Recommended Mini-bus Hire With Driver?

[Awk]

Can anybody recommend a mini-bus/tour-company that can be used to drive 12-15 people

from chiang mai to chiang rai, spend a night, and then come back the next day?

Any other ideas for how to make such a trip, appart from using the regular busses,

with all the other riff-raff? ;-)

[uptheos]

Can anybody recommend a mini-bus/tour-company that can be used to drive 12-15 people

from chiang mai to chiang rai, spend a night, and then come back the next day?

Any other ideas for how to make such a trip, appart from using the regular busses,

with all the other riff-raff? ;-)

I guess what you mean by 'the other riff raff' is that you want to keep 'your riff raff' seperate?

[kash]

normal rate is 2500 for a lotto, two days would be approx 4k

[cmsally]

Don't forget you can't fit 12-15 people in 1 minibus

Also very difficult to book over New year especially 28 Dec - 2 Jan

[Awk]

normal rate is 2500 for a lotto, two days would be approx 4k

Uptheos, right. We'd prefer to be a seperate group of riff-raff. ;-)

Kash, what is a lotto?

[earlofwindermere]

I usually pay 1900 baht per day for a van with driver. (www.patterntour.com). The drivers usually don't speak much English but they seem to be a decent company.

[Flatouthruthefog]

I usually pay 1900 baht per day for a van with driver. (www.patterntour.com). The drivers usually don't speak much English but they seem to be a decent company.

And I would add Wandering Star Tours run by Frank Shettlesworth (formerly of Air Canada) in Rachamanka Rd just a few doors west of Munkala, the smart Chinese medical centre. (ie a bit closer to the mountain and further away from Thapae Gate).

Rode in a nearly new minibus on a similar northern tour 6 months back, excellent driver but no English. Was a guest so don't know the cost, just that a guide/interpreter is available at extra cost if required.

[Wachira]

Can anybody recommend a mini-bus/tour-company that can be used to drive 12-15 people

from chiang mai to chiang rai, spend a night, and then come back the next day?

Any other ideas for how to make such a trip, appart from using the regular busses,

with all the other riff-raff? ;-)

Normally, a mini-bus with driver that can be used 10 persons/per van from Chiang Mai to Chiang Rai, it costs approx. 2,200-2,500 Thai Baht/per day/per van, FUEL is not including (Fuel is approx. 2,200 Thai Baht). For more information how to make such a trip, please contact Miss Judy E-mail: [email protected]

[Gladiator]

Wandering Star Tour quote the following for a 'Transporter' capable of taking 11 Passengers:

For a 2 day trip from Chiang Mai to Chaing Rai with pre-agreed route 5200 Baht including fuel.

The only other cost would be minimal - a guest house room for the driver to overnight or:

On a daily basis 1900 Baht, fuel not included - but route as you wish on the day