{"id":2044,"date":"2014-12-19T09:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T07:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2014-12-19T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T07:49:57","slug":"bangkok-worlds-10th-most-popular-destination-to-celebrate-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2044-bangkok-worlds-10th-most-popular-destination-to-celebrate-new-year","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok world&#8217;s 10th most popular destination to celebrate New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok is the 10th best city in the world to celebrate New Year, this is not me saying this but TripAdvisor in one of its rankings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1928\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/giant-swing-bangkok-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Bangkok\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/giant-swing-bangkok-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/giant-swing-bangkok-624x417.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/giant-swing-bangkok.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first three cities in the ranking are with no surprises: London, New York and Paris but as\u00a0there are not\u00a0in Thailand, we will not dwell on it.<\/p>\n<p>What is amusing in this ranking is to see that if foreigners like to come to Bangkok to spend New Year&#8217;s\u00a0Eve, Thai people prefer to\u00a0flee the capital city. For them, <a href=\"\/eng\/cities\/chiang-mai.php\">Chiang Mai<\/a> is the number 1 destination to celebrate New Year, Hua Hin comes second. Bangkok is\u00a0only 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>It is true that if the biggest party in Thailand to celebrate the New Year is the famous Central World Countdown Party in Bangkok, Chiang Mai festivities are\u00a0a little more friendly, I think. Thais also choose their destination for its setting and not just for the New Year&#8217;s\u00a0Eve party because they have 5 days holidays\u00a0for the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>No need\u00a0to say that if you plan\u00a0to be in Chiang Mai or\u00a0Hua Hin or\u00a0other destinations like Koh Larn, Sangkhlaburi to name a few, <strong>it is better to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/accommodation-thailand\/index.php\">book your hotel<\/a> in advance !<\/strong> The prices also tend to rise at that time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok is the 10th best city in the world to celebrate New Year, this is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}