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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Char Rooftop Bar Bangkok [toc] Char Rooftop Bar is a small little spot perched on the 27th floor of the Indigo Hotel in Bangkok, above the tree-lined wireless road in Ploenchit and the massive garden of the American ambassador's residence. The surrounding is unique, with many trees and green areas at the front and the modern and ever-growing city skyline beyond it. Char rooftop is small, but Indigo hotel did
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Bar.Yard Rooftop Bangkok [toc] Bar.Yard Rooftop Bar is the latest sky-high lounge to explore and enjoy in Bangkok. This cosy venue is perched on the 40th floor of the Kimpton Maa-Lai Hotel, a new 5-star hotel standing next to the even more luxurious Kempinski hotel in the posh Ploenchit area. The floor is divided into an indoor area and a beautiful outdoor terrace where guests can sit for a drink
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Bangkok's most trendy neighbourhood [toc] Ploenchit is an ever-growing and fast-changing neighbourhood in Bangkok that stretches from Sukhumvit to the Siam areas. Ploenchit was a rather anonymous part of Bangkok for a long time, best known for the many embassies lined up along Wireless Road (US, Netherlands and Japan), a few skyscrapers (CRC Tower) but also famous for the immense Lumpini Park. Shopping in Ploenchit Beyond the immense embassies, Ploenchit
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A trendy community village in Ploenchit [toc] Velaa Sindhorn Village is a trendy and luxurious community village on Langsuan Road in Bangkok. Velaa is part of the set of luxury hotels and condominiums recently built in this part of Bangkok, just next to the well-known Lumpini Park. Ploenchit is becoming increasingly posh, and what was rather the rundown part of this neighbourhood has become the most exclusive part of it.
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Osha Bangkok [toc] Osha Bangkok is one of the fanciest and most upmarket Thai restaurants in Bangkok. Originally from San Francisco, where they run five restaurants, Osha serves Thai food with a slight twist, created by talented Thai chefs. Standing high and proud at the corner of Wireless and Ruamrudee roads opposite Lumpini park, the building is massive and even intimidating. We first tried it soon after the opening, and
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A Michelin Star Restaurant in Ploenchit [toc] Saneh Jaan is an upmarket Thai restaurant in Ploenchit with one Michelin Star, located on Wireless Road, just between the American Embassy and Lumpini Park. The restaurant is spacious, with large wooden doors, high ceilings, and hundreds of framed photos of old Bangkok hanging on the walls. This very posh interior design is a little intimidating, and the first things that first come
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Speakeasy Rooftop Bar at Hotel Muse [toc] Speakeasy Rooftop Bar at Hotel Muse Bangkok on Langsuan street is not your usual rooftop bar: like the entire hotel, Speakeasy displays a convoluted Art-Deco design to create a fancy atmosphere. And it's a partial success. The lobby of the bar is nicely crafted but rather dark, like the rest of the hotel. The staff is politely welcoming but rather strict on the
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An oasis of peace in busy Bangkok [toc] Ma Maison Bangkok is a unique Thai restaurant found in the Ploenchit area, one of the most desirable settings in town. A glasshouse sitting in the shade of immense old trees in a vast green garden, hidden in the heart of Bangkok, somewhere you would never expect to find a garden of this size. The restaurant shares the garden with the Nai
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