Selling Travel July/August 19

48 hours in 31
gleaming mall. Head to Siam Paragon
(siamparagon.co.th), for example, to buy
fashion, high-end gadgets, homeware and
even sports cars in modern luxury; or
CentralWorld (centralworld.co.th) boasts
100 restaurants, a 15-screen cinema and
an ice-skating rink; while MBK (mbk-center.
co.th) is famous for affordable and fake; or
EmQuartier offers labels galore.
Evening: Head to Cultural Centre
MRT station and from here walk
to the Rot Fai Market. It's split
into long avenues with antiques, secondhand
toys and curios in the central strips;
clothes, handbags and snack stalls around
the periphery. For dinner, hunt out Leng
Zapp where Leng, a traditional clear soup
made from pork bones and dressed with
chillies, herbs and spices, is a speciality.
End how you started at a rooftop bar –
Vertigo (on the 66th floor of the Banyan
Tree Bangkok), Octave Rooftop bar (on
the 45th floor of Bangkok Marriott Hotel
Sukhumvit) or Three Sixty (on the 32nd
floor of the Millennium Hilton Bangkok).
ADMIRE THE MIGHTY CHAO PHRAYA RIVER
SHOP THE MANY MALLS
“Use the cool of the morning
to be outside. Lumpini Park
offers plenty of shade as
well as pretty flora and
fauna in a whopping
500,000 metres of space”
BOOK IT... WITH PREMIER HOLIDAYS
Combine two nights in the Rembrandt Hotel,
Bangkok (superior room) with eight nights
in Hua Hin from £999pp, including a Bangkok
by Night tour and Bangkok City and Temple
tour, plus flights from London with Eva Air and
transfers, departing October.
trade.premierholidays.co.uk