Take a private tour to get a glimpse of everyday life on the water in Thailand. Cruise along the Bangkok canals in a narrow, long-tailed motorized boat towards the Damnoen Saduak floating market, where you will see local vendors in their Thai style canoes, laden with colorful fruits, and vegetables, gently plying their way through the canals looking to sell their goods.
Posted By : MarkDayton_D
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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Posted On : 2023-02-16 21:53:21 
Posted By : Brian_M
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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Posted On : 2023-01-02 23:49:50
Posted By : WWTraveler0923
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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Posted On : 2022-12-27 06:22:54 
Posted By : Marwa_H
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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Posted On : 2022-12-22 22:24:10
Posted By : Randell_H
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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Posted On : 2022-12-05 19:48:05
Posted By : Katie_E
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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Posted On : 2022-11-09 19:08:58
Posted By : Claudia_S
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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Posted On : 2022-11-08 22:00:15
Posted By : kathleen_k
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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Posted On : 2022-11-02 22:36:11
Posted By : Sarmad_C
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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Posted On : 2022-11-02 12:13:20
Posted By : Troy_S
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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Posted On : 2022-10-28 23:02:40
