A Thai Village Home Stay

Name: Beatriz Cardona, Australia.

A unique opportunity to live with a Thai family and learn about their everyday life. It has allowed me and my family to learn from first hand experience about the education, farming practices, culture and values of Thai people and to enjoy their hospitality, including traditional home made Thai food. I greatly recommend this home stay program for anyone interested in getting a real experience of being in Thailand in the relaxed and safe environment of a Thai family home.

beatriz642002 at yahoo.com.au

Name: Alicia Reeves, New Zealand.

Eric & Thitaporn have been great hosts. Great experience staying in a Thai village & experiencing life the Thai way. Accommodated four adults and a three-year-old child with ease. A lovely tidy clean house (with a western toilet). Amazing food cooked by Thitaporn. Very flexible with our plans & change of plans. Great suggestions of places to go & things to do. Great-personalized tour guide service provided by Eric. A great five days spent with Eric & his family. Thank you, we will have not hesitation in recommending this home stay to our New Zealand friends.

n.a.reeve at xtra.co.nz

Name: Danielle Walls, Canada.

Thank you for an awesome weekend! You are a wonderful family. Eric, I thank you for showing me all around, you were a great tour guide. To Som, you have a very beautiful smile and were always busy cooking up something new and delicious. Thank you. And I really enjoyed our bike rides around the village. It is so beautiful here and very peaceful. And last but not least, Selyne, you are such a sweetheart. To all of you, thank you for having me stay with you in your home and giving me a true and wonderful Thai experience! I hope that I will meet you all again sometime tin the future. Till then take care. Danielle.

Daniellew85 at hotmail.com

Name: Benjamin Wilcox, USA.

Thanks Eric, 
Let me write you a brief testimonial for your website: I spent several days in Chiang Rai and couldn't have asked for a better experience. Eric and Som were very gracious and accommodating hosts; Eric gave me a fascinating tour of the village and showed me around Chiang Rai and Som cooked up something new and delicious day after day. I got to see Thai daily life from the inside out, something you won't get by staying at a hotel or just going on a tour of a village. A home-stay is definitely the way to experience Thailand; I'll definitely stop by again next time I'm in Thailand! Tomorrow I leave for home, psyching myself up for the long flight! I'll be in touch. -Ben 

xocliwtb at yahoo.com

Name: Neil and Noona, Sydney, Australia.  

If you are going to visit Chiang Rai, I recommend you stay with Eric & Thitaporn. They are excellent hosts. We really felt at home and were very well looked after. You cannot get this service from a hotel at any price.

neil21@tpg.com.au

Name: Scott, Canada. 

Eric, Som and Selyne:

Thank you very much for hosting our family in northern Thailand. We have been traveling away from Canada for almost a year now, and when our boys are happy, we are happy! From the minute we arrived at your home we all felt comfortable, and your special efforts to make familiar “Western” foods was very much appreciated by the youngsters. Som, your Thai cooking is 100% fabulous, yum! Our four nights in your spacious guest room were quiet and comfortable. Finally, we enjoyed the tours of the Chiang Rai area and learning more about life in this part of the world. Best of luck to you all, the Girling Family.

brendasg@telus.net

Name: Lesley, Derek and family.

We were recommended to use Eric as a guide while visiting Chiang Rai and took up his offer of a home stay with his family. This was the best decision we could have taken as Eric, his wife Som and his daughter Selyne made us all feel extremely welcome in their home. The food cooked by Som was fabulous and in our view is better than we have tasted in many Thai restaurants. We will all miss the wonderful food. A home stay is an amazing way to learn first hand about the Thai culture. To live in a village and experience village life has been a fantastic experience – from going to the village market with Som at 6.00 am to buy food for the evening meal, to watching the water buffalo wander down the lane on their way home from the fields are all experiences we will never forget. With Eric’s help, we have seen many of the area’s attractions but for our daughters the highlight was playing with Selyne and biking around the village together - they have all been lovely playmates and will miss each other. We cannot thank you all enough for allowing us to stay in your lovely home and be part of your daily village life. You are wonderful hosts and we will all miss you very much.

lesleycarr2004@supanet.com