Join-In TourPhi Phi Sunrise Tour
Maya Bay before the crowds — our signature trip.
- Join-in · max 18 adults
- 8 hours
- Lunch at Soho Pool Club on return
Choose Your Phi Phi Tour: Sunrise, Sunset or Private
From฿4,810 THBper person · all-inclusive
Three ways to see Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon and the Phi Phi islands — every one of them timed to miss the crowds.
Every Phi Phi island tour from Phuket visits the same headline stops — Maya Bay, Pileh Lagoon, Viking Cave, Monkey Beach and a snorkel reef or two. What actually decides your day is when you arrive and how many people you share the boat with. Simba Sea Trips runs three ways to do Phi Phi: a join-in sunrise tour that reaches Maya Bay before the day-tripper fleet, a seasonal sunset departure that has the bays to itself in the late afternoon, and a fully private charter on your own schedule. All three carry a maximum of 18 adults — against the 30–60 typical on standard tour boats — and every price you see is final and all-inclusive, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure.
Here’s what two decades of running this route has taught us: the classic mid-morning Phi Phi tour delivers you to Maya Bay at exactly the moment several thousand other visitors arrive. The bay is still beautiful — but you’ll experience it over shoulders and selfie sticks. That’s why we deliberately don’t run a standard-hours tour. Our boats leave Boat Lagoon Marina at first light, you catch the sunrise at sea during the crossing, and you step onto Maya Bay while the sand still shows this morning’s tide lines rather than footprints. By the time the crowds arrive, we’re already anchored in Pileh Lagoon or over the reef.
The Phi Phi Sunrise Tour (from ฿5,310 per person, all-inclusive) is the join-in version of that philosophy and our most-booked trip. From November to April the Phi Phi Sunset Shark Tour (from ฿4,810) flips the timing — afternoon light, quiet bays and blacktip reef sharks over the shallows. And if you’d rather set your own itinerary, the Phi Phi Sunrise Private Charter (from ฿40,700 for the whole boat) gives your group the same route with total flexibility.
Simba Sea Trips has operated small-group speedboat tours from Phuket since 2005 — family-owned, run day-to-day by an owner who brings 23 years of aviation safety experience to marine operations, with local Thai captains who read these waters year-round. It’s the reason thousands of verified reviews across TripAdvisor, Google and GetYourGuide keep mentioning the same two things: how empty the bays were, and how looked-after they felt. The crossing from Boat Lagoon Marina to Phi Phi takes about 1 hour 10 minutes on our boats.
Three Ways to GoJoin-In Tour 
Join-In TourNov–Apr only
Private Charter
Choose your Phi Phi tour
Join-In TourJoin-In TourNov–Apr onlyPhi Phi Sunset Shark Tour
Golden-hour bays and blacktip reef sharks.
- Join-in · max 18 adults
- Dry season only (Nov–Apr)
Private CharterPhi Phi Sunrise Private Charter
Your boat, your route, your timing.
- Private · up to 18 adults
- Full day
All tours visit Maya Bay*, Pileh Lagoon, Viking Cave (drift-by), Monkey Beach (drift-by) and hand-picked snorkel reefs. *During the annual Maya Bay closure (typically Aug–Sep), tours substitute Bamboo Island — current status here.
All-Inclusive
What every tour includes
- Hotel transfers (pickup zones per product)
- National park fees
- Breakfast and lunch — Sunrise tour lunch is at Soho Pool Club on return
- Snorkel gear
- English-speaking guide
- Tour insurance for eligible passengers
- All prices final — no fees added at checkout
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure
- Bad-weather full deposit refund
What Guests Say About These Tours
4.9
from 6,026 verified reviews
- TripAdvisor4,341
- Google1,236
- GetYourGuide449
