We booked a private taxi transfer to Kampot from our hotel in Sihanoukville for $25. Others we met in Kampot told horror stories of "shared taxis" which were standard cars with upto nine people in them. In one case the driver had a passenger to his left and it was a left hand drive car! Operating the pedals seems to have been something of a team effort.
It's a two hour drive through beautiful scenery. Satisfactory accommodation was difficult to find at first. The Bokor Mountain Lodget overlooking the river was well overpriced in such a sleepy little town at $36 a night. The Borey Bokor hotel was fairly run down and completely empty. We settled for the very pleasant Kampot Guesthouse ($12) where rooms are far nicer in the new block than the old one. There are several other nice looking guesthouses on the same street.
There's not a great deal to do in Kampot but it's a charming riverside retreat where I could have quite happily lazed away a number of days. Instead we headed off on our first full day to do the main excursion that's available to the old French hill station of Bokor.
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