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Maeklong Railway Market & Damnoensaduak Floating Market Tour: Thai Culture and Local Trading
3.4
28 Ratings
Khwaeng Lumphini
Experience Thai culture at the Damnoensaduak Floating Market and Maeklong Railway Market. Try local treats, shop along the railway track, and enjoy hassle-free transport from Bangkok.
Experience Thai culture at the Damnoensaduak Floating Market and Maeklong Railway Market. Try local treats, shop along the railway track, and enjoy hassle-free transport from Bangkok.
Duration:
5 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Maeklong Railway Market (Talad Rom Hub) - The group will begin at the pick-up point at 8:00 am and then travel to Maeklong Railway Market, also known as (Thai: Talat Rom Hup), which translates to the “umbrella pulldown market.” It is among the largest fresh seafood markets in Thailand, situated along the Maeklong Railway’s track. When a train…
- Maeklong Railway Market (Talad Rom Hub) - The group will begin at the pick-up point at 8:00 am and then travel to Maeklong Railway Market, also known as (Thai: Talat Rom Hup), which translates to the “umbrella pulldown market.” It is among the largest fresh seafood markets in Thailand, situated along the Maeklong Railway’s track. When a train approaches, the awnings and shop fronts are retracted from the rails and are restored once the train has passed.
- Damnoen Saduak Floating Market - Besides serving as a means of transportation, the Damnoensaduak Canal provides farmers with sufficient water for agricultural activities throughout the year. Over 200 small canals were dug by local farmers to connect with it, ensuring water reaches their land. Daily, from around 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., the Floating Market is bustling with hundreds of vendors and buyers in small rowing boats, selling, buying, or exchanging goods. The primary purchases include food, fruit, and vegetables, mostly sourced from their own orchards.
ITINERARY:
08:00 - Pick up from hotel
08:30 - Departure from Bangkok
09:30 - Arrive at train market to witness the market activity
10:45 - Proceed to Floating Market
12:00 - Arrive at Floating Market with 1 hour of free time
01:30 - Return to Bangkok
14:00 - Arrive at hotel
- Sightseeing Bangkok - Tour operator
What's Included
- Long-tail boat ride to Damnoen Saduak floating market
- Professional guide
- Hotel pickup and drop off (hotel drop off for Private Tour only)
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Long-tail boat ride to Damnoen Saduak floating market
- Professional guide
- Hotel pickup and drop off (hotel drop off for Private Tour only)
- In-vehicle air conditioning
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Hotel drop off is not included for Join Tour. Drop off point is at MBK Shopping Center
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Hotel drop off is not included for Join Tour. Drop off point is at MBK Shopping Center
Additional Information
Experience Thai culture at the Damneon Saduak Floating Market. Discover the art of bartering the Thai way as you practice your trading skills with locals wearing wooden hats and selling tropical fruit, coconut sugar candy, mango sticky rice, and tom yum on their self-paddled small boats. Benefit from a small group size as you ride the train to the…
Experience Thai culture at the Damneon Saduak Floating Market. Discover the art of bartering the Thai way as you practice your trading skills with locals wearing wooden hats and selling tropical fruit, coconut sugar candy, mango sticky rice, and tom yum on their self-paddled small boats. Benefit from a small group size as you ride the train to the Maeklong Railway Market, uniquely situated on a working railway track. Get your adrenaline pumping as you shop along the Maeklong Railway Market before the next train comes through.
- Once-in-a-lifetime floating market experience
- Try delicious local treats and tasty seasonal fruits
- Quickly do your shopping at the thrilling Maeklong Railway Market
- Hassle-free hotel pickup and round-trip transport from Bangkok
- Boat ride is not wheelchair accessible
- The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
- An additional surcharge for hotel pickup outside 3 miles (5 km) radius from the city center is applicable and payable on the day of your activity.
- Free of charge Door to Door Pick up for CITY CENTER BANGKOK DISTRICT AREA (3 KM radius area) with namely Sukhumvit Soi (Lane) -1 to 33, Sukhumvit area Soi 1 to 33 (odd) and Soi 2 to 24 (even), Pratunam, Silom, Langsuan, Wireless Road, Sathorn, Surawongse, Siam, MBK, Yawarat (China Town), Khao San Road (Excluded City Tour) can pick up only in our meeting Royal Rattanakosin Hotel
- An additional surcharge for hotel pickup outside 3 miles (5 km) radius from the city center is applicable and payable on the day of your activity.
- We are SHA Plus certified. A certificate awarded to an organisation proving that they have approved Covid-19 health and preventative protocols in place and that 70% or more of all employees have been fully vaccinated.
- 48 hours is needed to arrange for tour with special language other than English, we have the right to cancel with full refund if booking is made less than 48 hours
Location
Thailand Travel Agency by Sun Leisure World
Thanon Witthayu
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.4
(28 Ratings)
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Beth_l
May 23, 2023
Couldn't be happier - This is a great tour! The pickup was on time. The guide was fantastic - would answer any questions you had even not related to the tour! Her English was very good and she helped everyone order lunch which was so yummy! Both markets were super interesting and the guide told you how much you were expected to pay for some things to help you bargain with the people on the market. We even got to go on the railway market train which was a very unique experience! We were back in Bangkok at the time she stated at the start of the day. Couldn't be happier with this experience.
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Siseko7
Sep 15, 2022
Best Tour with Best Guide - Jenny - The tour was amazing and Jenny was even more amazing! Best tour guide ever! I highly recommend this tour to anyone going to Bangkok. If possible request Jenny by name. What you see is exactly what you get. I also recommend having some money on hand so that you can support the sellers at the floating market and at the train market. Please also listen to the instructions you get at the train market. A lot of tourists we're standing in the way of the train just to get a selfie at such a dangerous time.
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Happycouple1998
Sep 5, 2019
Excellent Experience - will do it again for sure, next time - Grandma Lucky was a good Guide. Really good and informative. Train Market is an experience you should not miss and make sure you do it with this company or another that takes you by train to the market. Long Tail boat to Floating Market is a nice experience and watching all the peddlers on various boats selling food stuffs, souvenirs etc is really interesting but u can choose to hire a paddle boat ticket at THB150 per person I think but we did not do this and instead walked around the market at the platform for the Floating Market and sat down for some food. Negotiate the menu price as pricing is crazy. Food was good. Finally only paid THB200 for Seafood Tom Yum and THB100 for Morning Glory (KangKung) and THB40 for two bowls of rice. We had our own bottle water. Tour Guide will give you a cold one before you leave the floating market on the van back to Bangkok
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Del-estadio
Nov 17, 2023
Very nice - We visited the railway market. It's free. You have a good time because it is very typical. When the train passes it brushes past the hawker stalls. To have.
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Krjh1
Mar 4, 2020
Maeklong and Damnoensaduak market day out - Good tour showing daily life of the market on water and very interesting how the railway market packs up and unpacks just before the train arrives.
Our guide Meow was informative and entertaining.
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Sharyn1991
Feb 10, 2020
A Must to experience - If in the area, you must visit just for the experience! Beware of the smell - it is one of the worst I have experienced and I have been in post hurricane areas with rotting animals for ten days. Go for the experience - it is quite a thing. Bought a shirt from a vendor and he was friendly and zero pressure to buy. Loved that.
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Tau962
Dec 25, 2019
Domnoen saduk and railway market - We had arranged this tour via TRIPADVISOR and i was a little disappointed because we had two guides and they had occupied for five vans. So they had to worried for many tourists with different interesting. Mr. Sang did the job so well only compliments to him and to another guide too as well as to driver. We were there only hour an half what by me opinion is not enough the same situation on Train market.
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Cathy
Nov 2, 2019
Maeklong railway market and floating market tour from Bangkok - We were advised pickup between 615-630 then told 530-6 am. Driver didnt show until 7. After filling a small van we left. Driver was clearly trying to make up time. He drove way too fast and we felt very unsafe. There was no communication from him. We suddenly stopped he opened door and said return at 910. Where were we, where were we supposed to go? When everyone started asking more details he walked us to train market and told us to make sure we retuned to van promptly after train passed. We didnt arrive as early as scheduled so had 20 mins at this location only.
When we returned to van he drove off and suddenly stopped in parking lot and once again gave no details
Thankfully there was a guide on site who directed us on what to do and where/when to meet. She was a welcome addition.
The group were then put in boats and said we would be gone for about 15 mins. We arrived at a completely different location which was a surprise to everyone
Those who participated in half day tour were then sent back to the van. The driver was clearly in a hurry and we felt very uncomfortable with the drive back to Bangkok. At some point he pulled into a gas station opened door and said 5 mins. Nobody wanted to get out which seemed to annoy the driver who was more interested in having a cigarette.
Oddly when he returned to van he passed 2 bottles of water into the back of van. Was the group supposed to share?
The saving grace is that being experienced travellers we were able to make our way around without guidance. The train market and floating village were interesting but if you want to enjoy the drive from city and learn about what you will be seeing book with a different tour company.
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Robertcbarker
Jan 3, 2020
Very Poor - We booked for the railway market and the floating market only. Very disappointed to discover that we would be taken to a place where animals such as tigers and elephants are mistreated for 'entertainment'.
This was not what we signed up for, and I feel betrayed in that inadvertently 'legitimised' said mistreatment of the animals by my presence at that place.
I strongly protest against such unadvised add-ons to the tour as booked, and will reconsider my use of TripAdvisor in the future, at the least I will be doing more research.
However, I would like to add that Nok, our tour guide did a good job.
Robert C Barker
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Phantomized07
Nov 5, 2019
Maeklong Railway Market & Damnoensaduak Floating Market Tour from Bangkok - We were picked up from our hotel at 6am in a mini van by a male driver and a female guide. After picking up 3 other groups and going to 2 wrong hotels, we finally arrived at the Maeklong Railway Market slightly after 9am. We were rushed by the guide to quickly run towards the train to watch it pass by. Although we arrived after the shops have kept their awnings, it was still a delightful sight to watch the shopkeepers reset their stalls. After the train passed, our guide told us we only had 10 minutes to walk through the railway market. A minute later, she was gone. We were very puzzled as to why we had to rush, but we still abided by her timing and we literally fast walked to the end of the market without much sight-seeing.
Up in the van, we thought we were heading to the next location on the itinerary, which was supposedly the Damnoensaduak floating market. When we alighted, we were told by the guide to go learn how to make coconut oil instead. True enough, there were locals with huge frying woks full of oil, and many stalls selling bottled coconut oil, soft drinks, souvenirs, etc. As we felt it was not part of the itinerary, we were unwilling to participate.
Back in the van again, we thought the floating market was next. And once again, we alighted and were told by the guide to go for an elephant ride instead. This is so ridiculous! We had only 10 minutes to tour the Maeklong Railway Market that we paid for, but yet we were spending so much time on these two other locations that were not part of the tour! We even re-read our booking details to make sure there were no fine prints that we might have missed out. What frustrated us further, was the lack of information on this particularly touristy attraction - elephant riding, monkey show, photo taking with drowsy tigers on chain and baby elephants on chain. We sincerely hope these animals have not been abused...
Eventually, when everyone became even more uninterested and restless, the guide allowed us to return back to the van. Finally we proceeded to the Damnoensaduak floating market. Upon arrival, the tour guide separated the group into two longtail boats and gave no further information. As we were in the boat without the tour guide, after the 20 minutes ride ended, we were once again left to wander around on our own.
Throughout the tour, there was close to zero guided commentary. In fact, the guide we had barely spoke English. We had difficulties communicating with her on several occasions such as asking for directions to the nearest washroom.
Essentially, this tour served its purpose only as a means of transport. The railway market and floating market are two very interesting places that are worth a visit, but if you are looking to learn more about these places especially from a local's perspective, we suggest using a different tour agency.
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