If you are planning to go to Koh Chang I can recommend you to leave your valuables at a safe place. It is definitely a beautiful laid back destination but if you get robbed you will not ejoy your holiday so much anymore. And Robbers seem to be very active on the island.
In my case we stayed at Hat Sai Kao, Tantawan resort. When we went out to eat for 30 minutes in a beach restaurant nearby, people broke into our hut and stole everything we had: 2 SLR-cameras, 1 videocamera, passports, travellers cheques, and everything else. A total amount for around USD 3000,-. Good catch. The strange thing is that we didn't walk around all day with the cameras on our belly, but carefully had them stuffed away, and we always took our valuables (exept for that dinner). It was only a very few times that we made pictures so people could see our cameras.
SO DON'T THINK IT WILL NOT HAPPEN TO YOU AND THAT YOU ARE MORE CAREFUL THAN OTHERS...... BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I USED TO THINK.
When we went to the police we heard that we were not the first ones to get robbed. Just one day before us a Swiss couple was victim of the robbers, and in the notebook of the police was a whole list of others that got robbed over the last few months. According to the police the robbers are Cambodians. Later in Bangkok and other tourist places we heard more storeys about theft on Koh Chang. Maybe Mr. Cummings of Lonely Planet can go to Koh Chang police department and try to find out how bad the situation is and (in case) put a warning message in the Lonely Planet..
If there is anyone who had a similar experience as me please tell me your story.
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