Grand Palace & Temples of Bangkok with experienced guide

Grand palace and temple tour

Wan was a wonderful tour guide for the grand palace and temple tour. I selected the 8:30 AM tour to avoid the heat and due to some cancellations wound up being the only guest on the tour. Wan was very knowledgeable during her tour not only with the planned material but also in answering my questions. She spoke great English and kept me engaged the entire time. I would definitely recommend a tour from her.

Temple excursion

Amazing tour! Our guide Peach was very nice and highly knowledge - would definitely recommend! However, I would avoid April/May as Thailand was extremely hot for a walking tour!

Couldn't Have Experienced the Temples Any Other Way

My guide, Ms. Thim (forgot to ask how to spell it) was a wonderful guide. She made the entire journey around the 3 temples and palace so much fun. She made sure I stayed hydrated and looked after me. I also learned alot of interesting historical facts and Thai phrases from her. Thank you WanderSiam, and thank YOU, Ms. Thim!

Great tour and good way to know about the history of country l

Very good and complete tour. Our guide, Waan, was very knowledgable and kind. She is very passionate about her job and explained in great detail.

Best guide

Guide Tax(sry) best guide ever ! Very knowledgeable, explains good. We had a great time . We highly recommend him .

Getting to know the temples

The tour was fun I got lots of pictures. The tour guid had lots of information. I had loads of time to see and learn everything.

Excellent Service

5 out of 5. Our guide was excellent, very in depth & spiritual tour. Temples were some of the most beautiful buildings ever built. Highly recommend whilst staying in Bangkok

Grand Palace and Bangkok temples

The tour guide related his name to "Taxi", he was so good and very considerate to how our small the group of 6 would manage the heat on the 4hr tour starting at 1 pm in 37C heat. He explained where to walk and where not to, he also gave us detailed explanations of each temple, the history and religious backgrounds"before" we went into those areas. This way we were able to marvel at the beauty of them and he gave us little top-up stories/facts and picture tips as we went along. This way he didn't have to shout above the other tour guides during our viewing pleasures but he still kept us engaged whilst we were taking it all in with pictures. He kept giving us cooling breaks in shade, breezy areas or where there were fans or AC. Overall, his tour guiding skills were exceptional and we would 100% recommend him and his tour company for anybody looking to do this tour. Tips: wear loose clothing that will cover you, that way you respect the temples and the heat! Hat or umbrella recommended. Travel light as carrying a bag causes extra heat and sweating where it touches you. After this 4 hrs tour you'll feel "templed-out" - phrase quoted by another member of our group:-)

Brilliant experience.

Excellent tour. The guide was very knowledgeable. We had a great time. The guide also knew excellent spots for photographs. We got some good photos on a crowded day.

Great!

Great event with Elena. She made visiting the temples and palace a very interesting and absorbing experience. She was very knowledgable about everything and very good at keeping the group moving through the sites, including arranging tuktuk rides for the group. I would highly recommend this as a means of seeing the temples and palace, rather than trying to get through them alone

Great Tour!

We really enjoyed the tour! Our guide Elena gave us lots of information about the sights, country, people and culture and accompanied us from place to place in a safe and super friendly manner from start to finish! Thank you very much for that!

Great short tour of the temples

Had a really great tour seeing the palace, Wat Arun and Wat Pho. I decided to go for the 10am tour but I would recommend going sooner or possibly later as it was really busy and hot. Our guide Peach was really friendly, funny and informative and made sure we looked after.

Very satisfied

Highly recommended this trip! The guide was nice and very knowledgeable. It was a 3 to 4 hours trip covered everything listed. It worth every single penny!

Amazing

Tack was amazing. He knew all the best spots and provided great information. Definitely worth it. Temples and Grand Palace are spectacular.

Good guided tour in small group

She guided us well to go around the temple and Grand palace. Hassle free on the boat ride transportation. The guide also make sure we are all in the group until the end of the tour.

Friendly guide made seeing palace & temple easy

Friendly guide who made logistics easy between locations. Knowledgeable and able to answer questions about specific artifacts or history.

Fantastic tour with Sunday 🙌🏼

Very nice and informative walking tour with our guide Sunday (Domingo) very good sense of humour too! All the information was very interesting throughout. Although it was very hot, he made sure we got breaks when needed and plenty of water. Wat Arun showcased in pictures, he also asked if we wanted pictures in all places we went :)

An unforgettable experience with Sunday, a skillful guide

A wonderful guided tour of the main temples and Grand Palace in Bangkok. The Emerald Buddha and Reclining Buddha, ferry ride were highlights. The temples are striking. Sunday is a skilled guide, well organized and engaging. Unforgettable!

Okay tour for the price

This tour is interesting. You can visit the Royal Palace, Emerald Buddha and two main temples in Bangkok in only four hours. The guide was good. The meeting point on Viator is not accurate. The guide will meet you at Tha Chang pier

Tiring but worth it.

The Temples and Palace were, as expected, amazing, however Nikki , the guide, was exceptional knowledgeable and carrying . It was extremely hot and she kept us plied with water. I highly recommend the tour

The Best Grand Palace Tour

Very nice experience. Loads of great information. We never felt rushed and our guide Wachira always found a shady place for us while explaining what we were about to see. It was wonderful to visit all three important places in one day with the included ferry to Wat Arun!

Excellent Tour

Excellent tour. Thanks Pi. Took care of the group with water and W/C stops along the way. Very knowledgeable. Super friendly.

Amazing

These palaces are breathtakingly beautiful and this tour is well worth the price! The tour guide was very knowledgeable and made sure no one got lost.

Amazing temples very informative interesting and educational

It was a bit challenging finding the meeting spot so we arrived a little late, but lucky for us Our guide was still waiting. We were told it was a five minute walk from the train and it is more like a 20 to 25 minute walk in the heat plus you have to figure out which way to go. Our guide was very nice and knowledgeable. The tour itself was very informative and interesting. It’s about four hours long and it is very very hot, so be prepared For the heat they did give us water but not enough you have the option to buy some on the way to other temples that you will visit at the end you will get on the boat to visit the last temple. It is pretty exhausting so make sure you wear comfortable shoes and light clothing and dress appropriately for the temples or you will wind up buying clothes at the gift shop before the tour like many of us had to do lol I recommend this trip it was worth it

Memorable Bankok Temple and Palace tour

Booked this Tour with Get your Guide. It was a private tour with Pui who picked us up from the Hotel lobby in a air conditioned car. She was immediately approachable, lovely smile and very welcoming. As well as giving us a informative tour with her excellent knowledge of past history of Thialand and what made Bangkok as it is today. She also gave us a insite into every day Thai life and the role Buddhism plays in their culture. She pointed out interest points at the temple's and palace. To be honest on our own we would have of course been awe struck but would have had no idea what we were looking at . Pui made our day looking after our comfort, taking photos ( even making a video to music ) A memorable trip . Thank you Pui

Professional, trusted guides

Tuk was an excellent tour guide who did a good job of anticipating our interests and answering the questions we had. His English was great and we only had a few instances of asking him to repeat things in the four hour tour. There was a good mix of having him show us around the sights and having time to explore alone, which was good in the huge and overwhelming palace/temples. This was our second tour with Wander Siam and they've both been excellent.

I would rate the overall impression as 6 out of 10

One of the biggest disadvantages is that Viator's meeting point is not that easy to find. There is no marked kiosk or stand. The tour guide's job was not to give information but to take the small group from one object to another (which also makes sense). I would rate the overall impression as 6 out of 10.

Excellent sites and guide

I went on this tour near the end of January. The guide was excellent, he really knew his Thai history. He provided many interesting facts, so many it was difficult to retain them! He explained Thai customs and many details regarding Buddhism. The sites visited are amazing, and well worth seeing. Being in the company of a guide who could provide relevant context for the sites really enhanced the overall experience. I feel it was well worth the price and would highly recommend this tour.

Very enjoyable!

Had a really great time on this tour. I don't remember his name (sorry!) but my tour guide was so knowledgeable and very informative as a guide. The tour is the perfect length in time and it was a really great way to see the main temples. Highly recommend!

Great trip with lots of information and local knowledge

Great trip and you get a real insight into all the temples with lots of opportunity to look around. The guide was very knowledgeable and we got some great insights and information. Also included is a boat trip across the river

Temple Tour

Nicky was excellent and quite knowledgeable. The temples are beautiful. Quite crowded as it was the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

Guide did nothing. Waste of money

Our guide and I use that term loosely because our guide took us places and simply just gave us time to look at things on our own. We had no idea what we were looking at. Other guides were everywhere with their groups explaining sights but not our guide. We could have just posted aid the admission fee and saved the money.

Assistance of the guide...

Assistance of the guide and her helping nature towards all our needs. Her support was excellence and appreciated.

Cancelled with less than 12 hours notice despite being booked and paid for. Incredibly disappointing.

Sadly this tour was cancelled less than 12 hours before it was due to start, despite being booked and paid for. In fact I was booked on the 10am tour and it was cancelled overnight so I didn’t find out until I awoke at 8am that my whole day plans were ruined. I was offered a spot on the 1.30pm tour instead but I had another activity booked at this time. Really disappointed, given that customers are only permitted 24 hour cancellation, I would have hoped that the company would respect their customers enough to offer them the same courtesy. This would have allowed me to have made other arrangements. Cannot recommend.

A Solid Addition to Viewing the Temples

During my previous visit to Bangkok, I viewed these temples without the benefit of a guide. While a wonderful experience, I do believe taking the tour this time around enhanced my knowledge of the places we visited. Our guide (I can't recall his name) was competent, however, I think he could have shared even more information than he did. All in all, the tour is reasonably priced and worth taking.

Grand Palace & Wat Pho Wonders

This is a great tour that will give you a sense of the majesty and scope of these grand historic temples. Our guide Tock (sp?) was great, although a little soft-spoken for those of us without sharp hearing. He answered questions, kept us informed, and had quite extensive knowledge of the history of the site. We were happy with him.

Busy but worth seeing! Best tour guide

I think the Grand Palace was the busiest place I’ve been too in Thailand but still worth to see. My tour guide Nikki was the best tour guide I have had to date. She was extremely personable, helpful, and had good English. She was knowledgeable about facts, and was great at helping take pictures!

Amazing to see the grandeur of the Grand Palace and temples with a guide who put everything we saw in historical context

My guide was extremely knowledgeable and shared the information with us so we could understand the historical significance of the things we saw. She answered all of our questions and made the experience most enjoyable. She also showed a good sense of humor and was attentive to our needs for drinks and the bathroom.

Wowowowow

Wow, what beautiful locations we visited!! Our guide was very knowledgeable and friendly, he did a fantastic job. You will get such a better understanding of these sites and the culture with an experienced guide, as we had. It was an absolute bargain, as well.

Great guide

Nicky was a charming guide, full of interesting insight. Fun trip with a small group, plenty of time for photos, solo wandering.

Visiting the Grand Palace and the major Bangkok temples is a must

The Grand Palace and all the temples are worth it. The guide was helpful and friendly but it felt like she didn’t share enough information about the palace and temples.

Best experience!

What a fantastic half day tour! Our tour guide, Tack, was so kind, knowledgeable, and easy to walk around with. Ourselves and another couple were treated with such a wonderful experience to the grand palace and two temples. Tack ushered us into the right places, informed us of everything, and handled all the transportation between sites. If I tried this on my own, I would have been overwhelmed. Thoroughly recommend this tour. It is very humid and hot, so bring a fan and a hat. Give yourself plenty of time to reach the starting point. The humidity made it hard for me to think logically when trying to find where I’m going, so make sure you leave early. Thank you, Tack, for making our tour something we will remember forever.

Less than one star

Could not find the guide at meeting point so paid for a tour that didn't happen. Extremely disappointed as this was supposed to be the highlight of my trip . Buyer beware !

An amazing tour

The tour was very worthwhile to see highlights of the Grand Palace and its surrounding temples. 0ur guide Pai made it more interesting as she was knowledgeable, professional and funny. We recommend to go to the Grand Palace with a guide to hear the background history. A definite attraction to visit in Bangkok.

Quick rundown of beautiful temples

Amazing views, nice and attentive guide. Provided water, which was nice. Not in a hurry. Maybe one thing to mention is that the guide spoke very quietly and it was a little hard to hear.

Excellent Temple Tour

Our guide was amazing! Very knowledgeable and she gave us an amazing tour! We are grateful to have had this experience and would recommend our guide to everyone.

Incredible Temple Tour

Vallapa was our tour guide and I could not recommend this experience more. Great way to see temples and hear about the history.

Grand Palace Tour

The guide was very helpful - knowledgeable and informative. He was also very patient and assisted my wife in getting around.

Essentials!

Beautiful places, all the must see temples I think! Interesting information and very friendly tourguide!

Disappointing slow admin so no joining instructions in time.

I ordered the trip but was unable to download the ticket in time so did not have the meeting point details. Paid for a trip I couldn’t join.