Well, it has to be the hour long trip up the Chao Phraya river in the orange flag ferry. An hour’s boat ride for 15 baht – doesn’t get much better, especially when the trip takes you past some of Bangkok’s most iconic sights, such as the Royal Palace and …
Hardly a stone’s throw from the Jim Thompson House in Bangkok is a pretty looking café, all awash in pink and fairy lights. Like so: We called in for a mid-morning drink after visiting the Jim Thompson House, and Cafe at Ease turned out to be a cute, funky little …
It’s been a little over 6 years since I last visited the Jim Thompson House & museum in Bangkok, and revisiting it was every bit as interesting as I remembered. It was pretty crowded (as is Bangkok, all the time it seems), but the crowd management and visitor flow is …
We were a group of 6 holidaying in Bangkok, so the “Breeze & pleased” family offer from the Bangkok Boat Company was perfect: a fixed price for 6 people, for a 2 hour trip through the less-touristy canals of Bangkok, with 2 visits included. We got excellent directions from the …
On a recent rainy Friday in Bangkok, I stopped by The Jam Factory to explore, to potter and to have lunch. As one does. The whole area is super – a former factory beautifully & thoughtfully renovated and turned into a mixed-use area. The architect responsible for the project has …
Pre-review disclosure: we knew of the owners of this delightful hotel, via some official, work stuff in Bangkok. Knew of them, as opposed to know them. We’d never met, never even spoken on the phone. All we knew is that they ran a hotel in Chiang Mai. So when we …
There are food courts in malls the world over. And then there’s Eathai in Bangkok’s Central Embassy Mall. Eathai is in a class of its own, and deservedly so. Amazing food, amazing variety of cuisines, and all served with elegance and – important in a food court where there are …
In Bangkok last week, our family had the usual issues of finding a mutually acceptable restaurant for our complicated dietary set-up. Namely: 1 carnivore who is highly allergic to any seafood. Even a hint provokes rapid & very bad reactions + 1 carnivore who will eat some shellfish but is …
