Autoreis: Kompas op Noord-Thailand (10 dagen)

Name: Lennart
Date: 06-Jun-19

Recensie: Dear Ms. Kwan,

We are back home and now want to live up to our promise to send you an evaluation of our trip of Northern Thailand as organized by Green Wood Travel and yourself. Overall we were very pleased with and enthusiastic about the tour we made and the service you and your colleagues provided.

We started of course a little bit on the wrong footing with the defect GPS system , but with your help and the excellent service by Budget, this was eventually fixed to our full satisfaction.

Through this experience, we found out that a well functioning GPS system and reliable coordinates of the hotels is essential for travelers who cannot speak nor read the Thai language.
The coordinates in the travel documents were very exact for Chiang Rai Homestay. For most other hotels they were not quite exact, so we usually still had to search for the exact location with the "nearby hotels" function in the Google Maps.
For the hotel in Phrae we probably got the coordinates of the Punjen Hideaway and not for the Phrae Tower hotel. We fortunately figured that out in time and drove straight to our destination in Phrae.

Please find below our opinion about the different hotels in which we stayed:

Boutique Raft Resort
Rating 9 on a scale of 10. Location was great. Room was comfortable and tidy. Very nice facilities. Good restaurant. Very good service. Would definitely book again if we stay in the area in the future.

Country Lake Nature Lodge
Rating 7 on a scale of 10. Somewhat remote, but quite special location. Room was very basic. When we arrived, the place was totally deserted. After a while we found a maintenance worker who helped to find the staff. Later it appeared that there was only one other couple in the entire resort. Breakfast was very good/dinner ok. Would probably not stay there again.

Le Charme Sukothai Resort
Rating 9 on scale of 10. Great location close to historical site and to various restaurants. Very nice facilities in general including pool area. Comfortable and tidy room. Excellent service. Bikes for rent to visit historical park. Would definitely stay there again.

Phrae Tower Hotel
Rating at best 5 on a scale of 10. Maybe ok as a business hotel but a bit of an anti climax compared to the other (more idyllic) locations we visited on our tour. Would definitely try to find another hotel if back in the area.

Sasidara Resort Nan
Rating 7 on a scale of 10. A little lacklustre. Would probably not stay there again

Homestay Chiangrai
Rating 8 on a scale of 10. Very nice small scale resort. Excellent service. Very good (Thai) food. Would have probably rated 9 if we could have stayed in one of the (larger?) rooms with balcony. If such a room would be available, we would probably stay there again when back in the area.

If we make another Thailand tour in the future, we will almost certainly contact Green Wood Travel again.

Ms Kwan and her colleagues did a super job to get us started and were most helpful to meet our wishes/needs while we were on tour.

As for the tour itself, we realize that we were late to book, so not all "original" hotels were available. On a future journey, we would book earlier and probably try to stay at least 2 nights in every place we would visit. Also we think it would be useful for Green Wood to be a little more realistic in the travel documents about the places that can be visited on route. Taking into account that for foreigners it is advisable to be at the destination before dark, some of the suggestions (e.g. to make an extensive visit to Ayothaya during the trip from Boutique Raft Resort to Utai Thani) were in our view rather undoable.

In a nutshell, however, we had a highly interesting, colorful and exciting vacation and brought back home a lot of mostly very positive memories.

Many thanks again for your assistance and very best regards from cold but sunny Holland.

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