Bangkok
I’d been to Bangkok a dozen times before I discovered this highlight
Bangkok can be an oppressive city. Sometimes, you need an escape. But don’t go looking for it in its air-conditioned shopping centres: come to this island.
- Paul Marshall
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The best way to see Bangkok is one few tourists bother with
No traffic, no haggling, and not a single tailor stop along the way.
- Paul Marshall
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From sinister to prime minister? The surprise candidate putting his hand up to lead Thailand
In this post-truth Trumpian world, seemingly nothing can stop a political career. Certainly not a few years in a Sydney jail back in the 1990s for helping smuggle heroin.
- Michael Ruffles
The ‘luxury fortress’ hotel transforming Thailand’s notorious party city
This city has a notorious reputation. The Standard, famous for its eccentric luxury hotels in New York and London, wants to change that.
- Eryk Bagshaw
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- Asia
Fears for Bangkok buildings left teetering by huge sinkhole
Workers were urgently shoring up foundations of nearby buildings left exposed by a massive sinkhole in the Thai capital.
Bangkok’s best food is not where you’d expect
World-famous for street food, suddenly the city’s fine-dining scene, both local and international in style, is taking the globe by storm.
- Ben Groundwater
Mistakes are forgotten and wishes realised at this luxe Thai hotel
Forget ‘Instagrammable’: travel for the rich is a holistic endeavour where a holiday becomes the springboard to your best self.
- Julia Naughton
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- Hotel reviews
This upscale brand’s first Thai hotel is a haven of good taste
Madi Paidi offers an enjoyable respite from the intensity of Bangkok, tailor-made for city trippers, design fans and adventurous diners.
- John Borthwick
The must-do highlights of Bangkok in three days
Bangkok defies metaphor. An enigma wrapped in a traffic jam? Just step out and surrender to its din and aromas over this three-day itinerary.
- John Borthwick
Twenty things that will surprise first-time visitors to Bangkok
From the world’s biggest and most diverse market to the world’s biggest water fight, expect the unexpected in this shape-shifting city.
- John Borthwick