Bangkok Shopping

Citin Pratunam Bangkok Hotel is an area teeming with life and one that especially screams shopping with stalls and shops along every alleyway and side street displaying garments, shoes, bags, accessories and more. Listed here are some of the popular shopping places around Pratunam, easily walking distance from the hotel and some easily reachable by the BTS skytrain.

Platinum Fashion Mall (Seven minutes walking distance)

This “wholesale” mall on Petchburi Road is much like an outdoor market, except for the air conditioning & clean bathrooms. With more than 1,300 shops, specializing in women's clothing and fashion accessories, you'll need at least four hours to get through the mall.

Indra Square (Four minutes walking distance)

The best place to look for men and women fashion clothing and accessories, located in Pratunam. It also offers silk items, jewelry and Thai crafts.

Pantip Plaza (Five minutes walking distance)

Just a few metres away from Platinum Fashion Mall, you will also find Pantip Plaza which is well-known for its cheap IT accessories and counterfeit versions of software and DVDs. If you are looking for thumbdrives, wireless mouse and keyboard, compare prices across different shops and bargain hard for the best deal.

Pratunam Market (Five minutes walking distance)

Pratunam Wholesale Market is one of Bangkok's major markets, located in the heart of the city, at the intersection of Ratchaprarop and Phetburi roads. With over 1000 shops, it is the best place to shop for clothing, fabrics, and textiles, at unbelievingly rock bottom rates. This market is open as early as 8am.

City Complex Pratunam (Seven minutes walking distance)

This six-storey shopping complex is one of the most preferred places in Pratunam as it is mainly targeted towards young ladies. With over 800 shops, mostly selling fashionable clothing, shoes and accessories, but there are also a few of them dedicated to cosmetics, jewellery and crafts.

Pratunam Centre(Ten minutes walking distance)

Pratunam Centre is a four-storey shopping complex offering retail and wholesale items. The entire first and second floors are dedicated to OTOP (One Tambon, One Product) Centre, which promotes handicrafts and more. The basement floor mostly offers silverwares and house decoration items.

Central World(Fifteen minutes walking distance)

Known as the largest lifestyle shopping complex in Southeast Asia, seated over a 550,000 square metres of retail space. It has over 500 shops from top local and international brands, having everything from clothing boutiques, funky fashion, high-tech gadgets, bookshops and designer furniture to imported groceries, a lineup of banks, beauty salons, gourmet eateries and even an ice-skating rink.

MBK ( National Stadium Station)

An enormous marble shopping mall in Bangkok. With 2,500 shops using a total selling area of 89,000 square metres, this shopping mall used to be one of the biggest malls in Asia. It is particularly well known for its many vendors of mobile phones and other electronics, as well as furniture stores.