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Painting on the temple's wall

Bangkok Highlights
Private Guided Tour 

5/5

8-9 Hrs.

Pay as you go

Private Tour Guide

Let's talk Bangkok Tours

This is possibly the most important tour for any tour builder who wants to build the very best reputation. It is often though the one that tour agents get very wrong. This is because many do not think of their clients time after Bangkok. We think your very first impressions of Thailand will start in Bangkok, if those experiences are ones that are disappointing this can carry on during the rest of your time. It is so important to get this right for the client. 

Guide Fee

We charge a guide fee as follows.

  • Solo ฿2,750 guide fee

  • 2 persons ฿3,200 guide fee

  • 3 persons ฿3,750 guide fee

  • 4 persons  ฿4,250  guide fee

  • >5 persons extra ฿1,000 per person

 

Expenses such as entry fee’s, transport used, food. These are paid by yourselves as we guide you around.

As explained below.

Tour duration

A khanom tour lasts around 8 hours 30 mins from pick up to drop off. Of course occasionally time may be a little more or less.

 

Our fee covers the guide up to 9 hours. If you wish to extend the tour beyond 9 hours there will be a CHARGE of 350 baht per hour, per group. This is payable directly to the guide. 

Khanom's Guides

Khanom guides are employed directly by ourselves. We do not use guides who are freelance or those not holding approved guide licences. Some of our guides have been with us since the day we started. They are highly experienced and English/Thai speaking. 

 

Our guides will lead you, teach you and have fun with you. They will bring you the very best in Bangkok guiding. 

Pay-as-you-go 

We do a scheme called pay as you go. We hand build you a private tour and we charge you only for the guide and admin. We add no profit. All transport, entry fee’s, food etc you pay as we travel around Bangkok. 

 

There are lots of advantages to this.

No company gets discounts on palace or temples. There is no point to but advance tickets and fix yourself to them. We can not scam you as you pay the price on the door in open sight. We take no commissions so we have zero bias to have to take you to a place that pays us. 

 

The tour is ultra ultra flexible. We can go anywhere and actually you get to choose your budget. 

 

If you wish to avoid a place with high entry that you think may not be for you, fine we can cut it even on the day and replace it. 

Go Thai Style

We are going to use Thai style transport and teach you how to use it.

  • Train 20 to 50 baht pp per journey

  • Thai bus 10 to 30 baht pp per journey

  • Skytrain 30 to 50 baht pp per journey

  • Fun tuk tuk ride (100 baht approx for a short hop for you and the guide). 

  • Riverboats local style  15 to 50 baht pp per journey

 

These costs would be met by you as you go for YOU AND THE GUIDE.

 

The guides lunch and food is the guides OWN expense and responsibility. 

 

Venues & Entry Fees 

You pay NOTHING for the guide at any venue (except as below). Any entry is covered by us as a company under our license at any temple or palace. Here you pay only your own entry costs. 

 

(Guides are not allowed in to Mahanakhon skywalk with customers unless they are paid for.

JIM Thompson house has its own guides in the entry price and these are the only guides allowed to take you around ).

 

The most expensive venue is the grand palace and the temple within the grounds. The entry is 500 baht that covers both palace and temple. 

 

All other temples are either free or between 50 and 200 baht.

 

Other venues we take you to will be free like thai style street food markets. 

 

Long-tail boat hire varies depending on duration, stops, and routes. These prices are negotiated at the pier for you by the guides. 

Pier stops add to the costs as piers are private and charge for landing fee’s. (Many people do not even realise you can negotiate to stop at some piers, not all though). This is where our guides add value by getting the right prices before getting into those boats. 

Prices can be from 1,000 - 2,500 Thai Baht. This covers all the people in that long-tail and is for a private boat.

What might a tour look like?

Morning
Pick up at hotel head to our first stop this might be the palace or a temple. You will get there by utilising hotel shuttles or bus or train whatever is convenient to your location we may in some cases blag a free hotel shuttle but if not its out by whatever is close by.

We pack out the morning with some must see tourist stuff like the palace and Wat Pho and teach you the transport system. We might take you to track down some monitor lizards in Lumpini park.

Then we do a river section, cheap river boats down the Chao Praya river. We take you for the views and show you the piers and how to use them.

Option II
Hire a private long tail boat and go for an hour around the canals of Bangkok where you will be amazed by what you see. Thai life, real Thai life by the canals. From mansions to floating rotting and collapsing wooden river housing. Pass by the newly renovated 70m high Buddha overlooking Bangkok that appears out of nowhere. Instagram heaven.

A private long tail boat is around 1,800 to 2,500 Thai baht depending on the time (1 to 2 hours, and the amount of piers we stop at we take no commission at all.)

After this we nowhere near finished,
We have lots to fill
300 steps ringing bells to the top of the golden mount.
Some merit making or a blessing if available. (Small donation to the monks).

Explore chinatowns back streets and experience a mini food tour where some of the best food is found street style.

I hope that gives you an insight into what we do.

PRICES GIVEN WERE CORRECT AT TIME OF WRITING. Some venues may change prices without notice.

Some venues may close without notice, this why we use the pay as you go scheme.

If you have further questions on this tour then please do not hesitate to contact us

Booking terms & Conditions

  • We have limited number of guides for each day. First come, first served

  • We require at least 3 days advance notice to make a reservation

  • Your booking is secured with us when making full payment or at least 20% deposit of the booking total amount

  • We offer 0% transaction fees for money transfer in THB, GBP, EUR, NZD, AUD, CAD. 

  • Payment using credit card or other currencies will have 4.5% transaction fees on top.

  • Any cancellation less then 48 hours or on day is non-refundable

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