Day 1 · Bangkok
Arrive in Bangkok
You are met at the airport and taken to your central hotel. The rest of the day is free to start finding your way around the city's food stalls, markets and temples.
9 days · 8 nights
Three nights in Bangkok, then the old capitals and temples on the long road north.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesSpend three nights in Bangkok for the Grand Palace, the great temples and the railway and floating markets. Then travel north by road through Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, Lampang and the Golden Triangle, ending with two nights in Chiang Mai.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Bangkok
Day 1 · Bangkok
You are met at the airport and taken to your central hotel. The rest of the day is free to start finding your way around the city's food stalls, markets and temples.
Day 2 · Bangkok
A guided tour of the Grand Palace, home to the kings of Siam for nearly two centuries, then Wat Pho and its gold-leaf Reclining Buddha, and Wat Traimit with its 5.5-tonne golden Buddha. The evening is yours, perhaps for a massage or a rooftop bar.
Maeklong and Damnoen Saduak
Day 3 · Maeklong and Damnoen Saduak
Watch the stalls of the Maeklong market pull back moments before the train passes through. Continue to the floating market at Damnoen Saduak, where vendors paddle canoes of fruit and vegetables along the canals, then return to Bangkok.
Ayutthaya and Phitsanulok
Day 4 · Ayutthaya and Phitsanulok
Collected from your hotel, visit the summer palace of Rama V at Bang Pa-In, then Wat Yai Chaimongkhon, Wat Mahathat and Wat Phanan Choeng in Ayutthaya. Lunch in Chai Nat, then continue to Phitsanulok for a short look around the city.
Sukhothai and Lampang
Day 5 · Sukhothai and Lampang
Join the morning prayers at Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat, home to one of the country's most revered Buddha images. Explore the ruined temples and palaces of Sukhothai, then the quieter Si Satchanalai, where a wooden suspension bridge leads to a hilltop temple, before driving on to Lampang.
Lampang, Golden Triangle and Chiang Rai
Day 6 · Lampang, Golden Triangle and Chiang Rai
See the carved and gilded Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, stop by Phayao Lake, then visit Wat Rong Khun, the white temple set with mirror glass. After lunch in Chiang Rai, take a 45-minute boat ride on the Mekong with a stop on Don Sao Island in Laos, and visit the House of Opium museum.
Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai
Day 7 · Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai
Begin at the Chiang Rai morning market and Wat Phra Kaew, then the Hill Tribe Museum, which tells the story of the region's mountain peoples. Lunch in Tha Ton, then on to Chiang Mai and up to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep by cable car or the 309-step naga stair.
Chiang Mai
Day 8 · Chiang Mai
A morning at an elephant sanctuary centred on care and observation, then the landscaped gardens of Royal Park Rajapruek. After lunch, watch artisans at a traditional woodcarving workshop.
Day 9 · Chiang Mai
Breakfast, then time to explore Chiang Mai at your own pace before your transfer to the airport.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Bangkok · 3 nights
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Phitsanulok · 1 night
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Lampang · 1 night
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Chiang Rai · 1 night
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Chiang Mai · 2 nights
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Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Thailand
13 days · 12 nights
Bangkok → Siem Reap → Kampong Cham → Phnom Penh → Mekong Delta → Ho Chi Minh City
You start with two days in Bangkok and fly to Siem Reap for the temples of Angkor. At Kampong Cham you board a small all-suite riverboat for seven nights, stopping at villages, pagodas and Phnom Penh before crossing into the Mekong Delta and arriving in Ho Chi Minh City.
Thailand
6 days · 5 nights
Bangkok → Chiang Mai
Three nights in Bangkok with two guided days, one for the Grand Palace and the great temples and one for the railway and floating markets outside the city. Then fly north to Chiang Mai for two nights with nothing planned, so you can set the pace.
Thailand
7 days · 6 nights
Bangkok → Phuket
Begin with three nights in Bangkok and two guided days: the Grand Palace and great temples, then the railway and floating markets beyond the city. Fly south to Phuket for three nights near Patong with your days left open for the beach or a boat out to the islands.
Spend three nights in Bangkok for the Grand Palace, the great temples and the railway and floating markets. Then travel north by road through Ayutthaya and Sukhothai, Lampang and the Golden Triangle, ending with two nights in Chiang Mai.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Thailand, closest in length first.
Private tour | 9 days | Bangkok · Phitsanulok · Chiang Mai | Price on enquiry.
Small group tour | 10 days | Bangkok · Chiang Mai · Krabi
Small group tour | 8 days | Chiang Mai · Sukhothai · Bangkok | Price on enquiry.
Private tour | 10 days | Chiang Rai · Chiang Mai · Bangkok
