Damnoen Saduak Floating Market & Maeklong Railway Market Tour From Bangkok
Description
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 fruits that are photogenic, and these images are used for tourism promotion. The market is often the busiest in the morning from 07:00 am to 09:00 am and is active until noon. Explore the market waiting for the train, Maeklong Railway Market is spread out on and next to the railway tracks. Customers walk on the railway track looking for something to buy from the shops on either side of the track. Several times per day a train rolls in at a low speed. When the driver sounds the horn, the vendors quickly pick up and remove their wares to make way for the approaching train. Immediately after the train has passed the canopy roof is raised back and it’s business as usual.
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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 fruits that are photogenic, and these images are used for tourism promotion. The market is often the busiest in the morning from 07:00 am to 09:00 am and is active until noon.
Maeklong Railway Market is spread out on and next to the railway tracks. Customers walk on the railway track looking for something to buy from the shops on either side of the track. Several times per day a train rolls in at a low speed. When the driver sounds the horn, the vendors quickly pick up and remove their wares to make way for the approaching train. Immediately after the train has passed the canopy roof is raised back and it’s business as usual.
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- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- You come by yourself to meeting point.
- Dress code is smart casual and the minimum age is 5 years
- On the rare occasion that we should be required to cancel a tour, we will inform you in advance and offer a different tour date, an alternative tour or provide a full refund
- Please note that the total tour duration includes the travel time.
Reviews(10)
It’s a wonderful place to visit. The people are very friendly, and the guide was very kind and helpful.
Thank you very much for your kind review. We’re delighted to hear that you enjoyed the destination and found the people friendly, as well as the guide kind and helpful. Your feedback truly means a lot to us, and we hope to have the opportunity to welcome you again in the future. Best Regards, Oh-Hoo Team
The Railway market was fairly good. Very busy as mostly tourist that descend en-mass to be there when the train goes through. Likewise the train was full of tourists. Above is understandably obvious so nice to see the stalls adjust just in time to let the train through. Floating market was massively disappointing. The stalls are 90% selling cheap tourist tack. All the same. No-one is trading fruit and veg etc, as you see in the posters. The canals are full of plastic polution, its everywhere in the water on the banks, its been that way for years as its embedded in and dredging spoil along the banks. Also if you like breathing in exhaust fumes then this tour is for you. Young drivers handle huge engines on the long boats are skilfully maneuvered around the slower ones being paddled by older, fitter drivers. What they don't tell you is that if havent paid for fully inclusive tour you pay £75 for the boat for 90 mins tour. Not too bad if your group is 4 or 6 but a rip off if you are two.
Dear Valued Customer, Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We're glad to hear that you enjoyed the unique experience of the Railway Market, despite the crowds of tourists. It truly is a fascinating sight to see the stalls adjust just in time for the train. However, we’re sorry to hear that the floating market did not meet your expectations. We understand your concerns about the commercialization of the market, the environmental issues, and the additional boat costs. Your feedback is valuable, and we will share it with the relevant teams to explore ways to improve the experience for future guests. We appreciate your honest review and will take your comments into account as we work on refining our tour offerings. If there is anything we can do to assist you further, please feel free to reach out. Best regards, Oh Hoo Travel
This tour was amazing! A must do! We had plenty of time to explore, shop and eat. Our guide was terrific.
Thank you so much for your kind words. We’re delighted to hear that you had an amazing time and felt the tour was a must do experience. It’s wonderful that you had plenty of time to explore, shop, and enjoy the food at a relaxed pace. We really appreciate your recommendation and hope to see you again on your next adventure. Best Regards, Oh-Hoo Team
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.
Thank you very much for your kind review. We’re delighted to hear that you enjoyed the tour and that Tim helped make your experience more enjoyable with his friendliness and knowledge. Your suggestion about allowing more time and providing a closer view of how vendors move their products when the train arrives is very valuable, and we will certainly share it with our team as we continuously work to improve our tours. Thank you again for joining the tour and for sharing your thoughts with us. We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you again in the future. Best Regards, Oh-Hoo Team
The train ride and the market. Also the floating market very good experience. And lots of local foods.
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.
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
An experience that is just about shopping very touristy, unfortunately we have traveled too much to appreciate this, but as a newcomer to Thailand, it is probably more fun.
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
Wonderful trip with excellent guide and organization, responsibility fullfiled the trip. So confortable.
