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Thailand and Vietnam itinerary: 14 days in Bangkok, Khao Lak, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi

14 days · 13 nights · 4 stays · sample itinerary

Two weeks, two countries: Bangkok, then the Andaman coast at Khao Lak, then Vietnam from south to north — Ho Chi Minh City and five nights in Hanoi. It starts from Bangalore.

It is a sample itinerary — a starting point, not a timetable. The hotels and flights are real, and timetables change, so check them before you book. Open it in the planner and it becomes a trip of your own, starting a month from today.

Day by day

  1. Day 1

    • BangaloreBangkok

      Flight · Thai Airways TG 326 · 01:00–06:15

      Lands at Suvarnabhumi.

    • Stay: Novotel Bangkok Sukhumvit, Bangkok

      3 nights

  2. Day 4

    • BangkokPhuket

      Flight · Thai AirAsia FD 3091 · 11:20–12:50

      From Don Mueang, Bangkok’s other airport — not the one you arrived at.

    • Stay: Le Méridien Khao Lak, Khao Lak

      2 nights

  3. Day 6

    • PhuketHo Chi Minh City

      Flight · VietJet Air VJ 808 · 14:10–16:05

    • Stay: Novotel Saigon Centre, Ho Chi Minh City

      3 nights

  4. Day 9

    • Ho Chi Minh CityHanoi

      Flight · VietJet Air VJ 134 · 12:30–14:40

    • Stay: Imperial Hotel and Spa, Hanoi

      5 nights

  5. Day 14

    • HanoiBangalore

      Flight · IndiGo 6E 1632 + 6E 386 · 03:10–12:15

      An early departure, with one change of planes on the way.

How the route fits together

Three nights in Bangkok, two by the sea at Khao Lak, then across to Vietnam and up it: three nights in Ho Chi Minh City and five in Hanoi. Every move after Bangkok is a short flight.

Bangkok has two airports

The flight from Bangalore lands at Suvarnabhumi. The flight on to Phuket leaves from Don Mueang, Bangkok’s other airport — easy to miss when booking, and a long way from the first.

Khao Lak from Phuket

Khao Lak has no airport; the nearest is Phuket, about 95 km and an hour and a half away by road. In the planner the Khao Lak stay carries Phuket’s airport code, HKT, which is how it knows the Phuket flights are the ones that get you there and away.

Before you book

The times in this plan are indicative. Timetables change, so check the current ones before you book. The flight home leaves Hanoi at 03:10, so the last night is a short one.

Check the entry requirements for your own passport with an official source before you go — for both countries. They are deliberately not written here: they change, and a wrong one would be worse than none.

What the planner does with it

Open the plan and the planner reads the whole trip. Every night has a bed and every move has a journey, so it has nothing to flag. Change a date and it will tell you what breaks — a night with nowhere to sleep, or two cities with nothing booked to carry you between them.

It opens in your browser as an ordinary trip, starting a month from today. Nothing about it is sent anywhere.