Yes, I chose the 7 day trip and will be there over Paro Tshechu. I leave in less than 2 months. I found the Aman team extremely easy to work with. They gave me dates for the major events as I knew I wanted to chose an itinerary that included one of them. Following are the tentative dates for the following festival:

• Paro Tshechu – 2 to 6th April 2023
• Thimphu Tshechu – 24 to 26th September 2023
• Crane Festival at Gangtey – 11th November 2023

The Paro Tshechu dates suited my schedule best.

It's interesting, I received a note from a different Bhutan travel agent early this week saying that tourism numbers are substantially off what the government had anticipated on reopening the border. They wrote of seats still being readily available around the dates of the Paro Tsechu when that would not ordinarily be the case this close in. Still, I am glad that I had Aman book my flights as soon as the airlines scheduled flights. We will fly in and out of Bangkok as that offered the most dates. Business class appears to be sold out for the dates of our travel.

From the agent I mentioned:

Tourism arrivals are unfortunately low. While we are actually doing pretty good, the most of the other tour operators are reporting very low booking numbers. Flight seats for spring Paro Tshechu festival (2 to 6 April) are still mostly available. It used to be quite common for flights to be packed as early as 5 months before the festival start, so you can imagine the difference.

We are not surprised, though. The grossly negative effect on arrivals was something we predicted after the 20 June 2022 abrupt and ill-conceived tourism reform. However, the authorities in Department of Tourism (formerly known of Tourism Council of Bhutan) are still in denial.?? According to the recent news reporting, they attribute drop in arrivals to the lack of information about Bhutan being open for tourists. Well, they can't say otherwise without acknowledging their grave mistake.