I was so excited to visit my husband in Thailand. Aside from
having precious time with him, I was also excited to shop cheap clothes. My husband was not yet familiar on how or what to ride going to the popular markets in Bangkok. The morning before I arrived, he and Thoto have a quick tour on how and where to ride a train going to those markets. It was almost 9pm when I arrived and my husband together with his Filipino childhood friend
named Thoto was there waiting for me at the Airport. I was asking him "Why he didn't kiss me when he saw me? he replied, " people here are bit conservative.." then I said " ah..ok.. I understand ".
Thoto had a little knowledge of the
Thai language-was talking with the driver to drop us at Victory Hotel in Phaya Thai were my husband booked online.
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| Pantip Plaza |
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| Outside Pantip Plaza |
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| Outside Pantip Plaza -Just walk straight to this is the Pratunam Market - |
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| Pratunam Market |
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| Pratunam Market- across the Platinum Fashion Mall is the wholesale store |
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| Pratunam Market |
My first morning with the free fine dining breakfast at the
hotel was great. Me and my husband was very excited to explore. Indeed it was
fun, because the Victory hotel in Phaya Thai was just walking distance to the Train or BTS. The
first market that we visited was Chatuchak
market. This market will only be open during weekdays. It was one of the
biggest market where we could reach easily from the hotel. We rode in BTS and stopped at Muchet. Across the
overpass was the Chatuchak weekend market. The market was very wide, you could buy many products like women's ,
men or babies clothing, toys souvenirs, bags, shoes and many others. We were not
able to roam around the whole market the whole day because it was really huge. Just
very near to the market there was a park where we could have some picnic while
taking a break from buying. We went back to the hotel and find some restaurant
for a dinner, just very near to the hotel there were night markets and roadside
restaurants where we had our dinner. We slept tired and was gaining more energy
for the second day. The second day was tiresome but challenging from the BTS we
stop to Siam presuming that it was near to Pratunam market, from Siam we have walked
very far going to Pratunam. To our advantage my husband has a minute knowledge of
asking in Thai language "if we were on the correct way going to Pratunam". When we reached at the intersection going to Pratunam
my husband was laughing he said “looked a BTS station, “oh my God, should we
have known that there was BTS here, we could not have walked as far as we have
been walking" and he added "we should have just ridden the BTS from Phaya Thai and stopped here at
Ratchatewe then we could walked at the
intersection straight to that is the Pratunam market,it should have been very near !". Then we just laughed at least we already knew how to go to Pratunam with just few walks and we continued walking.We were a few meters away
from Pratunam when we stopped at the Cheap Electronic Market they called ” Pantip Plaza” and bought
our 16Megabytes Sonny camera for about 5000bhat at a discounted price with
tax refund at the airport. Finally I started taking pictures until we found the
Pratunam Market , we first dropped at Platinum Fashion Mall, oh! no..I was overwhelmed with the women's clothing. The quality was good at a lower price. The price will
be lowered if you buy two pieces or more .Across to it was the Wholesale
Store, we bought cheap garments from here. Get ready you will be overwhelmed with
low price and good quality ladies wear. On the third day we went to Sampaeng we have rode BTS in
Phaya Thai stopped at Siam then interchanged rode with BTS going to Sampantaksen. This day we have ridden a bus
number 1 and asked the driver to drop us at Sampaeng when we arrived the oh,
no..The market was also huge where we could buy jewelries, stuff toys and
others. No wonder why I was lost here, hahaha.. It’s fun to shop in Thailand if
you have little budget.
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