Thailand Travel Prices
Thailand, ‘The Land of Smiles’ offers beautiful sights and beaches, an amazing cuisine, culture and more at a minimal price.
Thailand is the coolest travel destinations in Asia. More and more tourists go to Thailand every year because of its friendliness, and peace. Travelers can enjoy visiting pagodas, grand temples, and peaceful traditional villages or playing on gorgeous beaches in luxury seaside resorts. Though, to really enjoy the best of your travel, you should know a thing or two about the art of bargaining in Thailand. Other than grand hotels, luxury resorts, and big restaurants where fixed prices are listed, you can bargain for just about anything else in Thailand.
Before heading towards Thailand you should have some knowledge and a general idea about costs in Thailand. The Thai form of currency is the Thailand Baht with 1 USD = 32 Baht.
Transport bargains
By browsing the internet, you can easily learn information about prices of going by taxi or several means of transportation. However, for distances of great length, you have to bargain for a more inexpensive price because for some of the long routes, the price does not include what is counted on the taximeter. If you use a taxi over a distance which is exceeds 60 km, you need to call the taxi company beforehand and ask for their price for such a long route.
- Budget Hotel = 5$-15$.
- Luxury Hotels = 80$+
- 5 km taxi ride = 2$-3$
- Internet/hour - 0.50$
- Fried rice (food stand) - 1$
- Beer (7 eleven) - 2$
- 2 piece Suit - 25$
- VIP bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai (650 km) - 18$
- 1 hour massage - 3$-9$
Thailand is very inexpensive in general except in Phuket and Bangkok.