Bangkok Travel Guide

BANGKOK FIRST TIME GUIDE
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Your tickets are booked, the excitement is mounting... You're coming to Bangkok!

It's a fascinating, intoxicating and chaotic place, brimming with sights, smells, thrills, gracious people, contradictions, cultures, cars, noise and bedlam. As with any teeming metropolis, however, it's also got its fair share of potential disappointments and frustrations. Get ready for the good news though...

To steer clear of the negative experiences during your first time here, dust off that sage old adage: Knowledge is power! We've accumulated a lot of facts and useful information about Bangkok - everything the first-time visitor needs to plan a wonderful and memorable trip.

Most Popular Areas of Bangkok

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Have a trawl through our Area Guides, where we tell you all about the city's main areas. This will help you decide where to stay, where to visit and where to avoid. At 1,600 square kilometres and counting, Bangkok is big, and the many different areas can be bewildering – even for those who've spent years here.

The most popular areas for visitors are:

Siam
Silom
Sukhumvit
Old City (Rattanakosin)
Chidlom-Ploenchit
Pratunam
Riverside

all charismatic parts of town that combine sights, nightlife, shopping, great hotels and convenient locations with access to public transport. Budget travellers and backpackers, of course, still swear by Khao San Road.