DJI Mavic 4 Pro Rental in Chiang Mai

Can I Rent It Without a Motorcycle?

Yes. This is a motorcycle rental site, so assuming the drone only goes out with a bike is fair, but it doesn’t work that way. The Mavic 4 Pro leaves on its own as often as it leaves with a motorcycle, and the kit is the same either way.

People take it out for all sorts of reasons: filming a villa or resort before guests arrive, putting together a travel video, or simply wanting a strong drone for a few days on their own project. The motorcycle has nothing to do with it. If a bike isn’t part of your plan, nothing changes here.

What’s in the Case

You get a working kit, not a bare drone that leaves you buying the missing pieces afterwards. In the case:

• DJI Mavic 4 Pro
• DJI RC 2 remote controller
• Three batteries
• Three-battery charging hub
• Charger
• 1 TB memory card
• ND16-PL filter
• Landing pad
• Hard protective case
• Cables and small accessories

The three batteries are the part people underestimate. One battery means one flight, then a long wait while it cools and charges. With three, you keep shooting: one in the air, one cooling, one ready. The hub charges all three from a single point, and on the road it can also push power back into a phone or laptop.

The 1 TB card is there because this drone writes heavy files. At full resolution you’re recording 100-megapixel stills and 6K video, and a small card fills in an evening. The kit also includes an ND16-PL filter, and it does two jobs in the local light. The north is bright, and without it the camera falls back on fast shutter speeds that make video stutter, so the ND side cuts the excess light and keeps motion smooth; the polarizer takes the glare off water, wet roads and haze and deepens the sky. If your shoot needs other filter strengths, tell us when you book and we can add them on request. The landing pad gives you a clean, visible spot to take off and land on grass, dirt or sand, which is where you’ll be flying most of the time.

Before you leave, we go through the case together, piece by piece, and note what’s inside and its condition. That saves both sides an argument later.

Price and How a Rental Day Is Counted

One rental day is a continuous 24 hours from the moment you collect the kit.

1 day:  THB 3000 / day

2-3 days:  THB 2000 / day

4-7 days:  THB 1500 / day

Additional day:  THB 1500 / day

Payment is preferably in cash.

You can extend as long as the extension request is sent and confirmed at least 24 hours before your return time.

How the Deposit Works

A credit card is required. We place a temporary hold on the card for the deposit amount. The money isn’t charged and it doesn’t reach us; it’s simply frozen on the card until the drone and the full kit come back and we’ve checked them. Once everything is returned on time, undamaged and complete, we start releasing the hold right after the inspection.

The size of the deposit depends on whether you add protection. Without Optional Damage and Loss Protection it’s 80% of the drone’s current value. With it, 20%. Beyond the smaller deposit, that protection covers damage to and loss of the drone itself under its own terms, and we show you those terms beforehand so you can decide knowing what it covers.

A cash deposit is possible, but only as an exception and only if arranged before you collect the kit.

What the Insurance Covers, and What It Doesn’t

The rental includes third-party liability insurance up to THB 1,000,000. It covers injury to other people and damage to property that isn’t yours, and it’s the cover Thai law requires to operate a registered drone at all.

Read this part carefully: that insurance is about other people, not the drone in your hands. It does not cover damage to the Mavic itself, its loss, a failure to return it, or a broken battery, controller, card, filter or case. That gap is exactly what the Optional Damage and Loss Protection described above is for. You can add it when you book, and it does two things at once: it covers the drone itself against damage and loss under its terms, and it lowers the deposit you leave.

What Happens If the Drone Is Damaged or Lost

This part is unpleasant, so here it is straight, without scaremongering.

We record the kit’s condition with you at pickup, so normal wear is never blamed on you. If something goes wrong while you have it, stop using the affected gear and message us, because a damaged drone that keeps flying tends to become a more damaged one.

For repairable damage that insurance or protection doesn’t cover, you pay the real cost: diagnosis, parts and labour. If the drone is lost, not returned, or damaged past sensible repair, and it isn’t covered, you cover its current replacement price in Thailand, or that of the closest equivalent model if the Mavic 4 Pro is no longer sold by then. The same applies to the whole kit: a missing or broken battery, controller, hub, charger, card, filter, pad or case is repaired or replaced when the loss isn’t covered.

One thing worth remembering about the deposit: it’s held against these obligations, but it doesn’t cap them. The deposit is security, not a ceiling on what you can owe. If uncovered damage runs higher than the deposit, you cover the difference, which is why the Optional protection is worth it if you’d rather not carry that risk.

What People Film With It

People rent it to get a shot a ground camera cannot: from above, wide, or from a distance the terrain would never let you reach on foot. In the north that is most of what makes a trip worth filming.

On a motorcycle trip the drone earns its place on the passes and the long valleys. You stop where the road opens up, put it in the air, and get the thing you can never get from the seat: the road itself drawn across a mountainside, the switchbacks below you, the bike small against the scale of the place. The Mae Hong Son Loop, the climbs around Doi Inthanon, the ridgelines toward Pai all read completely differently from above. The long lens earns its keep here, letting you hold the drone back from a ridge or a temple and still frame it tight, instead of flying in close against terrain you can’t read off a screen.

You don’t need a bike for it either. Plenty of people take the drone out on its own: a few days around the province by car, a stay up in the hills, a single place they came a long way to see and want to keep properly. Rice terraces down the valleys, temple rooftops, forest running unbroken for kilometres, waterfalls you can only frame from the air. The same landscape that rewards the ride rewards the camera.

The kit is built for a full day out, not a single flight. Three batteries keep you in the air across a long shooting session instead of one short window, which matters when the light is only right for an hour and the spot took half the day to reach. The 100-megapixel files leave room to crop and pull several framings from one pass, and the drone shoots true vertical straight off, for a phone-first edit without a separate rig. For a quick holiday clip a basic drone is enough; anything you actually want to keep or cut into a film lives on the resolution and the three focal lengths.

DJI Mavic 4 Pro Key Specs

The numbers people usually ask about before booking, with the two that matter most for flying in Thailand explained rather than left to guess.

Cameras:  three lenses at 28mm, 70mm and 168mm, 100 MP main Hasselblad

Video:  up to 6K at 60fps, plus 4K slow motion

Flight time:  up to 51 minutes per battery (rated). Real flying is shorter once you keep a reserve for landing, so plan for roughly 30 to 40 minutes of usable air time per battery, and you have three

Charging:  all three batteries in about 90 minutes from the hub

Weight:  1,063 g. In Thailand any drone with a camera has to be registered regardless of weight, so here the camera matters more than the number

Aperture:  adjustable f/2.0 to f/11

Gimbal:  rotates a full 360 degrees, tilts up as well as down

Range:  signal range depends on interference. In low-interference areas, open suburbs or the coast, it holds roughly 15 to 30 km; around a town with medium interference, roughly 6 to 15 km; in dense city surroundings, roughly 1.5 to 6 km. In Thailand these figures are beside the point anyway: the law requires you to keep the drone within your line of sight, so your real working distance is however far you can clearly see it, not what the transmission can technically reach.

Operating altitude:  up to 6,000 m above sea level. Note that this does not mean the drone can climb 6,000 m up from where you launch it; it means the aircraft still flies in the thin air at that elevation, so you can shoot with it high in the mountains. The everyday height limit above the ground still applies, and in Thailand that is 90 metres.

Why This Drone and Not a Cheaper One

The value of the Mavic 4 Pro isn’t one line on a spec sheet: it’s what the whole set lets you do in a single flight. In order, through the shot rather than the brochure.

Three cameras at roughly 28, 70 and 168mm. The 28mm Hasselblad is your wide shot: landscape, road, building, the frame that sets a scene. The 70mm compresses the picture and lifts a subject off its background. The 168mm reaches far, pulling in distant ridgelines and layers of landscape and letting you frame something tight while the drone stays at a safe distance. Switching between them changes the whole look without moving the aircraft somewhere worse. You compose with the lens, not with a risky approach.

The main camera shoots up to 100 megapixels through a Four Thirds Hasselblad sensor, with an aperture that runs from f/2.0 to f/11, so bright noon and dim dusk both stay workable. That resolution is headroom for later: you can crop hard and keep detail, pull several compositions from one frame, or print large.

Video goes up to 6K at 60 frames per second, plus 4K slow motion. That gives an editor room to crop, stabilise and reframe and still deliver clean 4K or Full HD. The gimbal rotates a full 360 degrees and tilts upward, so the drone shoots true vertical for phone platforms and can look up, not only down, reaching angles an ordinary drone camera can’t.

Obstacle sensing runs on fisheye sensors, forward LiDAR and low-light detection, and it catches a lot, but not everything. Thin branches, wires, glass, reflective water and awkward light slip past, and above a certain speed the system steps back. It’s a second pair of eyes, not a replacement for yours. You’re still the pilot.

DJI rates flight time at up to 51 minutes per battery, but that’s a test in ideal conditions. Real flying is shorter, since wind, heat, altitude, hard flying and the reserve for landing all eat into it. That’s why the kit ships with three batteries instead of one: real endurance across a day, not a number on paper.

Carrying the Kit, by Car or Motorcycle

Everything travels in the hard case, and the rule is simple: the case shouldn’t move or take weight on top of it. Not strapped on loosely, not wedged under a bag, not anywhere a hard knock lands straight on the gimbal or a battery.

Keep it out of standing heat, since a closed car in the Thai sun cooks the inside and batteries dislike that most. Rain is the other one: the case handles knocks, but pack it so a downpour stays outside. Batteries ride in their slots in the case, away from loose metal.

If you’re carrying it on a bike, at pickup we’ll look together at how you plan to secure it and whether your luggage actually gives the kit room and protection, or whether it’ll rattle the whole way. Transport damage that your chosen protection doesn’t cover comes back to you, so it’s worth packing right before you set off.

Where You Can Fly It

This section is short on purpose. It’s the practical shape of the rules, not a legal manual, and responsibility for any given flight sits with the pilot.

Keep the drone in direct sight the whole time; watching the screen alone doesn’t count. Fly in daylight, between sunrise and sunset, while you can actually see the aircraft, and not in or near clouds. The normal height limit is 90 metres above ground, lower than the 120 metres many countries allow, so your usual ceiling from home doesn’t apply here; going higher needs permission.

You can’t fly within 9 kilometres, or 5 nautical miles, of any airport or airfield without permission, and that holds at any height. A flight two metres off the ground inside that ring is still inside the ring. Keep your distance from people, vehicles and buildings that aren’t part of the shoot, and don’t fly over crowds, communities or busy roads. National parks usually need their own written permission, and central city areas are mostly restricted airspace.

Before each flight the pilot checks the spot, the airspace around it, the weather and any local restriction, and gets the landowner’s okay to take off and land. If a flight isn’t clearly allowed, treat it as not allowed.

How Pickup Works

Book the drone ahead. With a single high-value kit, walk-in availability isn’t something to count on.

Location:  195 Ratchamanka Rd, Phra Singh, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand

Show your driver:  195 ถนนราชมรรคา ตำบลพระสิงห์ อำเภอเมืองเชียงใหม่ เชียงใหม่ 50200

Hours:  8:00 to 18:00

This is the Cat Motors Motorbike & Scooter Rentals office. The drone is handed over from the same place you’d rent a bike, so if you came only for the drone, you’re in the right spot. The motorbikes out front are meant to be there.

You need to come in person with ID and a credit card. We fill out the agreement and place the deposit hold on the card. Then we go through the kit together: body, cameras, gimbal, propellers, controller, batteries, hub and charger, card, filters, pad and case. Its condition and the case contents are noted before handover.

After that we show you how it packs away, how the batteries charge and how to store the gear. This is a handover and a check, not a flying lesson, and it doesn’t replace the registration, exam and permissions Thailand requires to operate a drone. Allow about 20 to 30 minutes for the whole pickup.

How Return and Deposit Release Work

Bring the kit back to the agreed place by your confirmed time. We check the drone and every accessory against the condition noted at pickup: body, cameras, gimbal, propellers, controller, batteries, charger, card, filters, pad and case.

If it all comes back on time, without new damage and with nothing missing, we start releasing the card hold right after the inspection. A cash deposit, if one was arranged, comes back the same way after the same check.

If anything happened while you had it, a knock, a hard landing, water, a crash, tell us before the return. Don’t hide it, take it apart, or fix it yourself; caught early and told straight, most problems turn out smaller than they look.