Thailand Family Holiday

สวัสดีค่ะ Sawasdee ka！Welcome to Thailand! On arrival in Bangkok, your private guide will welcome you at the arrival hall and transfer you to your hotel with a private car and driver. Your guide will help you with luggage and hotel check-in and ensure your arrival is worry-free.

Depart early morning for a 2-hour drive to the 100-year-old Damnoen Saduak Floating Market located 100 km (62 mi) from Bangkok, one of the Thailand’s most famous attractions. Day-in and day-out from about 8 am to about 11 am, the Floating Market is routinely crowded with hundreds of vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats selling and buying or exchanging their goods. You will have a chance to take a ride on a long tail boat to get the real sense of a floating village. After the long tail boat cruise around the village, you will stop at a transit point where you can choose to further explore the floating market by a 4-seat boat (at your own expense) or stroll around by the river's banks. After lunch at a local restaurant, you will return to your hotel. Afternoon is free at your leisure.

Thai cuisine is regarded as one of the best in the world. Take part in a Sompong Thai Cooking Class and spend your day emerging on an authentic Thai cooking. As part of the course instruction our instructor will take you to a local market sightseeing to absorb an exotic local fresh fruits and vegetables. There is always an abundance of new things to see. At Sompong Original Thai Cooking School, you will find that the chef use only the freshest ingredients purchased on the same day. Return to the school to take part in a warm, open and interactive cooking session during which the instructor demonstrates and explains the unique narrative of each Thai dish. Next you will get a chance to enjoy all your food that you have cooked and also take away pack if you cannot finish it. 

Today you will fly from Bangkok to Phuket. Upon arrival at Phuket Airport, you will find your private guide waiting for you at the exit with your name sign. Then, he will take you to your hotel. The rest of the day you can arrange by yourself.

After pick up at your Phuket hotel in the early morning, you will travel by air-conditioned minibus to the cruise departure point at Ao Por Pier. You can enjoy the complimentary coffee,tea and dessert service before boarding your luxury boat enter Ao Phang Nga National Park, where you will have opportunities for snokling and swimming.Later,you will admire the craggy stalactite formations of Panak Island’s caves and enjoy canoeing in Bat Cave or Mangrove cave. Then depart from Panak Island to Hong Island. If you wish to try some soft adventure activities with your family,our guides will paddle you around with our small kayaks to explore hidden caves and lagoons.If lucky, you will find locals sell coconut in the mangrove and you may also get zero-distance to varied wild monkey.

After have a great buffet lunch on board, you will continue on to a photo stop at Khao Phing Kan, also known as James Bond Island.The famous movie named The Man with the golden Gun was filmed here.Then you can enjoy swimming and relaxing before return to Ao Por Pier and then transfer to your hotel.

Today you will head to Elephant Jungle Sanctuary Phuket. You will be picked up from your place of accommodation and will drive for approximately 1 hours through scenic agricultural areas, hills, and beach, before arriving at the Sanctuary. There, you will meet your English-speaking guide and learn a little about the elephants,before changing into traditional Karen clothing.

After being allocated bananas and sugar cane to feed to the elephants, you will walk with your guide through the Sanctuary, where you will find free-roaming elephants and hear their individual stories. You can touch, feed, photograph, and interact with the elephants at your leisure while you learn about their lifestyle and behaviors.

After you have met all the elephants, you will accompany them to a nearby mud spa. Get muddy with the elephants as you apply a healthy cosmetic mud treatment to their skin. Next, you will walk with the elephants to a nearby river and join them in the water for a refreshing bath. Take a swim and help bathe and brush the elephants while they wade through and play in the water.

Once the elephants are clean, you can take some final photos with them, and then it will be time to part ways with your new friend and change into some dry clothes. Finally, eat some snacks and seasonal fresh fruit ,after you done at the Sanctuary you can go to Naithon beach for hangout before enjoying once again the impressive rural scenery as you drive back to hotel.

Day at leisure. Enjoy your happy family time at your hotel or explore the surrounding area.

Enjoy the leisurely time before drive to the airport for your onward flight.