Walked back to the pier and took the boat to Krabi. Spend most of the 2 hours on to and talked to some other backpackers who also were very disappointed with Phi Phi. When we arrived in Krabi at 11 we had another 5 hours before the VIP bus left for Bangkok. We left the backpacks at the bus company and walked into town. After some coffee had a walk through the town. There is nothing much to see but we bought some souvenirs (dvd's, shirts and even a almost new Tom Clancy book). We stopped for lunch at May & Mark, a small restaurant with good food.
Instead of the VIP bus we were transported by mini-van for the first 2½ hours to another city, where we had a stopover of 45 minutes. Well the bus we had to get into was anything but VIP. The airco wasn't working and the bus was only doing about 80 km per hour. On the highway we were constantly overtaken by the real VIP busses. Just our luck. There was also a major problem with the clutch or the gears, which got worse and worse. I however was reading happily in my new Tom Clancy book when they without any warning switched off all interior and reading lights at 10:30 pm. That got me pissed. And of course they didn't speak a word of English. I took a sleeping pill and tried to get some sleep. I even dozed a bit, but was awakened by the sounds of the gearbox every time he had to change gears. The last 4 hours the bus slowed down to 50 km an hour and sometimes almost came to a complete stop while they were hitting the clutch with a rather big hammer.