Elephant Ride Advice Please

We are staying at Surin Beach in February and would like to take an elephant ride. What price should we expect to pay? How long does it last? Are there guides to avoid or any who are particularly recommended?

All info welcome Thanks!

Elephant Ride Advice Please

Kok Chang Safari is fantastic for elephant rides. The have 20 min, 30 min and 1 hr rides. All the animals there are well cared for, the views are sensational and they have their own website wih prices etc.

http://www.kokchangsafari.com/index.html

We have been there many many times and my link below has a lot of photos of the rides, views etc.

cathyandgarystravelpages.com/kok_chang_safar…

Cathy

Elephant Ride Advice Please

Is this fact or is this fiction...???

Please google : thailand environmental concerns

An excellent site with a whole bunch of information about elephant training,trekking,tigers and other interesting stuff about Thailand....

We went to Kalim Elephant ride, about 15 min drive from Surin. Like the one Cathy mentions, there is varying ammounts of time. Price is about 500Bt per person.

leave the poor beasts alone...go and torture something that deserves it...these animals are poorly treated and inhumanely broken in...its tourists that support this torture...give it a rest...

Hi

I agree with Cathy and Garywe went with Kok Chang Elephant Safari after reading Tripadvisor we have just returned from Thailand and used this company we paid 1000 baht for an hour. We just rang Chaini a nd within 20minutes they were at our hotel to pick us up.

Have Fun

OK Mikey calm down. I was simply asking for some advice.

Thank you to all the other responses.