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Gulf of Thailand

Slow east

Koh Kood and the Trat coast, where the roads run out. A villa, a boat, and very little else on the calendar.

Length5 to 9 days
Best seasonNovember to April
CostOne all-in numberQuoted per person once a designer has read your brief — stays, guiding, transfers and boats together, exclusions listed beside it.
Who it suitsAnyone who wants an island without an airport on it

Day by day

A shape, not a schedule. Every one of these is rewritten around the people travelling it.

  1. Out east

    Bangkok to Trat, then the boat. Thailand's fourth-largest island, fewer than three thousand people, no traffic light.

  2. Nothing

    Deliberately. A beach, a book, a swim before breakfast. This is the point of the trip, not a gap in it.

  3. The waterfall and the far side

    Klong Chao in the morning before anyone, then the east coast fishing villages on stilts.

  4. On the water

    A boat for the day to the small islands south, with lunch aboard and snorkelling off the back.

  5. Koh Mak

    An hour across: flatter, quieter, palms and one road. Sunset here is the one people remember.

  6. Back

    The long way home, by boat and road, with a night on the Trat coast if you would rather not rush it.

What it includes

Included

  • Every stay, chosen against the standard
  • Private guiding and a driver where the roads ask for it
  • Boats, transfers and internal flights
  • One designer, start to finish
  • A 24-hour line while you travel

Not included

  • International flights
  • Travel insurance — required, and we do not sell it
  • Visas where they apply
  • Personal spending and tipping

Suppliers on this route are held to the standard published on the homepage. Where a place is on our list because we trust the person running it rather than because we have slept there ourselves, we say so when we suggest it.

Start with a conversation.

Four questions, a minute of your time, and a designer reads it within one working day.

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