Visiting Khao Lak, Thailand in 2023 | What To Do, Where To Eat and more! 

Hope you have an amazing time! ✈️🌴

Thank you so much (or danke!) ☺️

Thank you so much! We had a taxi transfer included with our travel agent so I’m not sure of the available options, sorry!

Hi, thanks and I’m glad you enjoyed it! I think the bamboo rafting day was called Khao Sok eco tour - and yes it was with Tui ☺️

@@ItsLifeOfSoph thanks for the quick response. My wife has a supplementary😩. Wife here 😉….bathing elephants is a bucket list thing for me, but really concerned about the the welfare of these animals and tourist attractions. Did you feel it was a genuine place of sanctuary for them and their welfare was put first? TIA x

I felt the same way about animal welfare! My view was that Tui wouldn’t put their name on something that was cruel or inhumane, and the elephants seemed well cared for. We also had a lot of explanation about the sanctuary workings, eg. only using female elephants for bathing with guests because they are calmer than males. But on the other hand, as someone commented earlier on, you could argue that bathing with elephants is unnatural and therefore inherently cruel. It’s hard to say overall but I didn’t see anything that concerned me, and I was happy that Tui would have done their checks to ensure that the sanctuary was as kind as possible to the animals

@@ItsLifeOfSoph even big tour companies like TUI will still advertise things like this unfortunately, like they did with Sea World. Campaigners fought hard to stop these big companies from advertising and selling tickets to Sea World and a lot of them stopped which was good, and I think TUI was one of them if I remember correctly. Anyway I just came back from Khao Lak and I found it hard to know which sanctuaries are ethical tbh, and we didn’t go to one at all in the end. By the way, was Chelsea your tour guide for one of those tours? We had her and she was great 😃 we also went with TUI!

Oh that sucks to hear 😞 I’ll definitely look into it more if I ever do something like this again. No we had a man, I can’t remember his name but he was so lovely!

We did the Phi Phi Islands (including snorkelling) on the second half of our trip which was based in Phuket - there’s a Guide to Phuket video on my channel explaining more if you’re interested ☺️ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xA8uxICZg_M.html

Thank you so much! If you go onto the beach from the pool area, turn left and keep walking straight along the beach then you can get there really easily. Just make sure you go at low tide, there’s a narrow section where the tide comes right in if you time it wrong 🙈

@@ItsLifeOfSoph Thank you so much for replying I look forward to trying it out

I acknowledge that my pronunciation was probably terrible 😂🙈 but I did my best!

@@ItsLifeOfSoph ... didn't intend to sound snarky or condescending -- it's been an ongoing struggle with me too. Actually, the Thai people are very gracious and forgiving about this -- I've had to ask some of my friends there to correct me when I repeatedly mispronounce things. One of the most basic fundamentals that I often forget is that combinations of letters like "ph" or "th" do not make a third sound as they do in English... they prounounce BOTH letters -- it takes some practice and is easy to forget. ...and emphasis on syllables is often different than we often hear. But they are so polite, they seldom correct us. Just got back from a visit there -- learned that the word "papaya" is not pronounced like I've heard it my ENTIRE life... the emphasis is on the LAST syllable -- never knew that and would have guessed

Oh wow, I didn’t even notice that when people were speaking! Thanks for sharing - and you didn’t sound snarky so no worries!

Ah, I was going off of what our Tui rep told us - sorry for the error!

Ning is superb guide

Not at all, we were dropped off and picked up really close to the water ☺️

Thanks for your prompt reply. We are going in an hour. 😊❤️

Oh wow, hope you have an amazing time!

Sophie we had the BEST time! What a wonderful experience! We also got to meet the keeper at the Turtle sanctuary and got to hold the turtles! Thanks so much for this fabulous recommendation!

Glad you enjoyed them ☺️ it was mostly cash payments, from memory there weren’t many places that had card machines. We tipped in restaurants and taxis but I don’t think there’s any particular guidance on how much - we just tended to “round up” or give an extra 10 or 20 baht here or there

Thank you so much for all your answers, very usefull. @@ItsLifeOfSoph