The ULTIMATE Bangkok Thailand Travel Guide 2023

Awesome tips.
I've been to Bangkok twice and stayed literally walking distance to the Grand Palace on both occasions.
I've went on the Sky Walk at the King Power Mahanakhan Building and also went to top of Baiyoke Tower as well. Also did the day trip to Ayutthaya which was great. Went to Lumphini Park for a relaxing walk. Yes I went to the Grand Palace, Wat Pho and Wat Arun. Also did the Chao Praya River Cruise during the day and at night, Worth visiting the Asiatique Riverfront. ICON Siam was being built at the time I went on my second visit there. Chinatown was also pretty good too but I didn't like Khaosan Road that much and I've avoided the floating market.

Nice information guys

So helpful!!!🥰

AWESOME video 🙌 …. very useful for me … as I’m considering Bangkok for my next vacation … In your opinion … when is the best time to visit Bangkok ?? … ( less rainy days ) … I’ll really appreciate your opinion ….. Thanks 😊

Wow! What a great video. I am getting lots of ideas for my upcoming first visit to the city. Thanks!

Welcome to Thailand is so beautiful and so good foods.

Welcome to Thailand is so beautiful and so good foods.

Super helpful😊 thank you beautiful people😊

A lot of these places sound awesome. Thanks for sharing your tips. I def want to go to the MOCA when I return to Bangkok

You guys are so lovely couple. I m Thai but never been some places that you been. Your VDO is just so super amazing !!! Wish both of you stay safe & happy in every trip that you go. I will follow youuuu 🫰🏻

Do you have an idea whats the weather like in June? Do yoi recommend travelling in June?

My family were in the background of this video 😂

thanks for some really nice place

Great video. Planning a trip this summer. Did you experience any kind of mask pressure or forcing while you were there? They mention masks as "recommended" on their official websites but it's always a little hard to figure out what that really means.

The link to your 2nd airbnb with the rooftop pool does not work. Do you guys mind relinking it?

I trust you guys with my life 😂 my boyfriend and I travel really similarly to your vibes and it's so great to have so much information from people who share the same values and respect during travel! I wrote down literally everything you said and now am so excited to go to Bangkok someday!! 🤍

Thanks guys!! I'm going to Thailand in 2 months with my parter!! Great Video~!!

I'm thirsty for the coconut ice cream 🤍✨ Good vlog as always, thanks for sharing this experience 🙏🏻

방콕 사원 웅장하지
방문해보세요 .
그리고 마사지를 경험하시고
원나잇 경험도 ..

Great tips, especially about the airbnbs. Thanks!

Songkran festival on 13-15 April all provinces in Thailand will have the water festival 💦 let's go to the festival 💦

I'm watching from Philippines 🥰🥰

Watching your vlog from 🇮🇳 india. Your vlog is very nice.. Please visit india 🇮🇳 ❤🧡💚. The Government of India is building a tourist circuit in the country. World's most favorable and beautiful tourist destination. You will have more fun in India 🇮🇳🇮🇳 .There are many such places in India too which are full of natural beauty.India is known worldwide for its hospitality.Oldest civilization in the world!

Nice job on this. Im heading to Thailand in a month for 15 days and although this isnt my first time in BKK, your thoughts and ideas were very helpful and informative. Part of my time will also be in Chiang Mai and Koh Samui. Clearly i need to add another 2 months to my 15 days, but dang....im excited to be heading back!. Once again, thanks for the helpful video.

Visiting Bangkok is now on my bucket list. Love this video of recommendations

🎉Let Thailand be your 2nd home 💒🏰🏡 and let this amazing country be your everything ❤ Settle down in Thailand,then go out to discover the world 😍

i tried the buns at chinatown and now there‘re my favourite

Great content. Thanks for sharing. Have a nice day!

Hey guys❤ Wow the amount of effort you must put to make this video so beautifully is definitely shown!! I loved every recommendation and the fact that you mentioned an ethical option to spent time with elephants ❤❤ I really hope this video will get the recognition that deserves and it will definitely be my first point of reference if I ever visit Thailand 🥰 Sending you lots of love as always ❤

Ihim ihim ihim

Fantastic guide team!

ขอบคุณที่ช่วยประชาสัมพันธ์การท่องเที่ยวกรุงเทพมหานครให้คนทั่วโลกหลั่งไหลมาเที่ยวมากยิ่งขึ้นค่ะ🙏❤️🇹🇭

Very nice and helpful thank you ❤🇹🇭

Hello

ขอบคุณจริงๆคับ หวังว่าคุณจะกลับมาใหม่ โชคดี

ว้าวคุณกลับมาไทยอีกแล้วดีใจจัง😍😍😍

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😍😍

🫶🏽🫶🏽

Chiang Mai was the capital of the Lanna Kingdom for at least 700 years. Some time the city was independent, but most of the time the City was a vassal state of various Burmese dynasties even right through the reign of King Rama I. When the British began to subjugate Burma and eventually abolished the Burmese King, exiling him to British India during King Rama IV reign, Chiang Mai was independent again but within a few decades, Chiang Mai King saw that Siam was beginning to exert influence to the North, the King decided to submit and even sent his daughter to become King Rama V's concubine. When Chiang Mai king died, King Rama V decided not to appoint a new king but put Chiang Mai directly under Bangkok's rule, sending a governor to govern Chiang Mai since then. Chiang Mai has it all, old town with several important temples, Wat Prathat Doi Suthep on 13 km up hill within 20 km from the city center and at the foot of Doi Suthep, there is Chiang Mai University, one of the four regional public universities in Thailand. The others are Khon Kaen in the Northeast, Burapha in the East (Chonburi) and Songkhla in the South. All four regional universities have all traditional faculties including Medicine and Engineering. There is an going project to propose Chiang Mai's old town as Unesco World Heritage within this decade.

Wat Pho is an old temple south of the Grand Palace. It is also known also as the Temple of the Reclining Buddha built by King Rama III in 1832. The King also decreed that traditional Thai massage and traditional medicine be inscribed on stone tablets to deseminate the knowledge to the general public. The famous Thai spa and massage are believed to originate from such stone inscription. King Rama III was also known as Merchant Prince because when he was still a prince he conducted trade with China and asked the ship captain to bring back stone sculptures such as Chinese deities, mythical beasts as stabilizing balance in the ship's belly. These stone sculptures are now commonly seen at Wat Pho, Wat Arun and the Grand Palace. When President Obama had only one day to tour a Thai temple, US Embassy recommended this temple due to its unique architecture, history and beautiful reclining Buddha.

Traditional Thai costumes seen at Wat Arun are hi-so and usually worn by wives of high officials at former occasions such as Royal Ballroom celebration at Government House or at Official New Year's morning merit making presided by Thai prime minister/wife as well as cabinet ministers/wives. Woman also wears traditional Thai dress during wedding ceremony while Thai man usually wears western suit or white formal uniform if being civil servant.

Legend states that when King Taksin, at the time Ayutthaya mandarin, led some troops to break the Burmese siege of Ayutthaya and arrived at this old temple at dawn, so the temple was then named Temple of Dawn (Wat Arun). After Ayutthaya fell after one-year siege, he led troops from Chanthaburi province to expel the occupied Burmese troops in Ayutthaya. Then he proclaimed himself King and moved the capital from Ayutthaya to Thonburi and built a royal palace adjacent to Wat Arun and this temple then became the Royal Temple within the Palace domain in line with Ayutthaya tradition. The same could be said about King Rama I when he moved the capital from Thonburi across the Chao Phraya River and built Emerald Buddha Temple within the Grand Palace. When Thonburi was still a distinct province before it was dissolved to form Bangkok metropolis about 50 years ago, Thonburi's symbol was Phra Prang (Stupa) of this temple. Phra Prang is lit at night and can be seen from tour boats or roof-top bars on the opposite side of Chao Phraya River.

The Memorial Bridge was the first bridge across Chao Phraya River built nearly 100 years ago. It was a steel bridge whose middle span could be raised to allow Navy ship to sail towards the former Navy headquarters at King Taksin's Palace near Wat Arun. Later the Navy built a big pier at the mouth of Chao Phraya River and there was no need for the navy ship to come to the headquarter anymore, thus this bridge's middle spans were no longer raised for the last 40 years. I should know because I studied at Suan Kularb school at the foot of the bridge from 1965-69 and saw the bridge raised a few times. The school is the oldest government school in Thailand built during King Rama V reign. Its 2-storey yellow building was/is the longest 2-storey building in Thailand. Since then a parallel bridge with 6 lanes was built and a few decades ago. Then a few years ago the skywalk garden was built in the middle of this new bridge at the former abandoned railway track. It is the great place to relax, watching sun set while drinking a Thai beer. Meanwhile, you can also visit the Flower Market, just opposite Suan Kularb School. Around 9 pm till early in the morning, all types of flowers were trucked in, sorted and arranged to be sold either retail or wholesale. The Flower Market never dies, the business is run 24 hours/7 days per week.

Thailand started bus service in Bangkok nearly 100 years ago, it was run by private bus operators at a reasonable price but still making a decent profit. However, about 45 years ago, a certain political party campaigned to make bus in Bangkok free and when this party came to power as a coalition govt, it nationalized bus services, buying the private operators and created Bangkok Mass Transport Authority (BMTA) to run a free bus service for a few years. When the govt could no longer afford the huge annual subsidy, it allowed the BMTA to charge a cheap ticket price for non-aircon buses and then introduced air-con buses at 2-3 times the price of non-aircon buses. The non-aircon buses have been running at a loss since then up to today while the air-con buses run at break-even. The BMTA then granted private bus operators to run non-aircon and air-con buses again about 30 years ago to reduce the BMTA's mounting debts as private operators seem to know how to run buses at a decent profit even though they charge the same ticket fares as BMTA's own buses. To this day, BMTA non-aircon red buses are still relatively cheap less than 10 baht, one of the cheapest fare in the world. Every year, the national govt allocates a supplementary budget to shore up BMTA's inefficient operation. It is apparent that the first populist policy of Thai govt does not work as is the case worldwide such as the bankrupted Venezuela and father of populist policy Argentina which seeks IMF help at least 6 times since WWII.

Thailand is a developing country that dared to implement an electric metro system decades ago, not by government initially but by a private enterprise under build-operate-transfer concession basis. When a housing developer Tanayong group proposed to Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BKK city government) to build an electric skytrain linking the major nothern/eastern provincial bus terminal (Mor Chit) into the city center (CBD) itself about 30 years ago, local Thais and expatriates were skeptical because previously HK Hopewell and Canadian Lavalin had proposed such project in Bangkok to the national government but failed hopelessly to complete the project. In the case of Lavalin, only about 1% was completed while Hopewell did a little better upto 5% before both concessionaires abandoned the project due to financial difficulties. However, elected Bangkok governor at the time Gen Chamlong Srimuang did not listen to experts' advices and granted Tanayong concession to carry out the project. Tanayong managed to borrow enough funds from local and overseas banks to build the civil structure running above the main roads, thus did not have to pay any land expropriation fee. When the civil structure was completed, Tanayong bought train and signal system from German Siemens as well as contracting Siemens to help run the system for 10 years. The first year official opening was about 23 years ago in 1999. Even then, some Thai and expatriates still voiced doubts whether the skytrain could earn enough revenue to cover the running costs as well as earning enough profits to pay off principals and interests as the first year's ridership was not great barely covering the operating costs. However, within 5 years the skytrain (Bangkok Transit System or BTS) turned profitable and after 23 years, the BTS is earning huge profit and has long paid off all debts. When the national government saw BTS success, it planned its own MRT (Metro Rapid Transit) systems, covering more lines (about 10 now). However, since some lines are run underground and some above ground, no private companies dared to do the same as Tanayong (now renamed BTS Group) as the civil construction is very expensive. So the national government established MRT state enterprise to design the lines and tender civil constructions using government budget. Once civil construction is completed, MRT tenders bids for private operators to secure the train system as well as running them under concessions. Bangkok is now covered by BTS/MRT/SRT (State Railway of Thailand which runs the Red Line and Airport Link) systems more than 200 kilometers altogether.

LOVE THIS

Thank you! I love you both for the tips! I’ve been binge watching your videos ❤

welcome to thailand kub :)

Welcome back to Bangkok krab 🤗😊🤙🥹❤️⛩️🎊🎉