Rooftop Bars Asia

Bangkok

Bar.Yard on the 40th floor of Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok, with the city skyline beyond the open-air terrace

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Bar.Yard, Kimpton Maa-Lai Bangkok — Skip the queue at the river sky bars and head to the 40th floor in Lumphini instead. The terrace looks east over Lumphini Park, so you get the slower, better show of the whole city switching its lights on, with a Pan-Latin-meets-Thai kitchen alongside. Come for happy hour, 5pm to 7pm daily, and book ahead Thursday to Saturday.

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Bangkok's rooftop bar scene is among the finest in the world. The city's collection of landmark sky bars — Sky Bar at Lebua, Vertigo and Moon Bar at Banyan Tree, Octave at the Marriott Sukhumvit — has given Bangkok a global reputation as a destination for elevated drinking. The city's topography, with its flat floodplain and towers rising sharply above low-rise neighbourhoods, creates exceptional viewing conditions from above. Bangkok's rooftop bars span every price point and neighbourhood: from Silom's high-end hotel terraces to Sukhumvit's multi-floor rooftop complexes.