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1. Pratunam Market
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| Pratunam Market |
Pratunam Market in Bangkok consists of retail stores and outdoor stalls selling products for tourist use. In central Bangkok, this market is famous for providing top quality textiles, fashionable dresses, embroidered costumes (think feathers, beads and sequins) at the cheapest prices. Tourists can also purchase handcrafted goods, watches and many other items. The Pratunam Market Bangkok covers the complete area behind Indra Regent hotels and Amari Watergate. Pratunam market is open 24 hours round the clock. However, some retail outlets shut down at 9 PM. The nearest airport to Pratunam Market Center is Don Mueang International airport, Bangkok, located at only 19 KMs distance.
While visiting Pratunam Market in Bangkok, along with shopping, visitors can explore the local life style. When you step into streets near the Pratanum market, you will find local people working on their sewing machines, carting trolleys passing through narrow lanes and laborers doing their work. Pratunam Market Bangkok is known as a wholesale market. Vendors having huge stock of products are focused on number of sales and offer products at low prices. If you are ready to buy 3 or more than 3 products, you can take away the products to your home at wholesale price. As items are already available at cheap prices, you do not need to bargain too much. However, buyers must keep some important things in mind.
• Items once purchases are not returned back
• No replacement
• No trying on
How to get There :
Pratunam Market in Bangkok is located at the intersection of Phetburi and Ratchaprarop roads in the district Ratchathewi. One of the best way to access is by boat in the canal at the Pratunam Pier. Once off the Pratunam Pier, go up the stairs, ( the restaurant in front has great ba mee nam moo gob ( soup ):) Then take an immediate right and then left to go onto Petchaburi road towards the markets!!
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2. Chatucak Market
Once only popular among wholesalers and traders, Chatuchak Weekend Market has reached a landmark status as a must-visit place for tourists. Its sheer size and diverse collections of merchandise will bring any seasoned shoppers to their knees – this is where you can literally shop ‘till you drop’.
The 35-acre (68-rai) area of Chatuchak is home to more than 8,000 market stalls. On a typical weekend, more than 200,000 visitors come here to sift through the goods on offer. Veteran shoppers would agree that just about everything is on sale here, although not all at the best bargain rates. But if you have one weekend in Bangkok, squeeze in a day trip to Chatuchak Weekend Market and you will not be disappointed.
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Navigating Chatuchak Weekend Market
For first-timers, ‘conquering’ Chatuchak may seem like an impossible task, but worry not. There is a system to help you navigate your way through Chatuchak. Inside, one main walkway encircles the entire market, and it branches off into a series of numbered alleyways called Soi 1, Soi 2, Soi 3, and so on.
These alleyways are grouped into sections, with 27 sections in all. You will find more than one category of goods contained in one section, and the same category of goods will appear again in the other sections. In terms of locating your category of goods, this system is rather useless; but it will come in handy when you try to locate your particular stall or where your exact location is on the Chatuchak map.
Another way to find your way around Chatuchak is to find points of reference as you go along. The BTS and MRT stations as well as banks and numbered entrance gates are good points of references, as you will come across them as you turn corners. Then again, use the map to locate these references to find your correct orientation.
more info : bangkok.com
Night Market Bangkok, a reincarnation of the one in Sanam Luang, is dedicated to food and second-hand goods. If anything, the price of goods is very cheap, and if you look around carefully enough, you will find some worthwhile items to add to your room, closet, or private souvenir collection.
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