welcome to another samui side quest i got a great one for you today firstly i'm going to show you my
upgrade it was a unique reason i got an upgrade atlanta which is a samui plus hotel so i'll
explain more in a second and then i'm going to take you to a really cool unique thai version of a
world famous sport all will be revealed i promise so strap in and enjoy this samui side quest
my name is paddy doyle and that behind me is little beautiful dreamy
i recently quit my job as a teacher to travel all of the 77 provinces of thailand
and we were having the time of our lives we spent three months in the south
visiting 18 of the incredibly beautiful provinces down there
however covert came back and so for safety reasons i came back to koh samui to see out
the worst of it and to highlight more of this incredibly beautiful island
so welcome to samui side quest where we're going to be highlighting all of the local businesses on
the island and all of the best experiences this place has to offer it's unbelievable
really is fantastic little temple incredible place
so subscribe and join us on today's samui side quests let's go
it is a lot bigger than the one i was currently currently in
so the reason why we moved before i showed you around i booked the one-bedroom bungalow uh
the smallest room they had uh and i stayed there for a month i booked up for a month
and you know my optimistic plan was koh samui will be fine uh there's hunker down for a month
and then we'll get back on the road and it's now a month and um numbers have gone up and things
haven't gotten better they've gotten worse so we're going to stay for another month at least
okay so that's why i came up with samui side quests that's why i had a little bit of a blip
and i kind of you know had my worries that i had a few weeks ago a week ago and so once you
sort of accept things and you face it forward and you try to deal with it the best you can
life seems much better which it does and so then lana said to me yeah luckily you can stay here
um there is availability um but we would like to upgrade you um and they gave me a cheaper
price so i have a bigger room for a cheaper price now you might be thinking well why is that are
they desperate is there nobody here actually this place is pretty full um and one of the reasons why
is because um there's about six or seven rooms uh of subscribers um i normally don't post a detailed
review of where i'm staying when i'm staying there normally i wait till i've left
um just because i don't know it just feels a bit weird to post where you're staying
on the internet um and you know because people might well they know where you live don't they
so it's just a bit weird anyway so i just thought oh i'll be here for a month and samuel is going to
be on lockdown anyway so i'm sure nobody's going to be able to come but a lot of people came a lot
of people came from bangkok and elsewhere in thailand even on the island of samui they saw
this place and you know they've said hello to me in the restaurant we've had breakfast we've had
lunch we've had dinner together we've gone out and had a little adventures together there's probably
seven or eight rooms currently full here of people who came here after they saw the previous video so
to say thank you lana said you know we'll move you up to a new room it'll be bigger more space
for you because now there's two of us um because miss p um the girl who fell off the back of my
honda dream on my first date she's fearful about bangkok still and i just said you know
move in with me rent-free it's fine um and so she's able to work and so because she has to work
online and i do my thing we needed a little bit more space because down there it was a little bit
cramped even just for me so bigger room and have a look and i'll show you around properly in a second
and this is the thing this is what happens when you promote places on youtube and on instagram
and things normally i go to a nice resort like cowsock or something and i stay on the
lake and i review the whole experience and i say what's great and i say what's amazing and i show
you what i didn't like or what could be improved and i review the whole experience in a video and
that's it then i move on and then i post it and i never really get any tangible data about you know
did i drive um people to stay there did i drive bookings and stuff like that but for the first
time i've stayed in the place after i've promoted it and seen the influx of bookings influx of um
enquiries and the management here have been really nice they've been like you know free massages
i think they gave us three three massages for free bumped us up bigger room so yeah
it's really nice to actually see a promotion on this channel turned into
business because that's what we're doing we're promoting local businesses when we travel around
thailand we as in travel youtubers and whatever on instagram youtube whatever when we when we stay
places and we pay to stay there and we review them um it's it returns to that business in
in the form of money so it's really good to see that um my little tour video of lana turned into
you know quite a bit of business for a local business here on samoa so that's great
and so we're going to keep doing that uh in samui side quests and throughout thailand videos
and throughout the the channel's history every time we stay somewhere good and we recommend it
and we promote it that will in turn fingers crossed lead to many bookings not just
immediately after like this but for months and years because if the content is evergreen
it will help that business forever whether it's a restaurant or a hotel
and i am rambling so anyway look so when you come in you've got your wardrobes and things
storage as soon as you walk in and then the bathroom is on the left now and you've got your
sink you got your mirror your toilet and shower and a nice huge window overlooking the bedroom
and the bathroom another bathroom the bedroom in the living room and then you come through to the
kitchen and the kitchen is exactly the same as last time it's a fridge freezer microwave
you've got hob sink cutlery toaster kettle and that's about it so it's been fine
we normally just do cereal toast and then we use this area to prepare our dinner if we get takeaway
but now we've got this we've got um a workstation with plugs down here so
you know when miss p is teaching she can sit up there when i'm editing i can sit up there
and we have a separate work area normally we just kind of do it on the floor
so that's gonna be really nice and then you've got these amazing double bay windows and um
the view let's talk about the view because it's a little bit different
down there behind those two umbrellas that's my old room and so we are sacrificing having
a little bit of a garden and an outside furniture um and some bushes um and direct access from the
pool so that that's that's a downside we're not going to be able to just go straight from the pool
into the room and we do have to walk up two flights of stairs there is an elevator but
they're not currently switching it on because i think it is broken or something um but
anyway we've got this amazing view so here we're looking down there's the yoga studio and the spa
this is a bird bath and a water feature and then you've got swimming pool and the gym and
the restaurant is over there and then obviously you know hills blue skies and that's going to
be our view in the morning because this is the living space and sleeping space so we've got
this really much bigger sofa now this is going to be really nice this is almost twice the size
and one of us can lie down here and we can watch our movies if you're on the island right now i'm
here for another month and so to see if you can get a room um and come and stay here because it's
amazing if you come to koh samui great place little you know service departments bungalows
two bedroom one bedroom available incredible food and juices and free yoga and spa and
really lovely owners and amazing location in ban rack so anyway let's get on the road
okay so as i promised at the beginning of the video i wanted to take you to a interesting thai
take on a famous sport and i had to drive across the other side of the island to la mai and i just
want to sort of play a little game here with you as we're driving because my microphone was broken
and i was talking to you on the bike but alas i need to go replace my gopro adapter anyway
so we're driving through the backside of lamai and there's coconut plantations it's quite green
there's beautiful hills and mountains in the distance what do you think what sport do you think
is going to be around the corner here so do you think it could be like a jungle basketball court
maybe some sort of coconut plantation football pitch and um well if you guessed golf then uh
you could you're correct because look around this corner here is la my driving range and it is
ridiculously beautiful here it is basically run by little old couple little retired thai couple
and you can rent clubs and obviously balls and i think they kind of just made it in
their own back garden to be honest it is unbelievable and i came down here with dylan
from two passports one dream and we just hung out for a couple of hours and um practice our swings
and had a good old chat and it was really really good and um let me let me show you
some more about what we were up to all right so we've been here what now half an hour 45 minutes
and it's been good practicing the swing the back swing the follow through and um
it's good you can you know crack open a beer or or gatorade um because i'm back off not i had
a few drinks at moonstone you might have seen it's my fault it's okay you exposed me um i had
a couple of beers with friends but now i'm back on no booze anyway we've been playing a game so
you've got the short red flags and the green and then the the sort of the white flags are in the
middle and then we're playing a driving game now i think you won the one you won the european open
then i won the masters and now we're tied for the driving oh behind the dog there's a dog running
this place is a bit rustic but we love it all right so with this the
we're trying to hit the 200 time on the t from leeds england how do you dial
we're about one and a half trees away from the 200 sign so good luck line it up nicely
all the way from wales representing his country we've got dylan
oh no
that's two one to me all right we've still got a few more rounds left
we'll probably get another ball should we get some more balls after this i'm yeah
i'm not ready to go yet are you from leeds i'm not really from leeds now but it's fine
i went to uni and i went to uni in leeds and uh yeah so the situation
here is you've got a little old couple like a 60 year old retired thai family and um
that's it that's it nice shot and uh yeah it's a 100 baht
per for a basket of 100 balls and then 50 baht per club and i've got a pitching wedge a seven
iron and a driver and what did you get you got the same five a five driver yeah and uh i mean
look at the view here i mean you can't get better than this for the view a beautiful
sunny day cheap and like it's a bit rustic you know like the the the clubs are knackered
someone's whacked this in anger i think grab the other one grab the other one grab the
the other driver we've got is like a toy it's like a rattler oh this is the wrestler oh that's
the rattler is it but you know whatever it's fun and it's cheap and i'm winning
right then from here or from the same place from before yeah
no no what oh it's gone out it's gone out to the right i'm the winner
should we get another 100 and just practice some more i like it
you
right so we didn't realize but there's actually what would you call this area chipping
chipping range okay chipping range so we've got um a long pitch a long chip here we've got a sand
bunker and then we've got another round set up on the awkward lie sorry you got a mozzie
well sir you win the first round so get it get it go get it this is
my bonus shot this is your bonus shot exactly a little bit lighter
i didn't breathe i didn't concentrate at all like an idiot
well you're on the dance floor and that's all that matters
up and over on the i think i've gone on the other side of the road
go again
where's the ball yeah okay try from there
i kicked my head up too many times
that's the end of today's samui side quest so thanks for watching um thank you for supporting
the channel and for showing interest in the places that i like to stay especially lana because
if it wasn't for you guys i wouldn't have got the upgrade so thank you and i hope you've enjoyed
this little uh rustic little driving range in la mai on koh samui and you know what's funny
is the little old couple who live in the house and run the place they're not even here so we've had
to left we've had to leave the cache underneath some golf clubs and put some mangosteens on top
and just hope that they come back from the shops and they see that we've left the money plus a tip
for letting us come and have a few beers and have a few drinks and enjoy the driving range
in this incredible place uh what what have you and um so yeah the link of this place is in the
description so if you come to koh samui or you're here and you want to hit some balls
and sweat buckets and just hang out then check it out and see you in the next samui side quest bye
so