Can anyone suggest where I would be able to buy some? I have tried the obvious places - shoe shops etc in Robinson and the Airport Plaza, as well as the cobbler there. I want cotton ones, but I can't find even the undesirable nylon type.

Tesco, Big C, etc.

I just have to ROAST ME.. David Carradine..

As in my home country, you buy shoe laces at the same places you buy shoe polish, not shoes. All the western-style grocery stores have them.

In my home country, you can buy laces at the places that sell shoes.

But there, the places that sell ball point pens also sell refills. So it goes.

In my home country, you can buy laces at the places that sell shoes.

But there, the places that sell ball point pens also sell refills. So it goes.

Yes but this is Chiang Mai

Okey-dokey, I'll check the supermarkets. Other than those, what would be an example of a "western-style grocery store" in Chiangmai?

Okey-dokey, I'll check the supermarkets. Other than those, what would be an example of a "western-style grocery store" in Chiangmai?

Western style grocery store = Rimping or Tops.

Why not just say supermarkets?

Okey-dokey, I'll check the supermarkets. Other than those, what would be an example of a "western-style grocery store" in Chiangmai?

Western style grocery store = Rimping or Tops.

I recommend shoes with velcro. So you don't have to ask your mom to tie a knot and save her Bahts on new shoe laces.

Shoelaces are one of the great mysteries of Thailand. Nobody knows where to buy them. Seriously....

Big C has some cheap ones usually, but anything of quality, simply not sold in Thailand.

Shoelaces are one of the great mysteries of Thailand. Nobody knows where to buy them. Seriously....

Big C has some cheap ones usually, but anything of quality, simply not sold in Thailand.

I shall be checking Rimping and Carrefour, and failing there I'll check in Bangkok on my next trip there.

I certainly am not interested in the cheap (nylon?) ones because the knots come undone in not very long.

OK, triffid.

Believe it or not, there is a small shop on ground floor of Kad Suan Kaew that does nothing but shoe laces.

I'm not making this up.

Go past Tops, bear to the left, go past the food court....and somewhere around A & P sporting goods store, past them on the right, there is a small shop that sells nothing other than shoe laces. I've bought 60" black round boot laces, 48" flat white athletic shoe laces...you get the idea. They have literally thousands of laces in every style and length and colour.

If you can't find it from my directions above, ask in A&P- they will direct you to the shop.

Despite the half-hearted attempts at humor by some posters above, this is a REAL issue in Thailand...

I'm in BKK, not in Chiang Mai... But several times of late, I've gone looking to get tennis shoes replacement laces... I searched high and low, and stopped in to ask at every shoe shop I could find, as well as looking in Tesco and Carrefour, and NOBODY had them... Even the many shops in the malls that sell lace tennis shoes didn't have them. Lace tennis shoes yes... Replacement laces no..

Finally, I found a New Balance shop (in Central World, as I recall) where when I asked, the shop guy went into the back and pulled out a small cardboard box with a few unpackaged sets of laces... one of which I bought from him... But none of the places I found had any in stock or in packages like one might expect...

I don't get it.. I know most Thais wear slip ons or sandal type things... But, there are lots of places that do sell plenty of lace sports shoes... yet none of those same shops seem to sell just the laces... Maybe they figure you'll just throw out the tennis shoes if and when the laces break or get looking too shabby.

Thus, I'd add that item to my informal list of things any ex-pat coming here should bring from abroad: extra shoe laces.

Despite the half-hearted attempts at humor by some posters above, this is a REAL issue in Thailand...

Yeah. It REALLY is.

OK, triffid.

Believe it or not, there is a small shop on ground floor of Kad Suan Kaew that does nothing but shoe laces.

I'm not making this up.

Go past Tops, bear to the left, go past the food court....and somewhere around A & P sporting goods store, past them on the right, there is a small shop that sells nothing other than shoe laces. I've bought 60" black round boot laces, 48" flat white athletic shoe laces...you get the idea. They have literally thousands of laces in every style and length and colour.

If you can't find it from my directions above, ask in A&P- they will direct you to the shop.

Quite a find, mcgriffith, and thanks a lot! I shall be making my way there tomorrow. I'm hoping they'll have cotton ones.

Despite the half-hearted attempts at humor by some posters above, this is a REAL issue in Thailand...

I'm in BKK, not in Chiang Mai... But several times of late, I've gone looking to get tennis shoes replacement laces... I searched high and low, and stopped in to ask at every shoe shop I could find, as well as looking in Tesco and Carrefour, and NOBODY had them... Even the many shops in the malls that sell lace tennis shoes didn't have them. Lace tennis shoes yes... Replacement laces no..

Finally, I found a New Balance shop (in Central World, as I recall) where when I asked, the shop guy went into the back and pulled out a small cardboard box with a few unpackaged sets of laces... one of which I bought from him... But none of the places I found had any in stock or in packages like one might expect...

I don't get it.. I know most Thais wear slip ons or sandal type things... But, there are lots of places that do sell plenty of lace sports shoes... yet none of those same shops seem to sell just the laces... Maybe they figure you'll just throw out the tennis shoes if and when the laces break or get looking too shabby.

Thus, I'd add that item to my informal list of things any ex-pat coming here should bring from abroad: extra shoe laces.

There are plenty of lace-up formal shoes sold too. Yes it is curious that the shops selling them don't sell laces too; nor have a clue where to find them.

However, as you will see above, a fellow Chiangmai resident has apparently found a specialized shop where I'll be heading. I did find a shop in Bangkok, which I think made shoes to order, on Sukhumvit near Asok towards Nana on the even numbered soi side, which sold leather laces at 100 baht.

I don't get it...there are lots of places that do sell plenty of lace sports shoes... yet none of those same shops seem to sell just the laces... Maybe they figure you'll just throw out the tennis shoes if and when the laces break or get looking too shabby.

Thus, I'd add that item to my informal list of things any ex-pat coming here should bring from abroad: extra shoe laces.

Not to sidetrack a thread, but the same goes for rubber washers/gaskets for garden hose pipes. There are lots of hoses, sprinklers, sprayers and such, all sold with one washer supplied. But if you should lose it, or when it wears out, you cannot get a replacement anywhere. Such a simple item that nobody stocks.

I did find a shop in Bangkok, which I think made shoes to order, on Sukhumvit near Asok towards Nana on the even numbered soi side, which sold leather laces at 100 baht.

Yes, there's a good shoe shop exactly where you describe above... I was in there the other day, and they do make dress type shoes to order, and I found they will even re-color leather shoes...as I was talking to them about that job...

Unfortunately, I needed tennis shoe laces, white color, so their leathers wouldn't help a lot. I didn't ask them if they stocked any tennis shoe laces...but they only sell leather and dress type shoes there... no sports shoes.. So I'd be doubtful they have them.