Planning Bhutan from where you are
The visa, the flights, the time difference and the small practical things — answered from your starting point rather than from ours.
Most of what is written about visiting Bhutan describes Bhutan. That is useful once you are here, and much less useful while you are working out whether the trip fits your leave, your budget and the plug on your hair dryer.
These pages take the opposite approach. Each one starts from a particular country and sets out only what is different from there — how long the flights really take from your airports, how far ahead of you our clocks are, whether your plugs fit, what your government's travel advice says, and which of your holiday windows collide with our monsoon.
The rules that apply to everyone — the visa, the nightly Sustainable Development Fee, what a trip costs — live in our guides, and every page below links to them rather than repeating them.
- From the USA Two connections and most of a day in the air. Level 1, 230V, no self-drive, and the toilets question answered.
- From the UK Your plugs already fit. October half-term is the best week of the British year for it, and the summer holidays are the worst.
- From Canada The longest flying of any market we serve, and the only one where your appliances need real care. March break lands beautifully.
- From Australia The shortest flying of our long-haul markets. Your summer holidays land in Bhutan's winter, not its summer.
- From Germany Your Europlug fits our sockets. Whether your summer holiday clears the monsoon depends entirely on your federal state.
- From Singapore Six hours direct from Changi. Three days of leave buys four nights, and almost nothing about the trip is unfamiliar.
Travelling from somewhere else? The same answers apply — start with the first-timer's guide and how to get to Bhutan, or just write to us and we'll answer from your starting point.