degas

Just for fun, what would you have on your agenda for such a day? Provide specific venues/locations, if possible,

To give it some limits, let's say your budget is less than a $125 (for two) and you must incorporate at least one cultural stop, lunch, pre-dinner drinks, dinner, and late night activity (show, disco, nighclub)

Let's make it a long day, and one you will remember for awhile. Keep shopping to a mimnimum, if at all. We will cover that later. You are staying on, and start and end the day around Soi 8 or Soi 11.

Morning:

Lunch:

Afternoon:

Dusk:

Dinner:

Evening:

Planning a trip with my wife. This would just be a guide and not a rigid timeline. Often, I'm faced with so many choices, I feel like I waste time getting started and sometimes do a little too much backtracking without an even flow between venues.

Kathie

Here are some ideas to fill in as you wish...

A boat ride on the Chao Praya is always part of the romance of Bangkok for me. It could be a public water taxi or a boat rented for a klong tour.

Spa for two: lots of spas offer couples treatments. Face is a fave of mine, but there are many others as well. See http://facebars.com and click on Bangkok. Then bring up the spa menu.

Long, lingering lunches are romantic. So choose a place that is atmospheric - you've gotten lots of good suggestions - and plan to order a little at a time, taking lots of time to talk and relax.

For your cultural stop, I'd suggest an interesting venue that is not visited by a lot of people. The Suan Pakkard Palace with it's exquisite Lacquer Pavillion would be lovely.

degas

thanks Kathie - I was also thinking of a canal tour then a ride to a temple fairly early in the morning before it got too hot.

MichaelBKK

Start early - 6 am if possible. Have the hotel pack you a picnic lunch, or plan on buying it on the way. Take the regular express boat (a long-tailed for the whole day will blow the budget, I think) to Memorial Bridge. Browse the fresh market and the flower market. Buy some offering flowers.

Take the express boat to Tha Tien and the ferry across to Wat Arun. Make an offering to the monks. Get your fortunes told.

Back to the express boat, take it all the way to Nonthaburi pier - the end of the line. If you didn't bring a picnic lunch, browse the market next to the pier for things to eat. Take them with you back to the pier and rent a long-tailed boat to take you to Wat Chalerm Phrakiat, a temple built within the grounds of an old fort. It's usually very quiet and peaceful here, even on weekends. There's a big park next to the temple where you can eat your picnic lunch.

Back to the city by long-tailed and express boat. By this time it should be mid-afternoon, a good time for a massage. Drinks and dinner should be easy.

degas

thanks MichaelBKK

Anybody want to complete the day? Drinks? Dinner? Evening entertainment?

OJudy

Drinks at the Sky Bar at the top of LeBua State Tower with the lights of the city twinkling far below -- so-o-o romantic!

rhkkmk

dinner at jesters at the peninsula....nite cap at the skybar at the banyon tree....dancing at patpong II

MichaelBKK

Dancing at Patpong doesn't sound very romantic, to me. I was actually thinking of something very un-Bangkok: A movie at one of the VIP rooms in cineplexes around town, like either one with a 'honeymoon' seat for two, or the one that's made up like a drive-in (depending on your age and where you grew up, that may or may not bring back memories).