River Kwai Floatel 2Days 1Night, Kanchanaburi

River Kwai Floatel 2Days 1Night

WELCOME TO RIVER KWAI FLOATEL. Professional Hotelier in Thailand
The magnificent close-to-nature floating lodge founded in 1976 on the historic River Kwai, in Kanchanaburi province, Thailand. River Kwai Jungle Rafts is an ideal destination for everyone who seeks not only a magical place to getaway to but also a legend to be experienced. Your visit will be rewarded with a life-long memorable experience that once you have ever been overnight on the historic River Kwai. You will enjoy not only the stunning nature surroundings of tropical forest, but also a unique blend of the culture and tradition of Mon people, and the history of World War II. It has been over 31 years that we serve all discerning travelers with friendliness and hearty service making our Jungle Rafts distinct from the others.

The magical settings, the simple yet awesome services have already gained the reputation of becoming the outstanding housing raft in Kanchanaburi in Thailand. Resembling a floating home, Jungle Rafts can be defined as simply marvelous. Resembling nothing less than paradise, the room facilities at Jungle Rafts gives you a taste of living in style even in the midst of Nature. The legendary River Kwai in Kanchanaburi is undoubtedly the perfect place to be the location of Jungle Rafts where you can thoroughly enjoy the magic of nature.

Have you ever slept on the world historic river? River Kwai Jungle Rafts is unique by its name allowing our guests to experience a stay on floating houses on the River Kwai with beautiful natural surrounding which is adjacent to native Mon Village, making the River Kwai Jungle Rafts, not just a place to getaway but also a legend to be experienced, have its beginning in 1976. We are using lamps instead of electronic lights.

An exhilarating twenty-minute boat trip from our pier through spectacular gorges and clusters of brilliantly coloured birds, delight the senses as one ventures deeper into the wild of the jungle.

As for our concept of original floating hotel, instead of using electricity, we conserve the natural ambience with our Jungle Rafts concept by using lamp for lighting your room.

In-room Facilities
• Make up table
• Hammock
• Kerosene Lamp
• Attached Bathroom
• International standard toiletries eg. soap, shampoo, towels, flush toilet and etc.

Your stay on our Jungle Rafts will enrich you life experience for what you will never get elsewhere.

We surely serve our guests with unforgettable experience during their stay with truly, touchy, and unique natural environment along with friendly services. We guarantee our guests that they would feel, touch, and enjoy gorgeously enrich-green natural surrounding than they would ever be.

Jungle Restaurant ... the magical setting
Dine under the clear blue sky and see the river flowing in its own pace. Enjoy this unique dining experience at Jungle Rafts. Wooden table and chairs make for the perfect d?cor and you can begin your day with a hot American Breakfast. As the day goes, enjoy a sumptuous lunch and a lovely dinner consisting of Thai specialties.

Serving sumptuous American breakfast, lunch and dinner featuring Western delicacies and Thai specialties, round the clock, the restaurant overlooking the river is fine for open air dining. The sitting arrangements comprise of wooden furniture s which even unfinished lends it a natural look.

The beauty of Kanchanaburi speaks for itself. A little treasure cove of scenic splendors in Thailand, it remains somewhat shrouded in the mist to be explored. Attractions of tourist importance are plenty and some may be visited conveniently from the River Kwai
Jungle Rafts. 

The worth mentioning attractions include;

• The famous bridge on the River Kwai
• Hellfire Pass
• Art Gallery and War Museum
• Tiger Temple
• War Cemetery
• Thailand Burma Railway Centre
• Somdet Phra Sri Nakharin Park
• Don Chedi Archaeological Site
• Prasat Muang Singh historical park
 
   
Waterfalls in Kanchanaburi

Kanchanaburi province hosts some of the best waterfalls in Thailand... 
All of Kanchanaburi’s waterfalls provide excellent locations for swimming, picnics and hikes, but Saiyok and Erawan waterfalls are worthy of particular note.
 
Erawan Waterfalls

Erawan Waterfalls are the focal point of the Erawan National Park. This is an exquisite park, very pretty, and very popular with locals and foreigners alike. The waterfalls are equally exquisite. There are seven tiers of waterfalls, each feeding lovely, freshwater pools that you can swim in. A series of tracks lead you to the various falls across wooden footbridges - quite an experience in their own right! The waterfalls can get a bit crowded as they are so popular, so if you are looking for a more solitary experience, you should perhaps look elsewhere. A number of stalls provide staples like grilled chicken and rice along the way, and there is often very much of a carnival atmosphere about the place, especially in April during the Songkran Festival. A visit here will take the day – you should bear this in mind if you have limited time.

Details: Entrance to the park is 200 baht and it is open daily from 08:00 to 16:00.
 
How to get there: Buses leave Kanchanaburi on a regular basis for the waterfalls, but as you will need the whole day there, you will need to catch the early morning bus (currently 08:00).

Sai Yok Waterfalls

The Sai Yok Waterfalls (Sai Yok Yai and Sai Yok Noi) form the focal point of Sai Yok National Park – a 500-square kilometre park offering evergreen, bamboo and teak forest against a mountainous backdrop teaming with wildlife such as bats (the Khun Kitti Bat – the smallest bat in the world), tigers, wild pigs, deers and birds.

Sai Yok Yai
Sai Yok Yai Waterfall flows from cliffs into Kwai Noi Riverand is about 100 kilometres from Kanchanaburi. It is famed for its beautiful environs and the fact that King Rama V once bathed here. Especially impressive in the rainy season, the waterfall is extremely forceful and rapid.

Details: Admission to the fall is 200 Baht. During national holidays the site is very busy with local visitors.

How to get there: This is the type of journey that might be better faced as a tour. It is possible to get to the falls by bus; you can get off at the English sign at the entrance to the park, but it is then a reasonable distance to the falls which you can cover by motorcycle taxi or walk.

Sai Yok Noi
Sai Yok Noi waterfall (Khao Pung) is the smaller and less visited of the two waterfalls, but no less impressive. It offers some of the most beautiful landscape and the Death Railway once passed close by.

Details: As with Sai Yok Yai, the best time of the year for a visit is the rainy season (June to July).

How to get there: Although they sound like close neighbours, there is in fact 40 kilometres distance between the two sites. Sai Yok Noi is located on the Kanchanaburi - Thong Pha Phum Road and it is 2 kilometers from Nam Tok Train Station.

For recreation, guests do not need to leave the premises as there are plenty of activities available. Guests can try out canoeing and pay a visit to the nearby cave and beautiful water falls or explore the jungle on an elephant back. Being situated on the shores of the legendary river, guests can enjoy a swim in the river. Enjoy the tribal Mon Folk dances in the evening or go for a pampering massage session.

Apart from enjoying the nature walks, trekking, mountain biking, canoeing down the river and discovering the beauty of the waterfalls, flora and fauna and paying a visit to the Mon Villages, guests can have a great time at the Jungle Rafts enjoying the live orchestra of traditional Mon Dance.

Activities & Nearby Attractions
• Kayaking
• Hellfire Pass trekking
• Hellfire Pass Memorial Museum
• Elephant Riding
• Caving
• Mon performance show
• Mon temple visit
• Bamboo Rafting
• Waterfalls visit

To visit the floating hotel, from the pier where you can park your car in a security parking lot with 24 hour security (with no additional cost of parking if you are our resort guests) , you will be transferred to our cozy resort via a frequent pick-up traditional wooden long-tailed boat giving you horsd’euvres before experiencing your memorable stays in The River Kwai Jungle Rafts.

Kanchanaburi in Thailand is very easy to reach as it is close to Bangkok. There are ways to reach the Unseen Paradise, The River Kwai JUNGLE RAFTS.

Time taken From Pakseng to River Kwai Jungle Rafts is approx. 45 mins
                 From Resotel pier to river Kwai Jungle Rafts is approx. 20 mins.

By Train from Bangkok:

Go to Thonburi Railway Station (in Thai: "Sa Tha Nee Rot Fai Thonburi") and take the Nam Tok bound train to Kanchanaburi.  To get to Bangkok Noi Railway Station by Chao Phraya River Ferries, as you get on to the ferry ask to go to "Tha Rot Fai", which means "Railway Station Pier". The fare is THB28 (3rd class - non-air conditioned).  Trains depart Thonburi Railway Station daily at 07:45 am, arriving in Nam Tok Railway Station at 12:50 pm, and 01:50 pm, arriving 18:40.  Alight at Namtok Railway Station rent a local mini bus to get to Resotel pier (10 K.M. far from the station - on left hand side of the 323 road).  Then catch a long-tailed boat from Resotel pier to River Kwai Jungle Rafts. 
 
By Car from Bangkok:

From the centre of Bangkok, head for Phra Pinklao Bridge.  Cross the bridge and continue along Pinklao Road for 35 K.M. until you reach the junction with the A2.  Turn right, following the signs for Ratchaburi.  Pass through Nakhon Chaisri and the Nakhon Pathom bypass.  About 5 K.M. further on from the bypass, look for the flyover and the sign for Kanchanaburi.  Take the flyover and continue along the A323 to Ban Pong.  From Ban Pong, follow the signs to Kanchanaburi (a further 50 K.M.).  When you reach Kanchanaburi, pass through the town about 6 K.M., there is a junction, turn left and following the signs to the Saiyoke Noi Waterfalls.  The Resotel pier is located about 60 K.M. from the city centre and about 8 K.M. from the Saiyoke Noi Waterfalls on left hand side.  The pier is 1.5 K.M. from the entrance.  Then catch a long-tailed boat from Resotel pier to River Kwai Jungle Rafts.

Keep driving on Saeng-Chuto Road until you see the junction and turn left as soon as you see the sign post telling you to go along the Saiyoke-Thong Pha Phum route (still on route 323). Then will take you about an hour more to get to Resotel pier (From the main town-River Kwai Bridge-The entrance to Resotel pier is at 54th Kilometer post sign in Saiyoke district).
 
By Bus from Bangkok:

Go to the Southern Air-Conditioned Bus Terminal on the Thonburi side of the Chao Phraya River (in Thai: "Sa Tha Nee Rot Tour Sai Tai") Take the blue and white air-conditioned public bus number 81 to Kanchanaburi, from Stop Number 4.  The journey takes about 2 hours (129 K.M.).  From Kanchanaburi Bus Station, take a air-conditioned V.I.P. bus or van number 8203 to "Sangkhlaburi" or number 9918 to "Three Pagoda Pass", they will pass the entrance of Resotel pier which is at 54th Kilometre post sign in Saiyoke district and the journey takes about 1 hours.  After get off the bus, you have to walk another 1.5 K.M. to Resotel pier.  Then catch a long-tailed boat from Resotel pier to River Kwai Jungle Rafts.