A new thermal recovery scheme is proposed that utilizes Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) well pairs as well as Cyclic Steam Stimulation (CSS) wells placed in between the SAGD well pairs. The wells are operated in CSS mode until the steam chambers are in contact with each other and then switched to SAGD operation. It is shown that the new process recovers greater amounts of bitumen with lower injected steam in shorter operation time than is achieved with SAGD, Fast-SAGD and CSS.