I was very happy with our thoughtful and accommodating guides Nyla and Poy. I have extra needs as an autistic person and when I said I needed to leave a loud place Poy walked me back to the hotel. I would have liked more cultural information about the ways in which people lived in Thailand but due to the immature people on the tour I think it would have been lost on them and kind of pointless. I was very disappointed with the English people on the tour. I am older (26) but I was so shocked with the language of the 'men' on the tour, from the r words (in front of me an autistic person which I was very open about) to consent jokes whilst in a 3000 year old cave with drawings, to games of would you rather gang r**p x or y. I was shocked with the amount of Homophobic comments from the people on the tour. 'That's gay' ... I haven't hear this kind of language since I was at school 10 years ago. I am an openly bisexual women and there were bisexual men and other women on the tour who felt increasing uncomfortable about the language used. It really tarnish the trip and was very hard to hear day in and day out. I had to go off by myself a lot to get away from it. Or call this use of language out which was meant with conflict. I did not expect in this age group to be so immature which sadly did make the trip very unpleasant at times. This is no fault of the guide or gap360 and I feel like I just got very unlikely with certain people who dominated the group dynamics on this trip. I had an amazing time with other lovely kind people on this trip and because the group of 23 was big, by the end we branched off and had our own outings and fun. Thailand is absolutely beautiful and I just wish the gym boys had slowed down a bit on the jungle hike so we could take it all in and see the animals (which were no where to be seen due to the loud inappropriate conversation by these boys). I had an incredible infighting experience in the temple praying to Buda (which again was interrupted by the immature boys laughing the whole time in the sacred place). I liked Bangkok but would again have liked to have seen more of the culture the museums ect (maybe this is my age again rather then the strip). Chiang Mai was beautiful, personally 1 day less would have been better. The Elephant 'sanctuary' was not a sanctuary as we would describe it. There were men with sticks who owned the Elephants and even though these Elephants were not put to work in the logging industry they were there for tourists and recently the men who owned these beautiful Elephants had bred a calf. The baby Elephant was amazing to see from a selfish point of view as a tourist. But it did make me sad as this little guy was there again for the tourist to oow and aww over. It does make me wonder why they brought a bull in to bred when there is no where for these Elephants anymore. It did feel a bit like they where there to perform, taking the banana from there mouths and going to the river. I do believe these Elephants are cared for but they did feel more like pets. The flight was with a very budget airline to the south of Thailand. The men had no leg room at all. And it did not feel very safe for the nervous flyers. The islands were incredible and I enjoyed every single one of them. I did think ao nang was pointless, were was nothing there, people got stung by jellyfish, the hostel felt like a prison mental cage. And I did not feel safe in the area as it was dominated by Indian men who were tourists or shop owners who would sexually harass you as waking down the street every 10 feet. I would like to say that the Thai people were very friendly, really like tourists and the men were very respectful of us women and I never had an issue with them. I would remove ao nang of the trip. There was a lot of travelling between places and I feel often this was unnecessary when there were airports in the towns we visited more often then not. I am not sure if this was due to price, but flying between Krabi airport and koh Samui for example would have been better. Rather then hanging around bus stations and hours on 'ferries' boats, buses and taxis. The islands were amazing on the east side of Thailand and I just wish we had more time there! So good 😁 I wish there was a flight from the east side of Thailand to Bangkok so you could fly straight home on the last day. The coach being a day coach as well just was very long and felt again a bit of unnecessary time wasting. Overall I would have no gone with this group of people had I known what their every day language and how immature these boys where. But I am pleased i did experience some of Thailand and did some amazing people. Again our guide was so accommodating and always on hand 24 hours a day for 25days straight, if anything she (Nyla) deserves a medal.