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Bangkok Trip

3rm7
3rm7 Posts: 2 Newbie
in Overseas holidays & travel planning
I've been longing to travel and one of my dream place is Bangkok. I am planning to visit the place next month... Any suggestion?

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  • Bob_the_Saver
    Bob_the_Saver Posts: 5,610 Forumite
    Take a brolly, wettest month of the year. (Usually)

    http://www.wordtravels.com/Cities/Thailand/Bangkok/Climate
  • Doshwaster
    Doshwaster Posts: 6,406 Forumite
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    3rm7 wrote: »
    I've been longing to travel and one of my dream place is Bangkok. I am planning to visit the place next month... Any suggestion?

    How long are you planning on being in Thailand? Bangkok is a fantastic place - one of the best in the world - to spend 2-3 days but after then most people prefer to escape the noise, pollution and traffic for the countryside or a beach.

    Internal travel in Thailand is cheap and easy so don't spend too long in Bangkok, get out and explore the country.
  • Bob_the_Saver
    Bob_the_Saver Posts: 5,610 Forumite
    edited 14 August 2012 at 8:39AM
    Also at this time of year there are a lot of Ozzies there, depends if that's what you want!
  • annie_d
    annie_d Posts: 933 Forumite
    We are staying at the Metropoltan there x
  • Bob_the_Saver
    Bob_the_Saver Posts: 5,610 Forumite
    edited 13 August 2012 at 11:00PM
    Is this a cheap backpacker dive near Khaosan Road or do you mean the Metropolitan?
  • totallybored
    totallybored Posts: 1,141 Forumite
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    Go shopping! BKK is excellent for shopping! I spent the other weekend there on my own and had an amazing time.
  • browneyedbazzi
    browneyedbazzi Posts: 3,405 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    Cocktails at the Sky Bar or Dusit at the Lebua one night should be on the agenda...not very MSE at roughly £10 a drink (pricey here, fortunes in Thailand) but well worth it!

    Also on a more MSE note, take a walk through the flower market and definitely go somewhere in a tuk tuk.

    I agree with the above posters who said to get out of Bangkok as well...there are loads of brilliant places to visit and it is super cheap and easy to travel around the country. It would be a shame to go all that way and then only see Bangkok!
    Common sense?...There's nothing common about sense!
  • PompeyPete
    PompeyPete Posts: 7,126 Forumite
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    A trip all the way up the river by public ferry. Get on at Central Pier.
    Want to escape the heat, then you could do worse than visiting Siam Ocean World.
    Have a wander round Lumphini Park, and talk to the monitor lizards.
    Spend a few days out in the country in the Kanchanaburi area. Get there by 3rd Class train from Thonburi train station.
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