well, maybe 1 more of my favorite places. go have dinner or drinks at Sirocco or Sky Bar at State Tower. breathless view of Bangkok at night i assure you...

http://www.thedomebkk.com/web/corp_home03.html

Hi. I am going to Bangkok next month (mid of January) for a 5D4N trip with a couple of my friends. It will be my first BKK trip ever. Has anyone stayed in BKK serviced apartment before? Is it cheap? We hope to stay in an apartment with separate bedrooms.

Be careful when you walk along Soi Nana (Nana Lane), especially in front of the Grace Hotel. They will ask you if you're interested in sex services by Russian / Uzbekistan girls. Some of them are actually hard to resist, with tall frame and long legs.

Nana is the hub for Middle Eastern tourist. You'll find plenty of Mid-East food outlets, and the kebabs are pretty good too. There's night shopping along the main road, but most of the time you'll probably see lots of walking "women of the night". Also lot's of xxx DVDs on sale there.

Silom area has alot of peddlers selling xxx DVDs too. They just flash you cards that read "Sex DVD for sale". It was near O'Reilly's Irish Bar next to Sala Daeng's BTS station.

Did anyone know where is automotive area in Bangkok where I can find anything for my car from sport rim to accessories? I heard that Bangkok has a place like "Klang" in Malaysia.

yeah, but it's out of the metro area. most of the sales people don't speak english so can be a bit difficult. price wise, i think almost same as klang, some tyres are cheap especially when they have offer - dirt cheap - and rim selection are more "branded" than klang.

owh...how far issit from let say pratunam area to that place? what is it called?

it's around half an hour from don muang heading west. been there 2/3 times but can't remember the name properly cause they pronounce it differently from its roman spelling.

i wonder which area you might be referring to. is it the one in Pathumthani? there is another short section towards old bangkok city, near to Chinatown but i can't remember the road.

I just back from Bangkok !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The airport tax is 500 baht per person lol...... This is my pengalaman lol......

I arrive at the airport with my family at around 2050 local time(this is becoz a stupid 1 hour delay!!! ).Then we cant find our taxi driver and ask those ppl there and all of them spoke siam lang.We cant understand a word pun lol...Hate to tell more...Here is some tips for u guys...

1)Learn some thai lang.At least how to call a coffee or tea.....
2)Bargain until u cant do it anymore.My mum bargain with a fellow at the floating market.A tuk-tuk small car is priced around 650 baht,but after some bargain that fellow give us 200 baht!!!! U see......
3)Bangkok City Inn is good.(location)
4)I got a very good tour guide number.The fellow is very good(can speak good english and loves to make joke and he even can cut down your budget!!!!!)PM me and i will give you that fellow number.
Let me think laaaa......

The Best Shoppping Center Award-->MBK
Budget and good!!!!!If u got more cash go for isetan!!!!(leather goods and cheap hp!!!)


The Best Chicken Rice Award -->A stall near Bangkok City Inn

The cant get in Malaysia Price Award
1)Nokia 7610 @ 5500 baht <--Hot Deal!!!!!!
2)Nokia 3230 @ 5500baht!!!!!!!

The ppl ther use a lot of n70,n72 and more lol....

Like shopping????
Isetan
MBK <--Leather goods and HP
Pratunam Center(not so famous liao
Patpong Market<--For imatation goods(bags,watch++)

I will think more lol.................

Sawasdee krup guys

Currently I'm ini Bangkok for a business trip, will be here until Friday.
Unfortunately this trip is working purpose, I only have spare time to walk around at night.

Frankly speaking I'm more interested in sight-seeing (especially to religious places with exotic buildings). And I'd like to buy some special christmas presents for my frens.

Any place you guys can recommend?

(I wish to buy some cute, special christmas gift for my female friends. I went to Siam discovery, MBK & Central Point yesterday, and honestly only a shop called B2S in Central Point offers what I want. Any other places that I can find those cute cute special thingy?)

Khob khun krup then

try Emporium or Siam Paragon. There should be shops that offer the cute cute things that you saw at B2S. one such shop is called propaganda if i remember correctly. the anchor tenant department store (can't remember the name off hand) at Siam Paragon should have those things as well (like pillow cases, salt pepper shaker, coasters etc).

To add on to ihawk's list, there's also this shop called "Loft". Sells lots of cute cute stuff too. There's one in Siam Paragon, level 4 or 5 I think. Also another at Siam Discovery.

Hey since you're in Bangkok at this time, maybe you can get in touch with "samurai1337" http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showuser=6771 and hang out a bit with him. Heard from him that work isn't as hectic as it was imagined, and I'm guessing he'll have some free time to throw around.

This post has been edited by sunbeams: Dec 18 2006, 07:56 PM

LOL! I'm quoted!!!!!!!!

Yeah rite, it's not that hectic, at least still got time at nite. PM me if you want my Thailand phone number I'm just staying at Centrepoint (Wireless Road)

So far I haven't visited much places yet except
- Taking a walk nearby the Nana area (very quiet that time, bought some road side food)
- Chidlom Central (high class shopping mall it seems, didn't walk much just had a dinner there)
- Suan Lum Night Bazaar (quite an interesting place, nice food there. But things aren't that cheap to be frank)

This post has been edited by samurai1337: Dec 18 2006, 11:38 PM

Avoid Nana area and suan lum, both are for tourist.

Spend at least 1night to Pattaya if possbible.

Any cheap phones to buy?

Yo brother, haven't visited much? It's just your FIRST DAY in Bangkok, and you've already covered areas that took me 1 week to visit!

Nana = quiet? I think you went too early. Try walking there after 10PM. You'll get a shock of your life. More like Chow Kit area

Central Chidlom is nice, but yeah, the stuffs there are for high society people. I sometimes walk around there, just to "appear" high class... but never really did buy anything at all

Suan Lum Night Bazaar might be tourist area, but if you know how to bargain, you can get good deals, almost as good as in Chatujak.

Since you'll probably spend the weekend in Bangkok, don't miss out on the Chatujak weekend market. Take the BTS to Mochit station, and it's right there.

Enjoy your work-holiday trip there, dude!

Go hunting in MBK complex. It's like Sungai Wang Plaza. Lots of phones there.

But I think the Malaysian hand phones are better. At least you can send SMS in Chinese. If you buy phones from Thailand, they might not support Chinese, and key pad is cluttered with Thai characters (like mine):

Samurai: How long have you been there? LOL I cant believe either you said Nana is a quiet place, I went there on Sunday and I was in complete shock!! Wanted to go there and have an eye-opener but in the end.. you know, freaked out

Anyway I stay at somewhere next to Emporium. But because I reached hotel kinda late (around 10pm), there's basically nowhere for me to visit oredi...

Samurai bro, any particular place that you'd like to visit?


Sunbeams & ihawk98: Thanks for da info. I visited Loft oredi, but nothing really caught my eyes leh... and the things are quite pricey also. Same as dunno-wat-shop I found in Emporium. B2S is the best... too far for me though..


Anyway I've been to Khaosan road, Nana & Asok area (jz stroll around, ntg erotic ), Siam area (MBK, Siam Discovery). Guys, considering the little time I have at night and the places I've visited so far, anywhere worth visiting that you guys can suggest??

This post has been edited by tytaniumism: Dec 19 2006, 01:37 PM