Cambodia Tours with Flights from €730

Every Cambodia tour worth booking hangs off two anchors: Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. In Siem Reap you want the 3-day Angkor pass, never the 1-day. The gap is about €40, and it's the single best decision you'll make on the whole trip. Day one: sunrise at Angkor Wat, then Bayon and the Terrace of the Elephants inside Angkor Thom. Day two: Ta Prohm with its tree roots, Preah Khan and Banteay Kdei, all at a gentler pace. Day three: a 90-minute drive out to Banteay Srei for the pink-sandstone carvings most 1-day visitors never see, plus the jungle temple of Beng Mealea.

Phnom Penh wants two nights and a careful touch. Tuol Sleng (S-21) and the Choeung Ek Killing Fields document the Khmer Rouge genocide. Go early in the day, take the audio guide, and leave yourself some quiet time afterwards. Most tours pair this with the Royal Palace and the Silver Pagoda on a lighter afternoon.

With extra days to spare, the southern coast gives you Kep for crab and calm, or Sihanoukville for beach time, though most guides now nudge travellers towards Koh Rong instead. Plan on €730 to €1,300 for a full week with guide, entries and internal transfers on the G Adventures or INTRO Travel style of tour.

Most travellers who fly all the way to Cambodia end up stitching in another country or two. The two combinations that genuinely work:

Cambodia plus Vietnam (10 to 14 days). The standard run is Siem Reap for 3 nights, Phnom Penh for 2, then a flight or the slow Mekong boat to Ho Chi Minh City, up through Hoi An for 3 nights and finishing in Hanoi with a Ha Long Bay overnight. Bravo Indochina Tours sells this as a 12-day Essential Cambodia and Vietnam trip from around €990. Plan on €1,800 to €2,400 all in with flights.

Cambodia plus Vietnam plus Laos (14 to 21 days). The full Indochina Golden Triangle. Realistic Asia offers a 10-day version from roughly €1,350 and a 15-day grand tour around €2,320. You add Luang Prabang, with its French-colonial old town, the Kuang Si waterfall and the dawn alms-giving, and usually Vientiane as a transit stop. The 21-day pace lets you breathe; the 14-day version is a sprint.

As a rough split, you'll spend about a third of your days in Cambodia, around half in Vietnam, and the rest in Laos. With only two weeks, drop Laos and do Cambodia and Vietnam properly rather than spreading yourself thin across all three.

Small-group tours (8-16 people) are the default and the best value for first-timers. Intrepid and G Adventures both run strong Cambodia itineraries; G Adventures' 14-day Ultimate Cambodian Adventure sits around €1,655. TruTravel and INTRO Travel aim at the under-35 crowd with a more social feel and hostels or 3-star hotels, typically €900 to €1,300 for 10 days before flights.

The local specialists are Cambodia's quiet strength. About Cambodia Travel and Tours, Legend Travel Group and Realistic Asia are all Cambodia-based, use their own guides, and often come in 15-25% under the big international brands for comparable quality. About Cambodia's 5-day private Angkor Wat tour starts around €530 per person, a price no Western-branded tour can touch, while Legend Travel's 8-day Cambodia Express runs around €770.

Private tours with a guide and driver are worth the upgrade if there are two or more of you and you want to set your own pace. Budget €1,500 to €2,300 per person for 10 days with a private guide, an air-conditioned car and mid-range hotels. You skip the 6am group breakfasts and get to linger at Bayon without the crowds. Luxury operators like Abercrombie and Kent push past €4,000 for the same length, with boutique lodges and your own Angkor scholar in tow.

Cambodia has three seasons, and every one of them matters for tours.

November to February is dry and cool, relatively speaking. Daytime highs in Siem Reap sit at 28-32°C, the humidity eases off, and sunrise at Angkor Wat is genuinely comfortable rather than a sweat-soaked endurance test. This is peak season. Tour prices run 20-30% above the annual average, flights from Europe to Bangkok or Singapore go €550 to €800 return, and you'll need your Angkor sunrise slots and the better hotels booked 3-4 months out. Christmas and Chinese New Year are the toughest weeks of all.

March to May is hot and dusty. Temperatures climb to 35-38°C, with Phnom Penh tipping 40°C in April. Temple visits shift to dawn and late afternoon, and midday becomes a pool-and-air-con affair. The payoff: tour prices drop 15-20% and the crowds thin out at the big sites.

June to October is the wet green season. It rains most afternoons for an hour or two, then clears. The jungle around the temples turns lush, the Tonle Sap lake swells, and the photography is honestly better than in the dry months. Tour prices fall 25-35%, flights drop to €450 to €650 return, and you can book most things last minute. The catch: some rural roads flood, and the Mekong slow boats to Laos turn unreliable.

Go November to early February for comfort, late September to early October for value and green temples.

Two airports matter here. Phnom Penh (PNH) is the capital hub and handles the widest spread of connections. Siem Reap moved to the brand-new Siem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI, also listed as KZD) in late 2023, and the old REP airport closed. SAI sits 40km from town, further out than the old one, so build in a 50-60 minute transfer (most tours cover it). No flight runs nonstop to Cambodia from any of the long-haul markets, so you'll always connect — usually through a Southeast Asian hub. And if your tour starts in Siem Reap and ends in Phnom Penh (or the reverse), book an open-jaw ticket: it usually costs the same as a return and spares you a backtrack.

From Australia, Cambodia is close and easy — that's the appeal. Sydney and Melbourne connect through Singapore (Scoot, Singapore Airlines), Bangkok (Thai, AirAsia) or Kuala Lumpur in about 10-12 hours all in, and the fares are some of the gentlest long-ish hops you'll find. Return economy runs roughly A$800-A$1,200 in the shoulder months, A$1,300-A$1,800 over the December-January summer break. Many Aussies fold Cambodia into a wider Southeast Asia run, since the regional hops are cheap.

From the US, the West Coast wins on time and money. Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle reach Phnom Penh or Siem Reap in about 18-21 hours with one Asian stop (Singapore Airlines via Singapore, EVA via Taipei, Korean via Seoul, Cathay via Hong Kong) — shorter and cheaper than routing to most of Europe, so Southeast Asia is the easier long-haul from California. Expect US$900-US$1,300 return from the West Coast in shoulder season, US$1,300-US$1,800 at peak. From the East Coast (New York, Washington, Boston) it's 20-23 hours and US$1,000-US$1,500 via the Gulf (Qatar to Phnom Penh) or across the Pacific.

From Canada, Vancouver mirrors the US West Coast at around C$1,200-C$1,700 return via an Asian hub; Toronto and Montreal route via Asia or the Gulf at C$1,400-C$2,000.

From the UK and Europe, the reliable routes are Qatar via Doha (often the smoothest, around 15-16 hours total, €600-€850), Singapore Airlines or Scoot via Changi (€600-€900, the region's best layover airport if you've 4 hours to fill), and Thai, Bangkok Airways or EVA via Bangkok (14-17 hours, €450-€800 depending on season).

Whatever your home airport, the bundle prices the flight live in your own currency the moment you search, so the full trip cost — open-jaw routing and all — shows beside the tour before you commit to either booking. Kiwi.com handles the routing behind the scenes.