Parker and I have hosted many friends and family from the states since we have been in Thailand. I love organizing their visits and planning everything before! Last April I had 6 friends come from all different states in America to visit me for 10 days! Needless to say we prepared weeks in advance. I want to share one of the itineraries we shared to help give people traveling to Bangkok some ideas of some of the amazing things they can do once they arrive! If you have any questions please feel free to contact us, add us as a friend on facebook at "Aubrey Parker" and send us a message. We'd love to give you any tips and recommendations on our favorite things to do, see and EAT in the places we've visited in Thailand!
(This is copied and pasted from a previous e-mail thread between my friends who were came to visit and I)
Thai-inerary
Ok. Here are things in Bangkok I want to tell you guys about- so you can look over and decide what you want to do. There are all kinds of things for all different prices in Bangkok, we could get dinner and a smoothie for $1.50 total or eat at amazing places which are probably still cheaper than the restaurants back home. Just take a look and give me a idea so I can make reservations or book certain events if I need to :)
With that said…
Here are places I think you would like-
To See:
1. Grand Palace... This is a must see. "Temple of the Emerald Buddha" Wat Phra Kaew. My favorite thing about the Grand Palace is the Emerald Buddha, and the museum you can stop in before you head in and see the different outfits they change the Buddha in for the different seasons in Bangkok (hot, cool and rainy).
2. Wat Pho (Reclining Buddha) This is one of my favorite places in Bangkok, I love taking pictures here and getting my fortune read! There is a famous massage school here we could take courses at.
3. The Oriental (hotel) where they have the cutest afternoon Tea room called the Author's Lounge
http://www.mandarinoriental.com/bangkok/dining/lounge_and_bar/authors_lounge/
4. Boat ride on the river, we could either take a long tail boat or the river taxis. Both a great way to see the city from the water!
5. Chinatown (especially at night!) I love Chinatown! There are great Chinese restaurants and a lot of things you can buy. We do a lot of supply shopping for my school here and get great things to make arts and crafts for the kids projects at school.
6. Kho San road (backpacker street, and we can go out here too it’s really fun and cheap. They have a lot of cool random bars, like a rooftop bar with live music that overlooks the street. You can also buy great Red Bull, Chang, Singha t-shirts and Thai souvenirs)
7. This place for dinner called Amarosa that is right across Wat Arun, the temple of dawn. Wat Arun is also great to visit, but sitting across the river at Amarosa and having dinner and drinks during the Sunset is unforgettable!
http://www.arunresidence.com/dining.htm
8. We could do a dinner cruise along the river that has Thai music/ food, I haven’t done this yet…
9. MOVIE at paragon, at the Nokia theatre (about 15 dollars) which is leather reclining chairs with silk blankets and pillows, and a waiting room with juice and cookies, ALSO a BAR!), or we could do the more expensive theater called Enigma that includes a food dish appetizer and a alcohol drink and they are BEDS... This runs for about $30. We did this only once, but it was fun!)
10. Siam PARAGON in general is an amazing mall. There’s a really good Japanese burger place called Mos Burger that I would love for you guys to experience and a really cool food court with all Thai dishes (Great spicy Papaya salad), the most amazing supermarket you will ever see and great souvenirs in a Thai section) This is the mall with all the top designers as well.
11. Central World (Another really cool mall with the BEST food court, a upscale food court where you order your food then go sit down and they bring it to you called Food Loft. The department store ZEN has a DJ on the ground level too!)
12. Alcohol Ice Cream bar at Central World
13. Siam Square (Across from the malls, a lot of shopping, food, smoothie places, trendy Thai teenagers hang out)
14. Chatuchak Market (Truly amazing, everything and anything you could possibly want to buy! Just take a look at all the sections)
http://www.jatujakguide.com/home/
15. Damnoen Saduak Floating Market (This is exactly what it sounds like, a market on water! You have to take a boat to get around, it's really something you have never seen before!)
16. Ocean World at Paragon, it’s a really cool aquarium with sharks and crazy fish.I love ocean world!
http://www.siamoceanworld.co.th/
(We can also walk with sharks here in the water)
17. Kanchanaburi- Tiger Temple... One of my favorite things I have ever experienced!
18. Muy Thai Boxing (It’s cool, I went to the Lumpini Stadium, it’s near the Suam Night Bazaar which I want to take you guys too, so let me know if you would be interested in boxing)
19. Elephant Riding (If we end up traveling to a beach then we can for sure do it there, otherwise there are places a few hour from Bangkok we can go as well if you're interested)
20. If you guys are interested in getting suits made, Parker and his friend got really good ones at a place that was recommended to us in Kho San. Each of Parkers custom suits were like $90 and he got custom made shirts for $15!
21. SPA SPA SPA!! You can get massages every 5 steps. Most foot massages are about 6 dollars for random place, there is a really nice spa where you will be staying called Green Leaf Spa. This is where I get my haircut because it is so close to me! We also like Healthland and Oasis Spa.
http://www.healthlandspa.com/home.html
http://www.chiangmaioasis.com/
Dinner
1. Sirrocco or Vertigo (our favorite rooftop bars, MUST SEE!)
http://www.lebua.com/bangkok/dining/
2. Zense (it’s another rooftop but now as high as the other two, it’s really cool though and less expensive, located on top of Zen at Central World)
3. Bed Supperclub (www.bedsupperclub.com) dinner then out there, the dinner is unlike anything. I have already made reservations for your visit, this is a MUST!
4. Blue Elephant (Really good Thai food, also where I want to do the cooking course with you guys. Would you be interested?)
5. Cabbages and Condoms (This is like a safe sex place, but the food is awesome and everything is made of condoms, it’s crazy!)
6. Food Loft at Central World (really cheap and amazing food, they have food all around the world here, it’s my favorite!)
There are so many great places. There is a great vendor right across where you guys will be staying we can get a quick lunch one day before heading out to the Temples :) When we know what day we are doing what I can plan accordingly where to eat based on which location we will be in..
OUT
1. Long Table
2. Bed Superclub (we’ll see this after dinner)
3. Nest
4. RCA- I like Route 66 and 808
5. Tappas, Silom
6. Silom in general, we like to start at Coyote because they have the most amazing margaritas!
7. Kho San Road (the Rooftop bar I told you about is great)
8. Q Bar- cool place on Soi 11 in Nana, Sukhumvit
9. The Night Bazaar
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