Rent a car for the day. My wife and I were there in April and that's what we did. The island is lush and worth seeing but it's also small. You can drive completely around it in about two hours, not counting stops. The main site is the cable car which is about a half hour from the hotel.
There is a car rental desk in the Andaman lobby but their prices were expensive when we were there. We booked through Kasina. They delivered the car to the hotel and picked it up there afterwards, at no extra charge. The rental cost was reasonable.
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the-ca-goat
jpdx, PatMike, Duke777 & bseller, thank you very much! We've now got a 5 night reservation. I've never had a bad Luxury Collection stay, and have had some truly outstanding ones...probably the best of any SPG properties. I suspect that we will have a great time here as the setting looks to be both magnificent and relaxing--exactly what we'll be looking for.
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for hiking on the island other than the hotel offered nature walks? We're pretty active, but I have a feeling once we get there we might just end up on the beach the whole time.
The only thing left to decide if we'll want the convenience of a rental car. From reading here it seems driving on the island is easy and getting a taxi at the hotel might not be, but I'd rather not drive if it's cost effective and relatively easy to get a car & driver or taxi. Is it possible to rent a car at the hotel just for a day?
Duke777, I initially started looking at Langkawi because of the new St. Regis, and was bummed that it's opening was delayed. If you don't mind me asking, did you book the boat tour through the hotel? How much was it?