I did manage to go from bangkok to kanchanaburi, but the part that was done by tara tour & travel was pretty bad. The people that work at tara are extremely unfriendly and they just drop you off at the busstation, so you can also just take a grab to the minivan terminal and buy a ticket there. The rest did go as planned although it took a bit longer.
รถตู้ ทั่วไป 14 ที่นั่ง, Tara Tour and Travel (ธาราทัวร์แอนด์ทราเวล), 22 ธ.ค. 2023
They made many unscheduled stops picking up more people then I could fit in the van people were sitting in the aisle sitting anywhere they could almost 30 people in the van that I think was set up to handle 22 or 24
Was okay, bus stopped 3 times in bangkok to pick up more guests. Next you had to switch the bus at a bus terminal. Both bus were in good condition.
รถตู้ ทั่วไป 14 ที่นั่ง, Mama Travel and Tour (มาม่า ทราเวล), 26 ก.พ. 2024
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Lily R
Booked to pick us up at 11 but left at 11.30 but still got there on time :) Tara travel was a little hard to find as maps says it’s over the bridge on the right side but it’s the left of the road. Had to swap buses but got aircon and a comfy seat. Really lovely people
รถตู้ ทั่วไป 14 ที่นั่ง, Tara Tour and Travel (ธาราทัวร์แอนด์ทราเวล), 24 ต.ค. 2023
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Kevin P
It was a nice ride and the people were friendly.
รถตู้ ทั่วไป 14 ที่นั่ง, Mama Travel and Tour (มาม่า ทราเวล), 11 ต.ค. 2023
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Ian M
On time and reasonable price - confusion at the terminal saw them put me on and off three busses before the took me back to the original funny but I'm 73 with a dud knee and I had two bags one big heavy one that I had to get in and out of the bus unnessesarily. I also had to pay for a seat for my bag even though te bus was less than 50% full I'm also 6'3" and couldn't get my legs into the seat because they are too close together - bI ewill not do it again however 25 years ago I would have been real good with it.
Booking process was easy. We arrived at the Khao San Road office 30 minutes in advance, as advised. We were told to wait and left only at 11.30, half an hour late, when a man came out of the office who had already been there when we checked in and led us to a van that had already been parked there ever since we got there... he drove us to the bus station and showed us the platform where again we waited for quite a while. No one told us what we could expect, they didn't speak much english so information was very poor. Eventually the mini bus arrived that would drive us to Kanchanaburi. This was a comfortable van with good ac. Along the route we stopped a couple of times to pick up or drop off passengers. We arrived in Kanchanaburi around 5.30 instead of 3.30 as scheduled. All together it was a comfortabele drive but if you choose the 11am bus just consider it a travel day and don't make any plans as the time schedule means absolutely nothing.
รถตู้ ทั่วไป 14 ที่นั่ง, Tara Tour and Travel (ธาราทัวร์แอนด์ทราเวล), 30 ก.ค. 2023
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Jocelyn F
No minivan was there to pick-up us at 9h.
After calling the service at 9h15, a guy appeared and ask him to follow him. At around 9h45 a taxi came to grab us in the bus station, because there were an engine issue with the original van. The taxi wanted us to pay extra for lugguages (which were under 20kg so should be free).
Then they took care of the bus ticket + lugguages ticket and the van left the station at 11 (instead of 9).
รถตู้ ทั่วไป 14 ที่นั่ง, Mama Travel and Tour (มาม่า ทราเวล), 30 มี.ค. 2023
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Marcelina
There was no van at 2 p.m. that we booked but the staff found us another van at the same time. Fast with AC.
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