Leisure and entertainment in Bangkok can take many forms; it all depends on what you are looking for. You can spend hours wandering through parks and museums, exploring the history of Thailand and broadening your horizons. But there is another side to Bangkok - vibrant, dynamic, modern, and no less authentic. Visit the Central World Plaza shopping and entertainment center, and you will plunge into the magical world of Thai-style shopping.
Central World has eight floors, half a million square meters of retail space, and several hundred shops and boutiques. Be prepared to walk several kilometers, because this is one of the largest structures of its kind in Southeast Asia.
The first five floors of the complex are occupied by the Isetan and Zen department stores, with a specific range of products on each floor, so if you know what you came for, the convenient navigation system will help you avoid getting lost and quickly find the item you want. Here you can buy clothes, shoes, accessories and jewelry, children's goods, souvenirs, cosmetics, and much more.
The sixth floor houses restaurants offering Japanese, Chinese, and Thai cuisine, as well as international bars. There is also a book superstore here: apparently, food for the mind and the body should somehow go together.
The Duty Free store, so beloved by tourists, can be found on the seventh level. As a final flourish, you can treat yourself to skating at the largest ice rink in Asia, which awaits its visitors on the eighth floor.
