10 Great Places to Go Shopping in Bangkok

10 GREAT PLACES TO GO SHOPPING IN BANGKOK

Bangkok is one of our favorite shopping cities in the world! In Bangkok you can find huge posh shopping centers with both international and Asian fashion design, but you can also find all kinds of cool and cheap stuff in any of the many street markeds. The contrasts of this city is what we love the most. You can find everything and anything here! Make sure to check out the original and much more detailed post at http://nerdnomads.com/10-great-places-to- go-shopping-in-bangkok Central World Central World is the sixth biggest shopping center in the world with eight floors. This is the ulti- mate Bangkok shopping mall. It has a mix of posh expensive luxury brands, and more affordable brands. Central World consists of several “wings” full of shops, cafes and restaurants. Each floor is ded- icated to a specific type of items, like kids (6th floor), women (2nd floor), men (3rd floor) and electronic (4th floor, although the iStudio apple store is on 2nd floor). It also has two huge de- partment stores, Isetan & Zen. There are plenty of resturants, a gourmet supermarket + cinema on the 7th floor. There is even an ice skating rink on ground level. How To Get There:Sky train to Siam station or Chit Lom, and walk. Open: 10 a.m - 10 p.m

Siam Paragon This is an upscale shopping mall. Brands include Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Burberry, Jimmy Choo, Marc Jacobs and Armani. Even car brands as Lamborghini and Ferrari have shops here. Also more affordable shops as H&M, Zara, Mango, TopShop, TopMan, Massimo Dutti and Miss Sixty. Par- agon has Bangkok’s biggest and best book store (many English books), Kinokuniya, on 3rd floor. Huge food court on the lower floor. iStudio, the authorized Apple shop, is located on 3rd floor. If you are up for burning some calories, one of Bangkok’s biggest and best fitness centers are located on 4th floor, Fitness First. At the basement level is South East Asia´s biggest aquarium, Siam Ocean World. How To Get There:Sky train to Siam station Open: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m

Siam Center Siam Center is located just next to Siam Paragon. This center is not nearly as big as Paragon and Central World, and has a darker and dimmer feel to it. It consists of many shops though, and has a great food court on top floor which is less noisy and crowded than the one at Paragon.

Shops as DKNY, Armani Exchange, Sephora, MAC, Victoria’s Secret (the only one in Bangkok), Adidas and Nike are located in Siam Center. How To Get There:Sky train to Siam station. Open: 10p.m. – 10 p.m.

Siam Discovery Siam Discovery is also smaller than it’s big brothers Paragon and Central World, but bigger and much brighter and easier to orientate yourself in than Siam Center. This center has shops as: Marc by Marc Jacobs, Diesel, French Connection, Miss Sixty (these are all on first floor), DKNY, Kenneth Cole, Fred Perry, Calvin Klein, Replay (these are all on 2nd floor), Smart Travel/ North Face (3rd floor). Several good hair dressers and beauty saloons are located in Siam Discovery. Discovery has Bangkok’s Madame Tussauds on 6th floor. How To Get There: Take the sky train to Siam station Open:10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

MBK MBK, or Mahbookkrong as it is originally called, was built in 1985 and is one of Asia’s oldest shopping centers. It is a huge center particularly popular among teen Thai girls. The center is packed with small shops, mostly Thai brands and designs, and not many international shops. Two floors (4th and 5th floor) is full of electronics, from Apple shops as iStudio to big professional camera shops as Nikon and Canon. One part of the 4th floor is full of tiny stalls selling all sorts of electronic stuff and spare parts, and they also repair phones. This shopping center is great fun, but pretty exhausting as it is packed with Thai teenagers shopping like crazy! Address: Sky train to Siam or National Stadium station, and do a short walk Open: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Chatuchak Weekend Market Chatuchak (or Jatujak) weekend marked is one of the biggest markets in the world with over 200 000 people visiting each day! You should come here and have a look even if you are not a big shopper. The market is divided into 27 sections, and you can find things as wood carvings, clay handicrafts, local souvenirs from every parts of Thailand, Buddhist amulets, wooden furni- ture, hand made decorated flowers, ceramic wares, Chinese wares, garden plants, stones, trendy fashions, silk, hill-tribe outfits, paintings of local painters, fluffy dogs, handbags, shoes, jewellery and fashionable Thai design of all sort – All at a cheap prize! More about Bangkoks markeds: http://nerdnomads.com/10-great-places-to-go-shopping-in-bangkok How To Get There:Sky train to Mo Chit station, or the underground to Chatuchak station. Open: Saturday and Sundays, 6 a.m. – 6 p.m. Pantip Plaza Pantip is a geek’s heaven! This five floor shopping center is packed with electronics of all kind. Here you can find everything from serious well-known shops as iStudio and iShop (3rd floor), Nikon, Sony and Canon, to not so legal small stalls selling pirate movies, TV series, games and software. This center has an entire floor just for mobile phones, phone accessorizes and mobile repair. Pantip has an official Apple service center on 4th floor. It’s fun to visit, but it does get exhausting after a while. How To Get There:Sky train to Chit Lom station, and walk. Or take a tuk-tuk. Open: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. but the best time to go is mid-day as many of the smaller shops opens later and closes earlier.

Terminal 21 Terminal 21 is located near Asok sky train station, and is a fairly new shopping center which opened in 2011. This is a really cool shopping center, one of the coolest and most spectacular I have ever been in! Each floor is designed as a city, one is London, another is Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Istanbul, San Fransisco and Hollywood. The center is huge, consisting of more than 600 shops! Although it has some big international brands such Esprite, Camper, Adidas, H&M, Guess, Levi’s, Nike and Quiksilver, it is also full of small and cool Asian design brands. This combo is great! Terminal 21 has a wide range of nice restaurant and cafes, as well as cinema on the top floor. How To Get There: Take the sky train to Asoke station Open:10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Asiatique Just beside the river is the new and posh Asiatique, Bangkok’s new night market. It is a mix of Asian, American and European food and shopping, as well as entertainment. The shops mainly have a tourist focus, where you can find Thai products and design, some of it you also find at Chatuchak Weekend Market. But it is a really cool touristy market, which is also very popular among Thais. Who doesn’t love Paris wheel, Italian gelato ice cream and 4D cinema? Asiatique is great fun! How To Get There: Take the free shuttle boat from Central Pier/ Sathorn (sky train to Saphan Taksin). The boat departs every 15 minutes, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Open: Every day 5 p.m. – 12 p.m.

Central Chitlom Central Chitlom has seven floors, and has a straight forward design and layout of the floors. Each floor is a big open space with the different brands having it’s own area with no walls be- tween them. First floor is all about perfumes, cosmetics, jewellery and handbags. It has brands such as Mulberry, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Dior and Louis Vuitton. At 4th floor you can find a good selection of high quality Thai souvenirs like silk and beauty products made in Thailand. This is among my favorite shopping centers in Bangkok, as it has some of my favorite brands. The shoe floor is great, with a large selection of international shoe brands. It’s food court on 7th floor is great and popular, also among Thais. How To Get There:Sky train to Chit lom. Open: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Bangkok is a great shopping city, maybe the best, and the quote “Shop till you drop” is suitable for de- scribing the shopping mania going on here! Love it!

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