Bangkok is a city without beaches. The nearest beach to Bangkok is probably Pattaya.
If you are into beaches, phuket is definitely the place to be. Remember to find your way to patong beach where all the activities take place.
Visit both. If you intend to fly directly from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Phuket your next questions will be about not having enough time to make connections or the lack of cheap hotels in the airport area!
See Bangkok for at least a couple days and also end up there the night before your flight home. This will give you a chance to see the city a little, get caught up on your sleep and adjust to the heat and time changes. A final night in Bangkok will allow you to do some final shopping and take away any worry on your connecting flight breaking down and you missing your ride home.
You can find beaches just about anywhere in the world but you will only find Bangkok in Thailand! See Bangkok and also see some of the other place too! Thailand is more than just beaches! Besides, Thailand is warm all over - you can get a tan just walking around Bangkok or Chiang Mai anyway!
P.S. Bangkok has two airports! Many of the flights to other areas of Thailand fly out of old Don Muang DMK airport. Don Muang is on the other side of Bangkok from the International airport BKK!
Good luck.
Why not visit Bangkok for a couple of days for cultural purpose,shopping etc. and then enjoy the beaches and the fun around Phuket.
Phuket has shopping, interesting things to do and see, and beaches. And island scattered around Phuket. That means more beaches.
Bangkok has shopping, as well as interesting things to do and see (probably MORE interesting things to do and see). But no beaches.
phuket, everyones heard of bangkok.
and it would be cooler to just say i went to phucket! lol
How often do you go to Thailand?
Go to both.
Leisure? Phuket. Shopping? Bangkok
you can go to both you can stay like a couple of days in bangkok and then fly to phuket
phuket
You should visit both.
I did that recently.
First day - Arrival in Bangkok, shop at Chatuchak Weekend Market (cool place cheap stuff)
Second day - Took sky train to Ekkamai station and went to the bus station nearby to take a bus to Pattaya. Journey to Pattaya should be one and a half hours. Spent 2nd day at Pattaya jet skiing, taking photos at the beach and beautiful sunset, ate, walked down the beach.
Third, Fourth, Fifth day - Went back to Bangkok, went to the following places :
Suan Lum Night Bazaar (cool cool cool! Famous for a gigantic stage with performances thru the night and lots of stalls)
Patpong (Bangkok's sex district, interesting place with lots of stuff to buy too)
Baiyoke sky hotel (Bangkok's tallest building with a revolving rooftop at 84th floor)
Khao San (A MUST GO at NIGHT! Backpackers' haven, night stalls, night life, cheap doing of dreadlocks etc..)
Pratunam (Rows of stalls)
Chinatown
MBK shopping mall (Modern shopping mall. HUGE and shopping haven with cheap prices. YOU CAN BARGAIN !)
All these places are near sky train stations in Bangkok. If you take a taxi, INSIST on paying by the meter. If the driver refuses, just flag down another taxi. Most drivers are willing to go by meter. Just tip them. Going by meter is MUCH MUCH cheaper. If you need directions, ask the sky train station control people! They are quite friendly.
Also, you can stay at Pattaya 2 nights, if you are not really a city person.
But it is BEST that you visit both Bangkok and Pattaya. It is feasible if you will be in Thailand for 5 to 6 days.
Enjoy and take lots of photos!
(Some people advise against going to Pattaya. There are other beaches too that the buses travel to at Ekkamai bus station. Just enquire there.)
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