How to get the Bangkok vibe in two days?
I created this guide as if I was sending it to my friend.
From dark and stormy Khao San road to fancy skyscrapers and bougie bars.
It contains:
- 🏩 Hotels, from very affordable ones to a higher class; I made a list so that you can save your time browsing the booking.com and choose one of the these
- 🗺️ Touristic spots that are interesting to see, and some tips on getting cheaper tickets to some of them
- 🍜Food markets - very popular in Asia
- 🍲Awarded street food place, which you'll never walk in if you wouldn't know (and it is not a crab omelette lady)
- 🍸Bars
- 🥂Rooftops
- <3 List of extra things to experience and souvenirs for your friends.
BONUS 💥. This is a live guide, meaning I will update it when I find new favourites or places close. It will automatically sync the changes even after you save it!
If you want to go from low to high, I'd recommend you stay in the Ember Hotel on day one and enjoy Bangkok from this side - full of life, boiling, raw, yet touristic.
There are also many cheap yet perfect massage salons across the road, where you can have a foot massage and finally breathe out after a long road.
Very close to Khaosan Road, yet a very stylish and price-friendly place to stay
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When you fully enjoy street food, market with all kinds of beetles and scorpions, street bars and local massage places - move to the other part of Bangkok, full of high-end restaurants, boutiques and rooftop bars
This hotel has a great interior, the Speakeasy rooftop bar and good Italian restaurant on the ground floor.
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I selected these hotels where I'd stay for their arty interiors and good rooms (this is important as sometimes hotels pay attention to the reception zone). There is also a great price range and different districts. Please enjoy the list:
The most famous road and Market in Bangkok, where you can see everything that you might not forget for the rest of your life ;)
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This is the doc, where you can grab a boat to the floating market - a unique experience that must be seen in Bangkok.
Here is the TIP: ask a local tuk-tuk driver to take you to this doc and buy a ticket for you - there is a massive discount for locals, and they get a little tip from the sellers - win-win!
If you want to get closer to Buddhist culture, you must visit their temples.
I'd start with the one where you can find the greatest laying Buddha. It is a beautiful temple with a lot of spots to reflect. We were also lucky that it appeared to be a spot for Bangkok Art Biennale so that we could enjoy modern art in the middle of the Heritage, and it was fascinating!
Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon Mangkhalaram Rajwaramahawihan
Is a less popular bar with an amazing experience of going through the bookshelves to get the speakeasy part of the bar.
When coming - check for additional rooms, that might be not seen at a first glance
The bar, where the scene form the Hangover was shot.
Tips:
🤍Boys, be sure to wear long pants, as you’re not alloud to enter the hotel with shorts or flip flops.
If you’re already dressed differently from the dress code, there is a service next to the hotel, where you can rent/buy clothes. How convenient is that?
🤍be sure to arrive at the opening hour, so that you can choose the best view spot
🤍the bar is situated on several floors and each zone has separate theme. Be sure to see all of them and choose yours
If you are just looking for a drink then the Moon Bar is perfect!
Open from 5pm to 1am daily, this super cool setting is perfect for unwinding. The music is a chilled lounge genre which suits the atmosphere perfectly and their signature drink is the Vertigo Sunset – all drinks are served with bar snacks.
Tips:
🤍Worth knowing that the dress code is smart causal so this means you don’t need to get your suit out of the wardrobe but you do need to make an effort.
I love to combine something high-class with a super easy, like champagne and Mcdonald's, and this appeared to be a great combo: Stop at the roasted duck eatery for a quick dinner, enjoy delicious duck noodle soup for less than 5 dollars, and afterwards, turn behind the corner and go to the SKY bar, for a signature Hangover movie cocktail and enjoy the view.
THE street place that you'd probably never entered if you didn't know it. A place with the best yet easy duck dishes, like roasted duck, noodle soup or dumplings. Get a bottle of beer with it and enjoy.
The Micheline Guide 2022 highlight.
The villa, a restored Thai home built in the 1920s, is impressive.
It has a feeling of Thai luxury and tradition, yet it’s calm and relaxing at the time. The gardens are neatly manicured, and the facility is extremely well-designed.
Bangkok's Zuma restaurant, at the St Regis, delivers an elegant, yet fun, informal dining experience created around the traditional Japanese izakaya style.
One of the most authentic scent paradises - candles, diffusers, essential oil in a beautiful design - will be a great good-looking gift to your friend
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2. Mother of pearl spoons. You can find it at Chatuchak weekend Market for $5. Classically, chefs use them for caviar service because it doesn’t react with the roe.
The Muay Thai Punch cocktail at WTF is more mild, because the base alcohol is SangSom, an inexpensive and delicious Thai rum that is a lightly spiced and slightly fruity. Even than hangovers are pleasant!
Bangkok’s traffic is notorious, and this Good Design Award winner is easy to use in the car, with pleasant packaging. A fun unisex gift you can give to your friends. Hey, you never know!” —Shane Suvikapakornkul, gallery director of Serindia Gallery.
Hey, lovely Tatchers! My name is Olga. I'm an expat living with my Italian husband in 📍 Haarlem, Netherlands.
I can call myself a travel gem hunter and a professional Google pinner, as I can spend hours just googling around the map of the city where I go, searching for places to check out.
According to a recent Instagram research, my first passion profession should be opening a restaurant (I looooove cooking), and on a second place (drums), I should be creating my travel guides, as all of my friends and friends of friends ask me for travel tips in cities, where they know I’ve been.
I’m also obsessed with finding the fluffiest pillows in the hotels, the most exciting art shows and galleries and the most hidden speakeasy 🙈
So if you’re searching for actual hedonistic pins in:
📍Restaurants
📍Bars
📍 Art places and events
📍Hotels
📍Rooftops
📍Wineries
We’re going to be friends :)
