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Thailand
Vibrant, varied and better than the version most people have been sold. City first, water second.
In Ruaan's words
Why I send people here
Thailand is a two part trip and it falls apart when people treat it as one. Bangkok is loud, hot, brilliant and exhausting, and three nights is exactly right. Any longer and you arrive at the beach already tired.
Then the choice is Phuket, Krabi or the islands off them. Phuket has the best hotels and the worst reputation, mostly earned in about two streets you never have to go near. Krabi is quieter and greener. Koh Yao Noi in between is where I send couples who want almost nobody around.
The flights are the part people get wrong on their own. There are cheap routings that cost you a day and a half in an airport, and there are sensible ones that cost a little more and give you two extra nights of holiday. That is the actual value of having me do it.
What makes it
Three things that decide the trip
Bangkok, briefly
Three nights. The river, the markets, one very good rooftop and one very good street stall.
The limestone
Phang Nga Bay by longtail, early, before the tour boats find it.
The right island
Phuket, Krabi or Koh Yao Noi. They are genuinely different holidays and the choice is the whole trip.
Photographs
Thailand, as it actually looks
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Sample itinerary
What you actually receive
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Bangkok
Land, transfer, and an early night. The river hotels are worth the extra.
The city
Temples in the morning while it is bearable, the market in the afternoon, a rooftop at sunset.
The city
South
A short domestic flight and you are at the water by lunchtime.
South
Phang Nga Bay
Out on a longtail at six in the morning. You will have it almost to yourself.
Phang Nga Bay
Nothing at all
Which is the point of coming this far.
Nothing at all
Or somewhere else
