Private Tour: Floating Markets of Damnoen Saduak Cruise Day Trip from Bangkok
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Damnoen Saduak
Explore Thailand's vibrant culture on a private tour of Damnoen Saduak's floating markets. Cruise Bangkok's canals and experience local life up close.
Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Damnoen Saduak Floating Market - Start your day with a morning pickup from your Bangkok city hotel (excluding non-refundable rates) and meet your guide. Travel in an air-conditioned coach to the Damnoen Saduak floating markets, located about a 2-hour drive southwest of Bangkok. These markets are situated on a canal waterway created by King Rama IV in the 19th century to boost trade and development outside the capital. Today, they are considered one of Bangkok’s top attractions, offering a glimpse into traditional Thai culture and customs.

Upon arrival at Damnoen Saduak, board a long-tailed speedboat with your guide for an exhilarating ride through the marshes and stilt-houses to the markets. Once there, your guide will give a brief introduction, and you are welcome to ask any questions.

Admire the vibrant array of fruits, vegetables, sweets, meats, and souvenirs on display, and take the opportunity to capture the lively market scenes with your camera. Observe the traders and customers as they go about their daily activities in this bustling part of the canal. You may also choose to purchase some fruit or souvenirs (at your own expense). For an additional fee, you can take a ride on a local boat through the maze of traditional canoes and fully immerse yourself in the market atmosphere on the water.

After your time at the Damnoen Saduak floating markets, return to your coach for the journey back to Bangkok, where your tour will conclude.

  • Salt Evaporation Pond - Drive through the salt fields of Samut Sakhon province.
  • Coconut Sugar Farm - Stop to see how locals produce coconut sugar, a renowned product of the province.
What's Included
  • Long-tail speedboat ride
  • Private transportation
  • Private Local Guide
  • Hotel pickup and drop off
  • Damnern Saduak Floating Market day tour
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Food and drinks
  • Paddle Boat optionnal
Additional Information

Embark on an exclusive journey to observe the typical aquatic lifestyle in Thailand. Navigate through the narrow waterways of Bangkok in a slender, motor-powered long-tail boat towards the Damnoen Saduak floating market. Witness locals in their traditional Thai canoes, loaded with vibrant fruits and vegetables, slowly maneuvering their way through the water channels seeking to vend their produce.

  • Boat ride is not wheelchair accessible
  • Restroom facilities available
  • You must provide your hotel details at time of booking, failure to do so may result in cancellation
  • Please Note: the longtail boat ride to Damnoen Saduak Floating Market will be 20-30 minutes
  • You will have approximately 2 hours to spend at the market. Please allow 6 hours for the whole day.
Location
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market
Damnoun Saduak, Ratchaiburi
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Brian_m
Jan 2, 2023
A Terrific Experience!! - An unforgettable adventure! First stop was to see how Palm Sugar is made and the family run place had many excellent handcrafts at good prices. Then the longtail boat trip through the floating markets was fantastic. An entirely different world! Highly recommend!!
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Randell_h
Dec 5, 2022
Great Floating Market Trip - Seeing and learning how Coconut Sugar is processed from start to finished product. The long boat ride to the Floating Market was a experience to see the old building on the water way. The small boats full of items to sell and the bartering going back and forth. Make sure to take small BHT notes as they seem to have a hard time making the change. Lots of 100 bills. LOL. I would recommend this tour to everyone.
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Katie_e
Nov 9, 2022
So much fun! - This was such a fun experience, our guide was absolutely wonderful and helped with translations at the market and was extremely knowledgeable about the history of thailand aling the way. She made it such a fun experience and took us to a few different place along the way and you can tell she cared about supporting the small businesses which since covid i really appreciated. Would definitely recommend 👌
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Troy_s
Oct 28, 2022
Nisha ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Our guide Nisha was the best ever - make sure to ask for her. And our driver was great as well. Nisha knows everything about everything, was so happy to be showing tourists around again after Covid and even bargained for us when we bought things so we didn’t get ripped off. She was amazing - highly recommend her
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Markdayton_d
Feb 16, 2023
I’d skip it - Staff was pleasant, but this was NOT a tour, more like an expensive ride to the market. I booked the private tour for my wife’s birthday thinking we’d get some quality one on one time with a knowledgeable guide, but we got minimal info or discussion on the 1.5 hour trip out. It was disappointing as we’ve been on Viator tours where the guide was incredible and made the tour worth it. Honestly, I’d find a cheaper way to get there (probably Grab) and do it myself. Felt very pressured to take a little paddle boat (extra cost) and it really just passes by the tourist trinket stalls. Also, our guide insisted that you needed to take this boat to get food, but food was available 2 min walk away so we felt scammed. The long tail boat trip from the car drop off to the market was the highlight (included), but you can really get the same experience in Bangkok on the Chao Phraya. I’ve been to many markets all over the world, and this was one of the more touristy I’ve seen (not in a good way). Save your money and spend it on a dinner cruise instead (now that was awesome!)
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Wwtraveler0923
Dec 27, 2022
Treated Us Poorly; Borderline Unethical - OK. I made a mistake. I booked this tour with Tour East Thailand on a day that we could not take it because we were leaving that evening to go home. And it was the day before, so we were within the tour's 24-hour cancellation period. However, I realized this mistake within a few hours, during dinner, and contacted both the company (through Trip Advisor) and had my hotel concierge do so. I apologized. Tour East Thailand acknowledged that they received the message, and no one came to pick us up in the morning, so there was no inconvenience to anyone. Given this honest mistake, corrected within a few hours, and since there was zero cost to them, I requested that they not charge me, but they insisted on doing so. I replied and indicated that we could perhaps compromise and they could refund half of the fee, but they were completely inflexible, and emphatically said no. Technically, they are within their contract, but THEY HAVE NO SENSE OF CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS, AND THEY CLEARLY WILL NOT CARE ABOUT YOU EITHER. They are keeping my money after having to do NO WORK. Does that seem ethical to you? Not to me. I am also going to dispute this charge with the credit card company. So I am leaving this highly negative review of their business practices, and I SUGGEST THAT YOU NOT PATRONIZE TOUR EAST THAILAND.
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Marwa_h
Dec 22, 2022
Very disappointing - Very disappointing 😞 It's quite a long ride The guide took me to 2 places on the way not in the tour trying to make me purchases activities and souvenirs! One was a horrible tiger encounter and elephant ride place . The speed boar takes you only close to the floating market not inside it so u just get to see it from outside ,so u don't get to ride inside the floating market ..the guid didn't provide any useful information or history.. So this tour is so over priced not worth it !
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Claudia_s
Nov 8, 2022
Expensive and not to my expectations. Not suggested - Unfortunately the market is very touristic and my guide was not prepared at all. She didn’t share any interesting story and her English was very poor. However she was a lovely person and very accomodating of my needs. The paddle boat is not included. Only the boat to get there. Too expensive and finished to hours earlier than expected. I guess also because I was alone with no group.
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Kathleen_k
Nov 2, 2022
Don’t take this tour with this tour company - The Tour East company give the wrong hotel location to the tour guild so we have to contact the tour guild to give them the correct hotel location. The tour was late 30 mins. On the tour, the tour guild don’t even talk to us ( we are on the private tour) so the tour is very boring. Waste of my time
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Sarmad_c
Nov 2, 2022
I was forced to pay extra... - I was forced to pay extra for another boat to go into the floating market although it was advertised as floating market
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