6D/5NThailand Island Hopper
Phuket → Phang Nga Bay → Phi Phi → Railay
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₹49,500/ person
21–26 Nov 20266 seats left
Phuket & Krabi
Southern Thailand, Thailand
- Trips here
- 1 trip
- From
- ₹47,500 /person
- Next departure
- 21 Nov 2026
- Country
- Thailand
Practical facts for Phuket & Krabi
Season, route in, and what an Indian passport needs at the border. Rules change — confirm the visa position close to your departure.
Best time to go
November to April, the north-east monsoon season on the Andaman side: calm seas, reliable boat schedules and the best water clarity from January to March. May to October brings the south-west monsoon — heavy squalls, red flags on the west-coast beaches and boat trips cancelled at short notice. Do not plan island-hopping in that window.
Getting there
Non-stop services to Phuket (HKT) from Delhi and Mumbai operate seasonally on low-cost carriers, around 4h30. The dependable route is via Bangkok — 4h to 4h30 from Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata or Chennai, then a 1h20 domestic hop to Phuket or Krabi. Phuket to Krabi is about three hours by road around the head of the bay, or ninety minutes by ferry in season.
Good to know
Visa-freeVisa: Indian passport holders currently enter Thailand visa-free under the exemption scheme in force since 2024, for stays of up to 60 days. The scheme is renewed periodically rather than permanent, so confirm status close to departure. All arrivals must complete the Thailand Digital Arrival Card online before landing.
- Currency:
- Thai baht (THB). Cards are accepted in hotels and malls; markets, long-tails and songthaews are cash.
- Rough daily budget:
- ₹2,000–3,500 per person for meals and local transport outside a package. Street and market food is excellent and a fraction of restaurant prices.
1 trip in Phuket & Krabi
Fixed dates, live seat counts, run by our own leaders.
- 6D/5N
What to know about Phuket & Krabi
Phuket and Krabi face each other across Phang Nga Bay, and the bay is the reason to come. It is drowned karst country — several hundred limestone towers rising sheer out of shallow green water, hollowed by sea caves and hidden lagoons you enter by kayak at the right tide. Koh Panyee, the stilt village built by Malay fishing families on the rock face, and the sea stack at Khao Phing Kan are the standard long-tail stops.
Phuket itself is large — about 540 sq km — and much more varied than the Patong strip suggests. Old Phuket Town is a grid of Sino-Portuguese shophouses in ice-cream colours, with the best food on the island in and around Thalang Road. The west coast beaches run from busy at Patong to almost empty at Nai Harn and Naiyang.
Krabi is quieter and more vertical. The Railay peninsula is cut off from the mainland by cliffs and reachable only by long-tail boat, which is why it stayed low-rise and why it became one of the best-known sport-climbing venues in Asia. Behind Ao Nang, the Tiger Cave temple sits at the top of 1,237 steps, and Ko Phi Phi and the Hong islands are the day-boat targets from either coast.
Photographs of Phuket & Krabi by their creators — photo credits.
Reviews from travellers in Phuket & Krabi
- NAVerified booking
Nikhil Advani
Phi Phi is busy and everyone said so
The Phang Nga day and Railay are five stars. The Phi Phi speedboat day is the one where you share the lagoon with forty other boats, which the team did warn us about beforehand. Sea was rough on the way back — take the tablets they tell you to take. Old Phuket Town in the evening was an unexpected favourite.
Thailand Island HopperFebruary 2026 - ARVerified booking
Ayesha Rahman
The kayak day in Phang Nga
Going into the hongs through a tunnel you have to lie flat in the kayak to clear, and coming out inside a collapsed cave open to the sky with monkeys on the walls — nothing else on the trip came close. Railay at the end, with no cars and no road in, was the right way to finish.
Thailand Island HopperFebruary 2026
