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Khongsittha Muay Thai or Sitsongpeenong

Two camps in Bangkok, set against each other on what each one publishes about itself. Nothing below is our opinion of either.

Khongsittha Muay Thai

From the camp's own site,2026-09-02

Sitsongpeenong

From the camp's own site,2026-09-02

The short version

A single group session is 500 THB at Khongsittha Muay Thai and 600 THB at Sitsongpeenong. They line up on 3 of the lines both camps publish.

Side by side

Everything either camp publishes

3 lines both of them quote
FieldKhongsittha Muay ThaiSitsongpeenong
One group session500 THB600 THB
A month, unlimitedNot verified yet18,000 THB
Sessions a day22
Rooms on siteYesYes
Takes beginnersYesNot verified yet

Khongsittha Muay Thai

The walk-in is a one-hour group class with gloves and wraps provided. Anything longer is sold as train and stay, which bundles the room: from 2,000 a day over three days, 1,750 over a fortnight, 933 over a month and 600 over three, so there is no training-only week or month rate to quote.

Sitsongpeenong

The session rate is one a day; two is 1,000, and ten prepaid 5,000. The month is two sessions a day across 25 days. Rooms are priced in US dollars, from 51.56 a night twin share and 75 single, each including two meals and two sessions a day. Unless you live in Thailand the camp will not let you train here while staying somewhere else, so the room is not optional.

Against the country

Each line runs from the cheapest figure listed camps print for that rate to the dearest, with Khongsittha Muay Thai marked above the line, Sitsongpeenong below it and the stretch between them inked. In baht, Khongsittha Muay Thai first, then Sitsongpeenong: one group session at 500 and 600, 100 apart inside a run of 550 that 31 of 44 listed camps print. Rates only one of the two publishes are left out, because a line carrying one mark says nothing about two camps.

They quote the same figure on 2 lines: sessions a day and rooms on site.

Not settled here

What we cannot tell you yet

Neither camp has been confirmed on the lines below, so this page does not compare them. They are named rather than left off, because a comparison that only shows the fields it happens to hold is the shape of a page pretending to be complete.

  • A week, unlimited
  • One private
  • Room, per night
  • Sparring
  • English spoken
  • Women's programme

In their own words

What each camp is

Khongsittha Muay Thai

Bangkok gym that manages to be well set up for visiting foreigners while keeping a serious Thai training culture. One of the more approachable ways into the Bangkok scene if the rural camps feel like too much.

The full record for Khongsittha Muay Thai

Sitsongpeenong

A Bangkok gym with a real stable of professional Thai fighters rather than a foreigner-first operation. Training alongside working pros is the draw. Expect to be the weakest person in the room for a while, which is the point.

The full record for Sitsongpeenong

6 answers

What people ask about Khongsittha Muay Thai and Sitsongpeenong

Every figure below is read off the two records at build time rather than written by hand, so a question neither camp has published anything behind is left out instead of answered softly.
Is Khongsittha Muay Thai or Sitsongpeenong cheaper?
Khongsittha Muay Thai, on the line most trips are booked on. A single group session is 500 baht there against 600 baht at Sitsongpeenong, a gap of 100 baht. A cheaper month is not a cheaper trip. Food, a room where the camp has none and the flight home all sit outside these figures, and a camp that is 2,000 baht dearer a month is the cheaper of the two the moment it saves you a daily taxi.
What is the difference between Khongsittha Muay Thai and Sitsongpeenong?
One of the 3 lines both camps publish comes out different: a single group session. They match on how many sessions a day run and whether there are rooms on site. Khongsittha Muay Thai publishes whether beginners are taken, and Sitsongpeenong publishes a month of unlimited training. What separates two camps on the mats is the trainer you get put with, and no camp publishes that. Use the lines above to cut the list down, then ask both.
Is Khongsittha Muay Thai or Sitsongpeenong better for a beginner?
Only one of them is placed either way. Khongsittha Muay Thai reads as a fit for a beginner and Sitsongpeenong publishes nothing we could read it from, so its line stays blank rather than get a guess. That is a call made at a desk from what each camp publishes about who it trains, not a verdict from the mats. A gym built around a fight team will take a beginner's money and leave them holding pads at the back for a month, so ask both how a first session actually runs before you book either.
Can you stay at Khongsittha Muay Thai or Sitsongpeenong?
Both. Khongsittha Muay Thai and Sitsongpeenong each say on their own site that you can sleep at the camp. Neither nightly rate is published, so the room line stays blank rather than get estimated off camps elsewhere that do print one. Staying in means the commute stops being a decision you make twice a day at five in the morning, which matters more than the saving on most trips shorter than a month.
How many sessions a day do Khongsittha Muay Thai and Sitsongpeenong run?
The same number. Khongsittha Muay Thai and Sitsongpeenong both run 2 sessions a day. That is how many are on offer and not how many anybody should plan on taking. A timetable says when the door is open; how many times you walk through it is most of the difference between a training holiday and a camp, and a first week of doubles is how people spend a second week injured.
How far apart are Khongsittha Muay Thai and Sitsongpeenong?
About 16 km in a straight line, measured between the two pins rather than along a road, so a motorbike covers more ground than that and traffic decides the rest. Both camps sit in Bangkok. That is a ride rather than a walk, so trying both in one trip means picking a base and paying to cross, or splitting the stay in two.

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Every figure on this page came off a camp’s own website on 2026-09-02. Camps change prices without changing the page the price is printed on. If one of these is wrong, or if you know a line neither camp publishes, tell us and we will date the change.