Bangkok Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour (1/2/3-Day Pass)

We booked the 48 hour ticket. Easy to find the start at the Siam Paragon centre, go to the bus stop at the side of the centre and the desk is just inside the building. A good way to see the main sites of this extremely busy city. But BEWARE - if you get off at the Royal Palace and are told by a local person who approaches you that the Palace is only open to Thai people at that time, this is not true but part of a very well organised scam ( which we only read about online after being taken in by it).We were persuaded by a very friendly man posing as a university lecturer to take a tuk tuk to some alternative sites only open that day. We were taken to a jewellery shop after a visit to a small temple where we again met a very friendly Thai man who told us he was an engineer restoring the building and encouraged us to stay with the tuk tuk as we would benefit from a one day offer at a trade exhibition. This was all not true and after visiting another temple we told the driver to take us back to the Royal Palace. The overall bus tour experience was good but the company should warn about this scam.

This is a scam. Do not buy this tour. This is a scam and are not affiliated with elephant gogo hoo on and hoo off tours. The stand at paragon Siam shopping mall sells the tickets and for cheaper than here and they won’t accept this. This person is scamming there business

There were 5 of us. We weren't thinking. For what we paid in total for a 2-day pass could have hired a private driver for a day. First, the whole circuit takes 3 hours, much of it in blocked traffic. Since the service only runs from 10 am until 3 pm, do the math. You can maybe hop off only once or maybe twice. The buses only run in one direction. This means that if you want to see something at the end of the circuit that you missed on the previous day, you have to endure over 2 hours to get to it instead of approaching it from the other direction. They supply you with ear buds for the commentary. Unfortunately many of the boxes they go into don't work. Bangkok is a complex city. If you jump off, trying to time your activity to get the next bus is difficult. Finding the stop where you jumped off can be equally as difficult. Finally, you want to go to the night market, don't you? Impossible with this company since they stop at 3 pm. Rediculous. Bangkok has a transit system. Maybe look at it before you waste your money like we did.