Product Description
Want more bang for your baht? This city won’t disappoint. Forget the tourist-brochure Bangkok of sedate floating markets and sterile shopping malls – you’re in for a wild ride. Bangkok is bursting at the seams with cosmopolitan cool and cultural prosperity: think uber-hip bars, scrumptious Thai cuisine, international fashion houses and stunning wats. This insider’s guide is your ticket to the best that Bangkok has to offer.

Let The Experts Do The Word, with tips on the best shopping deals, hotels and guesthouses and city tours.

Be Tempted by the world’s tastiest food; we show you Bangkok’s finest eating, from streetside stalls to top-class restaurants.

Beat Your Own Path using our detailed maps and walking tours.

Get Out Of Town and explore nearby beaches, a Unesco World Heritage site and glorious national parks.

Speak Up using our handy language guide, packed with useful phrases.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 11 reviews)

Helped a lot during my trip to Bangkok

I took this book everywhere I went. It gives you a great perspective on the things you will find, things to look out for, and a great guide on how to get to the places you want to go.

I went on business to Bangkok, and during the 3 days that I had to go around, this book helped me find those things that mattered most.

I think it is a great read for anyone who is planning to go to amazing Bangkok and it is a must when travelling around in the city. Lonely Planet books are seriously great!
September 17, 2007

Still perhaps the best basic guidebook....

As a frequent visitor to Thailand I recently used this latest guide for Bangkok from Joe Cummings (plus his assistants) and found it to be more than adequate. If anything, I would personally like more hotel recommendations for each area of this city, those one could call "a find". I found some on my own by walking the area I stayed in and moved to one of them as Joe was too kind in the description of hotel I first stayed in.

Be sure to call about open times for restaurants as two I went to were closed earlier than was given in the guide (no fault of Joe's I'm sure).
January 18, 2007

Good, but second best

I was fortunate enough to spend a month in Bangkok and bought both the Lonely Planet and the Moon Guides. I generally read both books before I went anywhere, so I can fairly compare them.

The Lonely Planet guide was always worth reading -- it often added something I didn't find in the Moon guide. The highly detailed map in the back of the book was also quite worthwhile. However, if I had to have just one book, it would have been the Moon guide by Carl Parkes.

Carl's explanations always seemed a little bit richer, and a little bit more in touch. His introduction to the Thai language left me much better equipped to try my hand, and his culture and language sections also stood out. The overall impression, true or not, is that Carl has a deeper understanding and familiarlity with the Thais and Bangkok than Joe. But to be fair, I was happy with both books, and happier still that I had brought both with me.

Its too bad that the Moon guide is harder to find than Lonely Planet's .... but I definitely recommend it.
March 18, 2005

Where would you buy it?

Amazon.com says this book will be published on March 2005. But try to go to Lonely Planet's online shop, then you can see that it has been published on Sep. 2004. Next, bn.com says it's been publised on March 2004. I don't know which is right. But I'm sure that this book came out already.

I gave 5 stars, however, because I knows LP is a great series at least.
October 13, 2004

A bit disappointing

Compared to LP London and LP Paris I read and have been early this year, I'm a bit disppointed with LP Bangkok. Although it has an amazing section on food/noodles, I'm rather disappointed that the book does not clearly direct and describe to readers how to get to the places/famous spots it suggested!!!! Also the book does not include a map on the Bangkok transit system - making public transit commuting difficult!!!
September 11, 2003

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