LUXE Bangkok (Luxe City Guides)

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Think it's all honey-money, kiss-bang, ping-pong balls and backpacks? Well, wake up and smell the frangipani! Like any city it has its sauce spots, and like any city you are quite capable of avoiding them. Bangkok is now firmly on the style and jet set (and medical holiday) circuit, bursting with awesome shopping, eating, drinking, partying and good old fashioned chilling. So, go on baby, take a bite out of the Big Mango.

Whether you want to sip tea in a secret country garden in the heart of the city, or stay in a beautiful former royal residence by the river, LUXE Bangkok has got it down. You can have your own ravishing silk hand-woven to order; tailor-make leather cushions, boxes, shoes and bags; or arrange a bouquet of stupendous orchids delivered to your hotel suite in time for your flight home. If it's cutting-edge modern art in a beautiful old teak house, or arriving in style at Asia's most stunning rooftop restaurant in a chauffeur-driven, mint condition classic Mercedes that you're after, you've totally hit the grand-slam. Just add cash and stand well back...