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Private day tour - Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market
Private day tour - Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market
Private day tour - Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market
Private day tour - Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market
Private day tour - Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market

Private day tour - Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market

By Tour East Thailand
10 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is AU$268 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 8h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview
  • Practice your negotiating skills
  • Entering the Maeklong Market by train
  • Long-tailed boat ride through the canals
  • Once-in-a-lifetime floating market experience
  • Cultural differences

Activity location

  • Damnoen Saduak Floating Market and Maeklong market
    • 70130, Damnoen Saduak, Ratchaburi, Thailand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Hotel Lobby
    • Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

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Private day tour - Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market
  • Activity duration is 8 hours8h8h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 7:00 am
Price details
AU$268.33 x 1 TravellerAU$268.33

Total
Price is AU$268.33
Until Wed, 20 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate Guided tour to Samut Songkram Province and Ratchaburi Province
  • What's includedWhat's includedLive tour commentary provided in English
  • What's includedWhat's includedTrain ride to Maeklong Market
  • What's includedWhat's includedLong-tailed speedboat ride to Floating Market
  • What's includedWhat's includedComfortable, airconditoined road transport
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedDrinks, bottled water, and snacks
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedPaddle boat ride through the market (optional extra, payable direct)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedAny personal items or souvenirs purchased at the markets
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge is not included and is left to individual discretion.

Know before you book

  • Tour departs approximately 6.45am. Pick up from your hotel will be approximately 30 minutes prior to this time.
  • Hotel pickup is available from most centrally located Bangkok hotels. Please arrange pickup from your hotel or a nearby location when you call to confirm your reservation.
  • Please be ready and waiting in your hotel lobby 15 minutes prior to your scheduled pick-up time. Driver is unable to wait should you be running late, as must meet with scheduled train departure time.

What you can expect

Join us in this fascinating combination private tour in which you will compare two very different styles of local Thai markets.

Following an 85 kilometre drive from Bangkok to Na Kwang Station, take the 8.30 train for the short journey to one of the most amazing attractions in Samut Songkram province, the Maeklong Railway Market (Hoop Rom Market). Commonly called Siang Tai, or Life-Risking, Market, it is situated beside, and on top of, the actual train tracks. Seconds before you cross the tracks about to pull into Maeklong Station, the vendors have rushed to pulled back their parasols and umbrellas and cleared their goods back to within inches of the passing train. Less than a minute after that they have hurried to put everything back in place so they can get back to the job at hand, selling their seafood, fruits, meat and vegetables to the local shoppers.

After a brief wander around the market, you will be driven to a pier. From here you will take an exhilarating narrow long-tailed speedboat ride through the marshes and stilt houses to get you to the world famous Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. Watch the Thai style canoes laden with colourful fruits, vegetables, sweets and meats gently ply their way through the canal from the water's edge or, for an additional cost payable direct at the market, get an even closer look by taking a paddle boat ride.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESDamnoen Saduak Floating Market and Maeklong market
    • 70130, Damnoen Saduak, Ratchaburi, Thailand

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEHotel Lobby
    • Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand