What an experience ! Do not miss the opportunity to know more about beautiful Cambodia and its beautiful people! This trip for me was about knowing little more about Cambodia and its people than its sunset.

Brilliant, enjoyable trip. Excellent, knowledgable, friendly and helpful guide. Guide was brilliant, extremely knowledgable and was so helpful in every way

The guide and driver were amazing. Lots of local information. Was international women’s Day. Stopped and picked lotus flowers. Seen alligators and the floating villages. Had lunch beer beer…It was great! A must see if you are in Seim Reap

4.5 hr van ride from SR to boat. 4.5 hour ride on boat to Phnom Penh. Long day but wonderful opportunity to see the countryside, and boat was awesome. Stop at silversmiths shop at boat launch. Beautiful lunch served on the boat and Samath, our tour guide was very knowledgeable. He stopped the boat to tour Buddhist temple along the way, an opportunity to see a countryside temple.

Do the Apsara shows for $18pp instead; they are cheaper, cleaner and a much better spread. It creeped me out when the tour guide wiped down glasses with little tissues in front of me before the bartender made my drink. The tour in the dingy boat to the Tara was interesting, just don't recommend the sunset buffet at $38. Small selection was less than the 17 items listed(by half) and did not seem to match the menu. Dessert was fruit. Based on the flyer I really thought we'd be riding around in the Queen Tara; instead it is sitting on the lake bed. (It's not a river boat and it does not cruise.) It rocked back and forth on the mud from the wind; and the boat floor is curved. Not recommended for folks who don't have balance or can't go up and down steep inclines. Tour company should make these things clear on the flyer. The guide was great, though. And we were asked for tips when no cost extra was indicated on the flyer. Makes you feel embarrassed if you come with the exact change for the tour.... Sorry, but I did not feel I got my money's worth.....Could use some music to make it less of a ghost ship.....

Excellent river cruise with our guide Sameth on the river. Sameth is very knowledgeable, friendly and engaging. Lunch was nice and this trip was enjoyable despite it being the dry season which limited the river boat portion due to river depth. Obviously, seasonal rains are not within anyone’s control and we knew this by reading their website. Thoroughly enjoyable to see Cambodian communities along the journey and much better than flying from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh.

We wanted to get from Siem Reap to phnom Pen but didn’t want to drive all the way. The Tara riverboat gave us the opportunity to cruise some of the journey. Through email correspondence we booked our place on the trip. We were picked up from our hotel in the morning by Var our driver. He spoke excellent English and was very knowledgeable giving us interesting facts about Cambodia along the way. It took approximately 4hrs with a stop for refreshments. When we reached the port side to meet the boat, the transfer was seamless. The happy crew were waiting to take us and our luggage onboard. The boat was lovely and clean with sunny and shaded seating areas. Sameth our host prepared us some delicious food and beverages on request. He’s such a friendly man, very attentive and kind. He too spoke excellent English and again we chatted about the history of Cambodia and Khmer. The river trip also took around 4hrs. We felt the whole experience was very straightforward and enjoyable.

A great way to get to SR from PP if you want to take your time. I ended up being the only one going in this direction so felt like a private tour. I enjoyed the leisurely boat ride up the Tonle Sap river. The guide on both this leg and the drive to SR were friendly and knowledgeable. Lunch on board the boat was delicious! At the change from boat to car, there's the chance to take a look at a local silver/goldsmith shop and a pagoda. Would recommend as a different way to travel if you want to experience a bit more culture along the way.

This is a Must Do trip. We did it this week with TaraRiverBoat tour company. They picked us up at our hotel in an air conditioned minivan exactly at the time they'd said. Included a great driver, Da, and a tour guide Sapor. Both did an in excellent job all day. Stopped twice on trip to Tonle Sap lake, once at traditional fish market and once to see sweet "bamboo rice" being made. Sapor gave great overview during trip to lake, at the stops and after we reached Kompong Khleang. Glad we chose that further, to ess visited village, not touristy at all. And the boat cruise from the village out onto the lake was great! Highly recommend seeing this village and that you utilize Tara Boat. Everything Tara Boat says about themselves on their website was completely born out, a high quality outfit.

When faced with the challenge of getting from Siem Reap to Phnom Penh, we decided to do something different. Booking directly through the website was extremely easy - Peter was able to confirm our booking the same day. Our driver Dara was at our hotel early, and throughout the 4.5 hour car ride to the riverboat, he also made a couple of fun stops for us and filled us in on the local happenings. Travelling via private car was very comfortable and made for some good views of rural life. We then arrived to the Tomle Sap River and boat section of the trip right on time, where we were transferred into the hospitable care of Samath. With the whole crew keeping us safe and fed (lunch was delicious!), Samath in particular was really helpful in answering the many questions we had about life in Cambodia and keeping us entertained for the remaining 4.5 hour trip. We also made a really special stop to a temple en route to PP. All in all, we loved our time on the Tara River Boat. We would definitely recommend this trip to all in SR or PP!

Highly recommended, we did a half day cultural tour and learned a lot about life and culture in the village. We visited the kids at a local school and our guide was super friendly and communicative. It was an unforgettable experience and would recommend to anytwho wants to really immerse in the local culture. Thanks

It was a beautiful, warm, clear day and so the view of the sunset was spectacular. We started by taking a boat to an alligator farm where they offer snacks for sale as well as alligator products like belts, wallets, and purses. Then they take you to the sunset boat where there’s an open bar, good music, and delicious food. Just a heads up, the sunset boat doesn’t go anywhere you just go to the boat and it stays anchored. But it’s located so that the view is great.

We had the best experiences with Taraboat. We see a lot of things show by Mr. Friday. We would like recommend you with Taraboat. The food is good. All is excellent.

We took the 2-day / 1-night on Tonle Sap, which happened to be 24-hour (from 1pm to 1pm, including transfers). We visited very nice villages, not invaded by tourists at all. The guide Tino was good. The excursion in Prek Toal reserve was great. The riverboat is to be runaway from, it is not only old but overall lousy, dirty, coakroches everywhere, not maintained at all, the food is average and quantities are sparse. All in all, whilst we enjoyed (except evening and night aboard), $240 per person seems a rip-off given the average to very low quality of service we got.

Tara Boat is a complete scam. Only book with Tara tour if you want to be crammed into a small van transported to the vicinity of Phnom Penh, receive a mediocre meal and be ripped of your money. While being talked to by the most racist guide and even threatened to be killed. Worst experience in my whole south east Asia Trip. We’ve Booked a ONE-WAY LAND & CRUISE FROM SIEM REAP TO PHNOM PENH ( $ 139 PER PERSON) wich should have included a cultural experience including a visit to a silversmith and a knowledgeable guide. In the end we were cramped in a minivan. Driven to the vicinity of Phnom Penh, where we were dropped off at a bad touristic shop, no explanations what so ever. Then we went on the boat, Phnom Penh already visible from the starting point only to drift down as slowly as possible to artificially prolong our trip. The guide, who didn’t where any type of official Guide Batches or insignia, was a complete disgrace to his company and country. A full blown racist and disrespectful to anybody else. The guide starter by raging on how much he hates Chinese people, continued that everybody working for the government is a fraud. How they are all second gen Khmer rouge. The King, he said, was gay and weak, and only cares for him self. The rural people were dumb and outrageous. I just figured that this company might have changed its name to Tara Boat but it is still the same. After reaching out to them they don’t see anything wrong with them and then stoped responding. The guide even threatened us to kill me. This was by far the worst experience we’ve had travelling to Cambodia. NEVER EVER BOOK WITH TARA BOAT