Bangkok Shopping Spree with Jill

Jill and I already went to Bangkok last March 2011.
And yet, we wanted to go again, because we wanted to shop there so much that we book another trip!
Actually, I'm not that enthusiastic, but I was convinved, hay... (So much for pagtitipid!)

Anyway, what actually convinced me was the low fare that we got from Tiger Airways. Imagine only PhP 5500 compared to the 11k that we bought from PAL 9 months ago!

Anyway, it was a trip scheduled for shopping!
We only scheduled a trip to Madame Tussaud and to watch Siam Niramit show.
The rest was a shopping spree in Pratunam and Siam area. We didn't even thought about museums hehe

This was our planned expenses (aside from the shopping spree)
5550 - airfare by Tiger Airways 5,550
735 - upsize luggage to 25 kg (it was a good thing because my baggage after shopping was 26 kg!)
600 - Terminal Fee
1620 - International tax

2786.50 - Siam Star Hotel for 5N/6D (yep, that's almost a week! booked online via booking.com; a very good cheap online reservation system)
1,222 - Siam Niramit (booked online via hotels2thailand.com; this was cheap because it costs 1500 Baht or almost PhP 2k)
669 - Madame Tussauds (booked online via hotels2thailand.com; also cheaper than in the official site)

For food, it was cheap there. You can budget yourself 50 baht per meal. Sometimes we have breakfast at 20-30 baht consisting of this fried dumplings or lugaw, etc already good for both of us. Jill likes drinking their cold coffee priced at 15 THB (or around PhP 22.50). There are lots of cheap street foods. (There's even this noodle menu that has the texture and similar to the Philippine isaw! Yum!) It's one of the things I will miss in Thailand!

Anyway, we stayed in Pratunam area, where the market and shopping never sleeps! As early as 6 am, there's already the street market. Then the "official" shops open at 8 or 10 am to 4 pm. Then there's another night street market! And during Sundays, the stalls are also different (and there are soooo many other choices). I went shopping for Christmas gifts already, because it's WAY cheaper there... And I really though of buying a new cellphone there. They have lots of accessories for Blackberry there compared to the Philippines.