Bangkok Private Tour: Highlight Attractions, Canal Trip and Authentic Thai Lunch

Essential Tour Guide, An Ideal Start to Understanding Thailand. We will help familiarize you with the city’s history, culture, and lifestyle. Savouring some local delicacies and uncomplicated Thai lunch are part of the experience. You will adore Thailand as much as we do because we are passionate about our work.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Wat Phra Chetuphon - Wat Pho (The Temple of The Reclining Buddha) is one of the largest and oldest temples in Bangkok and remains a significant center for Traditional Thai Medicine and Traditional Thai Massage School.

  • The Grand Palace - The Royal Grand Palace & The Royal Temple offer a perfect introduction to Thailand’s architecture, culture, and traditions. Highlights of this complex include The Royal Temple (Wat Phra Kaew, The Temple of the Emerald Buddha), The Golden Chedi, Pantheon of the Chakri’s Kings, a miniature replica of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Coronation Throne Hall, and Royal Reception Hall.

  • Amulet Market - A lively handicrafts market selling Buddhist amulets, totems, coins, and good-luck charms.

  • Chao Phraya River - Canal Tour: Take a long-tail boat along the bustling Chao Phraya River and tranquil Klongs (canals), passing picturesque scenes of Thai river life. By the river, see Wat Arun (the Temple of Dawn), an important landmark on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River. The main shrine, adorned with glazed ornaments and ceramics, rises 67 meters towards the sky. Built at the beginning of King Taksin’s era, this magnificent temple reflects the glory of Thai culture. It features the highest Prang in Thailand, symbolizing Hindu-Buddhist cosmology.

  • Khlong Bang Luang Artist House - A centuries-old house turned gallery, showcasing local artwork, photography, and a puppet theater.

  • Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen - Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen is renowned for its abbot, teachings, grandeur, and a giant Buddha statue, which is a new landmark in the Thonburi area.

  • Pak Khlong Talat (Flower Market) - Pak Klong Talad (Flowers & Vegetables Market) is primarily known as a wholesale flower market serving everyone from flower vendors to florists. It also offers a good selection of fresh vegetables, which are bought in the pre-dawn hours to be transported to neighborhood markets around Bangkok for morning sales. Pak Klong Talad is the most important flowers and vegetables wholesale market in town.

  • Temple Of Dawn (Wat Arun) - Wat Arun (the Temple of Dawn) is a significant landmark on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River. The main shrine, decorated with glazed ornaments and ceramics, rises 67 meters towards the sky. Built at the beginning of King Taksin’s era, this magnificent temple reflects the glory of Thai culture. It features the highest Prang in Thailand, symbolizing Hindu-Buddhist cosmology.

What's Included
  • Lunch
  • Bottled water
  • All fees and/or taxes
  • Travel by Public Transportation
What's Not Included
  • Personal Expense & Insurance
Location
Wat Phra Chetuphon
2 Sanamchai Road, Grand Palace Subdistrict, Pranakorn District
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Kirstenvanduren
Jul 19, 2024
Great day with Guide George! - Had a great day with our Guide George. He takes you quickly via public transport to various hotspots of the city. And also knows a lot about it. Highly recommended. Thank you George!
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423arashk
Jul 7, 2024
Amazing Experience for the Family - We scheduled a private tour with Joy & Mr. Gai as our tour guide and driver. It was an unbelievable experience for the whole family. We started at the rail market in the AM, Joy helped us find the right store for a variety of quality souvenirs we were looking for. She knew some great food stalls like the Thai Tea and Coffee we wanted. We continued our journey to the floating market. Such a cool experience on a boat, we took a couple of detours to find specialty items my kids wanted. Had a great lunch and went to the city for the Grand Palace and Reclining Buddha. Then we topped it off with great shopping in the city center. I love this company for the amazing guides, outstanding service and the ability to customize to the things we wanted to see vs. a standard package. Our guide Joy is an amateur photographer by the way. We have some pics that I am not sure a professional would be able to take at various points in the tour. All in all, an amazing day of Thai history, architecture and amazing food. The tour far exceeded any of my expectations and I want to figure out if there are "Joy's & Mr Gai" in the other cities we are visiting.
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Catsnadz
Jun 19, 2024
Incredible guided tour! - Excellent and well organised guided tour. We were a group of 6 adults and 3 kids. Joy was a joy to have as our guide! She was very accommodating to everyone’s different needs. Will definitely use this service again. Thank you!
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Saddirm
Jun 1, 2024
PERFECT TOUR & WITH YOUNG CHILDREN - Amazing experience with Ms Aom, We went for The Perfect Introduction to Thailand tour with our 3 & 4 year old children’s and couldn’t fault any part of it. Despite being an hour late Ms Aom was very patient and accommodated us throughout and they didn’t cut the tour short either which was very generous. Very knowledgable, friendly, accommodating, kept us hydrated, found us a halal restaurant to have lunch and also made stop overs in between for us for snacks. Would highly recommend this company to anyone who’s looking for top service & value. Thank you
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837kath01
May 21, 2024
An amazing day with an amazing tour guide. Great introduction to Bangkok if you’ve never been. Would do it again! :-) - My guide lucky was amazing! Nothing was too much trouble. When I visited Bangkok was experiencing extreme temperatures of 43 degrees!! She made sure I was hydrated & looked after my welfare at all times. The whole tour was meticulously planned & I never felt rushed. I love history & her knowledge was fantastic! The temple tours were especially wonderful as I managed to have a blessing from one of the monks! The river boat tour was fascinating & loads of fun!! Would definitely recommend & would even do it again !!
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R730yllisaa
Apr 26, 2024
Chob and ANDY do a GREAT JOB with their Thai Tours! - Chob did a great job with the tour. Our guide was ANDY and Andy was awesome! Andy made the day so easy for us. Andy made sure we kept getting water, coffee, lunch and lots of bathrooms (all clean). ANY TIME we come to Bangkok, we will do our tours through Chob and ask for Andy.
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Angellp9237wd
Apr 23, 2024
amazing private tour - Aom made it special - went with my family on a private tour. we were taken in an air conditioned mini van which was amazing for our family of 4! we went to the railway market, the floating markets on a rowing boat, and stopped off at the most amazing coffee shop i’ve ever been to! we looked around markets and bought some goods, it was so fun. Aom made this experience an unforgettable one and i’m so glad i did it! she was the most amazing tour guide and i really do miss her! i will remember this forever so thank you Aom!
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135roccol
Apr 23, 2024
So much fun! - On our first day in Bangkok we did a tour of the grand palace, some historical monuments and it was extremely interesting. Our tour guide was Aom and she made it so special and fun for us. So much so, we booked a floating market, train market tour for the very next with Aom as she was just so good. These tours were such great fun, interesting and I couldn’t recommend this company any more. P.s if you get Aom your so lucky!
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D
Apr 23, 2024
Very professional private tour, excellent tour guide - highly rated - Booked 2 tours with Thai Tour Guide. Day 1 City tour with grand palace, wat pho and long tail boat ride along canal and then booked day 2 as day 1 was so good. Day 2 was train market, floating market - all with private guide and private transport. Family of 4 with 2 teens we were lucky enough to get Aom as our guide both days. She is an incredible tour guide, we all loved her. Hugs and goodbyes at the end of the day 2. Aom made it very special and knows everything about everything in Bangkok and the specific tours. Can’t rate her highly enough. Private transport in air conditioned large minivan was excellent as was the driver. Very professional and warm tour. For train market and floating market make sure you stop off at the coconut coffee house, the most unbelievable coffee ever. Thank you Aom - you are amazing!!!
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Letsgobdk
May 4, 2024
You have been warned - We booked 3 tours with Mr. Chob. My two friends had never been to Bangkok. I have been many times and know my way around, however I felt that they needed 100% accurate guiding and that was not coming from me. Big mistake. Our guide rushed us through the Palace and grounds, then took us for a refreshment stop as it was very hot and humid. Then came the long tail boat ride thru the canals and ending at the reclining Buddha. He sent us thru the Buddha building on our own. Next stop a horrible lunch across the street. I asked if it was good as there are so many great, safe places to eat in Bangkok. He said “oh yes”. The food was awful. The spring roll centers were frozen. At 1:30pm he stated “we will now drop you at your hotel”. We had been out for 5.5 hours on a 10 hour private tour. I had to tell him what my friends need to see. He argued and after threats he did the right thing. READ the other Negative reviews, and you will see a pattern. We then did the nighttime Tuk Tuk tour. . $250 US for what you can do on your own for $25. The next day was the floating market and ​Maeklong Railway Market. Once again we were rushed. Started at 7:30am for the 9:00am train. When I asked to start later and do the 11:30am train he refused and said not possible. Long story short we ended up back at the very same train for lunch at 11:45am. Our plan would have worked. He just wanted to get home. After complaining and asking for some refund from Mr Chob, we were told he would return the guides portion. A minimum amount. All of the emails clearly stated that if you are not satisfied we will refund the monies paid. This is NOT what they do. They argue, deny and refuse to refund. That’s why they only accept cash. Do yourself a favor and use one of Bangkok’s good companies.
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