Shops in Bangkok often stay open seven days a week

Many airlines that provide flight connections to Bangkok themselves offer cheap flight promotions periodically which take the form of discount bargain flights to Bangkok class airfares  and are perhaps ideal for such a long haul trek. These offers are promoted by the airlines via their dedicated newsletters or through popular social media sites like Face book and Twitter though they are also available from airfares consolidators who often have a ready stock of cheap business class airfares to myriad destinations due to their exclusive consolidator contracts with various airlines. These discount business class fares sourced from consolidators cost nearly 70% less that regular business class airfares but they are loaded with all the perks of normal business class including mileage accrual and advance seat selection and they can really enhance the quality of your journey.

Once you have arrived in Bangkok and are ready to start filling your bags, do make sure that you visit its most famous shopping haunts like:-

The Wholesale Markets of Bangkok – The Pratunam Market

The Pratunam Market which is accessed from Bangkok’s Ratchaprarop Road is actually made up of individual markets like the main Pratunam market, the Bai Yoke Garment Complex, the City Complex and the Indira Square market. These whole sale markets are filled with vendors who sell a wide variety of garments (various knock offs of major brands), leather goods, jewelry, local crafts, silver items and much more. Prices at these wholesale markets are reasonable and bargaining is an accepted practice.

The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market

The Damnoen Saduak Floating Market is an indigenous Bangkok market that features mainly vendors of local foods.  The market harks back to ancient times when these vendors who trade from their boats used to cater to the needs of the inhabitants of Bangkok’s many river villages.

The Patpong Night Market

This market is located within the environs of Bangkok’s notorious red light district and features vendors who sell knock off designer wares and other counterfeit products, leather goods, silk items and local handicrafts, foot wear and more.

Mah Boon Krong

Bangkok has a plethora of glitzy malls like the Siam Discovery, the Siam Center and the Siam Paragon but one of its oldest and most popular malls is MBK or Mah Boon Krong which is populated by thousands of little boutiques and stalls that sell a wide range of goods like jeans (MBK is specially known for its custom made jeans), plus size clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, jewelry, trendy apparel and copies of famous-name brands, mobile phones and accessories.

Chatuchak

The Chatuchak weekend market is one of the most well known open air street markets in the world. The market extends over 27 acres and is divided into 27 sections that host 15000 vendors that sell products sourced from all over Thailand. Vendors at Chatuchak market sell a wide variety of antique wood carvings, clay handicrafts, , Buddhist amulets, wooden funiture, hand crafted decorated flowers, plant, ceramic wares, decorated plants,  semi precious stones, trendy fashions, Thai silk, hill-tribe outfits and jewelry. Bargaining is an accepted practice in the market but you must be vigilant while visiting the market for pickpockets abounds at this crowded and busy market.