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Excellent service all the time I was with you.

Alicia Dye Visited Cebu City | Posted on 31 Oct

Flights and accommodation worked perfectly. Thanks Hannah

Wendy Nicholson Visited Phuket | Posted on 31 Oct | Stayed at Novotel Phuket Resort

Brilliant service as always

Christine Finch Visited Kathmandu | Posted on 30 Oct

Thanks to Jensen and team. All like clockwork

Colin Spilsbury Visited Tokyo | Posted on 29 Oct | Stayed at Hotel Keihan Tsukiji Ginza Grande

Jenson always comes through with what we need

Lorna Hackland-Crowther Visited Bangkok | Posted on 29 Oct | Stayed at Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin

Thank you Marco for recommending the River Kwai trip. It was really thought provoking, and as we were there during heavy rain, even more poignant to understand how the POW's felt.

Frankie Pride Visited Vientiane | Posted on 29 Oct | Stayed at The Salil Hotel Riverside - Bangkok

Stan and his colleagues were instantly responsive whatever time of day we needed anything. Very impressed.

George Costa Visited Beijing | Posted on 29 Oct

Sam was delightful. Efficient, polite and always happy to answer any silly questions I had. Made for an excellent flight. I was very happy with ANA, first international flight with them and very impressed

Jenny Fisher Visited Tokyo | Posted on 29 Oct

Very competitive pricewise

Sally Cassidy Visited Hanoi | Posted on 29 Oct

Excellent communication and very efficient organisation provided by Owen Burrell for my recent trip to the Caucasus.

Richard Henson Visited Baku | Posted on 28 Oct | Stayed at Sapphire Inn Hotel

Apart from missing my return flight everything was fine

Stephen Thompson Visited Bangkok | Posted on 28 Oct

Luke was excellent as always. He was very patient as we planned and changed the flight/hotel details, offering numerous options until we chose the ones that met our needs. I have recommended DialAFlight to many people.

Ruth Serrell Visited Hong Kong | Posted on 28 Oct | Stayed at Hilton Tianhe

Always confident that your agents will go that extra mile to ensure everything is taken care of.

Frances Gallagher Visited Bangkok | Posted on 27 Oct

Niall Andrews could not be more helpful. I have recommended him to family and friends.

Catherine Thomas Visited Vietnam | Posted on 27 Oct | Stayed at Salinda Resort Phu Quoc Island

As ever, Kieran was excellent and made this such an easy trip and took the stress out of travelling. He sorted everything and made it so much easier to focus on the more important stuff I needed to get done.

Ben Slight Visited Singapore | Posted on 26 Oct

Yet again I have nothing but praise for you. Everything was perfect. Loved the app - really useful. I constantly recommend you to everyone I can. They just need to use you to see the value you bring.

Rachel Cook Visited Phuket | Posted on 26 Oct | Stayed at The Sarojin

Great itinerary and choice of hotels and flights. Everything went as clockwork. We had a wonderful holiday thanks to your expertise, Michelle and Isaac

Ravi Patel Visited Osaka | Posted on 26 Oct | Stayed at ibis Ambassador Seoul Insadong

While DialAFlight is always great this cannot be said for BA - will avoid this airline if possible

John Miller Visited Ho Chi Minh City | Posted on 25 Oct

Had a great time - will call soon

John Morrison Visited Bangkok | Posted on 24 Oct

Always helpful, know just what I want

Amanda Quinn Visited Bangkok | Posted on 24 Oct

Richard is our “one-stop” holiday organiser and we could not be more pleased! He always discusses our holiday objectives, makes valid and knowledgeable recommendations and executes the agreed timing and locations perfectly.

James Bull Visited Phuket | Posted on 24 Oct | Stayed at The Slate

Always a pleasure to work alongside DialAFlight to get exactly what I need.

Stephen Hudson Visited Bangkok | Posted on 24 Oct

I was travelling alone to see family in Thailand and you made sure everything I wanted was covered and easy for me. Thank you

Carol Durant Visited Bangkok | Posted on 24 Oct | Stayed at Loei Palace Hotel

All good, thanks

Nigel Adams Visited Bali | Posted on 23 Oct | Stayed at Hotel Indigo Bali Seminyak Beach

William was very helpful. He listened to what I wanted and found me various choices which greatly helped during my travel to and from Japan.

Paula Johnson Visited Tokyo | Posted on 23 Oct

First hotel was very couple-centric which didn’t work for me as a solo traveller. Amari was perfect

Eddie Osei-Amoaten Visited Phuket | Posted on 23 Oct | Stayed at Amari Phuket

Everything was perfect with great back up when needed

Peter Jones Visited Bangkok | Posted on 22 Oct

As always Cameron has provided an unrivalled service … that’s why we keep coming back

Maureen Moors Visited Hong Kong | Posted on 22 Oct

Gino, another fabulous trip. Thank you.

John Cummings Visited Osaka | Posted on 22 Oct | Tailor-made tour

The whole holiday went smoothly from start to finish. Thank you

Janine Napolitano Visited Beijing | Posted on 21 Oct | Tailor-made tour

Colourful Bangkok

A taste for Bangkok

Bangkok is more than just a stopover, as Isabelle King discovers on a culinary tour...

Bangkok is known as a stopover – somewhere to spend a few hedonistic hours before going on to the coast. Well, that may have been true 20 years ago. Now it's a place to linger.

Zoom up Silom road - through the commercial district - towards the shopping centres of Siam Square to see how the city has flourished.

The Skytrain monorail moves silently overhead. Designer labels abound. The shiny Siam Paragon shopping centre has a car park just for supercars.

Then there's Asiatique, a bustling night market of 1,500 shops on the banks of the Chao Phraya River.

Handicrafts and trinkets sit alongside fashion boutiques and gadgets and nothing closes before midnight. If you are laden with goodies, as I am, a fleet of tuk-tuks is waiting outside.

Racing away, we fly over holes in the road. A dramatic swerve and a loud judder tell me we've arrived back at the swanky Mandarin Oriental. They've seen it all here.

From writer Somerset Maugham, bedridden with malaria, to Mick Jagger insisting the windows in the royal suite be blacked out and Billy Idol wrecking his room completely.

Dining on the riverfront at the Mandarin Oriental

Celebs aside, the hotel has a cooking school and I take a class with chef Narain. A kaleidoscope of ingredients is laid out before us. Those we know: ginger, lime leaves; fish sauce, lemongrass. And those we don't, the tiny butterfly pea – a flower from which a brilliant blue dye can be used to colour desserts.

We watch, ask questions and taste. Then attempt Siamese baked desserts (small, dome-shaped pancakes); braised pork; fiery tom yum soup and a salad of grapefruit-like pomelo.

I slice, chop, juice and pummel. Chef Narain chats away. Chillies, it turns out, are a matchmaking tool. 'Mothers looking for a suitable wife for their sons spy on the neighbour's daughters to assess the speed with which they grind the spice,' he laughs. 'The faster the grinding, the better wife she will make.'

Food is a big deal in Bangkok. Take the Skytrain to Thong Lor and Sukhumvit Soi 38, a line of steamy, noisy, kitchens-on-wheels. There can be no better initiation to Thai street food.

Grab a wobbly table and gobble sticky rice with mango, curries, pad Thai, squid and duck. Delicious.

First published in the Daily Mail - June 2016

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