The Monocle Travel Guide to Bangkok: Monocle Travel Guide Series: 06
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Bangkok is a city that welcomes visitors but is complex in both history and layout. There's a reason that people come back time and time again: this is not a place you can fully comprehend with just one trip. The Thai capital is both socially tolerant and deeply conservative; its businesses are often friendly but difficult to find. It's a city where both an old monarchy and a young creative class find common ground. In helping you navigate Bangkok's streets, Monocle will show you a city where business and design is thriving. Hidden in plain sight are great parks for running, architectural masterpieces designed by Thai firms, and hidden bars playing music you've never heard before. And, of course, Monocle will tell you where to head for the city's famous street food, spa treatments, and hotels for both business and leisure (or a mix of the two). Even if you have been to Bangkok before, you re about to find out why there's so much more to discover. Review: Book - Very interesting to read especially if you into traveling Review: Informative and useful book - Practical and useful content
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| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 29 Reviews |
N**W
Book
Very interesting to read especially if you into traveling
C**N
Informative and useful book
Practical and useful content
K**S
A rather pretentious vanity project
Apart from the rather attractive front cover this 'guide' is effectively useless. As one other reviewer described here it's difficult to see what market the guide is aimed at. Without any maps beside a very basic small one showing different districts and no information or maps regarding transport the guide feels its more a project in creative vanity than being anything remotely useful. The writers 'essays' are again pretty to read but ridiculously self absorbed and the recommended walks though helping the reader to experience a different take on the city are hopelessly without detail. I read it on the flight over and didnt pick it up again once when I was in the city....
P**Z
No defrauda
Guía que no defrauda!
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Schwierig für Anfänger
Wer ein englisches Buch kauft, der muss eben auch Englisch können, darüber müssen wir nicht diskutieren. Sehr wohl können wir aber darüber diskutieren, dass dieses Buch in mancherlei Hinsicht für einen Bangkok-Anfänger nicht geeignet ist. Das liegt zum einen daran, dass diese Stadt sich schneller verändert, als irgendjemand Reiseführer schreiben kann - von daher ist dem Autor zwar kein Vorwurf zu machen, aber es gibt durch das Internet zeitnahere und damit aktueller Informationsmöglichkeiten. Was mir aber extrem aufgefallen ist, dass bei der Schilderung der Spaziergänge einfach Bezugspunkte fehlen. Da fehlt, z.B., auch wenn es der Kartenausschnitt hergäbe, die entsprechende skytrain Station bei Thonnlgor & Ekkamai (S.128), wobei der Leser hier vollkommen hilflos ist, da er, um sich zurecth zu finden, wissen muss, dass der Endpunkt des Spaziergang zwar in der Soi Thong Lo ist, er wird das aber nicht finden, da es sich dabei um die Sukhumvit Soi 55 handelt. Das gleiche gilt bei Ari (S. 130) und auch bei Silom (Seite 132), wobei die bessere Wahl nicht die dort genannte Station Chong Nonsi ist, sondern die Station Surasak, dort beginnt nämlich der Spaziergang.
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C**E
Love it
Great useful information
S**G
Excellent and entertaining guidebook
Terrific guide book that is filled with fun facts and good tips. I was in Bangkok for 2.5 weeks and this proved very informational. We were able to find the more "touristy" places like the Grand Palace and Jim Thompson house (Especially great if you only want a short tour and time to explore) as well as the more unique places like record stores (Prepare yourself, they are not cheap!) and bars.
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