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Gerald Wiles Visited Bangkok | Posted on 08 Dec | Stayed at Acqua Hotel

My friends and I have used DialAFlight for many years for our holidays to many different destinations. Always excellent service from Stuart and the team following our flight and making sure everything is on time or informing us of any changes 10/10 !

Manjit Singh Visited Bangkok | Posted on 08 Dec

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Judith Sharkey Visited Chiang Mai | Posted on 07 Dec

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Raymond Dowding Visited Koh Samui | Posted on 06 Dec

Darryll Hansford is excellent!

Adrian Blomefield Visited Bangkok | Posted on 06 Dec

Great service as always - already planning my next trip so will be back

Eileen Huggett Visited Kathmandu | Posted on 06 Dec | Tailor-made tour

Flights all arranged perfectly and at the best times to make the whole trip work out fine

Mathew Nottingham Visited Seoul | Posted on 05 Dec

With hindsight, I’d have preferred a different route home. But everything went smoothly and that was really reassuring.

Julie Forshaw Visited Kathmandu | Posted on 05 Dec | Tailor-made tour

Great service from Doug. It's so good to have a service where you can speak to someone quickly when needed and not an automated service

Anne Poole Visited Hong Kong | Posted on 04 Dec

Thai Aairways serves the most disgusting food I have eaten on a plane. It's terrible, cheap horrible wine and sloppy food and sandwiches

Brian Hamilton Visited Udon Thani | Posted on 04 Dec

Ash was transparent when discussing our different options for our wildlife tour. This was high quality, reliable and the transfers, accommodation and tour were of good quality, on time and well organised. We will definitely use Ash again as he has given us the trust and confidence we want.

Jane Thompson Visited Singapore | Posted on 04 Dec | Stayed at Shangri-La Rasa Ria

Thank you DialAFlight and Ellie in particular, for your valued help, knowledgeable advice and excellent communication before and during our fab time in Vietnam and Phu Quoc. I would like to say an 11 out of 10 service if that is possible!

Paul Paddock Visited Vietnam | Posted on 04 Dec | Stayed at Pullman Phu Quoc

Everything we expected and more

Janet Taylor Visited Phuket | Posted on 03 Dec | Stayed at Sunprime Kamala Beach

I have no hesitation recommending Dominic and his team. We have used them for over 5 years and know we will get the best flights and prices available.

Susan Thomas Visited Bangkok | Posted on 03 Dec

Very good service. Helpful team.

Fraser Gray Visited Laos | Posted on 03 Dec

Very helpful.

Mercy Mcmillan Visited Manila | Posted on 02 Dec

Matt helped with check-in and documentation. Always use this fast efficient, friendly service. Well recommended

Paul Hynes Visited Bangkok | Posted on 02 Dec

Flights, hotels, transfers all good. Excellent service thanks to Jamie.

Joan Ferdinando Visited Phuket | Posted on 01 Dec | Stayed at Holiday Style Ao Nang Beach Resort, Krabi

It was all wonderful...I should have stayed longer!

Caroline Carrier Visited Malaysia | Posted on 01 Dec | Stayed at Shangri-La Rasa Sayang

Theo always really looks after us and we’ve had some great trips with DialAFlight. Our most recent trip to Japan was a great success. Big thanks to all the team!

Marty Johnson Visited Osaka | Posted on 01 Dec | Stayed at Park Hotel Tokyo

Nicholas delivered exactly what we wanted. Flights to fit our budget and excellent hotels in perfect locations. Thank you DialAFlight for the friendly, efficient and professional way in which you put together our holiday.

Stuart Collier Visited Tokyo | Posted on 01 Dec | Stayed at Miyako Hotel Kyoto Hachijo

Always above and beyond service. Thank you Lee and the team. So much appreciated, as always.

Dawn Taylor Visited Phuket | Posted on 01 Dec

Would use Matt again every time for long haul trips - excellent service

Susan Hanscombe Visited Singapore | Posted on 01 Dec | Stayed at JEN Singapore Orchard Gateway by Shangri-La

As usual, Boris was very responsive and professional arranging our flights and accommodation. Excellent service.

Frank Bastow Visited Bali | Posted on 01 Dec | Stayed at The Bali Dream Villa & Resort Echo Beach Canggu

Thank you so much - I was very grateful for all your help. Eva Air were good just like you told me.

Sarah Leitch Visited Bangkok | Posted on 01 Dec

When a flight plan gets complicated, sometimes it's just simpler to DialAFlight

John Cuthbert Visited Kathmandu | Posted on 01 Dec

All went well

Johnathan Whitehead Visited Chiang Mai | Posted on 30 Nov

Unfortunately Turkish Airlines did not manage to deliver our luggage at Denpasar for 36 hours. The first two days of the holiday were spoilt as a result of having no clothing. Am currently claiming from the airline.

Joseph Mullens Visited Bali | Posted on 30 Nov

Very pleased with all the bookings arranged by Dylan

Aydin Masters Visited Hanoi | Posted on 30 Nov | Stayed at Holiday Inn Express Singapore Clarke Quay

Everything was seamless, we had no issues during our trip and the holiday itself was very good. No hassle and well worth the money. DialAFlight are always ready to answer your call even on the emergency line for out of hours during the trip.

Jake White Visited Bali | Posted on 30 Nov | Stayed at Puri Wulandari Boutique Resort & Spa

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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