The bus started towards Surat Thani and before arriving at the Main Bus Station it did something very strange; the Bus made a U-turn on the main Road and all the Passengers were hurriedly asked to get off the bus and (on the main road with traffic rushing on all sides) made to transfer to smaller vehicles ( open taxis and small cars ). Our luggage was also quickly thrown out of the bus on to the main road and we were asked to hurriedly put it in the small vehicles. This was all very irregular as we all had paid for the Big Bus to take us all the way to the Main Bus station in Phuket.