Important factors to consider in planning Thailand trip

Thailand trip is the most happening post nowadays on everyone’s feed. We spend so many days to plan this itinerary for our Thailand trip, considering many factors as we were travelings with kids.

Let’s discuss the Important factors to consider Thailand trip.

Factors to consider

• Weather in Thailand – As the temperature is normally high in Thailand and we were travelling in March-April so we expected it would be hot.
• Bangkok, like most of Thailand, has a tropical climate meaning it is steadily warm and humid throughout the year with a rainy monsoon season. April is the hottest month in Bangkok, with temperatures averaging at 30.5 °C (87°F) and the coldest is December at 26 °C (79°F).
• Travel time – We want to cover multiple location so local distance between places was really important to plan your daily itinerary.
• Places to explore as per interest.
• Budget- The most important factor that helps you in planning the Holiday.

Flights

Let’s start with booking flights both international and local flights.

• It is always good to book flights as early as possible, to avoid costly tickets. We took the benefit of FREE VISA and saved few bucks.
• If you are travelling with kids you can take the separate priority line at Thailand immigration, that will save some time.
• Local flights– The flight prices for cheap local airlines is mostly without any baggage, you need to pay extra for your luggage.
• If you book the luggage also in advance you can get the low price benefit.

Local Transport in Thailand

• Airport cabs booking is cheap at KLOOK than any other local options as we needed xl cabs for two 6 people with luggage.
• Klook services and drivers are good. Cabs provided are nice and spacious and always be on time.
• Klook customer support was available on whatsapp.
• In city transport you can go with GRAB. You need to have a local sim for Grab application.
• Colorful TUK TUK ride prices vary and is totally on your bargaining skills.

THAILAND Sim

• You can purchase sim from airport itself as we compared the prices on the company website were almost same.
• we took 699 baht plan for 30 day with good data limit.
• Sim counters are near the baggage claim and outside pick up points
• E-sim options is also available and the connectivity and internet was good.
• As we were two families we opted two different networks sim, that was helpful in case one network is down.
• Sim Networks we have used – DTaC and True

Currency

• ATM withdrawal fees – It’s always good to carry cash from India as the cash withdrawal fees from atm is high. 200 baht for some banks and 800-1000 for others.
• Cash is required in almost all places to shop or pay bills at restaurant
• Forex card- choose the forex card which provides good benefits and charges less fees on reloading transactions. We have used HDFC FOREX Card

Hotels

• Based on the requirements you choose your stays.
• We opted Airbnb , Beach resort and hotel chains .
• Details of property you can check in next blog.

Vegetarian Food in Thailand

Being vegetarian it was not so hard to find good options to enjoy vegetarian food. Specially in bangkok and Phuket there were lot of Indian Restaurants with vegetarian food options.

In Chiang mai and chaing rai also we found vegetarian food in local places. Just in Big hotel chains it was hard to find veg options especially in Buffet, that was included in stay prices.

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