Where to shop in Bangkok? [toc] The amount of shopping malls in Bangkok is staggering! Here we listed the most popular and centrally located, but there are a lot more on the outskirts of Bangkok. Most travellers visiting Bangkok wonder why there are so many of them, but you have to live in Thailand long enough to understand that a mall is not just a shopping place but a full
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A Luxury Mall in Ploenchit [toc] Central Embassy Bangkok is an immense and beautifully designed luxury shopping mall built in the Ploenchit neighbourhood at the intersection of Ploenchit Road and Wireless Road (Witthayu Road). Central Embassy is also home to the 5-star Park Hyatt Bangkok Hotel and the last shopping mall on what is often called the 'Bangkok Shopping Mile'. The main attraction in recent years is the vast amount
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What to Do at Siam Paragon? [toc] Siam Paragon is the mother of all malls in Bangkok, and despite the growing competition, it remains one of the best malls in Bangkok. The shopping mall concentration in the Siam area is so massive that the Rama 1 road stretching from MBK to The Emquartier is nicknamed the shopping mile, with an estimated 4,500 shops and 495,000 square meters of shopping surface.
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A budget mall in the heart of Bangkok [toc] MBK Shopping Center is an iconic budget shopping mall standing in the heart of Bangkok since 1985, best known for its bazaar product and tons of knockoff goods. The location at the top of the 'shopping mile' in the Siam district makes it very convenient to access, and with more than 2,000 shops and stalls, the size is enormous. While its
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The EmQuartier Bangkok [toc] EmQuartier is an enormous and trendy shopping mall in a strategic part of the busy Sukhumvit Road. EmQuartier is a massive extension of the existing Emporium shopping mall built in 1997 and run by the same company responsible for the famous Siam Paragon Bangkok. The management had 15 years to study the market in this part of Sukhumvit and knew there was enough potential demand for
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A shopping mall on the Bangkok riverside [toc] ICONSIAM is Bangkok's latest, largest, and most luxurious shopping mall. How many times did you read this sentence in Bangkok? When you thought there was enough mall and the latest would be the last for at least another decade, a bigger one would open. At least, ICONSIAM is not on the ‘shopping miles’ that stretched from Siam to Sukhumvit but filled a
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Central World Shopping Mall Bangkok [toc] Central World is now the third-largest mall in Bangkok after Siam Paragon and the new Icon Siam. It is truly a shopper’s and dining paradise with a strategic location, probably with a broader price range than the two other shopping malls in Bangkok. Central World aims at the mid and upper range of local and international clientele. With an immense esplanade in front of
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