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Experience Thailand 9 Days - Bangkok to the North, Small Group Tour (English Only)

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From Bangkok to Chiang Mai
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Experience Thailand 9 Days - Bangkok to the North, Small Group Tour (English Only) - Destination Services Thailand
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Independent travel, featuring selected guided excursions
Guided in English
Group Size 2 - 8
Age range 10 to 99
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Highlights

  • Explore Bangkok's bustling streets and temples
  • Visit the Grand Palace and Reclining Buddha
  • Shop at Maeklong Railway and floating markets
  • Discover Ayutthaya's ancient temples
  • Cruise the Golden Triangle and visit opium museum

Itinerary

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  1. Introduction
  1. Day 1 ARRIVAL BANGKOK
  2. Day 2 ROYAL GRAND PALACE & TEMPLE TOUR
  3. Day 3 RAILWAY MARKET AND DAMNERN SADUAK FLOATING MARKET
  4. Day 4 BANGKOK – AYUTTHAYA – PHITSANULOK (405km – 6 hrs)
  5. Day 5 PHITSANULOK – SUKHOTHAI – LAMPANG (410km – 5.5 hrs)
  6. Day 6 LAMPANG – PHAYAO – GOLDEN TRIANGLE – CHIANG RAI (470km – 5.5 hrs)
  7. Day 7 CHIANG RAI – CHIANG MAI (220km – 8.5 hrs)
  8. Day 8 CHIANG MAI
  9. Day 9 DEPART CHIANG MAI
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Age Range

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  • A
    · January 17th, 2025
    I submitted my review about this tour yesterday . It is a very positive review. Please confirm that my review was received. Thanks, Zachy
    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Dear Customer, Thank you very much for your feedback. we are pleased to hear that you are satisfied with our services. hope to meet you again at our destinations. Customer Service Team, Destination Services
    Trip date: January 2025
  • Experience Thailand 9 Days - Bangkok to the North, Small Group Tour (English Only) reviewer 2
    · January 16th, 2025
    We enjoyed very much our “ Experience Thailand In 9 Days Tour” operated by TUI – Destination Travel. Jay is an excellent guide. He is very knowledgeable, caring, flexible and understanding. We learned a lot from Jay regarding the complex history, the rich culture, the geography, the evolving teaching of Buddha and the practice of Buddhism, the progress of Thailand in agriculture, industry, technology and education and more. The well-planned itinerary of the tour gave us opportunities to have a large variety of diverse and enriching experiences that we will remember for many years. Many thanks to Jay our guide and to our devoted driver Mr. Udom. Zachy and family.
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    Dear Customer, Thank you very much for your feedback. we are pleased to hear that you are satisfied with our services. hope to meet you again at our destinations. Customer Service Team, Destination Services
    Trip date: January 2025
  • CS
    · December 28th, 2024
    It was a wonderful trip with lot's of history and culture. The tourguide and driver did an amazing job
    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Dear Customer, Thank you very much for your feedback. we are pleased to hear that you are satisfied with our services. hope to meet you again at our destinations. Customer Service Team, Destination Services
    Trip date: December 2024
  • Experience Thailand 9 Days - Bangkok to the North, Small Group Tour (English Only) reviewer 4
    · August 12th, 2024
    Our tour guide was excellent! We got private transportation, hoteles were great! Loved it!
    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Dear Customer, Thank you so much for your feedback. We hope to welcome you again in our destinations. Customer Service Team, Destination Services
    Trip date: July 2024
  • AM
    · May 30th, 2024
    The main issue we had was with our guide. Joe was very pleasant, but did not speak very good English and did not talk much during the whole tour. The first few days in Bangkok we felt very rushed, for instance we only spent 45 minutes in the Grand Palace, and finished both days and were back in our hotel by 2pm each day. There was also very little information given, for instance at the Railway market Joe told us the meeting point and time to be back and then we were left to our own devices. We saw other groups, with their guide suggesting the best vantage spot etc, while we just had to guess. Initially we just put this down to the heat, but even as we travelled north this pattern continued. Joe would sleep the whole trip, or talk to the driver in Thai, we'd arrive at a site and he'd show us one feature then just wait for us all to return to the bus. Again, we only spent 45 minutes at the Ayutthaya Unesco site and when questioned about certain attractions I'd heard about he just said that Thailand is "full of temples" and couldn't understand what i was asking about. He was then very pleased that we arrived at our hotels well ahead of schedule every day. To us, it seemed as though Joe was either burnt out, or bored - he did not appear to have any interest in showing us all the finer details of the sites or telling us about the history behind things. I felt we did alot of driving with very little time spent at the sites, and in fact I would have preferred to drive myself or get a driver, as there was very little benefit in having a guide and a driver in reality. I felt that the time visiting the Golden Triangle, was a waste, but again maybe if we had more information it would have been more interesting. We have since done day tours with other people and found them to be much better - their English was better, they provided much more information and were happy to answer our questions. The accommodation, itinerary, food, and bus were all otherwise great. Also, I would suggest in future that the survey you request is done online, as we were given a paper survey that Joe insisted we complete before he left (early) on Monday afternoon (note, tour finished Tuesday) - it makes it very difficult to write negative feedback knowing that he can read it.
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    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    First of all, please accept our sincere apologizes for the inconveniences caused by the tour guide's assistance. We were aware of your feedback and have already informed the concerned department about the issue that you mentioned, and they will... Show more
    Trip date: May 2024
  • Experience Thailand 9 Days - Bangkok to the North, Small Group Tour (English Only) reviewer 6
    · April 25th, 2024
    Great experience, great guide
    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Dear Customer, Thank you so much for your feedback. We hope to welcome you again in our destinations. Customer Service Team, Destination Services
    Trip date: February 2024
  • BF
    · April 25th, 2024
    there was some confusion about some of the services offered on the tour. I booked the dinner package. I would not recommend that people do that. In most cases, there were more options available from the regular menu at hotels with no nearby offsite food options. Where you had to nearby offsite options, the options were cheaper more varied. If I had to do it all over again, I would just pay for the dinner meals at the time and not prebook. The tour itself is heavy on the temples, so if you are not into the cultural aspect, then this is not really the tour for you. For me it met all my expectations for the cultural aspect. The lunches were at local restaurants (some I never would have found but the choices were varied and quite tasty). As this is a small group tour, I would have expected the guide to have the meals with the group but that was not the case on this tour (maybe cultural aspect to this, as I found having the local perspective during the meals to be valuable on other tours).
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    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Dear Customer, Thank you so much for your feedback. We hope to welcome you again in our destinations. Customer Service Team, Destination Services
    Trip date: April 2024
  • Experience Thailand 9 Days - Bangkok to the North, Small Group Tour (English Only) reviewer 8
    · February 9th, 2024
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    What a fantastic tour with our own professional guide (Nicky) and a very good driver; really taken care of to perfection. This was exactly what I was looking for: a nice combination of temples, Buddhas, palaces, markets, viewpoints etc. Of course you spend quite a lot of hours in the minivan, but there were many stops along the way; I liked it just fine. I booked 2 extra nights before and after the tour, to get to know the cities of Bangkok and Chiang Mai a bit better. Plus, it allows you to get used to the temperature and time change. I am especially happy with the extra nights I had in Chiang Mai; The only thing I missed during the roundtrip was a visit to an animal-friendly elephant sanctuary (i.e. without touching, washing and/or sitting on it: that's animal cruelty); Nicky told me about a place in Chiang Mai, which I went to on my own the next day. Awesome!
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    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Dear Customer, Thank you so much for your feedback. We hope to welcome you again in our destinations. Customer Service Team, Destination Services
    Trip date: January 2024
  • BS
    · January 29th, 2024
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    It was a very well guided tour. Uddi was a great guide. And Ti was a good driver. Highly recommended.
    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Dear Customer, Thank you so much for your feedback. We hope to welcome you again to our destinations. Customer Services Team, Destination Services.
    Trip date: January 2024
  • MA
    · December 19th, 2023
    Great tour for cultural experience of Thailand! It covered palaces, stupas/temples, floating markets, traditional craft demonstrations and an optional cultural show. The guide was very friendly, punctual and accommodating. The tour itinerary was good but a bit heavy on temples and stupas and light on daily experience of locals. To be clear, some stupas, temples and palaces were unique, spectacular and/or designated as UNESCO heritage sites! Even though the tour was advertised as 9 days, the first and last days were only for airport transfers without any itinerary: It's a bit misleading! In addition to historic sites, I wanted to experience the daily life of locals including authentic Thai cuisine. However, the meals covered by the tour were blend and did not represent authentic flavors that I experienced in floating markets or night markets. The drive from Bangkok to the north was smooth and scenic, interspersed with some tour stops. Some hotels on the trip were not close to night markets or even restaurants, limiting us to have dinner in some hotels.
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    Destination Services Thailand commented on this review
    Thank you so much and we appreciate that you are happy with our service. we will keep any comments to improve our service. Customer Service Team, Destination Services.
    Trip date: December 2023

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