The full loop: Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Sukhothai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and the Andaman, with enough free days that it does not feel like a schedule.
Best of Thailand is a 14-day private tour covering Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Sukhothai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Krabi, from $1,980 per person for two. It is the widest single-country route we run and the one we recommend for a first and possibly only trip.
The full loop: Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Sukhothai, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and the Andaman, with enough free days that it does not feel like a schedule.
Best for: Two weeks, one country, no rushing. The route runs Bangkok · Ayutthaya · Sukhothai · Chiang Mai · Chiang Rai · Krabi. Everything below is a starting point: hotels can be upgraded or simplified, days can be added, and any element can be removed.
Six bases in fourteen days sounds like a coach tour. It is not, because three of the moves are internal flights and the longest ground transfer is three hours. The sequence runs Bangkok, the old capitals, the north, then a flight south to the Andaman — which means you see the country's three distinct cultural zones and its best coastline in one trip.
The extra days over the 10-day Highlights are spent in the north. Sukhothai gets a full day rather than a stop, Chiang Rai gets the White Temple and the Golden Triangle, and Chiang Mai gets a free afternoon that most people use for a cooking class or a second visit to the Sunday market. The beach section is shorter than in the 10-day version — four nights in Krabi rather than Phuket — because by day ten most travellers want water they can walk into.
Transfer and river dinner.
Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Wat Arun.
Train, bicycles, sunset ruins.
Drive north with a stop at Bang Pa-In.
Morning cycling, afternoon bus or flight to Chiang Mai.
Doi Suthep at dawn, old city temples.
Full day with elephants.
Drive north, White Temple and Blue Temple.
Mekong boat, opium museum, return to Chiang Mai.
Chiang Mai to Krabi, transfer to Ao Nang.
Private longtail, sandbar at low tide.
Boat to Railay, overnight on the peninsula.
Beach or spa, nothing booked.
Transfer to Krabi airport.
Six hotels and three internal flights in fourteen days. The flights are all under 90 minutes. Every stop except Bangkok has at least one afternoon with nothing scheduled.
$1,980 per person is based on private · 2–8 travellers sharing a room for 14 days, with mid-range four-star hotels as standard. Nothing is added locally: the entrance fees, boats and guiding are already in the number.
Deposit is 20% to confirm, balance 30 days before arrival. Free changes up to 45 days out.
From $1,980 per person, based on private · 2–8 travellers, 14 days and 13 nights. The quote includes the hotels, guiding and transport listed under “What’s included”; international flights and travel insurance are not included.
Yes. Every itinerary on this site is a starting point. Days can be added or removed, hotels upgraded or simplified, and the route reordered around your dates — we re-cost it as many times as you need before you commit.
Not included: international flights, travel insurance. Everything else listed under “What’s included” is in the quote, and we do not add local payments on arrival.
Three to six months ahead for the best hotels, and by September for travel over Christmas and New Year. Green-season trips can usually be arranged with six weeks’ notice.
No — it is the length at which the country stops feeling like a checklist. Two weeks is also the point where a beach section starts to feel earned rather than obligatory.
Yes. Dropping Chiang Rai and adding two nights in Koh Lanta is a common adjustment and roughly cost-neutral.
Palace & temple
The royal palace compound and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, all gold spires and mirrored mosaics behind a wh…
UNESCO site
The ruins of the Siamese capital: brick stupas, headless Buddhas and the famous head in the tree roots at Wat Ma…
UNESCO site
The ruins of the first Thai capital: seated Buddhas, lotus ponds, brick columns and very few people.…
Temple
Chalermchai Kositpipat's white, mirror-studded temple outside Chiang Rai — part sacred site, part contemporary a…
Beach
A peninsula cut off by limestone cliffs, reached only by longtail, with three beaches and world-class rock climb…
Temple
A massive seated Buddha seen through a narrow brick slit, fingers alone the height of a person.…
“Two weeks, six places, and it never felt like a coach tour. The three internal flights were all under ninety minutes. Chiang Rai was the bit I would not have booked myself and am glad we did.”
“We changed the last four days from Phuket to Krabi six weeks before travelling. Re-costed in a day, cheaper, and they sorted the flights. That flexibility is what you are paying for.”
