All-inclusive is not a standard. Here is what to check before you compare two prices
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Two camps quote you a monthly package. One is 18,000 baht, the other is 34,000. Most people read that as "one is cheaper". It usually is not. It is more often two different products wearing the same word.
There is no industry body in Thailand that defines what "all-inclusive" has to contain. Nobody audits the phrase. It means whatever the camp that wrote it decided it means, and that decision changes between two gyms on the same street.
The spread, measured
On 31 October 2026 the 186 training packages published on our platform were all listed in a single currency, Thai baht, and ran from 2,100 THB to 1,268,592 THB. That is a 604-fold spread under one word.
That number is not there to impress anyone. It is there because it is the fastest proof of the point: if "package" can mean both ends of that range, the word carries no information on its own. Everything useful is in what sits underneath it.
What a camp package usually does cover
These are the four things most often bundled, and the four you should still confirm in writing rather than assume:
Training sessions. Usually two group classes a day, six days a week. Check whether that is two per day or twelve per week — they are not the same when you get sick on a Tuesday.
A room. If accommodation is included, ask which room. Camps often have three tiers on the same site, and the package price usually attaches to the cheapest one.
Basic gym access. Bag work, ring time, the strength area if there is one.
Hand wraps or a rental set. Sometimes. Often not. Gear is the single most common thing people assume is included.
What it almost never covers, and what actually breaks budgets
This is the part people search for after they have already paid.
Private sessions. These are priced separately at essentially every camp, and they are the line that most often doubles a month. If you plan on privates, get the number before you book the package, not after you arrive — and go in with a named technical problem, because a private without one is an expensive class.
Food. "Meals included" can mean two a day, can mean breakfast only, can mean a meal plan you have to opt into. Ask how many, on which days, and whether it runs on Sundays.
Laundry. Trivial per item, not trivial across a month of training twice a day in a climate that does not let anything dry on its own.
Visa costs and border runs. Nothing about a training package touches your immigration status, and no camp price includes it. If you are staying long enough that this matters, read our DTV visa guide before you book, not after.
Transport. Airport transfer is sometimes included once. The daily commute never is. A gym twenty minutes away is forty minutes a day of your own time and your own scooter rental.
Medical. Skin infections, a rolled ankle, a rib that stops you sleeping. Budget for it in the same breath as the flight.
The four questions that make two quotes comparable
Ask all four, in writing, to both camps. It takes ten minutes and it is the whole difference between comparing prices and comparing products.
- What exactly is in this price — sessions, room, meals — listed as a count? Not "everything", a count. Twelve sessions, thirty nights, fourteen meals.
- Is the quoted amount inclusive of tax? In Thailand this is not a given, and the gap is real money on a long stay. A camp that answers this clearly is telling you something about how it runs everything else.
- What is not included that most guests end up paying for? A good camp answers this fast, because it has watched a hundred people hit the same three things.
- What happens if I miss a week? Injury, illness, a flight change. The answer tells you whether you are buying a service or a slot.
Build your own all-in number before you compare
Take the package price. Add, on top:
- private sessions, if you want them, at the camp's own rate;
- food not included, at your own honest eating habits;
- laundry;
- transport to and from the gym, for the whole stay;
- gear you will need to replace, because you will;
- a medical buffer;
- visa costs, if your stay reaches that length.
Whatever comes out of that is your real number. Do it for both camps and the cheaper quote frequently stops being the cheaper trip. That is the calculation the phrase "all-inclusive" is doing its best to stop you from making.
Our cost breakdown page keeps the ranges we can actually source, and the travel essentials list covers the gear side.
How we are paid, said before you ask
When a booking goes through us, the camp pays us a commission. You should know that while reading a page about prices, and you should weigh what we say accordingly. It is also why this guide names the things a package leaves out rather than telling you which camp to pick: we do not have a reason to push you toward an expensive package, and we do have a reason to make sure you are still glad you booked in week three.
If you want the shortlist rather than the theory, the camp finder narrows options by level, goal, city, duration and budget.
Figures in this guide come from our own published catalogue, read on 31 October 2026. Package contents vary by camp and change over time: confirm the four questions above with the camp in writing before you book.
