Then, it is natural to come here and go shopping. There are also many shopping malls here in Thailand. So, today Bian Xiao will give you a good introduction to the shopping strategy in Chiang Mai!
Chiang Mai department stores and shopping centers
There are two large shopping centers in Chiang Mai: CentralKadSuanKeaw and CentralAirportPlaza.
. The former is outside the northwest corner of the ancient city; The latter is in the southwest of the ancient city, close to the airport, all under the Central (Shangtai) Group, and is called "Sentan" by Thai people.
The latter is more upscale, because there is Robinson in it, also called it; There is a local food area in the basement, fresh and dry goods, and a Taipei specialty area on the first and second floors. Don't miss the discount cosmetics and jeans, but if you have a shopping plan in Bangkok, you can ignore it.
1. Chiang Mai Shangtai
(CentralKadSuanKeaw)
Just in the northwest corner of the ancient city, this building is like a castle with brown brick walls. There is a big shopping mall with everything, including restaurants, supermarkets, banks, bookstores, cinemas, gyms and KFC.
There is a group of animal sculptures at the gate, all white and lifelike, four in one * * *, the size of a family. There is a food stall on the first floor, surrounded by food stalls, with tables and chairs in the middle. It's a little more expensive than the roadside stall outside. And live piano performance. In the evening, the door was filled with stalls. (refundable)
Address: 21huaykaewrd.t.suthepa.muangchiangmai 50200
Business hours: 10: 00 am-210: 00 pm.
Transportation: Take Bus No.2 to the ancient city.
Netizen shared: On the second floor, there are more varieties of boots than Tapemen's specialty stores, and there is a sign that you can get a refund. However, the things in this shopping mall are general, and there is no need to spend time on them except passing by the supermarket to eat and make up things.
2. Chiang Mai Central Airport Building
(Central Airport Plaza)
It is the largest shopping center in northern Thailand and a one-stop shopping center for eating, drinking and having fun. Airport square
Not at the airport, but outside the airport, very close to the airport. When you go in, there is a food court and a shopping mall.
At least it's bigger than expected
A very prosperous shopping mall, the basement is full of food and supermarkets, and many special snacks are available here, and the price is also very cheap. Upstairs are all kinds of brand shopping. If you want to buy a gift, you can go here. (refundable)
There is a supermarket downstairs and the food is good. Thailand has a complete range of imported food, and the import tax is not very high. No matter how picky foreigners are, they can easily find their favorite food. I bought some roots here.
Beer is cheaper than other places 1/3.
If you like to drink juice, you can also buy a large bottle of 100% juice here, more than 60 baht.
Address: 2mahidol, Chiang Mai, Thailand (highway 1 14 1).
Business hours: 10: 30 am -2 1: 00 pm.
Mode of transportation: It used to take about 10 minutes to ride a motorcycle in the ancient city; In addition, there is a green minibus outside the shopping mall, which is delivered to the ancient city free of charge, but it seems that there are few cars and it needs to wait.
Chiang Mai Night Market Shopping
The night market in Chiang Mai is lively and orderly, noisy and restrained. Delicious snacks, special handicrafts, clothing, calligraphy and painting, public welfare propaganda and street performances are all eye-opening, and it is difficult to cover up the money in your wallet in the night market.
It doesn't matter, maybe the seemingly irrational impulse at that time is an unforgettable experience and memory when you look back.
1. Chiang Mai Sunday Night Market
(Chiang Mai Sunshine Market)
It starts at the East Gate (Tower Gate) of the ancient city and ends in front of Paxing Temple. The main length is about 1. 1 km, and it is divided into several forks.
There are stalls on the road, and there are free song and dance performances at the fork in front of Chidilong Temple. The night market mainly deals in handicrafts in northern Thailand. Because the market has a price limit policy, the price is lower.
There are also various local specialties and massage services in the market.
Business hours: every Sunday 15: 00 ~ 22: 00, and the peak period is after 7 pm.
Transportation: Enter from ThaPaeGate, the east gate of the ancient city of Chiang Mai, take Ratchadamnoen Road as the main axis, and you can see the Sunday night market where vendors gather.
In Chiang Mai Sunday Night Market, when you are tired, you can taste local snacks at street food stalls, or sit down by the roadside for half an hour's massage. The technique is not worse than that in the store, and the fatigue immediately disappears.
2. Chiang Mai Saturday Night Market
(Chiang Mai Market)
The Saturday night market in Chiang Mai is in Wualai Pedestrian Street in the south of the ancient city! The middle of a street is full of stalls and artists! It's tiring to visit the whole place, because it's too! Dragon! Yes!
Tired of shopping, 80 pigs a foot in half an hour.
Massage, there are clothes, trousers, snacks and handicrafts in the night market, which was seen in China and originated in Thailand. There are many more, selling everything.
It's hard to find exactly the same thing here, so you must start with what you like. Saturday night market 1 block, it is easier to walk from the starting point to the end point and come back.
3. Vallolo Market
(WarorotMarket)
Valuoluo Night Market is also a shopping place in Chiang Mai. There are many things, most of which are goods from north and south Thailand. Tropical dried fruit is also a specialty. All kinds of seasoning powder are packed in large packages, which are more cost-effective than those bought in the weekend market. When you buy them home, you can make your own Thai food.
All kinds of dried fish and squid, for people who like spicy food, it is actually a good choice to bring some Thai peppers and Chili powder back. A bit like the domestic wholesale market, you can buy some dry goods on the first floor, such as dried mango and durian, which are cheaper than shops, and you can bargain if you buy too much.
4. Chiang Mai Night Market
(night market)
This night market is open every night. If your trip in Chiang Mai does not include Sunday, you can still visit here in the evening. All kinds of small commodities are the main products, and the prices are also cheap. Whenever night falls, Changkang Road in Chiang Mai, which gathers various handicrafts, becomes the most fascinating night market for tourists.
Changkang Road, where Chiang Mai Night Market is located, is brightly lit, and the streets about two kilometers long are crowded and busy. More than 200 shops welcome customers, and the bosses are busy smiling and bargaining with tourists from all over the world in English.
The night market in Chiang Mai is lively and orderly, noisy and restrained, and its unique handicrafts, costumes, calligraphy and painting, public welfare propaganda and street performances are all eye-opening.
There are all kinds of art souvenirs and daily necessities in the night market, and these small commodities are all-inclusive and cheap, all of which are local handicrafts.
These include all kinds of antiques, silver ornaments, ethnic embroidery cloth bags, Thai silk cotton fabrics, bamboo woven products, celadon, lacquerware, wood carvings, hand-painted paper umbrellas and so on.
Business hours: Monday to Saturday,18: 00-23: 00; Sunday, 15:00-23:00
Transportation: Changkang Road is located near LoiKhro Road and SiDonchai Road, 2 kilometers east of the ancient city of Chiang Mai, and you can get there by taking the tuk-tuk bus from 20 Thai factories in the ancient city.
Tip: Remember to bargain when shopping here. It's quite watery.
5. Friday night market
(Friday night market)
Next, we will visit "Friday Night Market". Yes, that's right. Friday night.
Market, there are bars here, but there are few foreigners, all of whom are locals.
There are also fewer tourist products here, because it is estimated that local people rarely buy them. Sometimes, the fun of self-help lies in finding any point you are interested in on the map.
Shopping in supermarkets and convenience stores in Chiang Mai.
1.7- 1 1 convenience store
(7- 1 1 store)
Everywhere, everything, goods are more complete than expected, open 24 hours a day, open for a long time, wherever you go! It's very convenient and the price is a little more expensive than that of a big supermarket.
There are food, phone cards and NCA bus tickets.
Everywhere, every 1km has a 7- 1 1. There is a time limit for buying wine in the supermarket, so everyone should pay attention to the time period when buying wine.
2.BIGC
There is BIGC in Chiang Mai, and you can buy fruits and Thai specialties at acrade coach station in Chiang Mai. It's very cheap, the first floor of BIGC helps to increase, and it is often discounted.
Chiang Mai Specialty/Goods Worth Buying in Chiang Mai Characteristic Market
1. Chiang Mai specialties/goods worth buying in Chiang Mai
Thai handmade soap flower
Traditional handicrafts can be bought in souvenir shops all over Thailand. These soapstock flowers are not only lifelike and exquisite in appearance, but also taste the same as flowers. According to the different shapes of these soapstock, it is easy to distinguish their tastes.
For example, the lotus-shaped soap flower is fragrant with lotus flowers. I suggest you remember to carry the handmade soap with your hands or carry it with you.
Fried pigskin
This is a major feature of northern Thailand. Bangkok and other Thais brought this back when they traveled to Chiang Mai, which is a bit like lard residue.
By the way, the thick one tastes better, and the thin one tastes a bit like French fries without lard residue. The spherical fried pigskin of shrimp is thicker, while the long fried pigskin is drier. Usually eaten with green Chili sauce.
All kinds of Thai spices
Chiang Mai Sunday Night Market sells spices and Thai food. I think the lemon grass in it tastes very special. As long as one is added to the food, its unique taste makes me think it is white in the Thai food map.
2. Chiang Mai Characteristic Market
Bantawa Woodcarving Village in Chiang Mai (BaanTawa)
Wholesale sources of handicrafts in Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai's handicrafts are very famous. Almost 80% of the handicrafts you can buy in Chiang Mai are wholesale from Bantawa, which is more than half an hour's drive from the south of Chiang Mai.
If you can't attend the weekend market in Chiang Mai every weekend because of your schedule, or you especially like to explore and wander around, then a visit to Bantawa town may be fruitful for you. I recommend it.
Address: 0 km south of downtown Chiang Mai, near Hangdong.
Business hours: 10:00- 16:00.
Transportation: It costs about 30 baht to take two buses from downtown Chiang Mai.
Second-hand bookstore street
The street opposite Tapemen in the city center is the concentration of second-hand bookstores, and the bookstores are relatively large. Every family has many collections. These bookstores are fresh and full of aura. The second-hand books here are recognized as affordable. Books are mainly in English, not much in Thai and not much in Chinese.
There are also some old CDs that are hard to buy in China. If you do well, you will find the baby you want. Most of the books in the bookstore are very new, mainly in English, few in Thai, and even less in Chinese. The price is actually very affordable.
Address: Located outside the ancient city, northeast of Chiang Mai, on ThCharoenrat Road.
Chiang mai drugstore
1. Herb basis
There are four stores in Chiang Mai. Friends who want to buy aromatherapy, essential oils and gifts must not miss it, Herb.
Basics is a well-known local natural skin care brand in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand.
The biggest feature of this brand is that it uses natural plant raw materials such as citronella, lemon leaves, mangosteen, rice and coconut produced in Thailand, which are handmade, without industry, additives and pollution, natural, environmentally friendly and healthy.
This local brand store in Chiang Mai is a family that likes natural herbs.
Hot spring supplies: places that tourists should not miss. There are all kinds of fragrances, soaps and other maintenance and cleaning products in the shop. There are many products to choose from, the price is cheap, the packaging is unpretentious, and there is a faint fragrance.
Others, such as hand and foot massage appliances, Thai herbal medicine bags, etc. It is also available in the store, and the price is equally affordable, suitable for gifts and personal use. # To paraphrase, whoever uses it will know #
Attach all the store addresses of HerbBasics.
Step 2: boots
A century-old health and beauty drugstore in Britain is very popular, and all pharmacies in the mall have counters. Similar to Watsons. The price of BOOTS is more approachable. It's good to give away some cheap daily necessities or use them for yourself.
Thai boots must buy skin care products.
1) Detoxify, clear lung and detoxify orally
2) Spraywit is twice as fast as vitamin spray;
SmartOilformen (oil of India)
4)Sabai-Arom (Thai traditional herbal essential oil)
5) Plant makeup remover
6)No.7 Diana loves to use brand recommended eye cream. The price of Taobao is around 180.
7) L 'Oré al White Eye Cream 30ml spot 88, etc.
Shopping tax rebate in Chiang Mai
1) tax refund conditions
● In Thailand, I saw "VATRefundFor" in the shopping mall.
The sign of "tourists" means that if you spend a certain amount here, you can get a 7% tax refund. And leave Thailand within 60 days from the date of shopping, and you can apply for tax refund when you leave the country.
● If you spend more than 2,000 baht at the counter or shopping mall, you can fill in the PP 10 form. Be sure to take the cashier's slip to the customer service center on the second floor of the mall on the shopping day and fill in P.P. 10 for them to confirm. Not the next day. I suggest you concentrate on shopping for one day.
● When leaving Thailand, if the total amount of shopping exceeds 5,000 baht, you can apply for tax refund at the airport.
● Shopping can only enjoy tax refund if Robinson is marked on the cash register, and shops that can get tax refund have VAT at the cash register.
Refond's obvious prompt, so shopping in ●Big-C supermarket and some counters inside is non-refundable.
Simply put, the tax refund policy of each shopping mall is different. For example, SiamPragon can get a refund when it reaches 5000 baht on the same day.
You can get a tax refund when the world is over 2000, and you need to apply for it on the same day. If it is finally handled in a unified way, the total amount is required to be more than 5000 baht, and the daily consumption of a single store is not less than 2000 baht. ?
The process is simple. When you buy something, ask the salesperson to fill out the form, then take the shopping receipt to the VATRefund counter in the mall, show your passport (don't forget to bring it when shopping), and I will print a receipt for you and sign it. ?
Then I arrived at the airport, and there was a sign not far from the door that said VAT.
Refund customs, go in and stamp. After passing the security check, there is a tax refund counter at boarding gate d 1-D5 D4-D8, and then you can get cash and get a 6% tax refund!
2) Tax refund process
● On the day of shopping, ask the store for a travel tax refund application form (that is, the form P.P. 10, which requires a passport) and keep the original shopping invoice.
When you leave the international airport, remember to check your luggage with the customs (when you arrive at the lobby on the 4th floor of the airport, look for CustomsInspectionforVAT).
Refund sign) shows the purchase.
Goods and P.P. 10 form must be stamped by the customs before luggage can be checked.
Note that small valuables (jewelry, jewelry, watches, etc. ) If the price exceeds 10000 baht, it can't be checked. You should take it to the airport tax refund office for a second inspection.
● After the border inspection, take the P.P. 10 form stamped by the customs and the original shopping invoice to the tax refund office for tax refund. Cash tax refund fee 100 baht, and the transfer fee for tax refund of bills of exchange and remittances is extra.
Airport Tax Refund Office (VAT
RefundforTouristsOffice) is located on the east and west sides of the 4th floor, which is easy to find. Tel: (662) 134-0675-6.
3) Chiang Mai Airport Tax Refund Point
Go to the airport tax refund office-VAT refund (inspection) office (row) before going through the departure formalities (that is, before checking in the air tickets).
G) Show the printed list of purchased goods, tax refund application form, invoice and filled passport to the customs officers.
The purchased goods listed in the tax refund form are inspected by customs officers (generally no inspection is required), and the customs officers will stamp the application form.
Generally speaking, except watches, jewelry, electrical appliances or more expensive luxury goods, other clothes and cosmetics do not need to be inspected at all, so the efficiency is still very high.
After stamping, you can go through the departure formalities. Enter the departure hall (duty-free shop area), look for VatRefund (counter area) and show your passport.
After the tax refund form,
7% of the accumulated consumption amount on each tax refund form will be refunded to you, but the tax refund needs to be charged 100 baht. You can withdraw money by submitting the stamped application form.
Tip: Chiang Mai tax refund, the international departure port (second floor) passes through the immigration office, passes through the customs, and then goes about 10 meter, and the tax refund window is on the left!