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Folks,

Looking for a tuk-tuk driver for your visit to Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) - look no further!!!

I have just returned from my 2nd Cambodia visit, and have used the following tuk-tuk driver on both occassions - he's totally reliable, friendly, speaks good english, and an enjoyable person to have with you on your Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) trips...

Soryar Tour - Kim Soryar & Kim Soyean (brothers).

e-mail Soryar and Soyean at: Kimsoryar@yahoo.com

I used Soyean on both occassions, was totally pleased, and thoroughly reccommend.
Contact Soryar and Soyean to let them know you're interested in a reliable tuk-tuk driver for your Siem Reap visit.
Tell Soryar or Soyean that Scott & Doreen from Australia reccommended you to use their services - you'll be more than happy!

Local Siem Reap airport pickup/drop-off if you need.
Taxi ride from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap if you need.
Tuk-tuk or air-con car/van around siem Reap.

$12 a day is about right,i dont tip but its up to you,used tuk tuk drivers for angkor wat and town i used a guy called mr tar he was ok speaks good english and ok driver

$55 for three days is a lot unless you were to go to the temples or locations that are much further away than then area covered by the area Angkor Wat - Angkor Thom - East and West Baray.

Pretty much the normal rates for that area are now $12-$13 so $10 is a good deal indeed. Although I must say, that with the price of gas, the soaring costs of rice and other foodstuffs and the stiff competition between the drivers, those $2 - $3 dollars every day becomes a very big deal to a struggling driver with a family and for many tourists $2 - $3 is really not that much (barebones backpackers and other people to whom that amount is a lot excluded of course). So please don't try and nickle and dime too much.

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT to know is that when you book through the hotel, up to 50% of the fares go to the hotel so as the above author did, you are doing a driver a huge favor to not book thru the hotel.

If you stay near Two Dragons G/H there is a driver called Mr Sith who is very helpful and took us to a lot of the distant temples one of them was 30klm away as well as Angkor Wat & Angkor Thom and trip to airport for $65. I thought this was a reasonable price as I was comparing it to what I would pay at home.

Recently returned from a honeymoon in Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangkok...

Per recommendations here and on Lonely Planet Thorntree, we used Kim San as our guide. His contact info is sourtkimsan@yahoo.com, and his website is http://www.angkor-guides.com/.

Kim San has ample experience as guide (he worked as a guide for 8 years before opening up his own company), and has even worked with the Amazing Race crew when they were in Siem Reap (he gave them their clue).

His price was very, very fair, and his English language skills were good. Overall, he was a great guide!

Can I tout my friend who is a guide, too? :-)
His name is Thoeun and he works on archaelological excavations in the area, he knows his ruins!
http://www.tourguideangkor.com/

We had Sila as our tuk tuk driver the 1st time we arrived in Siem Reap. He's such a lovely guy to get. Speaks decent English, patient and he's not calculative about every single mileage (huge importance as we don't want to go through the negotiation process every time). Sila has recommended places such as paddy fields, markets, villages when we have enough of paddy fields....

He doesn't overcharge, very honest and sincere young man. I strongly recommend that you get him for your stay in Siem Reap. You can either drop me a line or contact him direct at sengseila_2006@yahoo.com

I just came back from Cambodia a few days ago. Per recommendation by "pippy208" in above post #26, I hired Sra Pon to be our tuk-tuk driver for four and a half days in Siem Reap . He was exactly how "pippy208" described in post #26. He was very reliable. he was always on time every morning and he kept his tuk-tuk very clean and tidy. The seat was very soft and covered in fabric seats (most other tuk-tuks have vinyl seats), which is great when the roads are bumpy and the weather is hot!! He even supplied us with bottles of cold water and wet towels in his ice box everyday. He spoke very good English and he could also read English as we showed him the names of the temples we wanted to visit. He brought us to any place we wanted and he suggested other places also.

He may not be the fastest tuk-tuk driver in Siem Reap but he is the safest and most careful driver in Siem Reap. Everyday we did the morning tour of the temples, followed by 2-3 hour lunch break and rest at the hotel, then did the afternoon tour of the temples. He made good suggestions as when to visit certain temples to avoid crowds. He also took us to different restaurants and other interesting places we wanted to go at night without any complains.

His rates are very reasonable, in fact was slightly lower than the other tuk-tuk driver was asking.

I initially had problem contacting him via email because the email address "pippy208" provided was wrong. It was sra_pon@yahoo.com, not sra-pon@yahoo.com, with underline not the dash. In order to avoid this kind of confusion in the future, I set up a new email address for him.

You can contact him at srapon@ymail.com
His phone number is (855) 89461575

You will never regret that you hired him to take you around!

We had a great experience with Mr Set - he was lovely, never pushy, waited around for us all day while we explored temples and had a great sense of humour.

We're kicking ourselves for not getting his details, but we found him outside the wonderful Rosy Guesthouse (on the river - # 0074, Phum Slor Kram) and I believe this is where you can normally find him. His tuk tuk says 'Mr Set' and his number is 4691.

Mr Set was our driver for 3 days and I believe we paid him $20 or a bit less a day - money very well spent. On one morning we'd organised for him to pick us up before sunrise so we could catch the rise over Angkor Wat, and slept in... he patiently waited several hours (we felt terrible!) until we came down, and just laughed about it.

We plan on finding Mr Set again when we return to Siem Reap and highly recommend him!

hi all,

i spent five days in siem reap in dec last year. i browsed through travelfish before my trip and decided to organise a tuk tuk driver for the whole five days.
i contacted one of the tuk tuk drivers recommended on this website. i was not disappointed. the tuk tuk driver was honest and he took me to other places of interests - not just the temples. he was more than happy to accommodate my impromptu itinerary.
if anyone is interested, you can contact him on sengseila_2006@yahoo.com

cheers,
c :)

A good English Speaking temples tour guide rate:

High season (Oct - Mar) USD25/day
Low season (Apr - Sep) USD20/day

You can also get someone is cheaper than this price but terrible English.

I hope this would help
BEN

Before I visited Siem Reap in 2008 I researched and shortlisted a few tuk tuk drivers. A week before I arrived I emailed and organised my driver to pick me up at 5am from my accom. on the first day (I invested in a 3 day pass). Given that there are so many recent recomms. for drivers I'll simply advise that you arrange your driver via email only. Settle on costs prior. I gave my driver my proposed 3 day itinerary and then relied on his local knowledge for suggested changes.

In siem reap we stayed at the golden temple villa and they had reliable and farley priced tut tuk drivers.
If you travel further on to Battambang, we can recommand Dr Blue, the tuk-tuk driver, to go and see the countryside around battambang and the bamboo-train. His price was very resonable, his english good but more important than that he has a lot of job-joy! Entertaining his costumers with little jokes and magic tricks. His costumers mean a lot to him, wich is very charming. He proudly keeps a book with foto's and notes of them. You can find him at the restaurant Smokin'pot. (also recommanded) On his tuk-tuk is a bat painted. If he is not hanging around there, ask for him at the restaurant, he is a friend of the family.

I have seen these tuk tuk and they are more like the auto rikshaw from Pakistan and India.

Quite handy though, they accomodate around 7-8 guys!!

2 days before we arrived in Siem Reap, we e-mailed a few recommended tuk tuk drivers on travelfish including Kim Soryar & Kim Soyean. Soryar got back to us right away (Kimsoryar@yahoo.com) and we ended up hiring his brother Soyean for 2 days in his tuk tuk. Soyean's English was very good and he gave us endless bottles of cold water and towels. His rates seem to be about the same as everyone else we asked - $13 for the day, plus extra for sunrise and farther sites like Bantrey Srei. There were lots of guides and drivers available even in the high January season although we noticed the quality of English (and French that we could understand) varied quite widely.

I have just returned from Cambodia after a week. I managed to meet a nice young man by the name of Kimsrun who brought me around the Ang Kor Wat. His contact is +855 12567408 / +855 974812203. You can email him at kimsrun.transport@gmail.com if you are planning this in advance. Otherwise just get your hotel to buzz him. He speaks English, Thai, Cambodian & Japanese. He's did not charge me extra for sunrise or sunset. He would even drop us back to hotel after dinner when he sees us along Pub Street! He gave us a good price because we got him for 3 days.

Hi,
I recommend you wait until you get to Siem Reap and either ask yourhotel, who will have a bunch of good, trusted drivers, or just talk toa few on the the street and see who you get on with, there are hundredsof drivers all keen for your business and you will be able to get afeel for their language skills etc.
cheers

I know a very good and ambitious guide who's very fair and polite and speaks good English, he's trying to break through with a small travel agency as well. He charges fixed fees, always on time, clean and tidy unlike the others, we used him for 3 days around Siem Reap. His name is Saroun, contact details on his website:
www.angkortuktukguide.com
He charged from $7 for a small trip to $15 per day but I wasn't bargaining at all.
I'm not a spammer, but genuine traveller, Saroun asked me to help him so I'm posting his details - a very nice guy who's struggling to survive! Any questions let me know! Patrick.

@ Cocodrilo (#13): I have to weigh in with a countervailing opinion about Mr. Thoeun. Last January (2011) we arranged to hire him for three different days during our week-long stay at Siem Reap. First day was around Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom; second was out to Koh Ker and Bang Malea. We found him to be unengaged and perfunctory, especially on the 2nd day, and always seemed in a bit of a rush. He was, in the bargain, on his cell phone a great deal of the time. It was such a disappointing and unsatisfactory experience, we cancelled the third day with him and went around on our own ... which we found more enjoyable.

I have to agree with Sopheap Chan as a brilliant driver. So genuinly kind and friendly, with a passion for his country. I saw some of the countryside pictures he has taken and they were breathtaking, considering the basic camera he has.

I think the selling fact for me was the work he does in his spare time helping his village. And he goes out of his way to make sure you are happy. He's from the same hotel as Bunhat mentioned above - New Riverside Hotel, also brilliant people I stayed at this guesthouse for 7 weeks while volunteering in Cambodia. Sopheap always made me feel safe and never made me feel like an inconvenience. As someone else mentioned, these men are really struggling to care for their families. This does not excuse the agressive tactics by some, however please remember a couple of dollars means alot more to them than it does to you.

Keep up the good work Sopheap, I hope your business thrives because you certainly deserve it. I love seeing your new photos on facebook.

For those interested, siemreaptuktuk@yahoo.com or www.angkorwattuktuk.net. 017 354 144

I recommend Chan. He knows lots of good places for food, in addition to the best temples to visit if you are on a short trip. He's stationed outside Claremont Angkor hotel if you are there.

I just came back from Siam Reap and would like to recomend an excellent driver I had.His name is Same and we used his services for 4 days. His english is quite good, he even carries a dictionary! He also speaks French. Hedrives very safely and is a great guide to Angkor and all surroundingareas. We especially loved the real Khmer restaurant that he took usto. No one there spoke english, so we wood have very hard time to orderanything without Same. We had a great feast for a fraction of the pricesin town. Same Knew where to go best at what time of day, but alsoallways considered what we would like to see the most. You can just lethim plan your day at breakfast and relax as he will give you anexcellent service, explain about temples, stop at good spots to eatalong the way.He works hard, is courteous, does not take advantage of you not knowing your way around. Make sure to tip him well at the end of your tripbecause he really deserves it. He also has great plans of starting an organisation to help Cambodian orphanage Inteligent and plesent. Jonh Stefan sent you.
http://www.angkorbestdriver.com . if you would like his tuk tuk service for your angkor wat temple trip please give him a contact by Email :

samsavat99@yahoo.com
samsavat168gmail.com

Hi all

Just back from siem Reap and we met a tuktuk driver called Mr Siv. He was fabulous. As an ex English teacher he speaks good English (other drivers were ringing him up and asking for the Khmer translation). He is also interested in the history of his country and was clearly passionate about it. As a result we got a tuk tuk driver and tour guide rolled into one. Really can't recommend him enough. His details are:

Mr Siv (Siam Reap province)
Email sivpisey@yahoo.com (if that doesn't work try stvpisey@yahoo.com, I can't read his writing!)
Phone: (+855)12217330

A great guy!!

Hi all,

Agreed re: Cobra the tuk-tuk driver in Siem Reap! He was a great guide, very polite (he introduced himself by saying "Hello madame, may I be of assistance?"), honest, and a fun guy to be around. He only charged us $15 for a one-day tour of Angkor Wat, a very fair price. He also hooked us up with a great tuk-tuk driver named Lucky in Phnom Penh to pick us up from the bus station. If you're in Siem Reap, definitely look up Cobra (others have posted his contact info on this page, but he also has a Facebook page called "Cobra's Tuk Tuk Adventures Siem Reap").

I had great time in Cambodia with my driver, His name is Mr.Wonder, he's very friendly, polite, smile, and helpful. He charged me only $10 per day for Angkor Tour, it's so cheap. If I take him for my tour guide to explain for Angkor history. he charged me only $20 including transportation. Please contact him 070 450059. checking his website:www.angkorwonder.org

I'm writing with yet another vouch for Sopheap Chan! I decided to take a 1-day tour of the Angkor site with Sopheap after seeing the recommendations for him on both Travel Fish and Lonely Planet. Sopheap was more than punctual, showing up at my guesthouse 30 min early at 4:30AM in the morning - just so I could see the sunrise at Angkor Wat. Sopheap was extremely patient - he told me to take as much time as possible to explore the temples on the itinerary. I never felt rushed! Sopheap went above and beyond the service that he offered by taking me to a local fruit stand after I inquired of him as to where I can purchase rambutans. Also, when he came to pick me up at my guesthouse after an afternoon break, it started POURING with rain; even with such bad road conditions, Sopheap's driving was superb. Sopheap's spoken English is very good as well, and he is in the process of learning Korean to appeal to more guests; that's how dedicated he is to his job! Although I've only spent a day with Sopheap, I can tell that he is a genuinely great person, in addition to being a perfect tuk tuk driver. On top of that - his rates are extremely fair and competitive (I paid $17 for the "Grand Tour"; the normal tour is $15/day). HIGHLY recommended! His contact info can be found on:


www.angkorwattuktuk.net


Just my 2 cents!

Hello, I've contacted Sam Tuk Tuk because of the raving reviews on Tripadvisor, and the price he gave to me is the following, for the itinerary I've asked for.
Day1- $15 small circuit
Day2- $45 Kbal Spean + other temples
Day3- $65 including toll road Phnom Kulen national park
Does it sound reasonable to you?
Thanks!

Didn't take the name of our Tuk Tuk driver but he was all we needed.

Just wanted to add $15/day is the going rate for a tuk tuk and We bought our tickets for Angkor gate $40 which was $20 a day and you get the 3rd day free.

There was one guy who had his pimped out as the Bat Mobile tuk tuk ( batman style ) all though we never used him he was always amusing to have banter with as we walked around Siem Reap at night.

If there's one guy I would recommend in Siem Reap , then it would have to be Pounn Kong. Pounn is incredibly nice and always provides great recommendations. He took us around Angkor for a day, we just let hime lead us where he thought were the best places and we had nothing to complain about. The next day we asked him to take us to a floating villages. Instead of taking us to the super-touristic and very expensive Chong Kneas, he took us to Kompong Phluk, much cheaper and more authentic. We loved the fact he never tried to overcharge us for anything, and his prices are completely average for a Siem Reap tuk-tuk.

Unfortunately all I have is his facebook address: he's the only Pounn Kong registered, so it won't be hard to find him