fastest way onto Ko Lanta is a direct, private air-conditioned minibus + speedboat transfer once you get to airports in Krabi, Trang or Phuket.
Flights from all over the world will bring you into Thailand usually landing at the Bangkok or Phuket International Airport. If you’re flying into Bangkok try to get a connecting flight to Krabi, the closest airport to Ko Lanta. Second choice is Trang and third choice is Phuket.
Your journey onto Ko Lanta Yai — the larger of the two Lanta islands — will eventually take you through one of Ko Lanta’s local transit cities in Krabi, Trang or Phuket depending on your entry point into Thailand.
The cheapest way between Ko Lanta, Krabi, Phi Phi Island, Lipe and Phuket is the public passenger ferry that runs November to May. No ferry service is available from Trang but direct public minibuses leave daily from mid morning through mid afternoon. Public minibus service is also available between Krabi, Phuket and Ko Lanta if you miss the passenger ferry or its low season.
If you’re arriving after noon at Krabi Airport you’ll be unable to make the last public ferry to Ko Lanta. Your options are then, booking a private shuttle or staying overnight in Krabi town and catching the ferry the next morning.
Once you’re in one of these transit cities you’ll either arrive on Ko Lanta by the:
Road (across two car ferries) in a private car, pubic or private minibus transport service.
Sea, on a public ferry or private boat.
Ko Lanta Area Map
Ko Lanta Overview Map
Lanta Biker's Map
