8 days · 7 nights
Old Siam at your own pace: royal ruins, mountain temples and a free day in Bangkok, with a guide just for you.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesTwo easy days in Bangkok, then a private road loop north through the old capitals of Ayutthaya and Sukhothai to Chiang Mai and back. Your guide and driver travel with only the two of you, and Chiang Mai has a free afternoon or two to wander.
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
After a meet and greet at the airport, a shared transfer takes you to your hotel. Spend the rest of the day as you like, perhaps with a Thai massage or a sunset drink high above the city.
Day 2 · Bangkok
The day is yours to explore. The Grand Palace, home to the royal court for some two hundred years, encloses Wat Phra Kaew and the revered Emerald Buddha.
Ayutthaya and Phitsanulok
Day 3 · Ayutthaya and Phitsanulok
An early start, with pick-up from 7 am, for the former island capital of Ayutthaya. Walk among Wat Yai Chaimongkhon, Wat Phanan Choeng and Wat Mahathat, with its Buddha head held in tree roots, then circle the island by long-tail boat. Lunch, then the drive to Phitsanulok.
Lampang and Chiang Mai
Day 4 · Lampang and Chiang Mai
In Lampang, climb the naga stairs to Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, a walled Lanna temple with a sacred tree and a golden chedi. After lunch, continue to Chiang Mai and a free evening, with the night bazaar close at hand.
Chiang Mai
Day 5 · Chiang Mai
Take the cable car up to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep, with views across Chiang Mai. Afterwards, wander the workshops of San Kamphaeng Road, known for celadon pottery, silverwork, lacquer and silk. Lunch, and the afternoon free.
Lamphun and Sukhothai
Day 6 · Lamphun and Sukhothai
Visit Wat Phra That Hariphunchai in Lamphun, a thousand years old, with its 46 metre golden chedi. Then head south to the UNESCO-listed ruins of Sukhothai, founded in the 13th century, both inside and beyond the old walls and moat.
Lopburi and Bangkok
Day 7 · Lopburi and Bangkok
Drive to Lopburi to see the Khmer temple of Phra Prang Sam Yot and the shrine of San Phra Kan, where macaques have the run of the place. Lunch on the way, then back to Bangkok.
Bangkok
Day 8 · Bangkok
After breakfast, a shared transfer takes you to the airport.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Bangkok · 3 nights
Your first two nights and your last night. Or similar
Phitsanulok · 1 night
Or similar
Chiang Mai · 2 nights
Or similar
Sukhothai · 1 night
Or similar
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.
Settle into Bangkok for two days, then join a small group on the road north through Ayutthaya, Lampang and Chiang Mai, returning by way of Sukhothai and Lopburi. The group never tops eight, and there is free time in both Bangkok and 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.
Small group tour | 8 days | Chiang Mai · Sukhothai · Bangkok | Price on enquiry.
Private tour | 8 days | Chiang Mai · Sukhothai · Bangkok
Private tour | 8 days | Bangkok · Phitsanulok · Sukhothai
Private tour | 9 days | Bangkok · Phitsanulok · Chiang Mai | Price on enquiry.
