Hop On Hop Off boat tour

Wat Rakhan Royal Temple

November 18th, 2024

We took the sky train to where we could by tickets to the the Chao Phraya Tourist Boast Co. hop-on hop-off which allowed us to get on and off the boat at various tourists stops along the Chao Phraya River. I have to admit, I enjoyed it more than I expected to. I have taken hop-on hop-off bus tours in other cities and ran into issues with the buses running late or being full. These boats ran on a tight schedule and kept to it. I was impressed.

I think the ticket was around $5, and we made full use of it. After stopping at a temple, we had a snack at the Wang Lang Market. We also stopped at ICONSIAM, where we got Pho for lunch before taking a break in the afternoon before going to Wat Arun (temple of Dawn) We wanted to get there around sunset knowing they were going to light it up at night.

Wat Arun was crowded and a lot of the people dressed up in traditional costumes. I was noticing that there many groups of people who had gone all out with full hair and makeup along with professional photographers. We waited to see them light it up and then we fought to get on one of the last boats and took it to Asiatique, a fun riverfront area with restaurants, clubs and shopping along with a Ferris wheel and haunted house ride.

We had dinner at Peppery Thai Bistro and I was impressed and was looking to see if there was another restaurant closer to the hotel, I would definitely go back. We rode the large Ferris wheel and went on the haunted house ride. The Ferris wheel was fun but the haunted house ride was kind of cheesy but was a fun way to end a very full day and we didn’t get to all of the stops on the hop-on and hop-off!