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RachaelRoo · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!

I'm going to be in Bangkok the last week of April - any suggestions for something fun to do or see?

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

AMAZING THAILAND!!!

you will have a great time...
check the internet

RachaelRoo · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!

I did check the internet, but there's so many places to see that I'm wondering if anyone can recommend somewhere they really enjoyed.

I'm a girl, so I'm not really interested in prostitution - I was thinking maybe some cool temples or tours on the river, something like that.

Also, my flight lands in Bangkok at 10:30p.m. on a Sunday - will I be able to change my money into Bhat at the airport or is this going to be a problem?

SweetBear · Joined: 18 May 2003

RachaelRoo · Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Location: Anywhere but Ulsan!

Hey Sweetbear, I'll be in Bangkok for 6 nights - Sunday to Saturday. So I should be able to change money at the airport even at this time? I'm worried because a friend of mine said everything might be closed.

Any river tours you can recommend?

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Ayutthaya is an hour north of the airport by (slow, hot) train, and well worth seeing. The Riverside Hotel is very nice and quite cheap if you arrange a good deal for two nights with a TAT office ahead of time; try to get a room overlooking the river. Don't stay in the big hotel outside town. You can take a river taxi ride right around the Island that forms the old city. There are a lot of tourists but also some areas with no tourists and everyday Thai prices. I teamed up with a Slovenian couple and we hired a tuk-tuk to take us around to all the ruins for a few hundred Baht. There are a few packpackers' hostels that have terrace cafes and interesting travellers from around the world (I even met a Korean but he didn't last long before he was in the PC-bang next door). It would be a pretty nice, safe place for a single woman traveller.

Masterjazz · Joined: 04 Jan 2006

The Reclining Buddha cant be missed, Wat Pho and the Grand Palace,a trip to Ko Shan Road, The Emerald Buddha. Bangkoks China town is very cool too Theres loads to do in BKK that has nothing to do with sex

But a word of warning, dont get in a tuktuk even if someone really really friendly offers you free advice of where to visit and they give it to you for a really relly low price, its hte same old scam, they bring you to the shittiest sites,then drop in at some sort of silk factory or gem factory trying to get you to buy, and they're pushy as hell

Also if you tell a tuktuk ot take u to a certain site and he says its "closed for lunch" or something like that, dont believe a word of it, again he wants to ake you on his tour..

Anyway enjoy it, im going back for a few days in June

SweetBear · Joined: 18 May 2003

Sorry double post

SweetBear · Joined: 18 May 2003

Zark · Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2006 8:48 pm Post subject:

Lots to do!

Stuff that others haven't mentioned:

Check the weekend market at Chatuchak. Giant market place.

Go to Wat Arun.

Take water taxis around town for about B15.

If you do go to Ayuttyha - take the bus up and the river cruise back.

Yes, you can change money anytime at the airport. Avoid the touts go to the taxi queue out front - make sure they use the meter - should be no problem (B50 airport fee - won't be on the meter). Offer to pay for the tollway (not much) - or spent days in traffic.

Spoil yourself and go to the GREAT lunch buffet at Lord Jim's at the Oriental Hotel. About B1000 - but fantastic and sits looking over the river.

Go singin at the Sofitel - whoops - wait - will report back on that later!