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Bimal Lodhia Visited Bangkok | Posted on 28 Apr

Thank for organising the trip - it was fantastic.

Timothy Morgan Visited Singapore | Posted on 28 Apr | Stayed at La Vela Khao Lak

Everything went very smoothly

Peter Grimwood Visited Phuket | Posted on 28 Apr | Stayed at Paradox Singapore Merchant Court at Clarke Quay

You are are the best.

Peter Acton Visited Vietnam | Posted on 27 Apr

Emily Aird was fantastic in sorting our holiday and for keeping us posted. A brilliant service, thank you.

Nigel Butt Visited Bali | Posted on 27 Apr | Stayed at Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf and Spa Resort

Having someone, with relevant experience to recommend options and then take on the administrative burden gave us peace of mind/assurance that if any issues came up there was someone there to help resolve them. I thought they were just a flight broker but they offer so much more so if you need a partner to build and book your dream holiday look no further than Emily our consultant

Nicola Eakins Visited Bali | Posted on 27 Apr | Stayed at Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf and Spa Resort

Usual good service

Glen Harding Visited Manila | Posted on 27 Apr

Always helpful

Paul Ellis Visited Bangkok | Posted on 27 Apr

Very professional service from start to finish Have used DialAFlight for many years

Glen Holt Visited Koh Samui | Posted on 26 Apr

I have been using your company for several years. We have always received excellent service and travel advice, also back up whenever needed even from abroad. Your managers, Fraser and now Gino have been brilliant.

Mahmood Hasan Visited Tashkent | Posted on 25 Apr

Thanks again Deborah and team for looking after us on our trip to Thailand. Everything went smoothly and the hotels and transfers were spot on. I’ll be using you again very soon.

John Miles Visited Koh Samui | Posted on 25 Apr | Stayed at Sensi Paradise Beach Resort

This was a beautifully scheduled and packed 3 country holiday in great hotels that suited our needs. I definitely would recommend others to use DialAFlight as the first point of call for any intended holiday.

Moses Tandayi Visited Phuket | Posted on 25 Apr | Stayed at The Oberoi Beach Resort Bali

As always everything went well

Joe Zaman Visited Bangkok | Posted on 25 Apr

Great deal on flights, great communication, someone was always available to help at all times. Would highly recommend

Joseph Warke Visited Bangkok | Posted on 25 Apr

Great service as always. Thank you Spencer and team.

David Murphy Visited Koh Samui | Posted on 24 Apr

Owen was very helpful, worked out an excellent itinerary and gave us lots of advice. The hotels he booked were of a good standard and perfectly located. It gave us confidence to know that DialAFlight were available 24 hours a day to support us throughout our holiday if we got into any difficulty.

Susan Kohutova Visited Tokyo | Posted on 24 Apr | Stayed at Far East Village Hotel Tokyo, Ariake

It gives you peace of mind when flights abroad are taken care of by someone reliable.

Yasuko Mitchell Visited Tokyo | Posted on 24 Apr

Excellent service

Richard Allan Visited Bangkok | Posted on 24 Apr

The Assistance at Heathrow is rubbish

Peter Innes Visited Bangkok | Posted on 24 Apr

Great to be able to talk to a responsive and knowledgeable human being....and get in touch so quickly|

Michael Addison Visited Dushanbe | Posted on 24 Apr

We were not impressed with Qatar Airways

Doreen Docherty Visited Phuket | Posted on 24 Apr | Stayed at Souq Waqif Boutique Hotels by Tivoli

Always knowledgeable and helpful

Kim Jellyman Visited Koh Samui | Posted on 24 Apr

Absolutely outstanding

David Dixon Visited Tokyo | Posted on 24 Apr | Tailor-made tour

Excellent service and communication

Tara Beckett Visited Phuket | Posted on 24 Apr

It is very reassuring to have a phone contact to help with flight details especially for the older generation.

Stuart Duffin Visited Bangkok | Posted on 23 Apr

Have used DialAFlight many times and they have excelled each time. Maybe not the cheapest option but the service you receive makes up for that. Seymour has gone over and above for us on the three holidays we have booked with him.

Lynne Horne Visited Phuket | Posted on 23 Apr | Stayed at X10 Khao Lak Resort

Excellent service from Ben, once again

Stephen Little Visited Shanghai | Posted on 23 Apr | Stayed at Holiday Inn Temple Of Heaven

We have used DialAFlight before and will use them again.

Maria Lander Visited Hong Kong | Posted on 23 Apr

Amazing service. Thanks so much Jamie. Will definitely use you again

Rachel Kurimoto Visited Tokyo | Posted on 23 Apr

Easy from start to finish.

Kasia Stubbs Visited Tokyo | Posted on 23 Apr

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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