Bangkok’s Most Popular Shopping Malls
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Shopping has long been part of Thailand's and especially Bangkok's culture. This city has a large number of huge department stores, shopping malls and markets. The vast amount of shopping opportunities can be overwhelming, stressful, but also great fun. To give you a brief overview, we have listed all major department stores and popular shopping malls in this article.
Bangkok's has a high density of shopping malls in areas like Pratunam, Chitlom and Siam. Here, you can see several large shopping complexes adjacent to each other. Nevertheless, all these are well visited, attracting locals as well as tourists.
Usually, these malls are very large, offering an extensive range of products from fashion, accessoiries and electronics to handcraft goods, groceries and home utensils. Most also attract visitors with entertainment such as cinemas, ice skating and video game areas. Also, often there are play areas for children.
Furthermore, it's common that malls organize special promotions with beautiful girls advertising products, themes and other events to attract more customers. With this regard, Thai people have experience are really good at marketing and advertising.
Typically, Bangkok's shopping malls have restaurant areas and a food court, where you can eat quality Thai dishes for relatively cheap prices.
1. Siam Paragon - Siam Square
Thailand’s second largest mall and one of Bangkok’s well established and popular shopping venues. Considered as the country’s pride, to many it symbolizes prosperity and economic growth of Thailand. Covering a total retail area of 400.000 sq.m., Siam Paragon is housing the most renowned designer brands such as Gucci, Armani and Louis Vuitton. Furthermore, this mall harbors a large high class cinema, a huge sea life aquarium, numerous restaurants and a car gallery with brands like Bentley, Ferrari and Porsche.
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2. CentralWorld - Chitlom
Located next to Siam Paragon, CentralWorld is Thailand’s largest shopping complex, ranking 9th in the world. On a total retail area of 500.000 sq.m. shoppers not only have an immense choice of shops and all kinds of goods, such as electronics, fashion, luxury labels and fitness & health products. But also, this tremendous mall harbors an ice skating hall, a gym, a huge high-class cinema, an extensive food hall with numerous restaurants and fast food chains. In addition, there is a bars and pubs section including 2 rooftop bars.
3. IconSiam - Khlong San (Riverside)
ICONSIAM is the newest shopping experience at Bangkok Riverside. The all-in-one complex, located on 50 rai (750,000 square metres) of land on the west bank of Chao Phraya River is a new, gigantic high class shopping and entertainment complex. With its colorful water shows, beautiful river scenery and large number of shops with well known brands IconSiam caught great attention, when it opened its gates end of 2018.
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4. MBK Mall - BTS National Stadium
MBK, which is the abbreviation of Mah Boon Kong, is a very popular shopping center for locals and especially foreigners. With its unique market-style, this mall houses hundreds of smaller local shops and stores, that allow customers shopping at good, usually negotiated prices. Clothing, shoes, jewelry, leather goods, bags and other fashion articles can be found here. The 4th floor is dedicated to software, computers, electronic consumer goods and mobile phones. Also, some shops are specialized in repairing phones. A cinema and a video gaming section is on the 7th floor.
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5. Terminal 21 - Asok Intersection
A stylish market style shopping mall located at the heart of Bangkok, at the Asok intersection where MRT and BTS cross each other. The entrance hall is designed in an airport terminal theme with a giant escalator reaching the 3rd floor. Furthermore, each of the 7 floors is themed on popular destinations of London, Tokyo, Istanbul San Francisco, Rome, Paris and Hollywood. The food court at the 6th floor is cheap and extremely popular. Besides various luxury boutiques, there are also local labels and handcraft shops. There is a SF cinema at the 7th floor.
6. Emporium - Phrom Phong
A luxury shopping mall located in Phrom Phong district. Harboring a VIP cinema, a fancy gym with pool, an exhibition hall and renowned designer boutiques with exclusive brands, this mall is serving Bangkok’s upper class and expats. Besides, fashion and accessoiries, you can also find houseware, furniture and sports gear. Furthermore, a food court with nice panoramic view over Banjasiri Park, a gourmet market and various restaurants can be a pleasant culinary experience on a shopping tour.
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7. Platinum Fashion Mall - Pratunam
A 7-floor shopping center, filled with fashion items for the young and old. It specialized in wholesale fashion, accessories, shoes and jewelry. Most stores sell wholesale and retail and therefore do deals for bulk amounts. Very popular with locals and foreigners from South- and South-East Asia. It’s packed in every weekday. There is a skywalk connection Platinum mall with CentralWorld. The 7th floor has a food hall with delicious food for little price.
8. Future Park - Rangsit/ Phatum Thani
Located between Rangsit and Pathum Thani, the northern part of Bangkok’s metropolitan area. This mall is a huge shopping center and entertainment park. Mainly serves local middle-class families and households, housing branches of Robinson, Index Living Mall, Home Pro, Big C, Office Depot, Tops and Fitness First. On a total retail area of 280.000 sq.m., this place hosts more than 200.000 people per week. As for entertainment, there is a cinema, bowling center and an indoor alpine ski center.
9. Emquartier - Phrom Phong
A futuristic upscale shopping complex, consisting of 3 buildings. Located opposite of Emporium, at BTS station Phrom Phong. Architechture-wise, its futuristic design combines a pure white concept with nature’s green elements. Besides numerous fashion shops, renowned labels and boutiques, the upper floors harbor a tropical garden with a waterfall and a panoramic view. There is a food court in the basement and an extended dining hub at the so-called Helix-Quarter, where restaurants are aligned in a unique DNA spiral shape. Also, there is VIP cinema.
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10. MegaBangna - Bangna
A large regional shopping mall, serving local families and households with everything under one roof. Opened 2012, this shopping and dining complex includes major retailers like Home Pro, Big C, Robinson and IKEA. Very popular in its surrounding area. Has a Major Cineplex cinema and a huge car park.
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11. Fortune Town - Ratchada
IT mall, located in Ratchada, at MRT station Rama 9. Specializes in computers & accessories, technology items, electronic consumer goods and CCTV systems. Several shops offer repair services for computer hardware and mobiles phones for relatively cheap prices. Included are a supermarket, fast-food chains and a food hall. Can become crowded on weekends.
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12. Gaysorn Shopping Centre - Ratchaprasong, Chitlom
Considered a rival to other luxury malls of Southeast Asia, Gaysorn houses flagship luxury boutiques of foreign designer labels such as Gucci, Prada and Louis Vuitton. In contrast to other Bangkok malls, this place is not overcrowded, as the premises are oversized. The innovative retail concept combined with its exclusive décor makes this luxury complex an exquisite shopping destination.
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13. Union Mall - MRT Phahon Yothin
Located near MRT station Phahon Yothin, Union Mall is a local outlet mall with focus on retail and wholesale clothing, shoes and accessories. You can find good quality for little money. It is often compared with Platinum Fashion Mall. This mall is less known among foreigners; however, its popularity is rising. On a retail area of 150.000 sq.m. Union mall is housing more than 1200 shops and booths. Included is a food court and a food hall with various restaurants.
14. The Mall Bangkapi - Bang Kapi
The Mall Bangkapi is located in Bangkapi district and is one of Bangkok’s larger shopping malls. Besides renowned international labels, this mall also houses numerous boutiques and shops with local brands. Having a large dining hall and a state-of-the-art SF cinema, this place is unique due to its Aqua park on the roof. With several pools and slides, shoppers are given a special entertainment opportunity here.
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15. Siam Center - Siam Square
Siam Center is located adjacent to Siam Paragon and has a variety of shops, particularly trendy clothing outlets. With over 200 boutiques of international as popular local labels and a food hall with Thai, Korean and Japanese cuisine, Siam Center is a popular shopping venue in Bangkok.
16. Siam Square One - Siam Square
Siam Square One is situated at Siam Square, next to the country’s reputable Chulalongkorn University. With its small boutiques and trendy fashion for relatively cheap prices, this place is clearly focused on young clientele, mainly university students. While most floors ae reserved for fashion outlet, lifestyle and IT products, the spacious upper levels are designated for cafes, restaurants and fast-food chains. It’s a very popular shopping, dining and hangout spot for students, especially in the afternoon.
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17. Indra Square - Pratunam
Indra Square is one of the few malls where locals are outnumbered by foreigners. This place is focused on shoppers from south Asia, mainly from India. Usual for Pratunam district, this place attracts its customers with negotiable whoeale prices for fashion, shoes, Toys, accessoiries and consumer electronics.