Travel to Thailand

Wallpaper City Guide: Bangkok (Wallpaper City Guide Bangkok)

Format: Paperback
Author: Editors of Wallpaper Magazine
ReleaseDate: 15 September, 2006
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Rating:

Different from Luxe City Guides, but less grating, too ...
Luxe engages in snarky comments and its prose (rather like a slick, smug club kid writing for middle-aged wannabee hipsters with bottomless pockets) is of a sort that I've always found grating. Reviewer "Ikat" has a valid point: the Wallpaper City Guides (WCG) are not comprehensive, and there is a bit of an extended travel magazine article aspect to them: however, I like WCG's differences from Luxe City Guides. I tossed my Luxe Tokyo guide for this very reason.

The WCG style is meant to whet your appetite and give you a few ideas about what to see if you have but a few days to check Bangkok out. I like its brevity. The WCG gives hotel and restaurant options both expensive and reasonable, making it worthwhile for the traveller on a more modest budget, whereas Luxe covers only the most expensive places to stay, eat, etc. Luxe has no pictures and a tiny, crammed-to-the-rafters typeface: WCG has attractive photos and great layout that's easier to read. I, for one, prefer it.

Worthless
I didn't expect it to have information on the sights but thought it would do a decent job on shopping and contemporary architecture. This is the most absurd "guidebook" I have ever seen - and I've been to 50 countries. Wrong. It is more like someone turned an article into a book and added photos to make it seem longer. Don't waste your money. If you want a guide to hip shops, etc. that aren't in mainstream guides, get the Luxe.

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