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Jewelry
Shopping
- certain parts of Bangkok are well known for their jewelry
shopping. In fact Bangkok is home to the world's largest center for the
trade of colored gemstones. There are many many jewelry stores - and to the
untrained eye, its often difficult to tell the "real" stones
from the fake ones.
We have had good experiences shopping at
Rama Jewelry
Group LTD - and first visited
Rama's in 1996. We have also heard recommendations about Rama's from
professional jewelers who live in the United States. Rama's has been in
business since 1960. Their Silom Showroom is located at 987 Silom Road opposite the Holiday Inn
Crown Plaza Hotel. Phone: 0-2266-8655 or email:
info@ramajewelry.com
For more information please visit their website: www.ramajewelry.com |
Another very good reputable jewelry store is located in the Conrad Hotel
shopping center, called:
Sirima by Pattaya and Phuket World Gems. It is run by a Thai woman who makes all the jewelry
herself.
Located
Unit 112 First Floor CRC Tower (Retail Centre) - All Seasons Place
87/2 Wireless Road Lumpini Phone: +66 (02) 685 3839 Phone/Fax:+66 (02)
685 3893 - NOTE: their Bangkok store may no longer be open but they
still have their main store in Phuket.
Email: sirima@worldgems.co.th
Website: www.worldgems.co.th
A good jewelry store in Bangkok is the
Gems and Jewelry
Trade Center Co., LTD. We've had several Thai people recommend this store to me
when I polled them on the streets of Bangkok including a Dentist and a
well dressed business woman literally covered in jewelry!! This store is
known for their quality of gemstones.
They are located near a large above ground concrete express way on 12 Soi
Rong Muang 2 Road, Prathumwan. Their phone number is: (662) 613 9000 - ask
for a Mr. Chairat.
We have also shopped at
Thai Gems but have never received any
recommendations from professional jewelers about this store. They seem to
specialize in large quantities of gemstones at low prices. Their Bangkok
store was located at 314 - 314 1/3 - 3 Silom Road. The last time through
town, we found they had closed their retail store. You can contact them by
PHONE: 66 (0) 2236-3840-1 or visit their extensive web site at: www.thaigem.com
Note: Sometimes a tuk-tuk or taxi driver will offer to take you to a "fancy jewelry
store" on the way to your desired destination. Often they will tell
you they can give you a better price if they first take you to a jewelry
store. In my experience I have found the "jewelry stores" that
they take me to of fairly low quality, it is often a great waste of time,
and lastly the price offered for the transportation is not that much less
than it would have been.
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