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Centurion cardmembers' most requested hotels, restaurants, and more
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What additional favourites in Bangkok would your Centurion Concierge recommend? We spoke with the Centurion Concierge team in Bangkok to get their thoughts on where Cardmembers absolutely must visit.
The Centurion Concierge team in Bangkok includes several American Express counselors, who each is passionate about the city and their collective favorite picks.
FOOD & WINE
Bed Supper Club
26 Sukhumvit Soi 11
Bangkok
+66 2 6513537
Part restaurant, part nightclub, part performance-art venue, Bed Supper Club is regarded as 100 percent cool. Retro-futurism is the theme--a 1970s imagination of the future that still manages to be very much of the moment. Seating at Bed is, as you might imagine, on a bed. It may sound like an unusual way to be seated for dinner, but in the context of the ultra-hip surroundings and ultra-attractive crowd, the Concierge team suggests it all seems to make sense.
Naj Exquisite Thai Cuisine
42 Convent Road (Opposite BNH Hospital)
Silom, Bangkok
+66 2 632 2811 3
Consistently recognised as one of Thailand’s finest restaurants, Naj Exquisite Thai Cuisine was opened in 2005 by Luckananaj Markawatis, founder of the legendary Oam Thong Restaurant. Located in a prime area of Bangkok in an old house that once belonged to a Thai aristocratic family, Naj serves exquisite, authentic Thai cuisine in an elegant setting and with impeccable service.
ART & CULTURE
Jim Thompson House & Museum
6 Soi Kasemsan 2, Rama 1 Road
Bangkok
+66 2 216 7368
James H.W. Thompson was “the Legendary American of Thailand”—the foreigner who almost single-handedly resurrected the dying Thai silk industry and who helped establish Thailand’s modern place in the international consciousness. Today, 40 years after his death, Thompson is perhaps an even larger presence than he was in life. Retail shops selling his company’s wares may be found in many of Bangkok’s finest hotels, and his company’s designs may be seen at high-end design expositions around the world. For an introduction to his remarkable legacy, the Bangkok team urges Centurion members to consider a visit to the Jim Thompson House & Museum, where the house itself—a complex of six traditional Thai-style houses, teak structures that were purchased from several owners and brought to the present location from various parts of Thailand—is as compelling as the special events and the exhibits drawn from Thompson’s remarkable collection of sculptures, paintings, and porcelains.
Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua - Tiger Temple
Kanchanaburi-Sai Yok Road
Kanchanaburi
Approximately three hours outside of Bangkok, you’ll find a remarkable facility known as the Tiger Temple—a Buddhist temple operated by monks who began raising orphaned and injured tigers nearly a decade ago. Kept in extremely humane conditions—the tigers are never chained or drugged—the tigers of Kanchanaburi can be viewed up close by visitors to the temple, and on most visits, a temple monk will bring one of the tamest tigers out for visitors to sit with and pet. The Bangkok Centurion team all agree, “It is a truly amazing experience.”
SHOPPING
Floating Markets
Damneon Saduak
The floating markets of the Thai capital may be familiar stops on the Bangkok tourist trail, but if you've never visited them, the Bangkok team insists “It is an absolute must-see.” Trips out of the city to these markets may be arranged through your Centurion Concierge. The markets feature an abundance of flowers, tropical fruits, hand-made Thai goods and more sold from flat boats piloted by women along small "khlongs," or canals. The ride to the Damneon Saduak market alone is a wonderful experience as it takes you past rural Thai scenes remarkably different from nearby chaotic Bangkok.
Chatachuk weekend market
20 minutes north of Bangkok
near the Skytrain Mo Chit station
Perhaps only if you’ve visited Thailand before can you imagine a market in which you will find everything from live snakes to designer clothing. The Chatachuk weekend market is one such place—teeming with upwards of 15,000 stalls shops and stalls that spill out onto the surrounding streets. Needless to say, you will see only a fra ction of the market even in a daylong visit. The Bangkok Centurion Concierge team suggests, “Start early.”
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