High cost performance, cheaper than Phuket and Hua Hin.
The Elephant Village is very very very very remote. We went there in the morning and returned at noon, but it was easy to get a taxi on the way back. There was no need to queue up to ride an elephant. We went there on Sunday, and there were not as many people as said on the Internet.
Bananas are 100b for extra purchase. You can ask him to put a lot of bananas in a basket. You must tell the seller clearly that I gave me a lot of fresh bananas in a basket.
The ticket includes a cup of sugarcane juice, which is delicious, so I didn't buy a drink separately, but even if you don't consume a drink separately, you can go to the observation deck to take pictures (it is said that you can only go to the observation deck, net bag, etc. if you have to consume it online), and you can take bananas to the shore observation deck to feed the elephants that go into the water.
There is Chinese inside, and most of the service staff can speak Chinese. It is indeed mainly Chinese tourists, but I don't think it's a scam.
Three of us rode an elephant. We gave a 100b tip at the beginning (actually we had to give it after the end), so the mahout was very good at the beginning, gave us a parasol (it was very very hot on the spot, so we had to ask the mahout to give us an umbrella), and took the initiative to help us take photos with the elephant. We could ride longer if we wanted.
The performances were average, not very good, but there were a lot of interactions during the ride, such as touching various animals, interacting with transvestites, etc. These were not charged, so you could touch them boldly and take photos with your own phone. Only after the show was there a 100b charge for taking photos with the performers/animals.
There was no forced consumption throughout the whole process, and it was not as scary as Xiao Moushu said. It was just a normal attraction.
There was a rice field restaurant next door with good online reviews, but we didn't go there because the weather was too hot.