Two Week Thailand Island Hopping Itineraries

Zicasso's travel company was first-rate. The entire trip went perfectly to plan and we had a number of complicated details. However, the travel company did such a good job planning that not a single detail was missed.

Additionally, we wanted the trip to be chock-full of different experiences, from doing a food tour of Bangkok to ATV riding in the jungles of Koh Samui Island in Thailand, and the travel company paired us with the perfect tour guide/tour company for exactly the experience we wanted.

We recently completed a 29-day custom-designed tour of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam with Zicasso’s travel company. As a couple, we have toured 100 countries on six continents. We always travel by ourselves and not in groups. We often plan and book our itinerary and activities on our own. We have experienced tour operators in the past who just string together “cookie-cutter” activities and call it a custom tour. I commend the travel company for not taking this path.

Our tour was completely tailored to our needs. We went through several iterations of the itinerary to match it to our interests and they were untiring in making adjustments to suit our particular needs. The hotels were all of excellent quality and very well located. The itineraries in each of the locations we visited met our expectations and addressed the interests we had discussed with the representatives of the travel company. All of the guides were good and several were amongst the best we have ever had. The support of the travel company was outstanding throughout our trip, with daily check-ins and immediate reactions when assistance was requested. I would rate the tour as exceptional. I unhesitatingly recommend the travel company.

The recommended hotels were nice. All flights were well coordinated; however, travel time between regions was not well thought out; in some cases, it took 2 days to get from one itinerary destination to another. We were dropped at the wrong hotel in one instance and pre-arranged fast track service was not provided in a major airport. Tour guides and drivers were ok. Many of the tours need to be revamped; some being pointless (planting rice in mud, taking a concrete boat ride through a shallow cave, cycling through rice fields on rickety bikes), others being unhealthy (a salt rice lunch, food tours), or way too far of a drive out of the way (the Mekong Delta from Ho Chi Minh City). More guidance should have been offered in selecting the travel months so as to avoid extreme heat and smoke pollution conditions in the first 3 weeks of our 6 week trip.

If I could give Zicasso’s travel company six stars, I would. We had a flawless experience with them. After a few conversations with our travel agent, he gave us a perfect, adventurous itinerary of what we wanted to do in Thailand over our two-week trip.

The private drivers and guides (sometimes hard to understand with their Thai accents) were well worth the trouble, since they were all professional, knowledgeable, reliable, and fun!

I would heartily recommend the travel company to all my friends.

Zicasso’s travel company did a phenomenal job planning and executing our trip to Thailand. Our travel specialist paid very close attention to our goals for this trip to Thailand and delivered an itinerary, with very few edits needed, that allowed us to balance fun with much-needed rest and relaxation at charming hotels in Chiang Mai and Koh Samui.

The operations team flawlessly handled all the logistics and clearly communicated each day's plans. We didn't have to worry about a thing and just needed to show up for the fun.

We loved the excursions that the team arranged: a wonderful bike ride through the Chiang Mai countryside, a tasty cooking class with an amazing chef, a visit with elephants at an ethical sanctuary, and a trip to one of the famous Chiang Mai temples. When inclement weather resulted in the cancellation of one of our excursions, the team promptly handled a refund request without being asked.

We highly recommend this travel company and will use them again whenever our travels take us back to Thailand. Thank you to the team and the travel company for an amazing trip!

The contact staff and guides were wonderful. Very helpful and knowledgeable. The travel company disappointed, and I have used Zicasso before, but they did not advise us of the weather in Phuket, where we were going into the monsoon season, and then suggested a private boat tour at a significant cost during the monsoon season. I just feel it should have been mentioned. Then, if I proceeded, it was on me. I have traveled quite a bit and always planned my trips. I don’t want to do it anymore, so I was very disappointed. Also, I picked the hotel in Phuket, rated as a five-star hotel, which it was not. Knowing the level of hotels we were staying at, other suggestions should have been offered.