Pros: Amazing temples, Friendly people, Great Food, Great Shopping, Inexpensive
Cons: Cons: Traffic Jams, Hot and humid
Bangkok, definitively a “return-to city” with so many exciting things to do, beautiful sights to behold and awesome food to enjoy! One can make Bangkok as cheap or as expensive as one likes in the eating and lodging department! About 95% of ...
Pros: people, river, temples Cons: humidity, smog, heat, congestion
Review Topic: Sights & Attractions
My first choice for favorite city was Angkor Thom, the ancient Khmer capital in what is now western Cambodia. In that no one except for a few guards lives there, it does not have the...
Pros: Incredible food, exotic sites, world class hotels Cons: crowded, smog filled, moderately high crime
When I was living in Thailand and working on the Southern islands teaching scuba I viewed Bangkok much the way other folks in the dive industry viewed it, a crowded, polluted place one had to occasionally visit in order to catch a plane. Living in the ...
Pros: The temples, food, shopping, friendly people, fun, and much more. Cons: One week isn't enough.
Bangkok During the State of Emergency: The Coolest Hot City in Asia. By James Zaworski I just returned from one week in Bangkok with my girlfriend, and it was a fantastic trip. Just prior to going, on April 21, 2009, I had been weighing ...
Generally spoken, I prefer not to write reports on such "extended" themes as touristic regions... but for Bangkok, it's something special for me, so I'll try my best....
Pros: Prawns the size of cats, vibrancy, nice people. Cons: You'll get hassled
What can anybody say about Bangkok other than it is an assault on your senses. The place teems with life 24/7 and is exactly the reason why I love cities. We flew into Bangkok on Garuda airways (see review) and were met by our tour guide at the airport. ...
Pros: Cheap, many flights, great food, many cultural sites, friendly people. Cons: Traffic, cab-driver rip-offs, pollution, tourist traps.
Get Thai'd! You're talking to a tourist, whose every move's among the purest. I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine. - Murray Head, “One Night in Bangkok” Opening I had never been a big fan of Bangkok and I ...
Pros: many ways to travel around, great way to exprience the city Cons: can be uncomfortable at times
In my Bangkok review, "Chapter 1: Land of Smiles" I explained the thrill and exhiliration of hanging on for dear life on the back of one of the maniacal motorbikes that scar the streets with tire tracks and occassionally the blood and bones of...
Pros: Easy to get around via bus and train.
English is readily spoken. Cons: Long flight from Los Angeles approximately 24 hours if making connections.
Why Bangkok? I have travelled to Bangkok over other Asian cities for a number of reasons. Bangkok is a city that caters toward tourism. There is a tourist police that was developed specifically for assisting tourists. Compared to other ...
Pros: Wonderful sights, cheap food and hotels, kind, generous people Cons: Traffic is overwhelming - getting anywhere takes a long time.
In July-August 2003, my wife and I took a 3 week trip to Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. We are independent travellers and stayed at budget hotels (and ate at budget restaurants!) throughout our trip, which started in Bangkok. There are lots ...
Pros: Cheap, friendly people, great food, nice beaches Cons: Lots of rain in the wet season, tuk-tuk drivers in Bangkok
This page contains a travelogue taken on our trip to Thailand (Bangkok, Krabi and Hua Hin). If you have any questions or comments please get in touch on gardkarlsen@hotmail.com.
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Pros: Wonderful people, culturally immensely rich, terrific shopping experience. It is also inexpensive. Cons: Dirty, crowded, poor reputation due to sex tourism.
Airport: Nice & Clean. My wife needed a visa and it took her 10 mins to get it (I paid one guy to quicken the process) and then 1h10 mins to wait in the special immigration line. Bangkok: Crowded, dirty, nothing architecturally original if religious ...
Pros: Beautiful Tourist spots, kind folks Cons: Dirty city, SMOG, folks will rip off tourists if you let them!
For my Birthday, my wife took me to Bangkok for a week long vacation. The trip was wonderful from the standpoint I needed to get away and because the destination was wonderful. Thailand is quite different from the USA the people there are friendly and...
Pros: Exotic; cheap; Really good food Cons: Sticky, dirty, smelly, frustrating, overrated; newly xenophobic - no longer the "Land of Smiles"
Why people go
Bangkok certainly has its boosters. It has legions of fans in the sex-tourism crowd, which is a sizable proportion of the city's tourism market. It has throngs of post-college Gen X-types who congregate on one short,...
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