Back to Thailand
/Following our three months in India we are planning to enjoy Thailand for two months — again. Our only previous visit was in 2016. As with India, it will be some new destinations — (just north of) Phuket island in the south and the youthful, but still age-approptiate for us 😉, party capital of northern Thailand – Pai. And some old destinations — Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Pattaya.
We enjoy clothing optional resorts and beaches. We’ve stayed in a few “naturist” resorts in the US, Mexico and Thailand. Among our most watched hotel review videos on our YouTube channel is the Chan Resort in Pattaya. We know of at least three other clothing optional locations in Thailand we have never visited. We are talking about doing a “clothing optional” tour of these other properties while in Thailand. Check out the Chan Resort video below. (No worries. It's Safe For Work.)
We will spend the 2019-2020 Christmas/New Year’s holiday month at the brand new, swanky Oriental Beach Resort on Koh Kho Khao (2 hours north of Phuket airport) — rack rate is $2,800/month including breakfast. We rang in the new year 2020 with few encumbrances — and few items of clothing. We needed some stripped-down time to regroup not only from our three months in India but also from Paul's contracting the wretched dengue fever near the end of the excursion. News flash: he survived (podcast forthcoming).
A few years ago we spent the year-end holidays in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. We stayed at the clothing-optional sister resort, Oriental Village Chiang Mai. Check out videos #4 and 4.1 on our YouTube channel for our review and commentary of that property.
Following our New Year 2020 visit in the south we plan to stay 12 nights in a standard double at Gordnuea Boutique House (property link, we paid $73 per night including tax and breakfast) in central Chiang Mai.
And then a week following in nearby Pai staying at Pai Village Boutique Resort & Farm ($122/night including taxes)..
We’re then planning to meet friends passing through Bangkok but don’t want to spend more than four nights there. We’ll get a chance to see some of the city sights we missed on our Keeping It Fresh Tour in 2016-17.
So will fly down to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport but make the easy drive (1.5 hr.) to Pattaya from there. And stay four nights at the Baan Souy Resort ($67/night including taxes).
Then we’ll transport over to Bangkok and stay four nights in the central Silom neighborhood at the Trinity Silom Hotel ($61/night including taxes).
At the conclusion of our visit to Bangkok, we fly to Myanmar for an 11 night visit to the capital area of Yangon (including Bago, Hpa-An and Mawlamyine) — areas of interest we missed on our first visit to Myanmar in 2016.
But we return from there back to Thailand again, arriving in Phuket. We’ll stay one week at a new clothing-optional resort, Peace Blue Naiharn Phuket ($152/night including taxes and breakfast).
Following, we return to the spectacular oceanfront, clothing optional Oriental Beach Resort on Koh Kho Khao 2 hours north of Phuket airport (rack rate $132/night including taxes and breakfast). This is the same place we stayed a month for the holidays. We liked it so much we are returning for two weeks before leaving SE Asia.
We then leave SE Asia by way of a budget red-eye flight to Japan (from Phuket through Bangkok to Narita for just $317 each first on VietJet Air to Bangkok then Thai Lion Air to Tokyo). This is half way home and breaks up what would otherwise easily be 30 hours of travel to North America. We’ll see friends and spend a few nights in Japan.
Then onward travel continues on Delta Airlines’ direct flight from Narita to PDX (Portland, Oregon USA).
See our Thailand 2019-2020 page for more adventures, including information about our accommodations, in Phuket, Koh Kho Khao, Chiang Mai, Pai, Pattaya and Bangkok.
