Rob:Serenity Massage and Spa has moved location. The shop is now based in Saladan the main shopping area of Koh Lanta.

Ning the owner is Budhist so she asked the monks if they could make a special blessing on this date to give good luck to the shop. 9 in Thailand is a very lucky number so what better date to open the shop then on the 09/09/09 and also it was Nings daughters (Baimon’s) 9th birthday,so a very lucky date all round.

Also it was a great day as many friends and family participated in the day.

Serentiy Massage and Spa Budhist Blessing

Ning the owner

Listening to the Monks chanting is very beautifull, unfortunately tho it seems the sound was not recorded on all my videos but strangely the videos before and after where O.K.

If you watch the second video you will notice all the Monks are holding string. This is so they are all joined and its so the luck will come together. The fist Monk you will also notice is burning a candle in to water which signifies the symbols of life and he splashes the water around the shop for luck.

You can find Serenity Massage and Spa’s new location on our interactive map of Koh Lanta. It’s marked with the green arrow and star. The shop is located in Saladan the main shopping area of Koh Lanta.

Finding the shop is easy as there is only one roda in to Saldan. As soon as you see the water in front of you and the police box turn right and Serenity is around 100 meters on the left.

There is no airport on Koh Lanta, so at the moment there are no Koh Lanta flights that arrive direct on the island. Instead, you can fly to Krabi Airport and then get a speedboat transfer or a taxi transfer onto Koh Lanta.

The taxi has to make two car ferry crossings to get onto the island, and so the transfer can take anywhere between 2 to 3 hours, depending on queues at the car ferries. See more info and pricing on our Krabi Airport to Koh Lanta Taxi page.

The speedboat transfer is a lot faster – you take a 45 minute taxi ride from the airport to the speedboat jetty, and then have a 20 minute speedboat ride which brings you into Lanta’s main town of Sala Dan. You are then transferred to a taxi and taken direct to your chosen hotel. See our page Speedboat Transfer to Koh Lanta for more info and prices.

If you prefer, you can fly to Phuket Airport, and then go to Rassada Pier and make the ferry crossing to Koh Lanta. The ferry departs at 8am in the morning from Phuket which will probably mean staying overnight in Phuket the day before.

You can compares prices for Bangkok to Krabi flights and Bangkok to Phuket flights on Skyscanner.net and Kayak.com.

Rob: Wow what a cool date the ninth of September 2009 which is commononly written as 09/09/09. Living in Thailand the Thai people have 9 as there lucky number, Nine in Thai sounds like another word which means to go forward to progress like the next level.

Thai people love to celebrate and although the Budhist calendar is now 2552 they didn’t seem to mind using the excuse of borrowing the Christian Year of 2009 to make the date that more special and who can blame them as it is a special date.

For Baimon this was even made more special as she got to celebrate her 9th Birthday on this date. So what do you buy a Thai kid on her 9th Birthday??????

Well Grandma had the answer. A punch bag with some little red gloves. I know in the future I won’t be telling her when to go to bed!

All kids love birthday cake but one thing I did notice tho unlike the kids in England who enjoy ice cream and jelly these kids where tucking in to crabs and shrimps they where eating better than I do.

Happy Birthday Baimon x