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ThailandDescription and is it worth a visit
Despite the specifics, which will not be of interest to every tourist, The National Museum of Royal Barges is considered one of the best in Bangkok. Here in the hangar there are about ten ritual royal boats, richly decorated with gilding and precious stones. Some of them have been restored, and, of course, the real stones have been replaced with glass, but as the guides tell us, in the original they had really precious and semi-precious stones. Some of the boats are new, were built at the end of the last century.
Unfortunately, although this is a museum associated with the royal family, there is some dilapidation. Everything seems to be intact, restored, but it looks unkempt and dusty. Without the guide's story, there is nothing to do here at all, and it will take 10-20 minutes to inspect. And considering that it is quite difficult to get to the museum and the overpriced price for visiting and photographing, we would not recommend visiting it in the first place. But on the other hand, if you get to the museum on foot, then your way will pass through a poor, almost rural area of Bangkok along narrow streets past private houses, a local temple, and through small canals. This route itself is interesting because you can get acquainted with such a contrasting Bangkok, when only a few minutes of travel separate the modern buildings from the slums.
🕐 Working hours
Daily 09:00 – 17:00.
💵Entrance fee / ticket price
100 baht (3.07 USD, see Thailand's currency and exchange rate); using a camera – 100 baht; using a video camera – 200 baht.
🚶 How to get there
The museum is not in a very convenient location in the Thonburi area (museum on the map). You can get there by taxi, but you can also do it yourself, which will be much cheaper. If you stay in the tourist area of Khao San (see Bangkok districts and hotels), you can walk 1 kilometer to the nearest large bridge over the Chaopraya River (Somdet Phra Pin-klao Bridge), near it there is a pier for crossing to the other shore for 5 baht. If desired, you can walk across the bridge and on foot, it offers good views. Then you have to walk another 1 kilometer along an intricate route through the Bangkok slums, there are signs here.
From other parts of Bangkok, you can get here by regular boats on the Chaopraya River. To do this, you can take the BTS subway to the Saphan Taksin station, and there transfer to a regular boat with an orange, yellow, green flag, or without a flag (fare 15-30 baht). Sail to the Phra Pin Klao Bridge Pier (this is the pier opposite the Khao San district on the other side of the river, see Bangkok water transport). And from the pier it is also 1 kilometer according to the signs or the navigator.
Friends, we remind you that it is much more interesting to get acquainted with the sights of Bangkok with the help of excursions, and therefore we advise you to look at options with online booking and reviews on these excursion aggregators: