Besides local talent, 808's glowing industrial interior imports world famous DJs, from Grandmaster Flash to Goldie to Steve Aoki. Often home to hipster club...
29/53-64
Now in its third location, this colourful (and we mean bright) hotel dares to think differently. Guru of Thai kitsch, Anusorn 'Nong' Ngernyuang applies the...
24 Sailom Soi 1
Museums of modern Thai art are rare, but this private collection houses 120 major works, which are displayed on lawns, ledges, warehouse gantries and the...
4/18-19 Nuanchan Soi 56
Follow muffled music to an inconspicuous, white, wooden-walled forecourt with a Thai sign. It hides table after table of merry hipster students and...
518 Thanon KamphaengphetTours or hired longtail boats go to Koh Kred. Others ply the picturesque canals, viewing daily waterborne lifestyles around wooden stilt houses on a...
From Nonthaburi Expressboat pier
This respite from market mayhem is branded a 'Learning Park', with sculptures and playgrounds. The small Rail Hall of Fame houses old locomotives and...
Thanon Phahon Yothin
This kaleidoscopic labyrinth of 8,000-plus stalls is well signed into numbered, colour-coded sections divided by soi and stall number, but is better...
Thanon Phahon Yothin
Fake attracts a more mature, moneyed set of well-coiffed young men than its rivals on either side, El Nin-Yo or Obama (formerly Mogue, then Celebrity)....
359-360 Thanon Kamphaengphet
An Oscar-themed disco show hall held together by neon. Street-dressed youth raves to live luuk grung T-pop among tiny tables piled with whisky mixer sets...
72/1 Thanon Ratchadaphisek Sois 8
Comfy and modern, Bangkok's main art-house cinema offers niche and festival films, some with gay themes.
UMG Cinema, 3rd floorMost major rock/pop concerts - Thai and inter - hire the 12,000-seat IMPACT Arena in Asia' vast complex. Book via Thai Ticket Major...
Muang Thong Thani, 99 Popular Road
There's a diverse roster of morlam/luuk thung (daily), from dancing girl revues to formation crooners in Day-Glo tuxedoes, at this comfortable venue. It has...
484 Thanon Pattanakarn
Folk star Mike Piromporn owns this luuk thung and pleng puer cheewit ('songs for life'), named 'Kitchen of Medicine for the Heart' after his album.
15/8 Lad Phrao Soi 71
This rustic car-free island dotted with temples and wooden cottages makes for a languid half-day trip, though it gets busy on weekends. Legend says its...
Tour from Nonthaburi Expressboat pier
The cult of Kuan Im (aka Kuan Yin, the Chinese bodhisattva of mercy) prompted this massive, gaudy sculpture garden, embellished with wagon wheels, barrels...
Chokchai Soi 39