Choose Pattaya for a short road transfer from Bangkok, a city beach with plenty of restaurants and evening life; choose Krabi for limestone scenery, island boat days and a slower resort pace, usually with a domestic flight. Both sets of examples use the same dates, party and room basis, so they can be read side by side; the hotels and baskets still differ.
Scope, dates and party
These are dated ground-cost examples for two adults sharing one room, six nights over seven days, 19–25 January 2027, checked on 1 October 2026. Flights, visas, insurance, shopping and unlisted excursions are excluded. Hotel figures are dated observations or a published tariff, not booked inventory or checkout prices, and they are not year-round ranges or calculator defaults.
What is specific to this budget
Pattaya figures were checked on 1 October 2026 and Krabi figures on 30 September 2026, for the same 19–25 January 2027 stay. Neither is a booking quote or a year-round range.
Areca Lodge is priced from its published seasonal tariff valid 11 January–30 April 2027, not from live inventory; availability and cancellation terms were not verified. The other two hotels are dated public quotes for these exact dates.
Trade-offs
Pattaya is the easier add-on to a Bangkok trip and works without boats or flights; its beach is urban and some streets are loud at night. Krabi gives more scenery and island trips, but boat days depend on sea conditions and add their own costs.
What the Pattaya examples cover
Three central and North Pattaya hotels with breakfast, published menu benchmarks and labelled MTC allowances for transport, drinks and activities, including a Bangkok airport car each way.
What the Krabi examples cover
Three Krabi hotels with their own meal and activity baskets, as printed beside the Krabi figures. Read each hotel's terms there rather than assuming they match Pattaya's.
Dated ground cost side by side
Basket A of each hotel tier, same party and dates, flights excluded. Scopes differ in size and in what each trip includes, so read the full itemised examples on each cost guide before deciding.
Hotel tier
Pattaya
Krabi
Budget
745.42 USD53.24 USD per person per ground dayPublished seasonal tariff, not live inventory: availability and cancellation terms were not verified.
1,347.20 USD96.23 USD per person per ground day
Mid-range
1,278.12 USD91.29 USD per person per ground day
1,767.98 USD126.28 USD per person per ground day
Luxury
1,331.75 USD95.13 USD per person per ground day
3,700.58 USD264.33 USD per person per ground day
Compiled and totalled by My Travel Choices (MTC) from the dated sources credited with each example. Research estimates, not bookable offers. How we build these examples · Cite this guide
