Trip Includes
- Accommodation in the listed or similar hotels on twin/double sharing basis.
- Meals, as indicated in the itinerary (Daily breakfast).
- All internal airfares within Myanmar.
- English speaking local Guides.
- Sightseeing admission fees.
- All transfers and sightseeing by a private vehicle.
Trip Does Not Include
- Lunch and dinner in Myanmar.
- International airfares.
- Drinks, tipping, laundry, phone, and other expenses of personal nature.
- Extra expenses or loss due to nature and unforeseen events such as flight cancellation, road blockade, illness, accident, etc.
- Travel insurance.
- Emergency evacuation and medical transportation.
Best time to Travel
The best time to travel to Myanmar is from November through February. The weather is wonderfully cool both during the day and at night. You will enjoy beautiful sunny days. The country is vibrant green right after the long monsoon rains. The chances of rain are very slim or none. October and March are also beautiful but slightly warmer. The hottest months are April and May, temperature exceeding 100 °F, particularly the areas of Bagan, and in May, the humidity is also very high. The monsoon begins from mid-May or early June and lasts through early summer. During monsoon time, it's a bit cooler, but the roads become impassable.
Passport, Visa and Travel Documents
The remaining validity of your passport on the last day of your tour must be a minimum of six months. And make sure you have enough blank pages for visa stickers, arrival, and departure seals. You will need a valid tourist visa for travel to Myanmar, and you need to obtain it beforehand. Please contact the nearest Myanmar Embassy for a visa application.
Tour Start and Finish Points:
Tour starts and concludes at Yangon International Airport. After completing immigration and custom formalities, exit the airport and meet your guide and driver outside. You can arrange your international airfare to Yangon and return on your own or let us know if you need any help.
Note on the itinerary
We will try our best to adhere to the itinerary. But for various reasons such as flight cancellation, weather problems, or other causes beyond our control, the itinerary is subject to change. The hotels listed are our preferred properties and are subject to change.
Accommodation
You have options for superior and deluxe hotels in the cities. Superior hotels are usually mid-range properties, rated three or four-star properties by local standard. Deluxe hotels are generally four or five-star properties by local standards. We will use the best available where choices are limited. Hotels are usually small, and some of them resort-style with local architecture. You will have an en suite bathroom with running hot and cold water. The hotels are adequately comfortable.
If the preferred hotels listed in the itinerary are not available at the time we initiate a reservation, we will book you in similar alternative hotels. Due to limited availability, sometimes we need to downgrade or upgrade the hotels, and we will advise you on the price adjustment and request for your cooperation. Recently, the tourist influx in Myanmar has remarkably increased, and there is a massive demand for accommodation.
Meals
The tour features daily breakfast in the hotels. Breakfasts are usually full breakfast, but some restaurants provide continental style half breakfast only. If you are on a long day excursion, then you are provided with the packed lunch.
During Christmas and New Year Eve, hotels may enforce compulsory gala dinner that you will pay the hotel directly. In the towns, there are wide ranges of restaurant choices, and you can expect to spend $10-12 per meal in a decent tourist standard restaurant. Most of your hotels do have in-house restaurants.
Guides
The tour includes local English speaking Tour Guides. On short and independent trips, the tour guide will be different in different towns. They are local, college graduate, and knowledgeable individuals with a proven track record of highest customer satisfaction.
Vehicle
Depending on the group size, we use Japanese or Korean made Sedan Cars, SUV, Minivan, or coach. The vehicle will change as you fly from one town to the other.
Trip Difficulty Level
This is a motor vehicle-based tour, suitable for travelers of all ages with a normal health condition. There are some village hikes, which are comfortable and less than two hours with few exceptions. The trip also involves some boating experiences.
Booking and Cancellation
When you are sure you are traveling to Myanmar, please don't delay in booking. It's essential to book the trip as early as possible. We request a deposit of US$ 300 to initiate the reservation. You need to complete the trip registration form and provide us with a copy of the photo page of your passport. After the booking is processed, we come back to you with the confirmed list of hotels with adjustment in an invoice, in case of any circumstantial upgrade or downgrade of the hotels. Some hotels also ask for a non-refundable deposit. And some internal airfares will have to be instantly purchased. So, we will request the second payment that covers the domestic airfare and the hotel deposits.
Balance payment will be due 90 days before departure. Credit card payment, except on the initial deposit, attracts an additional fee of 3.5%. Personal checks or wire transfers are welcome. When you are making payment by check or credit card, it must be from the travelers' account.
Cancellation fee
- One hundred eighty days prior departure: No penalty unless stated as non-refundable.
- Ninety days prior departure: Administrative fee US$ 150 per person.
- Sixty-Eighty-nine days before departure: US$ 300 or 25% of the land cost whichever is higher.
- Forty-five days to Fifty-nine days before departure: US$ 450 or 50% of the land cost whichever is higher.
- Thirty days to Forty-four days prior departure: US$ 600 or 75% of the land cost whichever is higher.
- Less than Thirty days: 100%.
Travel Protection Plan
We plan and do our best to make your trip smooth and seamless. But there still may be chances of unforeseen events and conditions such as illness, accident, inclement weather, and flight cancellation or missed connection or loss of baggage, etc. It may cause interruption or delay or total cancellation of your trip, putting your hard-earned travel investment in jeopardy. It’s also possible that you may need medical assistance, emergency evacuation, or medical transportation when you are traveling in remote areas. Our trips do not cover any of these expenses or losses. We strongly recommend that you should protect yourself and your travel investment against those unfavorable conditions.