Address: | 51 Tambon Damnoen Saduak, Amphoe Damnoen Saduak, Chang Wat Ratchaburi 70130, Thailand |
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Postal code: | 70130 |
Phone: | 085 222 7470 |
Monday: | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
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Tuesday: | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Wednesday: | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Thursday: | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Friday: | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Saturday: | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Sunday: | 7:00 AM – 5:00 PM |
Actual “floating market”. Most of the vendors are along the rivers or on a boat.
To fully enjoy this market, you pay for the boat to take you around the river. They can stop as needed if you want to buy something. Good breeze on the water.
Bring cash of course. Price are reasonable and the food + drinks are pretty good. There are alcohol and cannabis drinks of various sort.
There are traffic jam on the water just in case you are wondering.
There are car and motorbike parking. Some free some paid. Weekend all paid parking.
Note: the boat service is for an hour or so. If you stop at too many places then you won’t be able to visit the whole river. You can always take it twice. Price is reasonable anyway.
Great place for tourists to visit about 1.5 hrs outside of Bangkok! You can find a variety of food and souvenirs along the river, and most vendors are willing to bargain prices down.
Just be warned, many taxi drivers will try to scam you by dropping you off at tour companies about 5 minutes away from the actual market. They give prices starting at 2000 Baht per person for a 2 hour boat ride through the market. Please don't fall for it. If you demand to be taken to the actual start of the market you can find prices around 100-300 Baht per person for an hour boat ride through the market.
Absolutely worth the visit, just be careful who you are trusting to take you.
We drove out here from Bangkok and I thought it was worth the visit as I enjoyed the boat ride which was 400 baht for a private boat to take us around in the morning. There was some tourist clothes shops when you get to the area where you hire the boat and places you could buy a bite to eat. But what we enjoyed was just the relaxing slow boat ride around the canals and looking at the different shops along the water. They do take you to a big tourist type shop which has some interesting arts and crafts and tourist stuff there but we did not buy anything. We ended up getting some food and drink off one of the little floating restaurant street food vendors which we both enjoyed. Overall I thought it was reasonably priced for the private boat and the length of time we spent in the canals. You can see my trip here on my YouTube channel The Travelling Social Worker in Thailand where I filmed my boat ride just so you can decide if you want to visit.