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Is Koh Lanta worth visiting, or is it too quiet for a short trip? It gets recommended for exactly the thing that makes some people restless there. Long-stay visitors describe it as the one they kept returning to, while people passing through on a two-week trip sometimes find it flat compared with the busier islands. How long you have is probably the deciding factor, and the season decides whether the boats are pleasant: https://meetlocale.com/guides/andaman-vs-gulf How many nights did you give it, and was that too many or not enough?

Does Thailand have good hospitals, and does that depend on being in a big city? We can source the money side of this, which is that visitors pay for care and that hospitals generally want a deposit and proof of insurance before admitting you: https://meetlocale.com/guides/is-thailand-safe-to-travel-alone What we cannot responsibly rate is clinical quality, and the gap people describe between major private hospitals in the cities and what is available on a small island seems to be the part that actually matters when something goes wrong. If you have been treated there, where were you, and how did it compare with home?