7 Days in Thailand
Capital, mountains, islands — six nights, two short flights, and no day lost to transit.
Seven days in Thailand: two nights in Bangkok for the Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Wat Arun and Chinatown; a ฿900–1,500 flight north for two nights in Chiang Mai, where you'll do the Old City temples, Doi Suthep at dawn, an afternoon with rescued elephants and the Sunday Walking Street; then a two-hour flight south for two nights in Phuket and a Phi Phi speedboat day. Every stop below has a start time, the price and how to reach the next one. Budget ฿16,000–24,000 per person for the week as a backpacker, ฿35,000–58,000 mid-range, before international flights.
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Key Facts (2026)
Route: Bangkok (2 nights) → Chiang Mai (2) → Phuket (2), by air
Bangkok–Chiang Mai is 1h10–1h20 in the air, and Chiang Mai–Phuket is a 2-hour direct on AirAsia or VietJet, no change in Bangkok. Fly home from Phuket, which has direct long-haul services, or connect through Bangkok. The 12-hour sleeper train north is a fine trip, but on a 10-day plan, not this one.
Domestic flights: ฿900–1,500 Bangkok–Chiang Mai, ฿1,800–2,500 Chiang Mai–Phuket
Booked 2–4 weeks ahead, carry-on only. A checked bag adds ฿300–500 per leg. AirAsia, Nok Air and Thai Lion use Don Mueang (DMK) in Bangkok, while Thai Airways, VietJet and Bangkok Airways use Suvarnabhumi (BKK), so check which before you book the airport transfer.
7-day cost: ฿16,000–24,000 backpacker, ฿35,000–58,000 mid-range (per person)
About $450–670 and $980–1,620, including both flights, the elephant sanctuary and the Phi Phi boat. Those three are ฿7,000–9,000 of any budget. There's a line-by-line table further down.
Best months: November–February. Avoid Chiang Mai in March
Cool and dry in all three stops. Phuket's monsoon is May–October (red flags, some Phi Phi boats cancelled). Chiang Mai's crop-burning season runs mid-February to April and peaks in March. In 2026 the city posted some of the worst air readings on earth. Month-by-month table below.
Visa: 60 days free for 93 nationalities as of August 2026 — a cut to 30 days is approved but not yet in force
The Cabinet approved a 30-day exemption on 19 May 2026. It starts 15 days after Royal Gazette publication, which hadn't happened at the time of writing. Either way, a 7-day trip is covered. Everyone files the Thailand Digital Arrival Card online within 72 hours of landing.
Pack carry-on only, and pack for temples and boats in one bag
Two budget flights make checked bags the biggest avoidable cost. Light trousers and a sleeved shirt pass every temple on the route, and a sarong is the beach towel, the cover-up and the plane blanket. Reef-safe sunscreen for Day 6.
Suvarnabhumi / Don Mueang → Bangkok hotel
Sort the first airport run before you land
After a long-haul flight, the Airport Rail Link (฿45 to Phaya Thai, 26 minutes) is good with one bag and a BTS-side hotel. Otherwise a metered taxi is ฿400–600 including tolls and the ฿50 airport fee. A pre-booked Kiwitaxi (around ฿900 with code THAILAND5) tracks a late flight and waits with a name board, and you'll need three more transfers this week.
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How This 7-Day Thailand Itinerary Is Sequenced
Thailand's three headline regions are 700 km apart at each end, so the shape of a week is set by transport, not sights. This plan spends two nights in each and moves twice, both times by a morning flight that lands before lunch, so you lose two half-days to airports and no full day. Flying north then south follows the country's geography: Bangkok is where long-haul flights land, Chiang Mai is an hour beyond it, and Phuket has its own long-haul departures for the flight home.
Inside each stop, the days are built like the city guides they borrow from. Bangkok's Old City is one morning on foot and by ferry, with Chinatown two MRT stops away for the first night. Chiang Mai's temples fit in an afternoon inside the moat, which leaves a dawn on Doi Suthep before the coaches and an afternoon with elephants. Phuket gets one boat day and one beach day. The order respects the weekly calendar too: try to land in Chiang Mai on a Sunday for the Walking Street, and put the Phi Phi boat on the day before you fly so a weather cancellation still has somewhere to go.
If you have eight days, the extra night belongs to Chiang Mai. It's the stop that feels shortest. If you have six, I'd drop Bangkok to one night and do the Old City on the morning of Day 2 before an afternoon flight north.
Bangkok has two airports. Budget carriers to Chiang Mai (AirAsia, Nok Air, Thai Lion) leave from Don Mueang, an hour north of the centre, not Suvarnabhumi. Check the three-letter code on the booking before the Day 3 alarm goes off. It's the single most common way a week in Thailand loses a morning.
Day 1
Arrive in Bangkok — Settle In, Then Chinatown After Dark
An arrival day with a low bar and a high reward: get to the hotel, get a SIM, and eat on the busiest street-food road in Asia. Base yourself on the BTS at Sukhumvit or Silom, or on the river at Riverside. The Day 2 temples are a ฿18 boat from the latter and a 30-minute train-and-boat from the former.
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Land at Suvarnabhumi and get into the city
Cost: Airport Rail Link ฿45 · taxi ฿400–600 · Grab ฿450–600Allow: 45–75 minutes
Buy a SIM before you leave the arrivals hall. AIS and TrueMove booths sell 8–15 day tourist packages from ฿299 and it takes five minutes. Then it's the Airport Rail Link (level B, ฿45, every 10–15 minutes) to Phaya Thai for the BTS, or the official taxi rank on level 1: take a queue ticket, insist on the meter, expect ฿400–600 to Sukhumvit or Silom with tolls. Ignore anyone offering you a taxi inside the terminal.
Next: Check in, shower, and give yourself until 18:00. Jet lag's worse if you sleep now.
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Check in — Sukhumvit, Silom or Riverside
Cost: IncludedAllow: 1.5 hours
My advice: ask reception one thing, which airport your Day 3 flight leaves from, and what time a taxi needs to go. Then walk the block. Sukhumvit's sois are the restaurant city. Silom's are the old business district with the rooftop bars, and Riverside is quieter, prettier and boat-based. All three are on the Where to Stay in Bangkok guide with the trade-offs spelled out.
Next: MRT to Wat Mangkon (Sukhumvit line → Blue line, 20–25 minutes, ฿35–45), or a Grab (฿120–180) to Yaowarat Road.
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Yaowarat Road — Chinatown street food
Cost: ฿200–400 for a full crawlAllow: 2 hours
Out of Wat Mangkon MRT exit 1, the neon starts. Eat in this order, walking east: kuay jab (peppery rolled-noodle soup) at Nai Ek Roll Noodle, grilled seafood at T&K on the corner of Phadung Dao, then kanom buang crêpes and Yaowarat toast. One dish per stall, ฿60–150 each. It's quieter on Mondays, when many stalls take the night off, so swap in the Sukhumvit Soi 38 successors around Thong Lo if so.
Next: MRT back from Wat Mangkon, or a Grab from Charoen Krung (not Yaowarat Road itself, where taxis refuse the meter after dark).
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Optional nightcap on a rooftop
Cost: ฿350–700 a cocktailAllow: 1 hour
Only if you're still standing. Octave at the Marriott in Thonglor is the easy one: three tiers, no strict dress code, ฿350–450 drinks. Sky Bar at lebua is the famous one (63rd floor, ฿700+, no shorts or sandals). Tomorrow starts at 08:30, so I'd stop at one drink, then take the BTS.
Next: The BTS runs until midnight, and a Grab home is ฿100–200 from anywhere on this side of the city.
Landing after 21:00? Eat at the hotel and start Day 2 as written. It's the one day of the week that can't start late, because the Grand Palace stops admitting at 15:30 and is dramatically quieter at opening.
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Millennium Hilton Bangkok
River-view rooms and a rooftop infinity pool, a short walk from ICONSIAM on the quieter bank.
Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok
A garden of saltwater pools behind Siam Paragon, two minutes from the busiest BTS interchange in the city.
The Peninsula Bangkok
Every room faces the Chao Phraya, and the teak shuttle boat to the BTS is half the pleasure.
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Thipsamai Padthai Pratoopee
One dish, done obsessively: pad thai wrapped in a thin omelette, worth the queue at least once.
KUANG Seafood
Big shared seafood plates on Ratchada, open till 1:30am, but the bill climbs fast if you order freely.
T & K Seafood
Chinatown's loudest seafood corner: green shirts, wok smoke, grilled river prawns, and a queue by seven.
Day 2
Bangkok's Old City — Grand Palace, Wat Pho, Wat Arun & a Rooftop Sunset
The three most important buildings in Thailand sit within two kilometres of each other on the Chao Phraya, and this is the morning to see them, before the coaches at 09:30 and the heat at 11:00. Three tickets (฿1,000), a ฿5 ferry, an air-conditioned afternoon, then the city from 300 metres up. The 3 Days in Bangkok guide runs this same morning at a slower pace if you've got the extra day.
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The Grand Palace & Wat Phra Kaew
Cost: ฿500 (cash)Allow: 2 hours
At the Na Phra Lan Road gate for opening. Wat Phra Kaew first: the 66 cm jade Emerald Buddha high on its golden altar and the Ramakien murals running almost two kilometres around the cloister, then the palace halls. Trousers or a long skirt and sleeves are checked at the gate, and the palace doesn't rent cover-ups any more. Anyone outside telling you it's closed for a ceremony is running Bangkok's oldest scam. Walk to the gate and look.
Next: Walk 10 minutes south along Maha Rat Road to Wat Pho's Thai Wang Road entrance.
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Wat Pho & the Reclining Buddha
Cost: ฿300, includes a bottle of waterAllow: 1 hour
The 46-metre gilded Reclining Buddha, the 108 bronze bowls for ฿20 of coins, and 91 chedis in a complex that was Thailand's first university. The massage school on the east side does an hour of Thai massage for around ฿480. Worth it now if your legs are already feeling the week.
Next: Exit onto Maha Rat Road. Tha Tien pier is 3 minutes away.
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Lunch at Tha Tien, then the ferry
Cost: ฿80–250; ferry ฿5Allow: 1 hour
The lane behind the pier has noodle shops and Thai restaurants that serve temple traffic honestly, ฿80–120 for a plate, two to three times that for a riverside table facing Wat Arun. Then the cross-river ferry, a separate boat from the orange-flag express, every few minutes for ฿5.
Next: 3 minutes across the river to Wat Arun's pier.
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Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn
Cost: ฿200Allow: 1 hour
The 70-metre prang encrusted with broken Chinese porcelain, climbable to the second terrace, with the classic view back across the water to Wat Pho and the palace. Sarongs are ฿20 at the gate if you've changed. It's quieter now than in the morning, when every river tour docks at once.
Next: Ferry back (฿5), then 5 minutes on foot to Sanam Chai MRT, or straight to the hotel for the pool.
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Afternoon break — the hotel pool or Museum Siam
Cost: Free–฿200Allow: 2 hours
You've walked six kilometres in 35°C. Museum Siam (฿200), beside Sanam Chai MRT, is the best modern museum on what it means to be Thai and takes an hour in air-conditioning. The hotel pool is the other correct answer. Drink two bottles of water either way.
Next: MRT Sanam Chai → Si Lom, then BTS one stop to Chong Nonsi (30 minutes, ฿45), for Mahanakhon.
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Sunset from 300 metres — Mahanakhon SkyWalk or a rooftop bar
Cost: ฿1,080 sunset slot (฿880 daytime); or a ฿350–700 cocktailAllow: 1.5 hours
Thailand's tallest observation deck, with a glass floor on the 78th-floor roof. The sunset slots (16:00–18:00 entry) sell out, so book the day before. Or pay for a drink instead of a ticket: Vertigo at the Banyan Tree or Sky Bar at lebua, both a short walk in Silom. Sunset is 18:00–18:30, so be up by 17:45.
Next: Walk 10 minutes into Silom's restaurant sois, or BTS to Thong Lo (5 stops) for Sukhumvit.
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Dinner in Silom or Sukhumvit
Cost: ฿300–1,200 per personAllow: 2 hours
Silom for the old school: Somboon Seafood's curry crab on Surawong, or the Convent Road stalls for ฿70 khao man gai. Sukhumvit for the modern city, where Thonglor and Ekkamai are the restaurant sois, ฿300 Isan grills to tasting menus. Pack tonight, because tomorrow's flight is early.
Next: BTS until midnight. Grab ฿100–200.
Everything outdoors before 11:00, everything air-conditioned after. That's the whole rule for Bangkok in any month, and reversing it is the single biggest mistake first-timers make.
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Wat Trai Mit Witthayaram Worawihan
A 5.5-tonne solid gold Buddha with a better backstory than most, at the edge of Chinatown.
Wat Suthat Thepwararam Ratchaworamahawihan
A royal temple with a giant bronze Buddha, big murals and none of the crowds you'd expect this central.
Jim Thompson House Museum
Six teak houses, a shaded garden and a 40-minute guided tour that actually earns your attention.
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Sato San Rooftop Bar
Open-air drinks above Ratchadamri, best caught early before the crowd builds towards midnight.
Red Sky
Come for sunset, stay for the city lights, and book direct rather than through a deals app.
The Speakeasy Rooftop Bar Bangkok
Come for sunset over Lang Suan, stay for cocktails once the skyline lights up.
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RONGROS
Book a month ahead for a riverside table, or don't bother, because the Wat Arun view is the whole point.
Somboon Seafood Surawong
Come for the curry crab, order it without hesitation, and let the rest of the menu play backup.
Raan Jay Fai
A 1,500 baht crab omelette, a queue, and a chef in ski goggles: worth it if you go in clear-eyed.
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Day 3
Fly to Chiang Mai — Old City Temples, Khao Soi & the Sunday Walking Street
A 75-minute flight and a different country: cooler, slower, older. Everything today sits inside or beside the moated Old City, a 1.5 km square you can cross on foot in 20 minutes. Land on a Sunday if you can. The Walking Street from Tha Phae Gate is the best evening in northern Thailand.
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Fly Bangkok → Chiang Mai
Cost: ฿900–1,500 booked 2–4 weeks aheadAllow: 1h15 in the air; 4 hours door to door
Budget carriers leave from Don Mueang, so allow 60–75 minutes from the centre in morning traffic and 90 minutes at the airport. Thai Airways, VietJet and Bangkok Airways use Suvarnabhumi. Either way, aim to land by 09:30. Chiang Mai's airport is 15 minutes from the Old City, and the day starts on arrival.
Next: Grab from the airport to the Old City is ฿100–200 (15–20 minutes), and the airport taxi counter is a fixed ฿160.
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Check in inside the moat, near Tha Phae Gate
Cost: IncludedAllow: 45 minutes
The Old City's eastern gate is the reference point for everything: the Walking Street starts here, the Night Bazaar is 10 minutes east, the temples 10 minutes west. Stay inside the walls for these two nights rather than in Nimman. The trendier district is a ฿100 Grab away and better visited than slept in on a two-night stop. Book Day 4's elephant afternoon now if you haven't.
Next: Walk 10 minutes west along Ratchadamnoen Road.
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Khao soi at Huen Phen
Cost: ฿60–150 per dishAllow: 45 minutes
Chiang Mai's dish is khao soi, coconut curry over egg noodles with a crown of crispy fried ones, pickled mustard greens and lime on the side. Huen Phen, a 40-year-old family kitchen on Ratchamanka Road, is the Old City's reference version at lunch (the evening restaurant next door is the same family, dressed up). Add sai ua, the herb-heavy northern sausage, and nam prik ong with vegetables.
Next: Walk 5 minutes west to Wat Phra Singh at the end of Ratchadamnoen Road.
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Wat Phra Singh
Cost: ฿20–40Allow: 45 minutes
The most revered temple in the city, at the western end of the Old City's main street: the Phra Singh Buddha in the small Viharn Lai Kham, whose 19th-century murals of Lanna court life are the best in the north, and a gold-tipped chedi that glows at this hour. Shoulders and knees covered, shoes off in the viharn.
Next: Walk 10 minutes back east along Ratchadamnoen, then right onto Phra Pokklao Road.
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Wat Chedi Luang and a monk chat
Cost: ฿40Allow: 1 hour
A 600-year-old brick chedi, still 60 metres tall after the 1545 earthquake took the top off it, that once held the Emerald Buddha now in Bangkok's Grand Palace. The city pillar shrine is in the corner (men only inside), and the ‘monk chat’ tables under the trees, novices practising English from about 09:00 to 18:00, are the most interesting half hour you'll spend at any temple in Thailand. Bring questions.
Next: Walk 5 minutes. The Old City's massage shops cluster on Ratchadamnoen and the lanes off it.
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A Thai massage at Fah Lanna or the Women's Massage Center
Cost: ฿300–500 an hour; ฿900–1,500 at Fah LannaAllow: 1.5 hours
Chiang Mai's massage is the best value in the country. Fah Lanna's Old City branch is a garden compound with treatment pavilions, and the Women's Massage Center by Ex-Prisoners on Ratchaphakhinai Road trains and employs women leaving Chiang Mai's prison and does a very good hour for ฿250–350. Either way, you're horizontal while the Walking Street stalls set up outside.
Next: Walk 5–10 minutes east to Tha Phae Gate as the road closes to traffic.
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Sunday Walking Street — or the Night Bazaar on other nights
Cost: Free; ฿200–400 to eat and shopAllow: 3 hours
From 16:00 to about 22:30 every Sunday, Ratchadamnoen Road closes from Tha Phae Gate to Wat Phra Singh and fills with a kilometre of stalls (hill-tribe textiles, ceramics, hand-made soap, the city's design graduates) with food courts in the temple courtyards along the way (Wat Phantao's is the good one). Come at 17:00 for the light and the space. By 19:00 it's shoulder to shoulder. Any other night, the Night Bazaar on Chang Klan Road (daily 18:00–23:00) is the bigger, more touristic version, and Saturday has its own Walking Street on Wua Lai Road, 10 minutes south.
Next: Walk 10 minutes north inside the moat to Chang Phuak Gate.
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The North Gate Jazz Co-Op
Cost: Free; beers ฿80–120Allow: 1 hour
A jazz bar the size of a garage by the north gate, with a nightly jam that spills onto the pavement and a crowd that's half the city's musicians. Tuesday is the big jam night, but every night is good. Finish early, because tomorrow starts at 06:00.
Next: Walk back. Everything in the Old City is within 15 minutes.
Burning season: from mid-February to April the north's farmers burn stubble and the air in Chiang Mai turns hazardous (AQI over 150 most days, 300+ at the March peak in 2026). If your week falls then, I'd swap Chiang Mai for Krabi or Koh Samui. The 10 Days in Thailand guide has the southern version of this route.
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Anantara Chiang Mai Resort
A calm riverside address where the gardens and the old colonial building do most of the talking.
U Chiang Mai Hotel
Right on Rachadamnoen, so Sunday Walking Street starts at the front door and you never need a songthaew.
Meliá Chiang Mai
Polished international-brand comfort by the Night Bazaar, with a rooftop bar that earns its keep at sunset.
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Wat Lok Moli
Come twice, once in daylight and once after the lights come on, and you'll see two different temples.
Wat Chiang Man
Chiang Mai's oldest temple, and still one of the calmest places inside the old city walls.
Wat Sri Suphan - Silver Temple
Silver-clad ordination hall with astonishing metalwork, but women can only view it from outside.
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Chiang Mai Night Bazaar
Get there around 7pm, before the crowds land, and browse the whole stretch before you buy anything.
Wua Lai Walking Street Saturday Market
Come for the food, not the shopping, and get there before the crowd makes walking impossible.
Waroros Market
A working daily market where Chiang Mai actually shops, not a night bazaar dressed up for tourists.
Day 4
Chiang Mai — Doi Suthep at Dawn, the Monk's Trail & an Afternoon With Elephants
The mountain first, while it's cool and empty. The elephants after lunch, because that's when the ethical afternoon programmes run. Doi Suthep opens at 06:00 and the coaches arrive at 09:00, so the two hours between are the best of the trip in the north. Book the sanctuary before you leave home in high season. The good ones sell out weeks ahead.
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Red songthaew up the mountain to Doi Suthep
Cost: ฿40–50 per person shared (฿300–500 to charter); temple ฿30Allow: 45 minutes up
Red songthaews wait at Chang Phuak Gate and at the foot of Huay Kaew Road by the zoo and university. They leave when full (10 people), or you can charter one for the round trip. Grab does the run for ฿250–350 each way. The road climbs 15 km through the national park, and you'll want a layer: it's 8–10°C cooler at the top before sunrise.
Next: The songthaew stops at the foot of the 306-step naga staircase, and the cable car alongside is ฿20–50.
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Wat Phra That Doi Suthep
Cost: ฿30Allow: 1.25 hours
The north's holiest temple, 1,000 metres above the city on the mountain that names it: a gilded chedi ringed by bells, monks chanting the morning service, and, from the terrace, the whole Chiang Mai plain with the mist still in it. Walk the chedi clockwise three times as the pilgrims do. The tourist coaches arrive around 09:00, and by then you're on your way down.
Next: Songthaew 20 minutes back down to the Wat Pha Lat turn-off (ask for ‘Wat Pha Lat’), or walk the Monk's Trail down from the temple in about 90 minutes.
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Wat Pha Lat and the Monk's Trail
Cost: Free (donations)Allow: 1.5 hours
Halfway down the mountain, a forest temple beside a waterfall where the monks used to rest on the pilgrimage up: moss, stone nagas, a stream, and almost no one. From here the Monk's Trail, marked with strips of orange robe tied to the trees, drops 2 km to the back of Chiang Mai University in 45 minutes. Walk it down, not up, and finish with coffee at one of the cafés at the trailhead.
Next: Grab (฿100–150, 15 minutes) back to the Old City for a shower and an early lunch before the 12:30 pickup.
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Afternoon programme at an ethical elephant sanctuary
Cost: ฿1,900–2,800 half day; Elephant Nature Park full day ฿2,500Allow: 5–6 hours incl. transfers
Chiang Mai is where Thailand's rescued elephants live, and the rule for choosing is simple: no riding, no shows, no hooks, small groups. Maerim Elephant Sanctuary and Elephant Jungle Sanctuary run afternoon half-days (pickup about 12:30, back by 18:30) with feeding, a forest walk and a river. Elephant Nature Park, the original rescue project in the Mae Taeng valley, is a full day (฿2,500, 08:00 pickup, observation-led) and the one I'd choose if you'd rather trade this morning's mountain for it. All include the hour's drive north, lunch or snacks and an English-speaking guide.
Next: Drop-off at the hotel around 18:30. Grab to Nimman is ฿100–150.
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Northern Thai dinner in Nimman
Cost: ฿250–500 per personAllow: 1.5 hours
Tong Tem Toh on Nimman Soi 13 is the northern-food institution, a teak house and a queue, so put your name down and have a drink on the soi. Order the platter of northern starters (sai ua, nam prik noom with pork crackling, the Burmese-style hang lay curry) and a laab kua. The lanes around it are the city's café and bar quarter for a wander afterwards.
Next: Grab back to the Old City ฿100–150. Pack tonight for a mid-morning flight.
Cooking class instead of elephants? Chiang Mai's are the best in the country. Zabb E Lee and Asia Scenic run half-day classes (฿1,000–1,500) with a market visit and a farm, and a morning class fits before a late-afternoon Doi Suthep, which is the other good order for this day.
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Elephant Jungle Sanctuary Chiang Mai
No riding, no tricks: a day of feeding and mud with rescued elephants in the Mae Wang hills.
Zabb E Lee Thai Cooking School
A market walk, a garden kitchen outside the city, and four courses you actually cook yourself.
Asia Scenic Thai Cooking School
Market trip, farm tour and five or six dishes you cook yourself, and 4.5 hours goes faster than you'd think.
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Khoei Chiang Mai - Northern Food (Chiang Mai Restaurant)
Proper northern Thai cooking with no concessions to nervous palates, and the jackfruit curry proves the point.
Chai 'N' Thai @ Nimman
Indian cooking on Nimman Lane 9 that handles halal, vegan and gluten-free without fuss, and does it well.
Khao Soi Maesai
The locals' khao soi champion in Chang Phueak — Michelin-listed bowls that sell out by early afternoon, worth planning a morning around.
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Zira Spa
Old town spa at the polished, pricier end, and worth booking days ahead if you want a decent slot.
Makkha Health & Spa Chiang Mai (Colonial Gardens)
A calm colonial-garden spa in the old city that takes late bookings right up to 11pm.
Oasis Spa (Lanna, Wat Prasing)
A polished Lanna-heritage spa near Wat Phra Singh, offering private cabin packages and traditional Thai treatments.
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Day 5
Fly to Phuket — Kata Noi Beach and Karon Viewpoint
The direct flight south is two hours, and the day is built for a swim: land, transfer to Kata on the island's calmer south-west, and be in the water by mid-afternoon. Kata is the base for both Phuket nights because it sits between the boat pier, the viewpoints and the airport road. The 5 Days in Phuket guide explains the choice in full.
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Fly Chiang Mai → Phuket direct
Cost: ฿1,800–2,500 booked aheadAllow: 2h05 in the air
AirAsia and Thai VietJet fly the route non-stop several times a day. Book the direct, not a Bangkok connection, which turns two hours into six. Chiang Mai's airport is 15 minutes from the Old City and rarely needs more than an hour before a domestic flight. You land at Phuket around 11:45.
Next: Metered taxi from the rank ฿600–700 plus a ฿100 airport fee, Grab ฿750–950, or the ฿100 Smart Bus, which stops at Kata after 90 minutes.
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Transfer to Kata and check in
Cost: See above; 45–60 minutesAllow: 1.5 hours
Ask reception two things on arrival: to book tomorrow's Phi Phi speedboat (same operators, same price as booking direct, and they arrange the 07:00 pickup) and which flag the beach is flying this week. Red means the Day 5 and 7 swims move to Nai Harn. The boat day stays.
Next: Walk 10–15 minutes south along the coast road, or take a ฿100 tuk-tuk, to Kata Noi.
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Kata Noi Beach
Cost: Free; sunbed ฿150–200Allow: 2.5 hours
Eight hundred metres of sand in a bay closed by headlands, which is why it stays calm when Kata and Karon are churning. Clearest water at the southern end, sunbeds and two beach restaurants at the northern. In November–April it's the safest easy swim on this coast.
Next: Grab or tuk-tuk (฿150–200, 10 minutes) up the hill to Karon Viewpoint.
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Karon Viewpoint at golden hour
Cost: FreeAllow: 45 minutes
Kata Noi, Kata and Karon in three scallops of sand up the coast, with Patong's hills beyond: the postcard of Phuket. The sun drops behind the headland rather than into the sea here, so it's a golden-hour stop. Promthep Cape, 20 minutes south, is the sunset one if you want to push on.
Next: Grab back into Kata (฿150–200).
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Dinner at Kata Night Market
Cost: ฿150–400 per personAllow: 1.5 hours
Nightly from 17:00 on Kata's main road: grilled squid and prawns by weight, pad thai and mango sticky rice for ฿60–120, fruit shakes for ฿50. A whole grilled fish with a sea view on the beach road is ฿350–500. Make it an early night, pickup is 07:00.
Next: Walk. Everything in Kata is within 15 minutes on foot.
If tomorrow's forecast is rough (monsoon, May–October), ask the hotel to book Phang Nga Bay instead. The sheltered bay of sea caves and James Bond Island almost never cancels, and I'd say it's the better trip in a swell anyway.
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Centara Grand Beach Resort Phuket
A big Karon Beach resort where the staff, not the marble, is what guests keep talking about.
Paradox Resort Phuket
Big gardens, four restaurants and a plunge-pool villa if you want one, with Karon beach a street away.
Katathani Phuket Beach Resort
Owns most of Kata Noi's beachfront, and it's built for families who want three generations under one roof.
Beaches·Phuket
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Karon Beach
Four kilometres of clean sand with calm shallow water, and sunsets that make the evening the main event.
Kata Beach
Come for the sunset, not the solitude, and expect to pay for a lounger if you want front row.
Nai Harn Beach
A calm crescent of sand on Phuket's southern tip that still feels like it belongs to the locals.
Restaurants & Food·Phuket
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SIAM Phuket - Seafood Restaurant
Pick your seafood, watch it weighed, then eat it on Thaweewong Road without paying beachfront prices.
Baan Thai Seafood Restaurant
Fresh seafood and proper Thai flavours on Rat-U-Thit, open till 2am, with kitchen staff who'll cook off-menu.
Kan Eang Restaurant
Seafood by the water in Rawai, family recipes, and a room big enough for a table of twelve.
Day 6
Phi Phi Islands by Speedboat — Pileh Lagoon, Maya Bay, Monkey Beach & Khai Island
The day that justifies the flight south. A speedboat crosses to Phi Phi in 45–60 minutes and works through the limestone: the lagoon, the bay from the film, a snorkel, lunch on Phi Phi Don, a last swim at Khai Island. You're back on Kata's beach road by 17:00 with the legs of someone who needs a massage.
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Pickup to Chalong Pier
Cost: ฿2,500–3,000 per person; ฿400 national park fee in cash at the pierAllow: 1 hour incl. check-in
Minivans collect from Kata between 07:00 and 07:30 and pool at the pier for wristbands, life jackets and the park-fee receipt. Take a ฿30 seasickness tablet from 7-Eleven before boarding, because the first 20 minutes past Cape Panwa are the roughest. Back of the boat for the smoothest ride, front for the photographs.
Next: Speedboat 45–60 minutes south-east to Phi Phi Leh.
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Pileh Lagoon and Maya Bay
Cost: IncludedAllow: 1.5 hours
Pileh is the enclosed lagoon on Phi Phi Leh's east side: jade water inside sixty-metre cliffs, no beach, a 20-minute swim before the Krabi boats arrive. Maya Bay is round the headland. Boats moor at the back pier, you walk 300 m through the island to the beach, and there's no swimming past knee depth. It's closed to landings from 1 August to 30 September every year. In those months the boat views it from the mouth of the bay and gives the time to Bamboo Island.
Next: 10 minutes round the island to Viking Cave and Monkey Beach.
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Viking Cave and the Monkey Beach snorkel
Cost: Included; mask and snorkel providedAllow: 1 hour
Viking Cave is seen from the water. You can make out the bird's-nest collectors' scaffolding from the boat, and landing isn't allowed. Monkey Beach on Phi Phi Don is the snorkel: parrotfish and sergeant majors over shallow coral. Don't feed the macaques, which bite.
Next: 15 minutes by boat to Tonsai Bay.
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Lunch on Phi Phi Don
Cost: Included (buffet); drinks ฿60–120Allow: 1.25 hours
A Thai buffet at a beachfront restaurant in Tonsai, the islands' only village, then 30 minutes in the pedestrian lanes. If you want to come back and sleep here (and most people do), the Koh Phi Phi guide covers how. It's a different, slower place once the day boats leave at 15:00.
Next: 45 minutes by boat back towards Phuket, stopping at Khai Nok Island.
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Khai Island swim
Cost: Included; sunbeds ฿100Allow: 1 hour
A sandbar island 20 minutes off Phuket's east coast with clear, shallow water, shade under the casuarinas and a resident shoal of fish that's learnt what tourists carry. It's busy, since every Phi Phi boat stops here, but it's the easiest swimming of the day. Reef-safe sunscreen only. Operators check.
Next: 20 minutes back to Chalong Pier, then the minivan to Kata (30 minutes).
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A 90-minute massage at Sansabai
Cost: ฿500–800 for 90 minutesAllow: 1.5 hours
Kata's most-reviewed massage shop (40 therapists, air-conditioned rooms, walk-in before 19:00) for the long version after six hours of speedboat and sun: 90 minutes of Thai massage, or an hour of oil and 30 minutes of foot. Say ‘bao bao’ for gentle. Tip ฿50–100.
Next: Walk to dinner on the beach road, 10 minutes at most.
Rather see the island than the sea? The alternative Day 6 is the 5 Days in Phuket guide's Day 3: Wat Chalong, the Big Buddha (reopened March 2026), lunch at One Chun and Phuket Old Town. My advice is to do it on a Sunday, with the Lard Yai walking street after dark.
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Aussie Divers Phuket
Rawai-based dive operation offering PADI courses and fun dives, run by owner Darren Gaspari.
Sawanu Travel (Phuket Branch)
Phi Phi day trips run on time, with guides who actually make the boat ride fun.
Scubadeep Phuket
A scuba diving centre in Kathu offering guided dives and certification courses for all experience levels.
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Ko Racha Yai
A car-free island near Phuket with crystal-clear waters, sandy beaches, and resorts for all budgets.
Ko Yao Yai
A largely undeveloped island in Phang Nga Bay offering secluded beaches, dive sites, and peaceful rural scenery.
Koh Yao Noi
Koh Yao Noi sits in the middle of Phang Nga Bay, thirty to forty-five minutes by boat from either Phuket or Krabi, yet it feels a decade removed from both — a quiet Muslim fishing island of rice paddies, rubber plantations, water-buffalo pastures, and east-coast viewpoints looking onto the.
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Stay Wellbeing & Lifestyle Resort
A proper wellness stay in quiet Rawai, built for people committing to a routine rather than a one-off massage.
Oasis Spa (Tropical Retreat Spa, Laguna)
A tranquil tropical spa retreat in Laguna, northern Phuket, offering massages and wellness packages amid lush gardens.
Oasis Spa (Sky Breeze Spa, Kata)
A highly regarded massage spa in Kata offering aromatherapy, body scrubs, facials, and multi-hour packages with complimentary transfers.
Day 7
Phuket — Wat Chalong, the Big Buddha, Seafood in Rawai, and the Flight Home
A departure day sized to the flight. With an afternoon or evening departure there's time for the two temples above Chalong and a seafood lunch on the southern tip. With a morning flight, do the massage last night and go straight from breakfast. Phuket has direct long-haul services, and if yours connects through Bangkok, the airport handles it as one ticket.
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Wat Chalong
Cost: Free (donations)Allow: 45 minutes
Phuket's most important temple, 20 minutes from Kata: the three-storey chedi with its relic of the Buddha, gilded statues of the monks who treated the wounded in the 1876 tin-miners' rebellion, and firecrackers going off in the brick kiln in the courtyard. Sarongs are lent at the gate.
Next: Grab 15 minutes (฿120–150) up Nakkerd Hill.
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The Big Buddha
Cost: Free (donations); sarongs freeAllow: 1 hour
Forty-five metres of white marble on the ridge above Chalong, visible from half the island, and open again since 3 March 2026 after the 2024 landslide closed the hill for eighteen months. Chalong Bay one side, Kata and Karon the other, and there's no shade after 11:00, which is why you're here now. The dress check at the stairs is strict: no sleeveless tops, even under a scarf.
Next: Grab 25 minutes (฿250–300) south to Rawai's seafront.
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Seafood by the kilo at Rawai Seafood Market
Cost: Seafood ฿300–1,500 per kg + ฿100 per kg cooking feeAllow: 1.5 hours
Pick prawns, crab, squid or a whole fish from the stalls on the beach side of the road, carry it across to a restaurant opposite, and pay about ฿100 a kilo to have it grilled, steamed with lime or fried with garlic. Two adults eat very well for ฿800–1,200. Cash on the market side. The last swim, if there's time, is Nai Harn beach, 10 minutes west.
Next: Grab or the pre-booked car to the airport: 75 minutes from Rawai on a normal afternoon, 90 in high season or rain.
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Transfer to Phuket Airport and fly home
Cost: Taxi ฿700–800 · Grab ฿750–950 · pre-booked ฿800–1,200Allow: 75–90 minutes
International flights want you at Phuket 2.5 hours before departure. Connections through Bangkok are checked through on one ticket, so allow the same. Change leftover baht in Kata or Rawai rather than at the airport, whose rate is the worst on the island. The road north of Patong is one lane each way and it slows from 15:00.
Next: Onward: Phuket to Krabi if you're not going home yet. The 10 Days in Thailand guide is what this week becomes with three more nights.
Morning flight? I'd skip the temples, swim at Kata Noi at 07:00 when it's empty, have breakfast, and leave Kata 2.5 hours before departure plus the hour's drive. The Big Buddha and Rawai are the reason to come back.
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Phuket Old Town
Late-afternoon light on the shophouses, a Sunday market, and food that costs less than the beach strips.
San Chao Jui Tui
A vibrant 1911 Chinese shrine at the heart of Phuket's famous annual Vegetarian Festival.
Chinpracha House
A historic Sino-Portuguese merchant house in Phuket Town offering guided tours of preserved interiors and tin-mining era history.
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Freedom Beach
Crystal water and soft sand, but you pay 100 baht and earn it on a steep climb back up.
Yanui Beach
A small southern cove with shade, calm water and kayaks for hire, best claimed before mid-morning.
Patong Beach
Three kilometres of white sand with jet skis, loungers and Bangla Road behind it, so come for the noise, not the calm.
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One Chun Cafe & Restaurant
Southern Thai cooking with a Bib Gourmand behind it, and a queue out front to match.
Siam Thai Restaurant
Live seafood you pick yourself, and lobster that won't wreck your budget by Patong standards.
517 Fisherman Seafood Restaurant Patong
Seafood worth paying a bit more for in Patong, and they'll cook the fish you caught yourself.
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Getting Between and Around the Three Cities: Fares Cheat Sheet (2026)
| Leg / mode | Fare | Time | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangkok → Chiang Mai, flight | ฿900–1,500 (2–4 weeks ahead); ฿2,500+ last minute | 1h10–1h20; 4h door to door | Budget carriers use Don Mueang, not Suvarnabhumi |
| Bangkok → Chiang Mai, sleeper train #9 | ฿940–1,200 2nd-class berth | 18:40 → 07:15 (12–13h) | Lower berths sell out weeks ahead; needs a spare night — see the Bangkok to Chiang Mai guide |
| Chiang Mai → Phuket, flight | ฿1,800–2,500 direct | 2h05 (6h+ via Bangkok) | Book the AirAsia/VietJet non-stop, not a connection |
| Phuket → Bangkok, flight | ฿1,000–2,000 | 1h25 | Both Bangkok airports served; match yours to your international departure |
| Bangkok: BTS / MRT / boat | ฿17–65 / ฿17–45 / ฿18 flat | — | Old City is on the MRT (Sanam Chai), not the BTS |
| Bangkok: taxi / Grab | ฿35 flag; ฿100 for 5 km; airport ฿400–600 | — | ‘Meter broken’ — get out; the ฿20 tuk-tuk tour is a scam |
| Chiang Mai: red songthaew / Grab | ฿30–40 per hop; Doi Suthep ฿40–50; Grab ฿60–150 in town | — | Songthaews leave when full; Grab surges after 22:00 |
| Phuket: Smart Bus / Grab / taxi | ฿100 flat airport–Rawai; Grab ฿300–950; taxi ฿600–700 + ฿100 airport fee | — | Tuk-tuks quote ฿400–500 for a ฿300 Grab hop |
| Checked baggage (each flight) | ฿300–500 for 20 kg, booked online; ฿1,000+ at the gate | — | Two flights make carry-on the biggest saving of the week |
Fares checked August 2026. Domestic fares are for economy booked 2–4 weeks ahead outside Thai holidays; Songkran (13–15 April) and New Year double them.
When the Weather Works in Your Favour: Bangkok, Chiang Mai & Phuket
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Essential Tips for 7 Days in Thailand
Book both domestic flights before you leave, direct with the airline
AirAsia, Nok Air and Thai Lion open fares months out; 2–4 weeks ahead is ฿900–1,500 for Bangkok–Chiang Mai and ฿1,800–2,500 for the Chiang Mai–Phuket direct. Aggregators add fees and lose the app boarding pass. If you must pay for a bag, do it online: ฿300–500 against ฿1,000+ at the gate.
A Thai SIM in the arrivals hall, before anything else
AIS and TrueMove booths at Suvarnabhumi sell 8–15 day tourist packages from ฿299 with unlimited data. That's what makes Grab, the MRT map and the boat timetables work for the rest of the week. Bring an unlocked phone. eSIMs are the alternative if you want it live before you land.
One outfit covers every temple on the route
Light long trousers or a maxi skirt and a sleeved T-shirt pass at the Grand Palace, Doi Suthep and the Big Buddha alike, but the palace and the Big Buddha reject sleeveless tops even under a scarf. Slip-on shoes save you ten minutes a day at temple doors.
Cash for temples, boats, markets and massage; cards for hotels and flights
Thai ATMs charge ฿220 per withdrawal, so take ฿10,000 at a time. SuperRich in Bangkok and the exchange booths on Kata's main road beat the airports by 3–4%. Tipping is light: round up taxis, ฿50–100 a massage, ฿100–200 a day-tour guide.
Three scams cover 90% of the trouble, all in Bangkok
‘The temple is closed today’ (it isn't), the ฿20 tuk-tuk tour (commission stops), and the taxi with a broken meter (get out). Chiang Mai and Phuket's only equivalents are overpriced tuk-tuks and the Bangla Road tour touts. Otherwise Thailand is a safe country, and the Is Thailand Safe? guide has the full list.
Two Cities Instead of Three — and Other Ways to Reshape the Week
Three stops in seven days is the classic first trip, and it works because the flights are short. It isn't the only good week. Here are the alternatives that come up most, and when to choose them:
Two cities: Bangkok + Phuket, or Bangkok + Chiang Mai
Drop the middle stop and give its two nights to one of the others. Bangkok (3) + Phuket (4) buys both the Phi Phi and the Phang Nga Bay boat days plus the Old Town, and it's the right week for anyone whose trip is mostly about the sea. Bangkok (2) + Chiang Mai (5) is the culture-and-cooking week: a full day at Elephant Nature Park, a cooking class, Doi Inthanon or the Mae Kampong villages. It's the one to pick in Phuket's monsoon.
Krabi or Koh Samui instead of Phuket
Krabi's Railay and Ao Nang put you closer to Phi Phi and the Hong Islands, with smaller beaches and no Patong. The flight from Chiang Mai connects through Bangkok (4–5 hours). Koh Samui is the answer from June to September, when the Gulf is dry while the Andaman coast is in monsoon. Bangkok Airways flies there from Chiang Mai in 2 hours. The 10 Days in Thailand guide lays out both versions.
Chiang Rai instead of Chiang Mai
For a second visit: the White Temple, the Golden Triangle and a smaller, quieter city, but an hour further by air and without Chiang Mai's Old City evenings. I'd do it as a day trip from Chiang Mai on a 10-day plan rather than as the northern stop on a 7-day one.
The train instead of the flight
The Bangkok–Chiang Mai sleeper (18:40 → 07:15, ฿940–1,200 for a 2nd-class berth) is a genuine Thai experience and saves a hotel night, but it costs you a Bangkok evening and arrives too early to check in. It fits a 10-day trip, not this one. Full detail in the Bangkok to Chiang Mai guide.
With kids, keep the shape and swap the Phi Phi speedboat for Coral Island (30 minutes from Chalong, calm water), the Doi Suthep dawn for a 08:00 start, and the Bangkok rooftop for Mahanakhon's glass floor, which children love and which has no age limit. The Thailand with Kids guide has the rest.
7-Day Thailand Budget (per person, 6 nights, all-in except international flights)
| Item | Backpacker | Mid-range | Luxury |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accommodation (6 nights) | ฿3,000–4,800 (hostels, guesthouses) | ฿10,800–21,000 (3–4★, pools) | ฿42,000+ (5★, riverside and beachfront) |
| Food (7 days) | ฿2,800–4,900 | ฿7,000–12,600 | ฿21,000+ |
| Domestic flights (×2, carry-on) | ฿2,700–4,000 | ฿4,000–6,500 (with a bag) | ฿8,000+ (full-service) |
| Local transport & airport transfers | ฿1,500–2,500 | ฿4,000–6,000 | ฿10,000+ (private drivers) |
| Temples, elephants, Phi Phi, massage | ฿6,500–8,000 | ฿9,500–12,000 | ฿25,000+ |
| 7-day total (per person) | ฿16,000–24,000 (≈ $450–670) | ฿35,000–58,000 (≈ $980–1,620) | ฿106,000+ (≈ $2,970+) |
Prices in Thai baht, checked August 2026. Excludes international flights and travel insurance. ฿1,000 ≈ $28 USD / £22 GBP / €26 EUR. The three fixed big-ticket items — two flights, the sanctuary, the boat — are ฿7,000–9,000 at any budget level.
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