The guides, grouped by the question they answer.
Start with the question you're stuck on. Every guide below is the full answer as best we could verify it, with a real last-checked date under the headline — the homepage shows six of these, and this page holds all of them.
Before you fly
The Thailand Digital Arrival Card, without the scam sites
Mandatory for every traveler, free, five minutes on the official site — and ringed by copycats that charge for it. Every screen, the 3-day window, the group trick.
Read the guide → New rules 15 SeptThailand's visa exemption drops to 30 days
The Royal Gazette notice is out: 60 countries keep visa-free entry, now at 30 days, from 15 September 2026. The full list, the transition dates, the 1,900-baht extension.
Read the guide → The packing listThe Thailand survival pack: what to bring, what to skip
The viral yadom inhaler explained, the short list worth flying with, and why the rest is cheaper at your first 7-Eleven.
Read the guide → Straight talkIs Thailand safe in 2026? What to check for your trip
The regional advisory, the roads, the water, the boats, the scams and the emergency numbers, as a table of what to look up before you book and again before you go, with every source dated.
Read the guide → Read the roomThai etiquette: the rules locals wish you knew
The wai, temple dress, monks, the monarchy law, feet and heads, tipping reality — explained without the lecture.
Read the guide →When to go
When to go where: Thailand's weather, month by month
There is no bad month for Thailand — only the wrong coast. The one map that makes "rainy season" mostly irrelevant to your trip.
Read the guide → The half-price caseThailand in the rainy season: the case for going anyway
The actual rain-day numbers by month, the half-price math, and which coast stays workable while the other one soaks.
Read the guide → Month verdictThailand in October: the verdict, region by region
The Andaman monsoon plays its last act, the Gulf's wet season arrives, and the smart trip goes inland to an emerald North.
Read the guide → Month verdictThailand in November: the verdict, region by region
The Andaman reopens dry and gorgeous, the Gulf islands hit their wettest month, and the North throws its best festivals.
Read the guide → Month verdictThailand in December: the verdict, region by region
Prime weather almost everywhere, the year's biggest crowds in the second half, and hotel prices that double for the festive weeks.
Read the guide → Month verdictThailand in January: the verdict, region by region
The whole country is dry at once — so the real questions are crowds and prices, not weather. Where everyone goes, and where we'd go instead.
Read the guide → For UK familiesThailand on UK school holidays, break by break
Which Thai coast works at October half term, Christmas, February, Easter and the summer holidays — with flights from the UK and money in pounds.
Read the guide →Where to go
Thailand in two weeks: a 14-night route
Bangkok, Chiang Mai and a coast chosen for your dates: 14 nights over 15 local dates, with the travel days inside the calendar and a final Bangkok night. Each example opens in the planner as shown.
Read the guide → The video routeLisa's SaWaDiKa filming locations in Bangkok: a route on foot and by train
The filming locations from the two reports on the video: a working railway station, the streets they name, a museum with September closure dates to know, and the sites the route leaves out as unverified. MRT and BTS between them, prices, and a hand-off into the planner.
Read the guide → Which market, which dayBangkok's daytime markets: which one for food, flowers or shopping, and on which day
Chatuchak, Or Tor Kor, Pak Khlong Talat and Nang Loeng compared on what they are for, with hours as government and operator pages publish them, the MRT exits from the operator's lists, and the two markets whose published schedules disagree.
Read the guide → What to eat, prices listedSix things to eat from a Thai 7-Eleven, with the prices the retailer lists
A basil pork rice marked best seller at 40 baht, a chicken khua kling on riceberry rice at 45, a fried rice with gourami fish at 49, two sandwiches at 35 and bananas in coconut milk at 25: six items as 7-Eleven Thailand's own product pages describe and price them, with what those pages leave out and the three Reddit threads that prompted the page.
Read the guide → The family guideBangkok with kids: the big days out and the days between
Dream World's snow room, a record-book wave pool, a miniature Thailand by bicycle — and the mall playlands that save rainy afternoons.
Read the guide → Family day outDream World Bangkok: prices, hours, height rules
The park's own ticket prices and opening hours, the height rules ride by ride, the snow room, and how long the journey from central Bangkok takes.
Read the guide → Family day outSiam Amazing Park: tickets, hours, and the wave pool
The wave-pool day priced and timed: the official day passes, Water World and the four ride zones, the Pink Line, and what to expect with children.
Read the guide → Family day outAncient City (Muang Boran): prices, hours, getting there
All of Thailand in one afternoon, on a bicycle: the official entry prices, the hours and the way there from Bangkok, checked on the page's own date.
Read the guide → The frontierOff the beaten path in Thailand, priced in days
Isaan, the Mae Hong Son loop, Sangkhla Buri — the far side of Thai tourism, priced in the days it takes from Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Who should go, and who shouldn't.
Read the guide →Build the route
How long every Thailand route takes
54 verified legs between 19 places — durations, modes and rough fares, checked August 2026. The table the planner runs on.
Read the guide → The sanity checkIs the route you've sketched doable?
Enter your stops and nights; we score the plan against real transit times and minimum stays, free.
Read the guide → The productHow the planner works — and what it won't do
What the demo asks, what the engine weighs (monsoons, transit ceilings, a time budget), and what we refuse to do: invent activities.
Read the guide →These guides. One planner.
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