Koh Pha Ngan

We had a bit of a drama catching the bus to leave Koh Samui as we had hired mopeds the day before and I had put in my passport as a deposit. We turned up at 10:30 to return the mopeds and collect my passport ready to catch the 10:45 bus. Unfortunately the person who ran the shop was nowhere to be found (and hence, neither were our passports). We woke up some guy who appeared to sleep there and he phoned trying to find him. 15 minutes later and there was still no sign of our passports, but the bus had arrived. A bit of stalling and hoping later he turned up and we got onto the minibus apologising to everyone for holding them up.
The minibus driver made up for it by driving like a maniac to the port, although when we got there we sat around for about an hour waiting for the boat, so I don't know what all the fuss was about!
We then caught the boat for the short 30 minute trip from the north of Koh Samui to Koh Pha Ngan.
Once there we got on a minibus and travelled around to Haad Rin to find some accomodation. There was a reasonable looking place that we found right next to the bus drop off that we took for 350Bhat/night (NZ$14, 5GBP). We then took a look around Haad Rin.
The place was a lot smaller that Lamai in Koh Samui and it seem to be built around the Full Moon parties that are held there. Lots of bars and restaurants, and places in the streets selling "buckets" which are small ice buckets with a half bottle of spirit and a can or two of mixer for not very much at all (250-300 Bhat). The bars were all playing hooky copies of videos, we watched The Beach and Blood Diamond. I think one of them was playing Spiderman 3, which had only come out in the cinemas a few days before.
We then went down to the beach for a bit of a swim. The beach looked fantastic and the water clear and warm. We went in for a swim and after about 30 seconds we both felt small stings all over our bodies. We still don't know what they were, but maybe small jellyfish or sea lice. It wasn't very painful and there were no after effects, but it put us both off swimming.
We went back to the hotel for a shower, which was when we discovered that we had a shared bathroom. Unfortunately we were sharing it with several cockroaches. We killed a few but just had to put up with the others. There was a lot of girly screaming, and Lianne wasn't much better either.
It started to rain that night and we were wondering if we should stay in, when it was decided for us when all the power went out. We left and wandered down the main street where pretty much everywhere was blacked out. We ended up in a bar with a generator for dinner and eventually the power came back.
I had been planning to go to Koh Tao and do some diving but we were umming and ahing about it and when we looked into it we couldn't find anywhere that would do a day trip to the island, only places that we needed to stay overnight for.
We decided to head off to Bangkok the next morning. Our impression of Koh Pha Ngan weren't great, I think if you like drink a lot (and I mean a lot) and you're into your unce unce music then it could be great. We also heard some good stories of beach resorts that can only be reached by boat, not by land. However the brief bit we saw was unimpressive and we were quite keen to leave.
The next morning we got up, had breakfast and booked our travel to Bangkok. It was a boat and coach, leaving at noon and getting into Bangkok at 6am the next morning. We were not looking forward to the journey...