"Bangkok Shopping and Tips" a Bangkok Travel Page by Avedillo

HELLO TO EVERYBODY
Some advice for the new ones travellers to Bangkok:
If you prepare the trip a little bit, it can leave for onés own account perfectly, I have made it and you save yourself a lot of money, everything for internet. The country is perfectly prepared for the tourism, everything signalled in English, without danger some, kindness for all sides and very cheap.
If you go to BKK, as for hotels and areas.- Silom is completely last in fashion, old and a little decadent, the area of pat-pong with some clubs of the time of the war of the Vietnam and a small market to hunt absent-minded tourists, anyway it is necessary to go one night at least.
Markets with interest:
Lumpini where you has dinner local food, and craft, is bought to really interesting prices.
Pratunam (the puestecillos (desks) has imitations of clocks (fake) between 600Bth and 1000Bth after haggling (they begin in 3500bth), great warehouse of the same name it is a deception, only it is stupendously interesting for which he likes the musical DVD or movies ,100bth each, engravings stupendously.
The same of the desks can find it in the departament store “MBK” the goal of the consumerism, but cheap still, and with air conditioning, clean wc (1 bth the entrance)y multitude of restaurants of all type from KFC,Mcdonalds (5 full menus with salads,etc,6.-€), food thai,(care super spyce) combined plate to 60 cents of euro, included the drink.They are 7 floors, each a debit side to have near 200 or 300 shops/tenderetes, whole floors for celullars, clothes, furniture,etc.shirts of label 199 bth (if several purchases the price down)polos 199 bth, pants jeans Diesel 650bth, handbags from 199 bth up to 1900bth finish it of Versace, Clohe.Suitcases of colors style sansonite 1600 bth, size M.
To give presents in the office,university... typical key rings, figures, bags of 10 pieces to 100 bth, fulares of wild silk at 150Bth.
Chatuchack, the most in open air, only saturdays and Sundays.
In short all the unimaginable one, a madness, I arrived with two suitcases and we have returned with 6 suitcases of 26 Kg each one.

Trips and visits, to hire a “taxi boat” to see the klongs(700bth-1000bth depends on the journey 1hour or more), Grand Palace and Buddha emerald to go by the river 13Bth, care with the gear to the entrance is uncompromising, impossible to enter with tirantas or teaching the shoulders, pants shorts,etc.
Recumbent Buddha (beside the palace) impressive.To visit Jim's Thompson house , wonderful, not to confuse with the store, very easy of consenting through the Sky train, another marvel of BKK. No indispensable, the floating market of Damonsamuak, a cheat for tourists, where formerly the market was now it is an immense souvernies ship to price of gold, and the boats instead of spices and fruits take mark handbags, it is pathetic, if you have been in the theme parks of attractions of Florida he/she will remind you enough the system, lines to be mounted in the boats, he/she photographs when entering and tourists' thousands.
Hotels, the quality is very high, equality of quality you can choose for areas, for example, to discard those that are on the other side of the river, although are very good, you lose a great time in crossing, included those that are to banks are far, at least they have the Sky it fences, except the Royal Orchid that is isolated, apart from this at night there is not he/she swims around, not even of the Shangri-la the one that deserves a visit, I have stay a couple of times , when a heap of years went for reasons profesionals but now I prefer the area of Erawan, it is strategically located in the center to two stops of Silom area, to one stop of MBK, (sky train) and on foot of Siam Parangon,Central, and up to 7 departament stores and at night after having dinner starting from 8 o'clock put many puestecillos and in the terraces of the departament Central stores, Zen,Isatan, puts kind of a fair of beer with live music. Walking can go to Pratunam, Bayoke Sky (15 minutos)y that whole area.Some hotels of the area, are Grand Hyatt, Intercontinental (in this I have been now in the plant 27 with some impressive views, all the external walls were glass in curve, the rooms with 45 square meters, another hotel the Novotel and several more.

The tuck-tuck is to catch some but care to say “non stop” although he/she is necessary to pay something more, if not you finish in the Indian tailor shop making you a suit in 24 hours that you will have to throw nothing else to arrive your country.
Cheap to move if you go two or more people are the taxi with metters, all with air aconditioned,a career of twenty minutes don't cost more than three €urus,included tip, if the driver doesn't want to put the metter, a trick, you tell him OK and sacks a pen and you point the number of license and tell him smiling and in good way that is for the Tourist Police Departament,no problem. But for general you won't have problem, only they make it those that passengers pick up in the area of Patpong, Grand Palace,no begins a lot of conversation with the taxi driver if you dont want to finish in a seafood restaurant to a hundred meters of your destination, for them everything is closed less the restaurant.With people of the street without problem, kind, enchantress, educated,