Sights, shopping and massage in Bangkok – Day 1
Bangkok is one of the most popular holiday destination for a Singaporean. Largely because there is so much to do! There’s cheap food, cheap massage, great sights, reasonable tailoring, diverse range of shopping options, and even an amusement park (which nearly nobody knows about!) I have went to Bangkok once before last year, and the plan for this trip is not to repeat destinations. So the plan this time is Day 1 Chatuchak weekend market Siam Paragon Day 2 Tailor shirts Platinum mall (yes, the only repeat, because it is unavoidable when you go to Bangkok) Chinatown (for seafood) Day 3 Siam Park City (Apparently one of the largest amusement park in South East Asia) Baan Khanitha (Some Thai style fine dining restaurant) Soi Cowboy Day 4 Mall bangkapi Tawanna Square (the supposed substitute for Suan Lum night market after it was closed) Day 5 Baiyoke Sky Hotel (For the Bangkok Sky Restaurant buffet lunch) Quite a different experience from the previous round, since the previous round was more sight seeing of the temples, and all. We ate a lot, we shopped a lot, we spent a lot. As usual, I flown in on Jetstar on the early morning flight. The good thing is that there is now the Suvarnabhumi Airport Rail Link that takes you from the airport to the city in 30 minutes for just 35 baht. Definitely no reason for travellers to take taxis! And this is probably where the BKK train system is more practical than the Singapore’s system. Their MRT and Airport Link system uses a non-card contactless system. That means, you buy a token from the ticketing machine, tap the chip on the entry like how you would in Singapore, and at the exit point, you drop it into the exit gantry. So, you don’t have to take your single trip EZlink card to the ticketing machine to get back your deposit. Which also means, you don’t have to pay for deposit in the first place! Why isn’t...
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