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Our time in Bangkok was very limited. Doing a private tour allowed us to see just what we wanted – relying on publicity transportation made it quick and easy to get from place to place.
Yuut was a fabulous guide. Explaining everything very thoroughly – helping us understand current customs, history and the significance of Buddhism and everything in and around the temples.
We were able to see everything we had hoped for and more.
We only had a day to get an over view of Bangkok and Jean did a wonderful job introducing us to the city and the culture.
We took a taxi to the river and a wonderful river taxi ride to the area where the temples were.
Jean was very knowledgeable and spoke English well.
We walked a lot and took the subway back to the area where our guesthouse was.
We couldn’t have had a better day.
One of the highlights of the tour was our 3-day stop in Bangkok.
We hired Elena (and driver) from “Your Thai Guide” based on the reviews here on Trip Advisor.
We had an absolutely fantastic time and could not imagine trying to do everything without Elena’s assistance. She was extremely personable, knowledgeable, passionate about Thailand and her people, and a lot of fun!
She was very flexible on our itinerary and changed things up for us when she recognized we were all “templed out” on the second day and quickly came up with some alternative options on-the-fly.
Elena was very knowledgeable about different types of Thai food.
We ate some amazing Thai food (see photos) that was completely off the beaten path. Some of the absolutely best Thai food we have ever had and would have never tried if it weren’t for Elena.
If you are considering a trip to Thailand (not just Bangkok), I urge you to consider Your Thai Guide, particularly Guide Elena!
I absolutely loved this tour! It was a brilliant way to see Bangkok. I was able to make a list of everything I wanted to see and do, and my guide determined the best way to make it all happen.
My guide for the day was Nina. She met me at my hotel and she was so friendly and easy to get along with, I instantly loved her. It was like having a friend show me around their city, and I definitely couldn’t have seen everything I wanted to as easily if she hadn’t been with me.
Having her there to navigate the public transportation, purchase tickets, speak Thai to the locals, use secret entrances, give me the history of all the temples and sites, explain the local customs, encourage me to try foods in the local market, and just generally be my friend-for-the-day was so cool. She even suggested some additional things to see that she figured out I would like, such as the flower market, and the river-front restaurant she chose for our lunch was the perfect blend of casual atmosphere and tasty food. By the end of the day, we were having a drink in Starbucks like old friends and I was sad to hug her goodbye when she dropped me off back at my hotel.
Nina was 100 the reason I enjoyed my day in Bangkok so much, and I very much appreciated her accommodating my off-hours tour it was from 11am until 7pm, as those were the hours I was available, even though she had another tour early the next morning.
Thank you Nina!
We booked a full day tour with Your Thai Guide and had Apple as our guide.
We had an amazing day thanks to her. She picked us up at our hotel and took us around Bangkok to many places throughout the city.
We had chosen several sites to see during the day and she had some awesome recommendations to add to our day. We only had one full day in Bangkok and having her as our guide helped us maximize our time. It was great having our own private guide so that we could go at our own pace and get around town in the most efficient way.
We especially enjoyed Apple’s knowledge, the long boat tour she suggested, and the delicious restaurant she took us to. We highly recommend booking a guide with this company.
Great Bangkok custom tour with Oil. We booked the tour for our first day in Bangkok – we landed at 8am, went to our hotel then get picked up for our tour at 1200.
We arranged to go to Lad Mayom floating market on a longtail (with canal tour), Chatuchak market, Chinatown and the flower market.
Everything went as planned, in spite of us being so tired from the flight, and Oil was a great guide and her English was very good and easy to understand.
We had some great food on the tour including the best pad thai i have had (from Lad Mayom market). At the end of our tour she delivered us back to our hotel then sat with us and wrote out a suggested itinerary for the next day based on what else we had said we wanted to see.
This was a great introduction to Bangkok and we would highly recommend Oil as a guide.
Excellent private tour of Bangkok.
Our tour guide Oil was awesome, very organized and friendly. She took us to all the places where we wanted to go.
I will book again with this company.
Highly recommended!! Our tour guide Peach was excellent!
We met up at our hotel and planned our destinations. She showed us the places we wanted to see and recommended a few other spots along the way.
Very enlightening experience. It was the best!
Merveilleuse journée avec Apple, très belle visite du grand Palais le matin et balade en bateau dans les canaux l après midi puis encore visite des plus beaux monuments.
Apple est très sympathique et dynamique, à recommander !
Guide Dew meet us in our hotel lobby.
We were informed about the amount of money we would need for our tour using public transportation.
Dew was very knowledgeable about his surroundings we were able to experience Thailand by bus, boat, foot and subway.
We also were able to experience the Buddhist temple, fresh fruit, dining and shopping entering on the river.
Dew was very flexible. I would definitely recommend Dew and I am very critical on service.
Dew was able to answer all our questions prior to arriving and during the tour.
This tour was nothing short of amazing! Guide Dew was our guide and she was thorough, friendly, helpful, and made our 1st day in Bangkok more fun than we imagined it would be!!
I’ve already recommended this tour to friends who plan on visiting.
I’ll probably book it again when I come back!!
Jean was our tour guide and was very friendly and knowledgeable. He patiently answered all of our questions about anything, ranging from Thai history to his own experiences growing up in Thailand.
Jean added so much color and depth to the city, and we truly felt that it was money well spent!
I can easily recommend having Jean as a tour guide.
While in Bangkok, I wanted to see as many temples as I could fit in to a day. Given that there are 30,000+ in the country, it is easy to fill it.
Yuut, my guide, was a former monk if 17 years and was very happy I had interest in temples and buddhism. He was able to answer the many questions I had about the religions, sites, and monks. I had such a good time, that I booked a second day and was fortunate that Yuut was available to take me to more sites to include Grand Palace.
We relied on public transportation. Taxis, tuk tuk, metro, and many boats. All were good but the one I particularly liked was on the small canals, the boat is best what I could call a water bus. It was a fun ride, but you got to see a bit of the back streets of the city along the way…. but be sure someone is there to lift the water screen or you may get splashed.
I am so glad I booked this tour.
I wanted to see some of the main sights of Bangkok, but getting around had me worried.
I figured we would at least not have to worry about how to negotiate taxi rates if we had a guide.
However, not only did I not have to worry about that, but I felt very comfortable with all the forms of transport we used – boat, taxi, tuk-tuk and MRT!
Guide Elena was also very informative on the history of Thailand and beliefs of the people, which was really wonderful.
I enjoyed learning about everything as we toured the Grand Palace, Jim Thompson’s house, Wat Pho, and Wat Phra Kew.
Ayutthaya day tour with the perfect guide, Oil!
We had an amazing full day tour to Ayutthaya, guided by Oil. She was truly wonderful, very friendly and providing so many information about the traditions and history of Thailand, with excellent English skills! Oil accommodate all our wishes and adapted the itinerary according to our interests and also suggested a delicious restaurant by the river for lunch.
Thumbs up and a big thank to Oil and Your Thai Guide!
Peachy was wonderful. Had a fantastic day especially at the Grand Palace and a great lunch
at a recommended restaurant.
Thank you once again, Cathryn and Andy.
We booked a one day tour with YourThaiGuide and was assigned local guide Nina. Nina touched base with us at our hotel the night before and was waiting for us promptly on schedule on the day. She speaks fluent English and is very friendly and approachable. She worked with us to plan the day according to our specific needs and throughout the day, showed herself flexible and streetsmart, able to change course if necessary to ensure we get the most out of our tour.
We tried all the different modes of transportation while under her guidance! It was a great experience be it going on the bus with locals, hazarding Bangkok traffic on a tuktuk or a lesiurely ride on the river boat. Nina made sure we got the local experience and also the photo opportunities we were looking for.
She helped us book a local uber type of service to ensure we have a means of returning to the hotel after our dinner cruise at a very reasonable rate, showing us where exactly to meet the driver. As it turned out we were late getting off the boat, and Nina called and texted us (beyond her call of duty as her day was already done) to make sure the driver waited for us. She ensured we were not ripped off by unscrupulous drivers who could be charging 5 times the rate because it was the festival of Loy Krathong and everybody was busy. We truly appreciate Nina’s help in this
Highly recommended!
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We made a short trip back to the Grand Palace to meet Apple our tour guide.
Apple will be showing us the food market the canal, Santa Cruz church and some Thai boxing.
But first up are the markets and to get there we took another boat, thankfully this one was not quite as busy.
Apple explained she was taking us to a restaurant located in the middle of Wiang Liang food market.
She described it as a local market that fewer tourists visited, meaning the Thai people could sell what they liked and without any Western influence.
As we weave through the market, we found the restaurant and we’re eager to try some local signature dishes.
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We made our way onto the boat and went on the main river before turning into the back street canals to see a different side of Bangkok.
As we darted through the canal, I was feeling pretty pleased to have seen a monitor lizard, there was also so much more to see the architecture nature and floaty stores were very cool.
We came to stop to buy some local bread for the fish I can’t believe how many there were there were hundreds. After feeling the fish sat back and enjoyed the river of the rest the tour.
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I have to admit that this was a real highlight the canal is beautiful, and everyone seemed really friendly and happy.
There was always something interesting and varied around every corner and I was especially fun when the boat stepped up again.
The boat moored next to our next destination Santa Cruz church one of the many old catholic churches in Bangkok and part of an old Portuguese settlement.
Bangkok has grown so much that covers all of the excess area, so there is no longer lots of capitals there is now only just one.
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As Apple took us around the local houses in this area, she gave us her opinion on tourism in Thailand.
The church and surrounding buildings were so beautiful, and the area was very peaceful and a much-needed break from the chaos of the inner city.
The penultimate stop of the day was to watch Thailand’s national sport Muay Thai boxing at the famous Rajadamnern boxing stadium.
So, as we said goodbye to the Santa Cruz church Apple reminded us just how she remembers the real name of Bangkok.
As we made our way into the stadium, I got a real sense of just how important the sport was for Thai people and I could not wait to see it.
Muay Thai is over 2000 years old and formed during the medieval period as a form of hand-to-hand combat during the times of war.
A ritual dance is performed before each fight called the Wai Kru and it aims to pay homage to their teachers’ family and to bless themselves with victory in the ring.
Muay Thai is one of the fastest growing forms of martial arts over the last 80 years.
And is the combination of limbs into what is considered the eighth weapons of Muay Thai… elbows, fists, knees, legs, the shins, and feet and some consider the use of the head to be the ninth weapon of Muay Thai.
This ancient style of fighting aims to use limbs to mimic weapons of war by the sword or a dagger. I have to admit I found the boxing brutal and quite hard to watch at times.
In fact, one match had to be stopped as one of the fighters was too badly injured to continue some of them seemed so young too but Apple assured me that they really enjoy it and I could tell that Apple was loving it as well
Meeting Apple has been great, and she has taught us so much about Thailand, and the tourism here and we thoroughly recommend her tour from the company Your Thai Guide.
After quite an intense evening watching Muay Thai we decided to have a little downtime in soi Rambutttri, which is the less busy and more authentic street just around the corner from its busier counterpart Khao San Road.
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Our guide, May, was outstanding. She worked easily with us to plan a full day tailored to our age and lack of sleep (jetlag).
For US$104 plus minimal transportation costs, May guided us through an extremely crowded Grand Palace, a sprawling temple complex (Wat Pho), and the Jim Thompson House.
The day was bloody hot, and May managed the logistics perfectly so that we were able to take a lot in in spite of the heat. She was also a delightful person to spend time with.
Highly recommend!
Highly recommended personalized tour of Bangkok. It was wonderful to go round the city without having to research or think about anything ourselves – Apple took care of it all so we could just relax and enjoy the sights.
We ended up covering a great deal in the day – temples, boat rides, markets, shopping, food… the tour was personal to us and was exactly when we wanted and she gave us many helpful tips along the way to help us get the most of our remaining stay in Bangkok.
Apple’s English is fabulous and she is such a lovely and fun person as well as being so knowledgeable, it was a real pleasure to spend the day with her.
We also had a fabulous lunch – high quality, a nice view and delicious – just what we requested!
Thank you so much Apple, you made our day so special and memorable.
Best guide ever. Our guide had extensive first hand knowledge of Bangkok Temples as he had been a monk for 10 years.
Spoke excellent English and was a complete pleasure to be with throughout the day.
Highly recommend this way to see the temple’s so you know exactly what you are seeing and get educated along the way.
We spent a lovely day with Guide Dew, visiting the Grand Palace, Wat Poh, flower markets and China town.
We used all methods of transport around the city, Sky train, boat up the river, Tuk tuk and bus.
We ate local street food and were taken to areas of the city off the beaten tourist track.
Dew was full of knowledge and information, giving us all the historical information about the Kings and their temples.
We looked through the fresh fruit and veg markets and were introduced to fruits we had never seen or tasted before.
The Chinese food markets in China town were an experience for all the senses. A bucket of Thai iced tea in a traditional local bar was really delicious! We had a fabulous day and were very grateful to our excellent guide, Dew.
Really recommend this way of seeing the city, it’s a much more personal way to experience Bangkok and worth every penny.
We only spent two days in Bangkok and wanted to make the best of it.
Our fantastic tour guide Kiki made it possible: Kiki showed us the most popular places of Bangkok and we also had time to visit more local and typical Thai places.
The place she recommended for having typical food were very good too.
Guide Kiki is a very warm-hearted and patient guide.
She loves taking photos – so we have great memories of this unforgettable day!!
Elena met me at the condo where I was staying, which is quite a distance from the city center. She arrived smiling, and stayed that way throughout the entire tour.
We stayed by hopping on the BTS Skytrain, switching at Siam station, and heading to the Jim Thompson house. Elena waited while the guide inside the Jim Thompson house conducted a brief (~45 minute) tour, and then we hopped on a boat and took that farther into town.
We climbed to the top of Wat Saket (not a strenuous climb, very low steps make it easy for those who have difficulty with stairs, and plenty of places to rest) and got some great views of the city.
We then headed to Wat Pho (absolutely beautiful) where Elena guided me through some Buddhist rituals, including lighting incense for a prayer, and applying gold leaf to a statue of the Buddha.
Next up was the Grand Palace, which was stunning in its opulence and colors. We went late in the day, just prior to closing, and it seemed less crowded. It was a great time to visit.
We ended the day on Khao San Road, where Elena helped me haggle some great prices (sometimes, you just want that really cheesy souvenir and end up with the most comfortable pajamas ever.)
Elena’s final act of the day was finding me a cab back to Siam station that wouldn’t rip me off (the first 5 taxis refused to turn on the meter) and probably saved me a few hundred baht in the process.
Overall, a great day with someone who very quickly felt like a friend. I’d definitely recommend this tour to those who want to see the big sights.