if you are a kitesurfer you would allways take your own gear with you.

if your not...well....no one really wants to hire to you then do they.

just pay the $50 for an extra bag and take your gear youll be paying more then that for hireing.

Love Thailand as there’s less bogans there than Bali not saying that everyone that goes to Bali is a bogan

We’ve been to the same spot in Thailand every year for the past 3 and have already booked for 2017 but I don’t go there solely for kitesurfing. If the wind is up, there is a rental shop on a kitesurfing beach about 5km away from where we stay, so very convenient.

I don’t take my gear to Thailand for 2 reasons, one because my wife goes with me and yep you guessed it I have no spare luggage space… two it’s likely you’re not going to get a lot of wind. Thailand is an excellent place for lots of different reasons but kitesurfing is not one of them so the way I look at it is, if the wind does come in while I’m there (bonus) I want to be able to hire some gear.

There’s a few kite surfing rentals shops in Thailand but I always go to Koh Samui and use KBA which move from one side of the island to the other over the year.

www.kiteboardingasia.com/

www.windfinder.com/forecast/koh_samui_samui_orchid_kitebeach