Bangkok tops Paris, London as world's most-visited city - MasterCard

[legend49]

So if we believe this BS then there is no reason for tourism minister to fly to Italy to assess bar hours?

[Nyezhov]

8 hours ago, happy chappie said:

I sort of get templed out after one or two visits.in fact apart from looking pretty and being quite peaceful there's not much about them.in fact I would rather visit a good old cathedral where you can appreciate the architecture and history.if you stuck one beside the other it would make the temple look like a fun fair.

anyway I was born in London and I can say it's a poo potty the same as Bangkok.

Im wierd or its the artistic side of me, but I never get templed out. I mean, there are great temples and there are modest temples, but theres no such thing as a bad temple, to paraphrase an old adage.

 

I like cathedrals too, but to say they are better because of "architecture" and "history" is sort of westerncentric (or just your artistic bent I could say too I reckon) in that in cathedrals are as architecturally constrained as Wats, and have a rich history. And nothing beats solid gold buddhas LOL. 

 

And its more than temples. Take a walk through Chinatown and look at the buildings. Same all over the old city. Go to the floating markets ( there are two here in BKk that the tourists really dont go to and they are great to visit and easily accesible). Stalk lizards and Little Egrets in Lumpini Park. Wander the jewelery building in Silom. Feed turtles at the Khao Moo at Wat Prayun. Go to Wat Arun and instead of taking selfies, really look at the tile work close up. There is a great little coffee shop 100 meters from the street entrance. Take the boat to Nothanburi and walk the market, or head up to Koh Kret and walk around the Island (6km, nice walk, lots of flowers, cool Wats.) Chatuchak Market. Wang Lang Market. Phra Khanong Market. Klong Toei Market. Feed the fish at Wat Yannawa. Chill out in Wat Paknam (awesome). Talat Phlu. The Lung. Football at PAT. Wat Saket...stand up there for a while on a clear day, just walk from the river, pass through the flower market on the way. Ride the San Saeb out to Bangkapi, have lunch and ride back.

 

I could go on with more but my Stilton is at the right temperature so its time for brekkie. Please dont say you are Arsenal. And my personal slap to all you pommies: no one with a grain of sense eats baked beans for breakfast. 

[Meddle]

Two things - good for the Thai's but as long as they know it's mainly due to sex tourism ..one could assume (so don't flatter yourselves quite yet land of smiles), and hell yeah we're finally chipping away at those arrogant French c----

 

[wgdanson]

7 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

So since you on the dark site what do you think

about meeting point (the restaurant)

I thought this thread was about bangkok, not Pattaya.

[Orton Rd]

9 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Sex tourist dumps? Thats so immature and 20th century.

 

Ya got 400 Wats in BKK alone, get a grip. Hell I could keep a tourist busy for two weeks.

 

400 wats nobody comes here to see those not even the Chinese, apart from wat po that I mentioned 90% look the same and are about as interesting as looking at bus stops. I would have mentioned the world class museums and art galleries, if there were any. Pretending Bangkok is a world class tourist magnet is so 1980's it's as much a fantasy as making brothel town Pattaya a family resort.

[Nyezhov]

1 minute ago, Orton Rd said:

400 wats nobody comes here to see those not even the Chinese, apart from wat po that I mentioned 90% look the same and are about as interesting as looking at bus stops. 

Clearly a post totally bereft of artistic sophistication.

 

 

[Kinnock]

11 hours ago, DLock said:

I spent the weekend in Singapore, and what an amazing city of world class attractions, sights, restaurants, street food, street life and nightlife. It's clean, orderly safe and easy to drive around. You could easily spend a week there and never get bored.

 

Why would people visit Bangkok? It's a serious question, as I can't think of really anything world class to visit or do. And its sure not clean, safe, orderly or easy to get around. Is it still considered exotic? 

It's a world-class building site.

 

Construction sites on every street, great for Builder Bob fans.

[drgoon]

9 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Sex tourist dumps? Thats so immature and 20th century.

 

Ya got 400 Wats in BKK alone, get a grip. Hell I could keep a tourist busy for two weeks.

 

I be like...   hell no, what, not another Wat

[Benmart]

There are lies, damn lies and statistics. - Mark Twain (Adapter by TAT).

[Howiehotspur]

Because it’s stop over Hub , 1-3 days . That’s the only reason 

 

[Crusader]

Was chatting to a group of tourists in a pub a couple of weeks ago.  One of them asked, "So, are you on holiday?".  When I told them that I lived here, it was, "Wow! That must be awesome - living here."  A fair comment. So I asked them where they were from, and they said, "Kent".  To which I replied, "Wow! Kent - that must be awesome." Four confused faces staring at me.  Bangkok, love it or hate it - it's home... 

[Crusader]

Sorry, for the non-Brits...Kent is in England.

[overherebc]

10 hours ago, Yinn said:

A lot of media about the TM30.

 

This very popular, everyone want to do one now.

TM30-bay. get one online.

Stick it in your passport and impress your stay at home friends.

[DLock]

10 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

For me, I like the anarchistic Buddhist culture as opposed to as mercantilist chinese/asian version of a western city with "attractions". Wax Museums I can do without. Plus its a helluva lot cheaper to live here.

 

 

No doubt it's cheaper to live in BKK...

 

But this is not a comparison of cheap places to live - its about what tourists (in comparison to Singapore) would do in BKK? BKK tourist attractions are scrappy, dirty and more imitation remnants of a past glory that world class...

 

Wax museum? Sorry, that did not make my itinerary...too many other really cool things to do.

[DLock]

10 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Three days? LOL OK.

 

Ill tell ya what, for every "attraction" worthy of tourism ya find in Singapore, I'll give ya one back in greater BKK and Ill still be posting them a year from now while you are stuck in Raffles.

 

That kind of what the point of my question was.

 

Just in terms of the few places I went for comparison - the Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Park, Singapore Aquarium, Casino, Sentosa Beach, Chinatown, Jumbo Seafood, Orchard Road...and then there was the hotel and the airport.

 

Didn't get to Raffles.

 

My question was serious. As a tourist, why would I come to BKK?

[RoadWarrior371]

11 hours ago, DLock said:

I spent the weekend in Singapore, and what an amazing city of world class attractions, sights, restaurants, street food, street life and nightlife. It's clean, orderly safe and easy to drive around. You could easily spend a week there and never get bored.

 

Why would people visit Bangkok? It's a serious question, as I can't think of really anything world class to visit or do. And its sure not clean, safe, orderly or easy to get around. Is it still considered exotic? 

Singapore?  Get real.  What an overpriced, sanitized den of expat posers.  Most prefer the 'real' Asia.

 

 

[drgoon]

Anyone been to Paris recently??

 

Me and Mrs DrGoon left KK 6 months ago to visit friends (Thai/English couple) who were getting married in

the UK.

 

Mrs wanted to visit Paris. We did a few tourist spots she wanted to see and then did a real scout around of suburbia...   well I can tell you, the influx of migrants has turned the place into a sh1thole. What a <deleted> dump.

 

 

[Orton Rd]

45 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Clearly a post totally bereft of artistic sophistication.

 

 

It's Bangkok we are talking about, there is no artistic sophistication here.

[thaibeachlovers]

12 hours ago, DLock said:

I spent the weekend in Singapore, and what an amazing city of world class attractions, sights, restaurants, street food, street life and nightlife. It's clean, orderly safe and easy to drive around. You could easily spend a week there and never get bored.

 

Why would people visit Bangkok? It's a serious question, as I can't think of really anything world class to visit or do. And its sure not clean, safe, orderly or easy to get around. Is it still considered exotic? 

IMO the article is wrong. People go to Bkk on the way to elsewhere in Thailand. Bagpackers arrived in BKK, stayed on Khao San a night and booked the train south for the next morning. They only went to Bkk  because it was the gateway. I can't imagine that London, Paris etc are the only large international airports in those countries, so people would by pass them unless wanting to visit them.

[Totoandlilly]

12 hours ago, DLock said:

I spent the weekend in Singapore, and what an amazing city of world class attractions, sights, restaurants, street food, street life and nightlife. It's clean, orderly safe and easy to drive around. You could easily spend a week there and never get bored.

 

Why would people visit Bangkok? It's a serious question, as I can't think of really anything world class to visit or do. And its sure not clean, safe, orderly or easy to get around. Is it still considered exotic? 

Some of what you write is true about cleanliness and safety, but Singapore is a dead boring place, most people only live there for working and avoid paying taxes.

[thaibeachlovers]

Just now, Orton Rd said:

It's Bangkok we are talking about, there is no artistic sophistication here.

Have to disagree. Plenty of artistic sophistication wrapped around chrome poles in Nana and Cowboy:-)

[trainman34014]

One of the Worlds worst City's.  I won't go anywhere near it unless i have to when changing flights and i avoid that whenever possible !

[thaibeachlovers]

Just now, Totoandlilly said:

Some of what you write is true about cleanliness and safety, but Singapore is a dead boring place, most people only live there for working and avoid paying taxes.

Used to be great in the 70s. The music died when they closed Bugis though.

[Nyezhov]

13 minutes ago, DLock said:

 

That kind of what the point of my question was.

 

Just in terms of the few places I went for comparison - the Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Park, Singapore Aquarium, Casino, Sentosa Beach, Chinatown, Jumbo Seafood, Orchard Road...and then there was the hotel and the airport.

 

Didn't get to Raffles.

 

My question was serious. As a tourist, why would I come to BKK?

Um, because sophisticated travelers dont go to "Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Park, Singapore Aquarium, Casino, Sentosa Beach, Chinatown, Jumbo Seafood, Orchard Road...and then there was the hotel and the airport."

 

Im not flying to Asia for 24 hours to go visit a zoo and an aquarium. Get real. I can go to 35 US states for fabulous zoos. And I wnt out of any airport. And there is a Jumbo Seafood in Icon Siam, Ill go down to Pak Nam BTS and eat it cheaper tyvm.

 

Casino? OK, you win. No casinos in BKK.

 

When I go anywhere, anywhere, I want to see life, not "tourist attractions". I stay here all winter and havent been to the Grand Palace in two years (but I will go as soon as the weather breaks as I want to try a new lens). The back alleys of Bangkok are far more fun.

 

Using your criteria, it seems you are a Disneyland Tourist.

[madmen]

11 hours ago, mok199 said:

In TAT we trust..

_{errrm ? Nothing to do with TAT}

[Nyezhov]

4 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

It's Bangkok we are talking about, there is no artistic sophistication here.

Spoken liken a true Philistine. 

 

But then again, not everyone has an artistic bent or eye. Its OK, a place like Singapore is right for you.

[Thaifriends]

12 hours ago, DLock said:

I spent the weekend in Singapore, and what an amazing city of world class attractions, sights, restaurants, street food, street life and nightlife. It's clean, orderly safe and easy to drive around. You could easily spend a week there and never get bored.

 

Why would people visit Bangkok? It's a serious question, as I can't think of really anything world class to visit or do. And its sure not clean, safe, orderly or easy to get around. Is it still considered exotic? 

Answer to your question: maybe if you rewind 30 years then you would definately find BKK exotic and Spore boring & expensive. ????

[Orton Rd]

3 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Spoken liken a true Philistine. 

 

But then again, not everyone has an artistic bent or eye. Its OK, a place like Singapore is right for you.

You admit to wanting to see the back alleys of Bangkok more than anything, hardly a place for such a sophisticate such as yourself. The attraction of slums, rats, broken pavements and lack of planing must pass most of us by.

Edited September 5, 2019 by Orton Rd

[Totoandlilly]

Singapore one of the most overrated boring place on planet earth, the place is tiny, yes it’s clean, but it’s not  that difficult to keep a tiny place clean either, when you have poor Indians cleaning your city for few hundred dollars a month.. 

 

not really much to do there, after a week you will be bored, go on google and search, you will realize many people are saying the same about Singapore.

[thaibeachlovers]

5 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Um, because sophisticated travelers dont go to "Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Park, Singapore Aquarium, Casino, Sentosa Beach, Chinatown, Jumbo Seafood, Orchard Road...and then there was the hotel and the airport."

 

Im not flying to Asia for 24 hours to go visit a zoo and an aquarium. Get real. I can go to 35 US states for fabulous zoos. And I wnt out of any airport. And there is a Jumbo Seafood in Icon Siam, Ill go down to Pak Nam BTS and eat it cheaper tyvm.

 

Casino? OK, you win. No casinos in BKK.

 

When I go anywhere, anywhere, I want to see life, not "tourist attractions". I stay here all winter and havent been to the Grand Palace in two years (but I will go as soon as the weather breaks as I want to try a new lens). The back alleys of Bangkok are far more fun.

 

Using your criteria, it seems you are a Disneyland Tourist.

Sophisticated travellers DO go to "Singapore Zoo, Jurong Bird Park, Sentosa Beach, Orchard Rd. The others didn't exist when I lived there so I can't comment on them.

Apparently you never went to visit them.

Anyway what's so special about "sophisticated travelers (sic)? Are they those that spend thousands just so they can sit in a bigger chair for a few hours?

 

BTW Singapore airport is amazing. Pity Bkk didn't imitate it, instead of the abortion they built at Swampy.