Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi, Chiang Mai’s Lanna Kids Club offers a unique programme of activities, arts and crafts that allows children the chance to touch and experience the rich culture and traditions of northern Thailand. The club also provides the perfect opportunity for children to relax, have fun and learn something new.

Arts, Crafts & Cultural Activities

Located in a charming traditional Thai teakwood house in a shady corner of the resort’s Craft Village, Lanna Kids Club offers a wide range of arts and crafts activities including drawing and painting classes, northern Thai paper cutting and molding and painting buffalo and elephants with clay. The art of folding lotus flowers, learning how to write one’s name in Thai letters and simple Thai greetings and phrases are all ways to introduce children to Thai culture firsthand. Thai dance classes and the chance to dress up in Lanna-style costume also makes for a memorable experience.

Seasonal activities are planned to correspond with Thailand’s many special festivals and celebrations. For the Loy Krathong festival in November, children can make their own Krathong to float on the resort’s ponds and streams. For the Thai New Year in April, sand chedis are constructed and decorated with colourful paper flags according to Thai tradition.

Lanna Kids Property Tour

This one-of-a-kind tour explores the world of Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi, Chiang Mai through a child’s eyes! Spread over 60 acres of lush landscape with towering trees, flowering plants, rice fields and lotus ponds, Mandarin Oriental Dhara Dhevi, Chiang Mai is a natural playground in which children can learn and discover. Starting with a ride through the grounds in one of the resort’s colorful, hand-painted horse carts or tricycles (samlors), children will gain a uniquely local perspective of their surroundings. Special stops are made at the prayer hall, the spirit shrine and in the resort’s expansive rice fields. Here children will have the chance to dress up in traditional farmers’ outfits and try their hand at rice planting. Making friends with the resident family of water buffalos and sitting on them to have a photo taken is also an option.

In addition to these activities, a wide variety of children’s books, toys, local games and films are available for in-villa/suite use.

Lanna Kids Club offers two sessions daily from 9:00 am-12:00 pm and from 1:00-5:00 pm. All activities are complimentary for resort guests.