HOW TO GO TO MBK ( MA BOON KRONG) IN BANGKOK, THAILAND

• Anyone that has ever visited Bangkok, Thailand must have heard of MBK (MA BOON KRONG shopping center). If you ask your hotel receptionists or concierge where to go shopping in Bangkok, MBK will definitely be one of their answers. What is MBK? MBK is a shopping mall that sells lots of cheap shoes, handbags, suitcases, Thai craft products, fashion clothes, pirated DVD (movies, TV series, computer games, computer software, music).There are varied choices of restaurants in MBK. Furthermore, MBK FOOD COURT was voted the best foodcourt in Bangkok. In additional, MBK MOVIE HOUSE is one of the most popular movie house in Bangkok. MBK shopping mall is next to TOKYU department store and a PRATUMWAN PRINCESS HOTEL. They are all connected, seems like one building. MBK is in the same area as Siam Square, the center point of high-end bangkok shopping and the hang out place for hip teenagers.In the same area,you will find other shopping malls: SIAM CENTER,SIAM DISCOVERY,SIAM PARAGON. If you want the easy way to go to MBK, you just use a public taxi or your hotel limousine service. Of course if you want to save some money and prefer to use public transportation, I will show you how to go to MBK, using MRT or BTS.

• MRT is subway or underground service company owned and managed by the government of Thailand. BTS is sky train service owned and managed by private company. So BTS fares are just a little bit more expensive
• than MRT fares. MRT lines and BTS lines are interchanged. If you want to go to MBK, you must get of BTS at the National Stadium station (the last station of Silom line).

How to go to MBK by BTS?

• If you use BTS service, you can find the BTS lines map on the BTS card, on the sky train wall above the exit doors, or on the BTS ticket selling machines. If you are on the Silom line, you just follow National Stadium station direction, not Tak Sin station direction. But if you are on Sukumvit line, you have to change the train at Siam station. After got of the sky train, you look for the National Stadium sign. This might be a bit confusing when you on the other floor and there are so many people (normally during rush hours). BTS Silom station has two floors. If you need any help, the tourist information center is on the ground floor.

How to go to MBK by MRT?

• If you have to use MRT service, look for the interchanged stations between MRT and BTS.The interchanged station are Sukumvit, Chatujak, and Silom. Please bear in mind that the same station of the MRT and BTS (interchanged station) are not using the same names. This would be very confusing and annoying for a lot of foreign tourists. MRT Sukumvit station is BTS Asoke station. MRT Chatujak station is BTS Mochit station. MRT Silom station is BTS Saladaeng station. You just go to the closest interchanged station and change from MRT to BTS sky train. Then follow the how to go to MBK by BTS guide above.

• Using BTS and MRT to go to MBK will save you a lot of time and money for your shopping. The main reason because there is no traffic at all. After you finish shopping and want to go back to you hotel, you might want to use a taxi. Assumed that you have too much shopping to carry. There is a taxi stand at the back exit of MBK department store, next to TOP’S supermarket on the ground floor. Now I hope you already know how to go to MBK by MRT or BTS. I wish you a nice shopping day.