Pantip Plaza

Pantip Plaza is an indoor IT shopping mall located on New Phetchaburi Road in Ratchathewi district, Bangkok, Thailand. Pantip Plaza is 5 floors plus of IT heaven! In addition to computers and software, Pantip offers as wide a selection of digital cameras, digital video cameras, VCD/DVD players and PDAs as you will find. In addition, you can buy clothes here, and on the ground floor there are a number of shops selling Buddha amulets and local folk music CDs. The sale of counterfeit software and DVDs are the major reasons behind this mall's success and notoriety.

Pantip contains three large retail shops and several hundred small shops specializing in parts, modifications, hardware, networking, second hand, laptops, Macintosh and peripherals. Of note is a wide selection of second-hand business machines from IBM, Gateway, and Dell. Most of these machines come via cargo ship from Western countries. Plenty of software and hardware for PC, Macintosh and peripherals of all types. Pantip Plaza excels is in locally made computers – just read through lists of components, select what you want, and roam around the shops getting the best quotes. These ‘prefabricated’ computers are probably as good as any brand name but obviously won’t have the after sales service, especially if you are taking a computer out of Thailand