Duration: 22 days, 21 nights
Difficulty: Easy to moderate
Budget Level: Budget to mid-range
Best For: Solo traveller, first trip to Thailand, beach-led with a full nightlife layer
Highlights: Eleven nights on Koh Samui, the Gulf's best boat day, an island loop on your own bike, all three Bangkok red-light districts, Sunday Walking Street in Chiang Mai
Pace: Moderate. Mornings out, afternoons free.
Total Cost Estimate: 90,000 – 140,000 THB on the ground, excluding your international flights. The spread is almost entirely nightlife.
Perfect for
Someone landing in Thailand for the first time who wants the beach to be the trip, not a segment of it. Eleven of the twenty-one nights are on Koh Samui, with a bike under you and most afternoons unplanned. Bangkok bookends the trip and carries the temples and the nightlife. Chiang Mai closes it out with the food and the mountain temple.
