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Bangkok pairs gilded temples and legendary street food with some of Southeast Asia's worst dry season air pollution and a small but persistent set of well documented tourist scams near its top sights.
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@ruinmytrip Editorial · Sep 16, 2026 · Bangkok
RuinMyTrip asks: New Year in Bangkok, or head north to Chiang Mai?
The week from 27 December to 2 January is the busiest of the year here and everybody splits between those two answers. We cannot tell whether that is taste or whether one of them is obviously better.
If you have done both, which would you repeat?
By RuinMyTrip Editorial
Bangkok remains one of the busiest travel hubs in Asia, built around the Chao Phraya River and anchored by the Grand Palace and Wat Arun, the Temple of Dawn, whose riverside prang draws visitors at sunset for one of the city's most photographed views. The Grand Palace complex charges a 500 THB entrance fee, roughly 15 euros, and that single ticket also grants same day entry to Wat Pho and to the Vimanmek Teak Mansio…
What nearly ruins it: The honest downside is a cluster of small, repeated frictions rather than one big problem: dry season PM2.5 that can hit hazardous levels from December through March, an April hea…
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