Damnoen Saduak Floating Market Tour: Experience Traditional Thai Culture and Shopping

Immerse yourself in traditional Thai culture and shopping at the Damnoen Saduak Floating Market. Explore the maze of canals and witness female traders selling colorful fruits and vegetables from their sampans. Don’t miss the unique experience of shopping on the railway tracks at the Maeklong Railway Market.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Damnoen Saduak Floating Market - Damnoen Saduak Floating Market consists of a maze of narrow khlongs (canals). Female traders, often wearing traditional mo hom apparel (blue farmers’ shirts) with wide-brimmed straw hats (Ngob) use sampans (small wooden boats) to sell their wares, often produce. These boats are often full of vegetables and colorful…
What's Included
  • Scenic train ride experience
  • Longtail boat access to the floating market
  • Complimentary bottled water and cold towel
  • Knowledgeable English-speaking guide
  • Travel insurance included
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off within Bangkok
  • Extra transfer charge 300 THB/Pax from Silom, Sukhumvit, and Pratunam
  • Lunch
Additional Information

The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is a labyrinth of slender canals or ‘khlongs’. Women sellers frequently dress in traditional mo hom clothes (blue farmer’s shirts) and wide-straw hats known as ‘Ngob’, utilizing sampans (small wooden boats) to peddle their goods, often fresh produce. These boats, loaded with vibrant fruits and vegetables, provide…

Location
River City Bangkok
Soi Charoen Krung 24
Or, you can also get picked up. There is a transfer service for Silom, Sukhumvit, and Pratunam, pay extra directly to the driver 300 baht/person (round trip).
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Chakell_c
Nov 17, 2024
Market tour - This tour was amazing! A must do! We had plenty of time to explore, shop and eat. Our guide was terrific.
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Subianto_g
May 24, 2024
Bangkok floating market and train ride. - The train ride and the market. Also the floating market very good experience. And lots of local foods.
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Halakhaled1211
Apr 20, 2023
My floating market and Stinky train tour - A must trip to Bangkok. Our guide Kiwi was so adorable and enthusiastic. It was so humbling to ride the train and the boat in the floating market. It was a super traditional ravishing experience
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Hongyuw146
Apr 19, 2022
Comfortable journey - Wonderful trip with excellent guide and organization, responsibility fullfiled the trip. So confortable.
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Crystal_r
Oct 16, 2024
Nice tour for an affordable price. - Great tour! Tim was very nice and knowledgeable. I would have liked more tiime alotted at the train market, and that we were taken to an area where we could see the vendors remove their products from being too close to the train tracks.
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Lesley
Jun 15, 2023
Well worth a look - Watch for the scam. - Expecting to be delivered to a tourist focused excursion I was pleasantly surprised by the realness of both the Train market and the floating market. The fresh market along the railway was very good and by no means a display for the tourists. Our experience at the flower market was similar, riverside trading, paddle boat ride and surrounding tourist market were all of a high standard. Buy souvenirs, a coconut pancake, plate of fresh fruit or a beer as you drift along the canals. Paddle boat pricing can be negotiated and is better once you move away from the carpark. As a couple through a tourist office on Khaosan road we arranged a private driver to take us to both (750BHT pp). The drive time is at least 90 minutes each way in reasonable traffic. Everything was good until we got to a carpark ~ 3km from the Damnoen Saduak floating market where the boat guys wanted another 4000 BHT to take us to the market, more if you wanted to see the Elephants as well. It took us the next 15mins and google maps to convince our driver to take us to the floating market carpark where entrance is free and the only additional cost is incurred if you want to get in a paddle boat. For this we paid 300BHT for both of us.
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Helen_u
Feb 10, 2023
Bad communication - The whole day the timing wasn’t right. Firstly the original time to meet was 9.00 am. We received a message the day before changing it to 8.20am. Rushed through breakfast to get there on time to be told to hang around until 9.00! Drove in a minibus to pick up the train which ran a little late, not the tours fault. Arrived at the railway market and were told to meet back at the train in 6 minutes. We all did this and then realised that we should have been in the market waiting for the train to go past so missed the whole point of the market and great photo opportunities. This happened to the whole bus load, not just us. We were then walked straight to the waiting minibus and would not have seen any of the market except we all started complaining so we walked through it. Drove to the floating market which was good. Food was good and cheap but didn’t have time to walk around the market. Left to come back to the pick up point and they wanted to drop us at a shopping centre 15 minutes drive away. Eventually they relented and drove us back. In conclusion we have done 20 or more Viator tours and this has been the most disappointing due to timing and bad communication
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