Between 2,500 and 7,900 THB per person, depending on the day you take.
The full day on Cheow Lan Lake — the one most people mean — is 3,800 THB per adult, or 4,140 all in once the 340 THB national park fee is counted. Minimum two guests. Children aged 5–11 pay less. Nothing is added at checkout.
All five, with real dates and prices
Per person, minimum two guests. Hotel pick-up both ways, a local guide, meals as listed, drinking water and insurance are included. The national park fee — 340 THB per adult, 170 THB per child — is cash at the gate, and it is the only thing we cannot collect for you. How the fee works.
- The Cheowlan Everyone Dreams Of A full day on the lake · every day · 09:30 3,800 THBper person Check dates
- The Khao Sok Way Elephants and a mountain kitchen · Sun, Wed, Sat · 12:00 7,900 THBper person Check dates
- The Khao Sok Adventure Worth Taking Jungle trek, waterfall and river tubing · Tue, Fri · 09:30 5,900 THBper person Check dates
- Life Around Cheowlan Village afternoon, bamboo raft and sunset · Mon, Thu · 12:00 5,900 THBper person Check dates
- Before the World Wakes Sunrise boat · Fri, Sat, Sun · 06:30 · Cheowlan side only 2,500 THBper person Check dates
Prices are per person and our minimum is two guests. Pick your month with the › arrow, choose a date, and the total for your group shows before you pay.
Ask us on WhatsApp Travelling alone, want a date that is not showing, or not sure which day suits you? We would rather answer the question than have you guess.
Search what a Khao Sok tour costs and you get a range with no explanation attached, usually somewhere around one and a half to two and a half thousand baht. What that figure never tells you is what is inside it: how many people are on the boat, whether lunch is real food or a lunchbox, whether the national park fee is counted, and whether a van comes to your hotel or you make your own way to the pier at seven in the morning.
So here is ours, in full, with the fee separated out so you can compare like with like.
Every price, all in
| Day | Adult | Child 5–11 | Park fee | All in, adult | All in, child |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunrise boat | 2,500 | 1,900 | 340 / 170 | 2,840 | 2,070 |
| Lake day | 3,800 | 2,900 | 340 / 170 | 4,140 | 3,070 |
| Village afternoon | 5,900 | 4,400 | — | 5,900 | 4,400 |
| Trek & tubing | 5,900 | 4,400 | 340 / 170 | 6,240 | 4,570 |
| Elephants | 7,900 | 5,900 | — | 7,900 | 5,900 |
All figures in THB per person. The park fee is paid separately in cash at the gate and is not ours — see below.
What the booking total shows
Our minimum is two guests, and when you choose a date the booking calendar shows the total for the party, not the price per head — on the lake day, 3,800 × 2 for two adults. Change the number of travellers and the figure moves with it; add a child and it drops, because the child rate is lower. It is not a hidden surcharge and there is nothing to reduce — it is simply two people’s tickets shown as one number.
What the price includes
Hotel pick-up and drop-off. An English-speaking local guide who is from here. The boat or the vehicle. The meals that day includes — lunch on the lake day and the trek, both lunch and the dinner you cook on the elephant day, lunch on the village afternoon. Drinking water. Equipment: life jackets, kayaks at the raft house, tubes on the river. Insurance.
And nothing else appears at checkout. No booking fee, no service charge, no fuel surcharge, no card fee. The total you see when you choose a date is the total you pay.
The park fee, separated out
Khao Sok National Park charges foreign visitors 340 THB per adult and 170 THB per child, collected at the entrance. It is the park’s money, not ours, and no operator can include it or discount it.
It applies on the three days that go inside the park: the lake day, the sunrise boat and the trek. It does not apply to the elephant afternoon or the village afternoon, which are outside the park boundary.
Bring it in cash, in Thai baht. There is no card machine at a national park gate, and there is no ATM at the pier. The fee has its own page if you want the full detail.
What is not included
The park fee on those three days. A towel. Anything you buy for yourself. And long-distance transfers — getting to Khao Sok from an airport, a ferry pier or a beach town is a separate thing, priced per vehicle rather than per person.
Per vehicle matters: a car from Surat Thani Airport is 1,300 and a van is 2,400, whatever the number of people inside. From Phuket Airport it is 3,600 by car and 5,200 by van. Four people in a van from Surat Thani is 600 each; one person alone in the same van is 2,400. The full list of routes and prices is on getting to Khao Sok.
What two people actually pay
Our minimum is two guests, so this is the real number for a couple, park fee included:
| Day | Two adults, all in |
|---|---|
| Sunrise boat | 5,680 |
| Lake day | 8,280 |
| Village afternoon | 11,800 |
| Trek & tubing | 12,480 |
| Elephants | 15,800 |
And what a whole trip costs
Two days is 9,700 to 11,700 THB per adult depending on which fixed-weekday experience your dates land on. Three days is 20,100 for four experiences. Four days covers everything we run — all five — at 26,000 THB per adult plus 1,020 in park fees.
The day-by-day plans behind those totals, and which arrival days make them possible, are on the Khao Sok itinerary page.
The price is the price
There is nothing to hunt for. We do not run introductory prices, seasonal surcharges or discounts. The price in February is the price in September.
Message us and you are talking to the family running the boats, not a call centre in another country — which matters on the morning the water is high, or when you need to move a day because a flight shifted.
Why it is not cheaper
Fifteen guests is our ceiling, and most days are well under it. A boat with fifteen people on it costs the same to run as a boat with forty, and the difference lands in the price. The guide is a local person on a proper wage, not a seasonal hire. Lunch on the raft house is cooked by the family who live there. The van comes to your hotel rather than asking you to reach the pier at dawn on your own.
None of that makes a cheaper day wrong. It makes it a different day, and we would rather you knew which one you were buying before you paid for it than after.
If the numbers do not work
Tell us. If you are travelling alone, or the dates are awkward, or the budget only stretches to one day and you want it to be the right one, message us on WhatsApp. We will tell you honestly what fits, including when the honest answer is that it does not.
If you are still working out how long to stay, how many days you need covers it. If you are deciding between a day trip and a night here, that comparison is written out. And things to do in Khao Sok describes each of the five days properly.
Questions people ask about price
How much does a Khao Sok tour cost?
Between 2,500 and 7,900 THB per person depending on which day you take. The full day on Cheow Lan Lake is 3,800 THB per adult, and with the 340 THB national park fee it comes to 4,140 all in. The cheapest is the sunrise boat at 2,500 plus the park fee, and the dearest is the elephant afternoon at 7,900 with no park fee.
Is the national park fee included?
No, and it cannot be. The park collects it directly at the gate: 340 THB per foreign adult and 170 THB per child, in cash. It applies on the three days that go inside the park — the lake day, the sunrise boat and the trek. The elephant afternoon and the village afternoon do not enter the park and carry no fee.
Why does the booking total say 7,600?
Because our minimum is two guests, so the total for two adults is 3,800 × 2 on the lake day. Change the number of travellers and the figure changes with it. Children aged 5 to 11 are cheaper, so a family total will be lower than two adult prices.
What is included in the price?
Hotel pick-up and drop-off, an English-speaking local guide, the boat or vehicle, the meals that day includes, drinking water, activity equipment, and insurance. There is no booking fee, no service charge and no fuel surcharge added at checkout. The price you see is the price you pay.
What is not included?
The national park fee on the three days that enter the park, anything you buy for yourself, a towel, and long-distance transfers from airports, piers or beach towns. Those are priced per vehicle rather than per person and are quoted separately.
Do you run discounts or introductory prices?
No. The price is the price, in every month and for every group size. Children aged 5 to 11 pay the child rate, and that is the only lower number there is.
Do children pay less?
Yes. Children aged 5 to 11 pay the child rate on every experience, which runs between 1,900 and 5,900 THB, and 170 THB at the park gate instead of 340. Minimum age is five, and under-18s travel with an adult.
How much does a whole trip cost?
A two-day trip is 9,700 to 11,700 THB per adult. Three days is 20,100. Four days covers all five of our experiences at 26,000 THB per adult plus 1,020 in park fees. The day-by-day plans and totals are on our Khao Sok itinerary page.
Travelling solo? Our minimum is two guests per booking. Book two seats — the guide, the pick-up and the day are the same for one or two — and the day runs for you as it does for everyone.