Bangkok Shopping Areas
Where to start? It can be difficult to decide as choices are endless. Head for areas with a local reputation for good shopping and great bargains. Try Chinatown, around Sampeng Lane; Pahurat Textile Market; Pratunam Market for ready-to-wear clothing, or Suan Lum Night Bazaar for silverware, furniture, jewellery and gift items. Hop on the Skytrain to Sukhumvit Road for antiques and handicraft shops. Siam area is abound with high-end shopping malls where sophisticated and funky clothes are available. If you want to experience something a little more adventurous, make your way for the huge weekend market at Chatuchak on the outskirts of town. |
Few other cities offer such a vast choice of goods, much enhanced by the polite sales techniques and good-natured haggling that accompanies most transactions. (READ MORE)
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There's a saying that goes, "if you want to know what's in (in terms of fashion), go to Siam". Extremely popular among teenagers and young adults, Siam's long been a showcase of the trendiest and latest fashion in Bangkok with shopping malls like MBK, Siam Discovery, Siam Center, and Siam Paragon. (READ MORE)
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Thousands of cars pour along Ratchadapisek Road - a busy, car-infested northern artery - each day. Consequently options for suburban shoppers have blossomed here in recent years, imposing shopping warehouses and malls popping up all along it. Superb MRT subway access means it's easy to get to. But the appeal for tourists is limited - there's nothing here you can't find more centrally. (READ MORE)
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Sukhumvit Road is one of Bangkok's best known and eclectic shopping streets. Easily accessible thanks to the Skytrain, its air-conditioned malls, department stores, myriad shops and sidewalk vendors offer an overwhelming variety of goods that ranges from cheap imitation tat to the latest fashion trends. (READ MORE)
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Be it during the day or well past midnight, Silom is bound to have something to satisfy all breeds of shoppers. Start with the shopping malls in the area, including Silom Complex, Central, and Robinson. (READ MORE)
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Khao San Road is bursting with youth-orientated things for you to spend your precious baht on. Market stalls come piled high with beach attire, fisherman pants, T-shirts, ethnic clothing and other items that will help you achieve the dishevelled, scruffy-chic look so common in these parts of town. More refined items - silver jewellery, dainty dresses and, for the guys, tailored suits - are also abundant. Come in the evenings for the best range of wares on display, many of which have been lovingly crafted by hand. (READ MORE)
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Busy, bustling and hot, shopping in Chinatown is very different from your typical mall outing. Tiny alleys come crammed with a huge assortment of goods, crowded with porters manoeuvering wooden carts around customers. The main road, Yaowarat, has lots of fascinating Chinese pharmacists with containers full of strange looking herbal remedies and probably the highest concentration of goldshops in Thailand. (READ MORE)
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Head here for upmarket, trendy and expensive - Bangkok's answer to London's Knightsbridge. The brand new CentralWorld is the latest in a series of ever brand conscious areas where both international and designers rule supreme. Air-conditioned comfort, smooth surroundings and luxury goods from all over the world. Gaysorn Plaza, Amarin Plaza and Peninsula Plaza are among Bangkok's most prominent shopping plazas. The slightly less illustrious but excellent Central Chitlom Department Store can also be found here. (READ MORE)
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Hailed the mother of all IT malls in Bangkok, Pantip Plaza offers a wide range of IT supplies, software, CDs, DVDs, audiovisual equipment and related paraphernalia guaranteed to satisfy the savviest technology junkie. Standing tall next to Pantip Plaza is the wholesale paradise Platinum Fashion Mall. Other shopping malls in the vicinity include the City Complex, Pratunam Center, CentralWord, Big C hypermarket, Gaysorn, the Erawan Bangkok, Amarin Plaza, Siam Paragon, Siam Discovery Center, Siam Square, and MBK. More shopping awaits at the very popular markets in the Pratunam area, a big favorite of both locals and tourists who simply can't resist a bargain.
Learn more about Shopping Areas: Sukhumvit, Chidlom, Siam Square, Ratchaprasong, Sathorn, Riverside, Khao San Road, Old City, Chinatown, Pratunam, Ratchadapisek, Chatuchak
Related Links: Computers & Audiovisual, Thai Crafts, Fashion & Clothing
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If you're in the Chatuchak area, you simply can't miss Chatuchak Weekend Market. Boasting over 15,000 stalls specialising in everything you could imagine - from clothing, fresh and dry food, pets, plants and used books to furniture and even fighting roosters - Chatuchak should be a must-do on any visitor's shopping itinerary. Behind Chatuchak is Or Tor Kor Market, also worth checking out if you want to experience how the locals shop for food. If the sun gets too hot, head to Central Plaza Ladprao, and the Union Mall nearby for some air-con comfort and (more) retail therapy.
Learn more about Shopping Areas: Sukhumvit, Chidlom, Siam Square, Ratchaprasong, Sathorn, Riverside, Khao San Road, Old City, Chinatown, Pratunam, Ratchadapisek
Related Links: Chatuchak Weekend Market, Thai Crafts, Fashion & Clothing
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