Family travel guides for Thailand

Before you fly: a family checklist

• Passports valid for at least 6 months on entry, one for every child.
• A Thailand Digital Arrival Card for each traveler, filed on tdac.immigration.go.th within the 3 days before arrival; look-alike sites charge for the free form.
• The airport transfer booked with a child seat, confirmed in writing, with each child's age, weight and height.
• Travel insurance that names every child and covers hospital care and evacuation.
• Routine vaccines checked, plus hepatitis A (from age 1) and typhoid as the CDC advises; ask about Japanese encephalitis and rabies for long or rural trips.
• Enough of your baby's usual formula, and a mosquito repellent your pediatrician approves.
• A plan for cash: Thai ATMs charge foreign cards 250 baht per withdrawal on Visa, UnionPay and JCB and 350 baht on Mastercard at the banks we checked, so take out larger amounts less often.

Which guide should you read first?

Start from the situation that worries you most. The table points to the guide, and to the section, that answers it.

How are these guides checked?

Every rule, fee, date and number in the guides comes from a named source: Thai government bodies such as the Department of National Parks, the Thai Meteorological Department and the Immigration Bureau; the CDC and the World Health Organization for health; and, for the transfer network, the operator's published terms. Each guide lists its sources at the end with the date we checked them, and says "as of September 2026" where a rule could change. When sources disagree, or we could not confirm something, the guide says so rather than guessing.

Things change: park fees, visa rules and festival dates are revised from time to time. Check the official page linked in a guide before you rely on a fee or a date, and read how we choose places and check facts.