Fortune Town IT Mall
Fortune Town Bangkok is also known as Fortune Tower and is a large building which comprises a hotel, offices, a Tesco Lotus supermarket and a number of other shops; primarily mobile phones, Cameras and computer related shops.
Fortune Town is the Pantip Plaza alternative but whereas Pantip is busy and obnoxious, Forune Town is less busy and does not have people waving DVDs in your face. It's more civilised.
It's not only phones, cameras and computers. There are a number of pirated software shops, printing shops, second hand hi-fi shops and musical instruments shops. It's a bit of an Aladdin's Cave.
IT Stores
The main reason people go to Fortune Town is for computer equipment from the IT mall. There are a number of specialist IT stores as well as an IT City which is like an IT supermarket selling most IT peripherals used by small businesses and home users.
There are plenty of shops selling laptops, desktop PCs, monitors, external hard drives and so on.
Also on the IT theme, are the large number of pirated software stores selling pirated DVDs and CDs full of hacked and cracked software from the likes of Microsoft, Adobe, Macromedia and many others.
Camera Shops
There are a few decent camera stores selling popular point and shoot cameras as well as more expensvie enthusiast cameras from the likes of Nikon and Canon. They also sell camera accessories such as tripods, camera bags, lenses and other accessories.
Fortune Town is decent in terms of camera shops, but it is not as good as MBK and so if you are after more professional equipment and top of the range cameras, then go to MBK first.
Mobile Phone Stalls
As with almost everywhere else in Bangkok and Thailand, there is a multitude of mobile phone stalls. There are privately owned stalls as well a branches of popular stores such as Jay Mart.
Buy and sell mobile phones, smart phones and PDAs. All the latest phones can be found but once again, MBK has far more stalls and much wider choice. The only down side to MBK is that the mobile phone section is packed with people and the stall owners are often rude.
Hi-Fi Retailers
For people looking for decent second hand hi-fi separates such as amplifiers, CD players, speakers and even turn tables.
There are no shops selling new Hi-Fi units but the second hand goods they sell seems to be in good condition and they present everything well and keep it looking good so it's well worth a look.
Open: daily from 10 am to 10 pm
Getting There:
The mall can be found most easily by taking the subway and by getting off at Rama 9 station. When you get out of the subway station, follow the signs to Fortune Tower and when you get outside, it\'ll be right there.