Looking to book my first Thailand experience, any advice on where to fly into? Easiest/ safest way to travel around once there. Suggestions on where to stay and budget to save for if planning on traveling for a month! Anything helps, TIA!

Fly into BKK but don’t stay there for more than cpl days. Go North to Chiang Rai n Chiang Mai beautiful places. Or south to the islands. Avoid Phuket too touristy. Just got back about a month or so ago. Booking.com for hotels and remember that when there tourists prices n local prices differ vastly. Food is cheap so is accommodations if u search right. Have fun it’s funtastic there.

Fly to BKK. Then flights within the country are cheap and quick. Taking a ferry is also a great way to get around - you can still catch rays if you’re on the top floor. Remember to take snacks and drink on a ferry tho. And if you’re brave you can rent scooters - but believe me most of them drive crazy and def don’t do it in Bangkok

Don’t say I’m BKK for too long at the beginning. Loved Chaing Mai and stayed there for a week. Travelled to Koh Lanta and stayed there for two weeks as well-super low key and really relaxing. Booking.com is super reasonable for accommodations and most allow for free cancelation which is awesome. Don’t plan too far in advanced. Book flights once you get to Thailand! We (a couple) travel for 5 weeks, stayed in private rooms and did everything we wanted, ate when we pleased, massages atleast every other day and spent around 5k including return flights from Vancouver

Chaing Mai is great and felt totally safe. We loved Khao Sok lake too. I would personally get in and out of BKK as quickly as possible. I’ve been there twice and really disliked the city. The countryside is where it’s al!

Fly to chaing mai then book a hopper flight down south .. we started there ended in Bangkok

I actually got 4 massages in one day
...I kept my fun above the waistline, Sunshine

Ivan One Night in Bangkok! Love it!

Savannah Kreutziger

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Flying domestic is cheap even if last minute. It’s very safe for a solo woman traveller. I used Agoda.com for hotel/lodging bookings while comparing to other apps. So many wonderful places to visit depending what you are looking for.

Don’t recommend Bangkok tho for the kids. Chaing Mai for the mountain scene and def down south for the beaches. Feeding the kids is not a problem. Lots of friend rice, simple asian cuisine, but also western food everywhere. Tropical fruits and smoothies are a dream come true!

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Great suggestions here for you. We are in Thailand right now. Planning is very important. Something no one ever mentions. Is that only 1/500 tourists speak any English.
We were in patong Phuket. Heading up to Chaing Mai next.
Remember there aren't any beaches in Chaing Mai. What was $1
20 years ago is now $4
We normally have paid same price as in Canada for fruit, meals booze etc. Wine is 3x more expensive than Canada.
I did lots of research and was surprised in almost everything. Except I got a great Thai massage for $15 cdn/ per hr. Good luck.

avoid tourist places like chang mai,phuket, pattaya go south to songhkla province there s better beaches and less tourist and its cheaper for everything, go to isan, if you want to see elephants go to surin, and in Bangkok go to khao san road you ll find cheaper rooms around there

Fly into Bangkok. Use grab app it’s like ubber. We seriously just landed from Thailand at 2pm today we were gone for 35 days! Flights are cheap Within the country. Or you can take the train or buses.