🏨 Maeklong Railway Market & Damnoensaduak Floating Market Tour (SHA Plus) Activity

Maeklong Railway Market & Damnoensaduak Floating Market Tour (SHA Plus)

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From $78.13

26 reviews (3.27)

Price varies by group size

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Pricing Info: Per Person

Duration: 8 hours

Departs: Bangkok, Bangkok

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

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

What's Included

Long-tail boat ride to Damnoen Saduak floating market

Professional guide

Standard rates include Hotel pickup and drop off (selected hotels only)

Transport by air-conditioned vehicle

What's Not Included

Food and drinks

Gratuities

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 1
CHILD: Age: 2 - 11
ADULT: Age: 12 - 99

Additional Info

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.
COVID-19 vaccination required for guides
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Public transportation options are available nearby
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
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.
You can also join our tours at BANGKOK METTING PIONTS - Our office, Sun Leisure World Corporation, Phaya Thai Plaza Buidling, Phaya Thai Road, Bangkok-101400

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
Boat ride is not wheelchair accessible
Face masks required for guides in public areas
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,
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Paid stay-at-home policy for staff with symptoms
Regular temperature checks for staff
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Temperature checks for travellers upon arrival
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
You can also join our tours at BANGKOK MEETING POINTS - Our office, Sun Leisure World Corporation, Level 29 The Offices at Central World 999/9 Rama I Rd, Pathumwan Pathum Wan, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10330 Thailand

Cancellation Policy

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

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Maeklong Railway Market (Talad Rom Hub)

The group will start at the pick up point by 6.00 am then drive to Maeklong Railway Market , nicknamed (Thai:Talat Rom Hup), meaning the "umbrella pulldown market".It is one of the largest fresh seafood markets in Thailand, and is centered on the Maeklong Railway's track. Whenever a train approaches, the awnings and shop fronts are moved back from the rails, to be replaced once the train has passed.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

Damnoensaduak is one of a provincial district of Rajburi Province. Most people live densely along both sides of the canal from one end of the canal to another.The majority of this people are agriculturists. They grow several different kinds of fruit and vegetable for examples oranges, grapes, papayas, cabbages, bean, onion and etc. The land in this area is naturally fertile. Apart from providing transportation, Damnoensaduak Canal also provides farmers with adequate water for agricultural purposes for the whole year around. More than 200 small canals were dug by local peasants to connect with it to get water to splatter their land. Moreover; these small canals also become protitiouus ways of taking their agricultural products to the markets in neighbouring provinces and Bangkok. Day in and day out from about 8 a.m. to about 11 a.m. the Floating Market is routinely crowded with hundrreds of vendors and purchasers floating in their small rowing boats selling and buying or exchanging their goods. What they purchase are particularly food, fruit and vegetable which mostly brought from their own orchards.

ITINERARY:

06:00 - Pick up from hotel

07:00 - Departure from Bangkok

08:40 - Arrive train market waiting the pass along market

09:15 - Continue to Floating market

10:00 - Arrive floating market and free time 1 hour (PADDAL BOAT OPTIONAL 150 BHT)

11:30 - Back to Bangkok

14:00 - Arrive in hotel

2 hours • Admission Ticket Included

Sight Seeing Bangkok

Tour operator

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Reviews

Excellent Experience - will do it again for sure, next time

HappyCouple1998, 05-09-2019

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

Best Tour with Best Guide - Jenny

Siseko7, 15-09-2022

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.

Maeklong and Damnoensaduak market day out

krjh1, 04-03-2020

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.

Domnoen saduk and railway market

tau962, 25-12-2019

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.

A Must to experience

Sharyn1991, 10-02-2020

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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