Travelers interested in Thai culture and history, as well as Buddhism & Thai Local Dance will love this day tour or afternoon tours, Where now you can experience world heritage site with heritage 100’s years boat.
- Visit some of Ayutthaya’s MUST-see sights, including temples, palaces, and enormous Buddha statues by Bus
- A lifetime boating experience with traditional Thai dance is included in our memorable trip
- Do not forget to take some of the nice picture at our 100’s Year old boat. A picture with Thai Umbrella could be an Instagram sensation
- You can order your food while you are in the bus, we have veg, non veg or fruits options available to select. Even you can order some drink of your choice when you arrive at Ayutthaya
- We do provide you an option to dress in Traditional Thai Dress in case you want to experience ancient Ayutthaya Kingdom back in time
- Hop aboard two-way transfers from our Meeting Point at Hilton Garden Inn Bangkok Silom or Novotel Hotel Ploenchit
Posted By : corinnek498
From start to finish, this was a very unfortunate and disappointing waste of time and money. When we arrived at the meeting point we were shown a menu for approximately 1 second and asked to quickly pick an item for 550 baht (an expensive side of meals for Bangkok) which would be prepared for us later on the trip. Then we were hurried into a hot shuttle bus and began our journey to Ayutthaya which our guide told us would be one hour. The guide didn’t talk at all during the bus ride, and the ride took closer to 2 hours with no updates on how close we were or introduction to the temples we were about to see.
When we arrived at the first temple the guide spoke (very quietly) for approximately 2 minutes outside of the temple, snapped a few pictures of the group, and told us to return in approximately 20 minutes to the bus. The temple grounds were huge, and we wandered around as a scattered group without knowing what we were looking at. At one point I asked the guide what happened to many of the buddhas which appeared cut in half and she muttered: “fire”. As our 20 minutes neared an end we found some fabulous statues and ponds which were very interesting, but we didn’t have enough time to really see them or take pictures and we didn’t understand the significance. From this point, we traveled to a second site of interest – Wat Mahthat known for the famous Buddha head in the tree. At this temple, the guide didn’t give us a meeting point or timeline, quickly rushed us towards the head of the Buddha without explaining any other parts of the temple, snapped a few pictures of the group, and then disappeared. One member of our group was disabled relying on a cane to walk and felt incredibly frustrated to have the guide abandon her.
Leaving Wat Mahthat our group miraculously found our bus and departed for the much-anticipated sunset boat/dinner cruise. Arriving at a restaurant on the river we felt hopeful as we walked towards an attractive docked boat equipped with dinner-style tables and beautiful wood siding. However just as we started descending the ramp our guide redirected us away from the boat into a small bleak room just above the dock. The room was bare with zero wall art or decorations and dingy windows that were partially blocked off with wood. In the stifling room, we were left to overheat while we wondered what would happen next. I asked the woman why we couldn’t eat on the beautiful boat and she explained it was too small, which was puzzling as the boat appeared quite large. As our mediocre food was served to us we ate in silence and another larger group arrived, filling the beautiful dinner boat, leaving only a small boat on the dock. As if it couldn’t get any worse, as we finished our food multiple members of our group saw a large rat run across the rafters. Finishing a disappointing dinner we were shuttled onto the small boat.
The boat ride was beautiful and being on the river was refreshing, but the boat motor was quite loud, coming in at 96 decibels on my boyfriend's watch, and I was forced to plug my ears the entire ride. After about 15 minutes of enjoyable river, the boat pulled off to the side and we were let out at what I assume was Wat Chaiwathanaram, our final temple. Since our guide hadn’t explained anything the entire trip I took it upon myself to ask at this point what the significance of the temple was. Our guide quickly sputtered “The king made it for his mother” then she disappeared leaving the group once again to wander the temple grounds on our own. At this point, the disaster of the situation was quite hilarious, and my boyfriend and I walked around the temple making up our own history stories to explain the architectural highlights and decapitated buddhas. At the end of the evening, we considered taking a cab back to Bangkok but regretfully boarded back on the bus. Two hours later, after another silent bus ride, we were incredibly relieved to be back at the hotel. Overall this was a very disappointing day as we were both excited to learn the history of this amazing world history site. We felt cheated by the experience and sad that we had lost so much of our day.
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Posted On : 2024-06-28 21:12:32 
Posted By : Tiffany_T
Wonderful tour that explores Ayutthaya history and a lovely boat ride!
Just a heads up that you will need to bring cash in order to pay for dinner.
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Posted On : 2024-06-27 14:30:09 
Posted By : 54micha_lan
De tour was zeer fijn! Johnny/Jom was een geweldige gids, zeer vriendelijk en sociaal en kon ons veel vertellen over de Thaise cultuur en geschiedenis.
Enige spijtige is dat we niet al te veel tijd kregen om de site te ontdekken, slechts 20 min per site.
Anders raad ik deze tour zeker aan!
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Posted On : 2024-06-27 06:09:11
Posted By : Jeroen_B
We were picked up from Novotel in Silom round 1400. The guide gave us information about the trip on the bus to the first stop.
We visited the first temple and had 20 min of free time. After that we went to the second temple, quite nearb,y and again had some free time to explore.
I thought the itinerary mentioned 3 tempels to visit but we only visited 2.
We then went to the restaurant were the boat tour with sunset would start.
It was a relative small boat. The guide requested the dinner options earlier on the bus. Once we arrived at the boat the dinner was already prepared and ready. Dinner and drinks are not included in the tour and needed to be paid n cash seperatly.
The boat tour itself felt very rushed. The captian really stept on it which also made it hard to eat. Everyone quicky finished their dinner and drinks after which there was a short dance performance.
Once we reached the temple there were other boats already there waiting for the sunset. these boat were much bigger with a viewing platform on top.
The captain didnt stop the boat at all. We just made a circle at the location, and pictures were taken at the front of the boat with the view. This was quite rush as well. Once the pictures were done the captain turned the boat around and we rushed back. There was no sunset. The sun was still out.
We passed a tempel where everyone was given a piece of bread to feed the fish. You quickly had to throw this overboad since the boat kept moving. Once we reached back at the emptly restaurant the boat tour was over and we all went back on the bus back to bangkok and reached there around 2000.
In my oppinion the boat tour could have been done lesser rushed.
overall the tour was ok
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Posted On : 2024-06-26 11:03:47
Posted By : beyongsuLee
타이 옛문화의 영광을 폐허속에서 느끼기 충분하였고, 웅장했던 규모를 생각해보면 여운이 오래남습니다.
안내 역활을 맞은 Johnny의 친절함에 감사드립니다
저녁식사때 간단하게 나마 멋있는춤을 배위에서 보여주신 여성분께도 감사드립니다
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Posted On : 2024-06-25 02:20:48
Posted By : Lisa_H
Ayutthaya was really beautiful and the tour guide very knowledgeable. The tour group was a bit larger than I was comfortable with, and unfortunately our bus broke down as we were leaving Ayutthaya, delaying our return to Bangkok. For those traveling alone, the fried rice a la cart for dinner was enough of a meal; the set meals would be good if splitting between two people.
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Posted On : 2024-06-19 05:13:07
Posted By : qidij
Very friendly and knowledgeable guide, Johnny had such a chill vibe. I learned a lot about Thailand and Thai history from his narration.
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Posted On : 2024-06-16 08:58:38
Posted By : Chris_C
Thank you Pang (Nina) for an unforgettable trip. Nina arrived on time to pick me up and together with the driver, we set off to Ayutthaya. She explained every place well and answered all my questions. The temples were amazing. It's sad to see how greed resulted in the theft of many Buddha statues. The river cruise was another unforgettable highlight. I definitely recommend this company and Nina to anyone who wishes to visit Ayutthaya in style.
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Posted On : 2024-06-15 06:20:55
Posted By : Robert_J
Potentially a great trip but fails in some areas. 1. Poor communication with the company. Confusion re pick up and drop off. And didn’t answer 2 of 3 questions asked via chat. 2. Was dinner included or not??? We thought not but wasn’t clear. So we decided to choose a meal whilst on bus from the menu. The meal itself was very very ordinary. Not sure if it was a hot meal turned tepid due to being left out or a cold meal turned tepid due to same reason. Bland and difficult to know which was pork and which was chicken. The beer bought was not chilled which was disappointing. Not expensive but not anything to compliment either. 3. Very amateurish short Thai dance whilst we were eating. Tipping not compulsory but it would have been unkind not to tip but it was all just a bit too basic. 3. Ensure you have cash on you as 2/3 toilet breaks will cost you as will the meal and tipping. It would have been better to have the company add a small cost to the tour to pay for the Thai ‘dancer’ and had the tour company answered our questions sent to them the day before we would have known whether dinner was or was not included. The potential is there for the tour to be a good one but it needs to be pulled together better. The info indicated we would be dropped off at our choice of place - didn’t happen. Start of tour we had no communication from the guide until after we stopped at the Hilton which we guessed was to collect more passengers - for a substantial period of time sitting in the coach - wondering what the plan actually was. Loved getting out of Bangkok and seeing the outer areas but no idea what life for those living there is like - no info given. Shame.
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Posted On : 2024-06-15 01:17:22
Posted By : Oskar_B
Good value for money. You will get to see all the sights. Our guide, Johnny, was energetic and very knowledgeable.
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Posted On : 2024-06-14 20:02:49
