I've been traveling to Thailand for years. First as a young tourist, then longer stays, eventually spending enough time there to have favorite noodle stalls in Bangkok and a go-to beach on Koh Lanta that most people walk straight past. I lived in Bangkok for 4 years. I taught English at a school there, and married a Thai woman, and most of my day-to-day life looked nothing like what ends up in travel guides on the internet. I learned how Bangkok actually works by commuting through it, eating where my colleagues ate, and navigating a city in a language I am still learning.
At some point, I stopped just visiting and started paying attention to how people plan these trips. Friends and family would ask me for recommendations, and I'd watch them try to piece together what I could explain in a five-minute conversation. The planning experience is weirdly broken for a country that's one of the most visited on Earth.
Thailand gets over 35 million visitors a year, but building a trip still feels like a part-time job. You open five browser tabs – one for region research, one for a map, one for a recommendations list, one for a blog post from 2019 that may or may not still be accurate, and one to figure out how long it actually takes to get from Chiang Mai to Pai. None of them talk to each other. You spend more time organizing information than actually getting excited about going.
That's the problem we set out to fix with VisitThailandToday.com.
At its core, it's a searchable directory of places across 11 Thai regions – beaches, temples, restaurants, markets, hotels, activities, nightlife, wellness spots – with enough context to make a real decision, not just browse. Living there taught me which details actually matter when you're choosing between two places, so we built listings around that: what's nearby, what to expect, and how it fits into a realistic day. Every listing connects to an interactive map so you can see where things sit in relation to each other and start to understand the geography of a trip.
The part we're most proud of is the free itinerary builder. You find somewhere interesting, add it with a click, drag it into a specific day, rearrange as you go, and end up with an actual day-by-day plan rather than a saved bookmark you'll never open again. Shareable links let you send the whole thing to a travel partner or pick it back up later – no account required. Try it at www.visitthailandtoday.com/itinerary
We also wrote a library of travel guides – covering timing, budget planning, solo travel, traveling with kids, digital nomad life, specific cities – that are designed to feed directly into the planner. You read about Krabi, something catches your attention, you add it, and it's already in your itinerary.
The directory covers a lot, but Thailand has more worth knowing about than any small team can document alone. Having a Thai family means I'm constantly learning about places I'd never have found on my own – and that's exactly the kind of local knowledge we want more of. We want the directory to grow with contributions from people who've actually spent time there: locals, long-term expats, repeat visitors
If you know Thailand well and have an opinion about what's missing, that's exactly who we built the submission form for.
Visit Thailand Today is free to use. The itinerary builder needs no account.
About time a user friendly website was put together to plan a trip to Thailand. It’s been very helpful in figuring out where to stay, what to do, and where to eat. 👍
We Built a Free Itinerary Planner for Thailand (Because Planning a Trip There is Still Surprisingly Hard)
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I've been traveling to Thailand for years. First as a young tourist, then longer stays, eventually spending enough time there to have favorite noodle stalls in Bangkok and a go-to beach on Koh Lanta that most people walk straight past. I lived in Bangkok for 4 years. I taught English at a school there, and married a Thai woman, and most of my day-to-day life looked nothing like what ends up in travel guides on the internet. I learned how Bangkok actually works by commuting through it, eating where my colleagues ate, and navigating a city in a language I am still learning.
At some point, I stopped just visiting and started paying attention to how people plan these trips. Friends and family would ask me for recommendations, and I'd watch them try to piece together what I could explain in a five-minute conversation. The planning experience is weirdly broken for a country that's one of the most visited on Earth.
Thailand gets over 35 million visitors a year, but building a trip still feels like a part-time job. You open five browser tabs – one for region research, one for a map, one for a recommendations list, one for a blog post from 2019 that may or may not still be accurate, and one to figure out how long it actually takes to get from Chiang Mai to Pai. None of them talk to each other. You spend more time organizing information than actually getting excited about going.
That's the problem we set out to fix with VisitThailandToday.com.
At its core, it's a searchable directory of places across 11 Thai regions – beaches, temples, restaurants, markets, hotels, activities, nightlife, wellness spots – with enough context to make a real decision, not just browse. Living there taught me which details actually matter when you're choosing between two places, so we built listings around that: what's nearby, what to expect, and how it fits into a realistic day. Every listing connects to an interactive map so you can see where things sit in relation to each other and start to understand the geography of a trip.
The part we're most proud of is the free itinerary builder. You find somewhere interesting, add it with a click, drag it into a specific day, rearrange as you go, and end up with an actual day-by-day plan rather than a saved bookmark you'll never open again. Shareable links let you send the whole thing to a travel partner or pick it back up later – no account required. Try it at www.visitthailandtoday.com/itinerary
We also wrote a library of travel guides – covering timing, budget planning, solo travel, traveling with kids, digital nomad life, specific cities – that are designed to feed directly into the planner. You read about Krabi, something catches your attention, you add it, and it's already in your itinerary.
The directory covers a lot, but Thailand has more worth knowing about than any small team can document alone. Having a Thai family means I'm constantly learning about places I'd never have found on my own – and that's exactly the kind of local knowledge we want more of. We want the directory to grow with contributions from people who've actually spent time there: locals, long-term expats, repeat visitors
If you know Thailand well and have an opinion about what's missing, that's exactly who we built the submission form for.
Visit Thailand Today is free to use. The itinerary builder needs no account.
About time a user friendly website was put together to plan a trip to Thailand. It’s been very helpful in figuring out where to stay, what to do, and where to eat. 👍