Day 1 · Bangkok
Arrive in Bangkok
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free: a Thai massage, a first taste of the street food, or sunset from one of the city's rooftop bars.
8 days · 7 nights
Temples, royal ruins and northern craft roads, in a small group with room to breathe.
Guaranteed departures. Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesSettle 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.
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.
+1 day beforeExtra nights in Bangkok first
Bangkok
Day 1 · Bangkok
You are met at the airport and taken to your hotel. The rest of the day is free: a Thai massage, a first taste of the street food, or sunset from one of the city's rooftop bars.
Day 2 · Bangkok
A full free day in the capital. The Grand Palace, a royal residence from the 18th to the mid-20th century, holds Wat Phra Kaew and the Emerald Buddha, and excursions can be booked locally.
Ayutthaya and Phitsanulok
Day 3 · Ayutthaya and Phitsanulok
Drive to Ayutthaya, the old island capital largely destroyed some 250 years ago, to see Wat Yai Chaimongkhon, Wat Phanan Choeng and Wat Mahathat, where tree roots have grown around a stone Buddha head. A long-tail boat circles the island before lunch, then you continue to Phitsanulok.
Lampang and Chiang Mai
Day 4 · Lampang and Chiang Mai
Climb the naga staircase to Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, a walled Lanna temple on a hill with a golden chedi and a bronze Buddha. After lunch, carry on to Chiang Mai with the rest of the day free, perhaps for the night bazaar.
Chiang Mai
Day 5 · Chiang Mai
Ride the cable car, or climb 309 steps, to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep on its mountain above the city. Then browse San Kamphaeng Road, where workshops make celadon pottery, silver, lacquerware, paper and silk. Lunch, then a free afternoon.
Lamphun and Sukhothai
Day 6 · Lamphun and Sukhothai
Stop in Lamphun at the thousand-year-old Wat Phra That Hariphunchai and its tall golden chedi. Continue south to Sukhothai, the first capital of Siam, where the UNESCO-listed historical park holds the ruins of almost 200 buildings.
Lopburi and Bangkok
Day 7 · Lopburi and Bangkok
Head south to Lopburi, where macaques roam the streets, to see the Khmer ruins of Phra Prang Sam Yot and the shrine of San Phra Kan. Lunch on the road, then on to Bangkok for a final night.
Bangkok
Day 8 · Bangkok
Breakfast at the hotel, then a transfer to the airport for your onward flight.
+1 day afterStay on in Bangkok
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
Add a few days before or after. Your advisor quotes them with the journey.
Before the journey · +1 day
Arrive early and rest in Bangkok before the journey, at a 4 star hotel such as the Century Park.
After the journey · +1 day
Add nights in Bangkok after the touring ends, at a 4 star hotel such as the Century Park.
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.
Two 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.
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
Small group tour | 8 days | Bangkok · Phitsanulok · Sukhothai
Private tour | 9 days | Bangkok · Phitsanulok · Chiang Mai | Price on enquiry.
