Russian · 6 years on Samui
Russian travel blogger and safety advocate based on Koh Samui for 6 years. Elena specialises in practical first-timer advice for renting vehicles on the island.
Updated: May 2026
At three different rental shops on Chaweng beach road last January, I checked the daily Click 125 rate: 180, 200, and 190 baht respectively. The Scoopy at the same shops: 280, 320, and 300 baht. The gap ranges from 100 to 130 baht per day - accumulating to 700 to 910 baht over a week. For most short-stay tourists, 900 baht buys a very good dinner, a half-day tour, or three nights of island entertainment. The Click 125's rate advantage is real and compounds with each additional rental day.
Filling the Click 125 at the PTT on Second Road last March after a full day's riding - 38 kilometres of beach road and town - the pump stopped at 42 baht. Forty-two baht is the price of a coconut at Chaweng market. Over a week of similar daily riding, total fuel cost was 294 baht - less than a single restaurant beer. The Click 125's fuel economy makes petrol cost irrelevant as a budgeting line item, which is genuine convenience for riders who do not want to track every transport expense on a beach holiday.
At most Samui rental shops I have used over six years, the deposit for a Click 125 runs 1,000 to 1,500 baht less than the deposit for an NMAX. The insurance excess also scales with the bike's rental value. A minor scratch on a Click 125 costs the renter less than the same scratch on an NMAX. For a first-time rental rider who cannot fully predict their risk profile, the lower financial exposure of the Click 125 has a value that does not appear in the daily rental rate comparison.
Threading the Click 125 into a parking gap on Chaweng beach road last April - a 1.2-metre space between a food cart and a parked pickup - I parked the scooter in three moves. The same gap would require five or six moves on the NMAX, and the Scoopy sits between them. In Chaweng's beach road parking pattern - parallel stacking with food carts on one side - the Click 125's 1,870mm length and 660mm width make it consistently easier to place and extract from tight urban situations than any wider scooter in the fleet.
At the tyre shop on Second Road last October, I watched the shop replace a Click 125 rear tyre for a tourist who had picked up a nail: 280 baht for the tube, 80 baht fitting. The NMAX rear tyre replacement on the same day for the rental shop's own bike: 520 baht tyre, 100 baht fitting. Consumable and repair costs scale with engine size and tyre size across the entire rental fleet. The Click 125 is not just cheaper to rent - it is cheaper if something goes wrong, which is relevant for a first-time renter on unfamiliar roads.
Six years of renting, observing, and advising on scooter choices across Koh Samui has produced a consistent assessment: for a rider staying in the beach resort corridor, covering less than 40 kilometres per day, travelling solo, and prioritising daily cost over performance, no other rental scooter on the island delivers better value. The Click 125 does not try to be the NMAX. That is exactly the point: it is optimised for the rider whose day does not require anything the NMAX offers.
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