Two temples in Ayutthaya. Ayutthaya Historical Park has 141 tickets and tours to book; Wat Phra Ram has no online ticket listed. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
Ayutthaya is not a fenced park with a single gate. The ruins are scattered across an island formed by three rivers and the surrounding town, and the main temples each charge a small fee for foreigners at their own entrance. A combined ticket covering the six principal temples is sold at the larger sites and pays for itself if you visit four or more. Several important temples, including the active Wat Phra Mongkhon Bophit, are free.
Most visitors come for a day from Bangkok, about 80 km to the south, and the tours fall into a few kinds. Minibus day trips with a guide visit four or five key temples and include lunch, sometimes with a stop at the Bang Pa-In summer palace on the way.
No ticket for Wat Phra Ram alone is sold online. Foreign visitors pay a small entrance fee in cash at the gate, as at the other main ruins of the Ayutthaya Historical Park, and the temple is usually also covered by the combined ticket sold at the larger sites, which saves money if you plan to see several ruins in a day.
There are three usual ways to visit. Travellers staying in Ayutthaya rent a bicycle or scooter, or hire a tuk-tuk by the hour, and the temple is easy to fit in, as it stands in the heart of the island beside Wat Phra Si Sanphet and Wat Mahathat.
