Krabi, one boat at a time.
Four-islands longtail loops, Phi Phi speedboats, jungle pools, and plankton that lights up the water after dark. What each trip is really like, what it costs, and where to book.
Seven trips that make a Krabi week.
First visit or fifth, these carry the itinerary — the longtail loop past Chicken Island, a speedboat out to Maya Bay, the cold jungle pools inland, and the sunset cruise everyone talks about the next morning.
Hong Islands Day Trip by Speedboat with Lunch
Speedboat day trip to Krabi’s Hong Islands for swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, and lunch, capped with a top-of-Hong 360° viewpoint.
From $43 per person
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★ 5.0Traveller favouriteFull-Day Phi Phi Islands Tour with Lunch from KrabiFrom $1221,392 reviews
Four islands, one longtail.
Push off from Ao Nang and the boat threads Chicken Island, Tup, Poda and Phra Nang beach on a single tide — snorkel stops over the reef, lunch on the sand, and the shallow sandbar walk between islands when the water drops away. This is the day people plan a whole Krabi trip around.
Four Islands, Phi Phi, or Hong?
Everyone wants a boat day; the right one depends on your trip. Three ways to spend it — pick the one that sounds like you, and every trip behind it is already reviewed and priced.
By longtail
The four-islands classic
6 hours · from $39 · 4,812 reviews
The Ao Nang loop the slow way: Chicken Island’s tail of rock, snorkelling off Tup, lunch on Poda, and the shallow walk to Phra Nang when the tide drops out. Close islands, a wooden boat, the postcard everyone comes to Krabi for.
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By speedboat
The Phi Phi day
9 hours · from $85 · 2,889 reviews
Further out and faster: open water across to Maya Bay, the Pileh lagoon walled in by cliffs, snorkelling at Loh Samah, and Monkey Beach on the way home. A long, full day for the islands off the postcards.
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The quiet lagoon
The Hong day
6 hours · from $43 · 3,952 reviews
The one most people skip: inside the ring of cliffs at Hong Island, the hidden lagoon that fills at high tide, kayaks through the mangroves, and far fewer boats than the Ao Nang loop. Calm water, big walls, room to breathe.
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Then the water lights up.
The last longtails turn gold over the karst, dinner comes off a BBQ on the deck, and then the lights go out and the water lights up — bioluminescent plankton that flares blue around every stroke on a night swim off the boat.
Learn to cook the curry.
A morning at the market picking lemongrass and galangal, an afternoon over the wok, and a green curry, pad thai and tom yum you can actually make again at home. A Krabi cooking class is the souvenir that lasts.
Into the jungle on wheels.
Quad bikes over red-dirt tracks behind Ao Nang, ziplines strung between the trees, buggies through rubber plantations to a waterfall. When you’ve had enough salt water, the jungle behind the beach is the other Krabi.
The mainland runs on jungle.
Behind the beaches: the Emerald Pool’s cold turquoise spring, the hot-springs waterfall you can sit right in, and the 1,237 steps up Tiger Cave Temple for the view over the whole province. A slower day, all green, and not a boat in sight.
Krabi, pocket by pocket.
The province works in pockets. Ao Nang for the longtail piers and the four-islands loop. Railay for the cliffs and the climbing. Ko Lanta for slow beaches. The jungle inland for cold pools and elephants.
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A dozen ways to spend a day in Krabi — pick the one that sounds like your kind of trip and every option behind it is already reviewed and priced.
The good stuff is a boat away.
The best of Krabi is a boat ride away. Maya Bay and the Phi Phi lagoons, the cliffs at James Bond Island, the rainforest lake at Khao Sok — all close enough to leave after breakfast and be back for a beach dinner.
Islands, jungle, then Phi Phi.
You can’t see all of Krabi in one trip; you can do the right three days. This is the run we’d hand a friend flying into Krabi tomorrow.
Day 1
The four-islands longtail
Ease in on the classic Ao Nang loop — Chicken Island, snorkelling off Tup, lunch on Poda, the sandbar walk to Phra Nang. Home in time for a beach sunset.
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Day 2
Inland to the pools
Trade the boat for the jungle: the Emerald Pool’s cold spring, a soak at the hot-springs waterfall, and the climb up Tiger Cave Temple if your legs are willing.
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Day 3
The big Phi Phi day
Save the long one for last — a speedboat to Maya Bay and the Pileh lagoon, snorkelling off Phi Phi Leh, back across open water as the light goes soft.
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