Bangkok Thailand - City of Angels
Bangkok, Thailand.
The City of Bangkok is a City of extreme contrasts. From mediaeval-like sweat-houses and streetside karaoke-brothels to ultra-modern shopping malls and skytrains is the norm here.
For travellers and tourists, there are a massive array of worthwile places to go and things to do and see.
Some of the highpoints of Bangkok's charm include;
Shopping malls, Nightlife, Markets, Eating out, river cruises & Temple/Museum tours.
Pratunam clothes Market
Pratunam Market is the best known secret in town for cheap and stylish clothes. Tops and t-shirts, ladies shirts from 50 baht up to 200 baht is the general price. What you pay 90 baht for here (about 3 dollar US), you pay 150 for anywhere else! Pratunam Market is situated on the petchburi road just around the corner from the World Trade Center.
It is a bazar style market with hundreds of alleys criss-crossing each other to create a maze-like effect, leaving the shopper dizzy and disorientated. Wear comfortable shoes as a few hours with the throngs of merchants and shoppers haggling for prices, and delivery boys tussling for space to walk with the multitude of people wandering through the endless alleys of stalls, may make your feet ache (as well as your head).
Buy two or more.
If you want to haggle for a really low price it is recommended to buy 2 or 3 items of clothing from the same dealer. This will induce the seller to reduce the price drastically.This is the normal procedure in Pratunam market; profits are minimal for the merchants, and therefore the sale of many items per day is needed in order to rentabilize the profits.
New York City Tour offers
New York City Tours and Sightseeing
City Sights NY Sightseeing is possibly the number one choice in sightseeing agencies in New York. They have a fleet of buses running their tour circuits, which you can join or leave as and where you wish to by simply taking one of the stops on the route to "hop-on and hop-off".
The company's buses are all double-decker models, a pure luxury is the top floor only seating arrangement. This ensures that everybody has the opportunity to enjoy the best views that New York City has to offer you.
Citysights NY offers to show it's clients all the best tourist and leisure attractions, famous neighbourhoods and other places of curiosity and Historical interest.
Included in some tours are such wonderful and exciting attractions as local harbour cruise, helicopter rides, shopping and Museums, and of course the famous Night tour that stops in Brooklyn to view the world famous "Manhattan Skyline".
Amongst some of the most interesting packages on offer are the Uptown, Downtown, Brooklyn and top of the Rock Observation deck tours (you can find this under points of interest on their homepage.. New York City Sightseeing Has simply too many to list and discuss all of them here, but let's just take, for example the Uptown tour on offer by this company.Some of the stops on the itinerary are;
- Central Park
- Central Park Zoo
- Lincoln Center
- Harlem
- Apollo Theater
- The Guggenheim Museum
- Museum of Modern Art
- Frick Collection
- metropolitan Museum of Art
- Museum of Natural History
- Columbia University
- Grant's Tomb
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine
- Museum of the City of New York
- The Schomburg Center
Seems like a lot of food for thought with all those Museums there.
Up to five variations of helicopter rides are available.Nine different Harbour cruises on offer. Check out the Movie sites of the City, Harlem Gospel, or if you are a fan of the TV Show "Sex and the City", then you are in for a real treat with New York City Sightseeing's Sex and the City Hot Spots tour. For those who wish a little more of a placid experience, there is also the Philadelphia & Amish country bus tour and the Freedom trail Boston tour. On the double decker City bus tours, the "Downtown" tour package has a varied selection of plus options, where you can add a particular sight to see to the tour. For example, you might take the Downtown tour + Liberty statue, or Madame Tussauds or Manhattan helicopter ride (don't forget a government issued ID or you won't be able to take the helicopter ride).
CitySights NY operates every day from 8am to 10pm depending on the tour. Please note that schedules are subject to change. If you buy tickets online you save $5 per ticket
Otherwise tickets are available from
Times Square - Broadway between 47th Street and 46th Street 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets.
Empire State Building - 34th Street and 5th Avenue 7th Avenue between 52nd Street and 53rd Street Northwest corner of 49th Street and Lexington Avenue
If you want to reserve tickets and have them mailed to you, you can contact CitySights' reservation department on 1-877-486-8769 or you can apply by email to info@citysightsny.com
