I just wanted to write down over here about my own Bangkok trip. It definitely is a great place to be at.
In fact all in all my trip for five days only cost me 50K INR all inclusive. Out of which around 28k were the flight tickets and 22K included food, travel shopping and living expenses.
Although the trip did not itself, start on a great note, as first of all, it took forever to get that visa on arrival thing done. I arrived at 7 AM and was only done by around 9:45 AM. Too add to that my baggage was also delayed which had all my clothes and stuff. For which I had to wait, for over a day without any clothes to wear then.
Some of the main highlights of the trip.
First of all the MRT was a great help, and it connects you right from the airport to all the other locations within the city, so that is something great. The more you are versed with the MRT, the easier your jouney will be within Bangkok.
For us, we were staying at Sukhumvit 85, at this hotel called At Mind Suites which was a very comfortable place to stay. Although the language itself is a big bother over there as people are not that comfortable conversing in English so we had a hard time locating this place. But the place is just a 5 minute walk from On Nut BTS Station. And I would strongly recommend the place, not just for the proximity to the BTS stations, but also for the amazing street food, just next to the station.
The must tries in terms of the street food would be the fresh fruits, the fresh coconut juice (have the juice along with the inner flesh of the coconut) and the fruit juices and stuff.
Also in terms of the must tries should be the som tam (papaya salad), their flat noodles, sticky rice and all of their peanut based curries. Their cashewnut based chicken items are also pretty good.
Now for the places to visit, Lumphini Park would be a good place to visit during the evenings with a nice boating experience present. Also there tends to be a lot of fitness programs happening in the park which is also great. A good place to feed the fishes, birds and turtles. You should get off at the Silom station to make it here.
Another great place to check would be the night markets near silom, good variety of T shirts and small knick-knacks. This one is at Patpong which is also one of the the red light areas.
The Chatuchak weekend market is another definite place to go to. This is located adjacent to the Mo Chit station and is in full flow on Saturday and Sunday. Amazing variety of things to shop and even more amazing is the foot massage and the amazing toasted bread, waffles and other items that you can devour.
One definite place not to miss would be at the Asok Station, this is a mall called Terminal 21. This place has an amazing food court called Pier 21, this is a definite must visit as I have not seen a wider variety of food at such affordable prices. So a definite must visit place especially for all the foodies. Amazing mango with sticky rice was definitely one of them.
Okay, about the much hyped ping pong show at Patpong, it is something that you can watch, but it is just a one time experience to see and we were kind of fooled into the experience as we were told to pay only 100 bahts per person for the show which turned out to be around 3000 bahts per person at the end of it. It is mandatory to buy a drink and thereafter you pay for the other shows (it is 100 per show and there are around 10 shows) and you also pay the performer fee and the performer's drinks in addition to that. So guys, just be careful around this.
One thing that I was not able to do during the trip was have enough beer or really visit the various Buddha temples. I was just able to visit one of them which was the gold buddha temple (I think).
The trip was a lot memorable due to the excellent company I had! Thanks to the looney tunes.
In fact all in all my trip for five days only cost me 50K INR all inclusive. Out of which around 28k were the flight tickets and 22K included food, travel shopping and living expenses.
Although the trip did not itself, start on a great note, as first of all, it took forever to get that visa on arrival thing done. I arrived at 7 AM and was only done by around 9:45 AM. Too add to that my baggage was also delayed which had all my clothes and stuff. For which I had to wait, for over a day without any clothes to wear then.
Some of the main highlights of the trip.
First of all the MRT was a great help, and it connects you right from the airport to all the other locations within the city, so that is something great. The more you are versed with the MRT, the easier your jouney will be within Bangkok.
For us, we were staying at Sukhumvit 85, at this hotel called At Mind Suites which was a very comfortable place to stay. Although the language itself is a big bother over there as people are not that comfortable conversing in English so we had a hard time locating this place. But the place is just a 5 minute walk from On Nut BTS Station. And I would strongly recommend the place, not just for the proximity to the BTS stations, but also for the amazing street food, just next to the station.
The must tries in terms of the street food would be the fresh fruits, the fresh coconut juice (have the juice along with the inner flesh of the coconut) and the fruit juices and stuff.
Also in terms of the must tries should be the som tam (papaya salad), their flat noodles, sticky rice and all of their peanut based curries. Their cashewnut based chicken items are also pretty good.
Now for the places to visit, Lumphini Park would be a good place to visit during the evenings with a nice boating experience present. Also there tends to be a lot of fitness programs happening in the park which is also great. A good place to feed the fishes, birds and turtles. You should get off at the Silom station to make it here.
Another great place to check would be the night markets near silom, good variety of T shirts and small knick-knacks. This one is at Patpong which is also one of the the red light areas.
The Chatuchak weekend market is another definite place to go to. This is located adjacent to the Mo Chit station and is in full flow on Saturday and Sunday. Amazing variety of things to shop and even more amazing is the foot massage and the amazing toasted bread, waffles and other items that you can devour.
One definite place not to miss would be at the Asok Station, this is a mall called Terminal 21. This place has an amazing food court called Pier 21, this is a definite must visit as I have not seen a wider variety of food at such affordable prices. So a definite must visit place especially for all the foodies. Amazing mango with sticky rice was definitely one of them.
Okay, about the much hyped ping pong show at Patpong, it is something that you can watch, but it is just a one time experience to see and we were kind of fooled into the experience as we were told to pay only 100 bahts per person for the show which turned out to be around 3000 bahts per person at the end of it. It is mandatory to buy a drink and thereafter you pay for the other shows (it is 100 per show and there are around 10 shows) and you also pay the performer fee and the performer's drinks in addition to that. So guys, just be careful around this.
One thing that I was not able to do during the trip was have enough beer or really visit the various Buddha temples. I was just able to visit one of them which was the gold buddha temple (I think).
The trip was a lot memorable due to the excellent company I had! Thanks to the looney tunes.
