Bangkok Songkran trip day 1 dinner with BB — THB$1000 dinner in Bangkok. The Thai New Year holiday trip kickoff dinner.

We ordered:

Bangkok Thai dinner spread — THB$1000 (~SGD $42 at 2019 exchange)

Songkran (สงกรานต์) is the Thai New Year festival celebrated annually from April 13-15 (sometimes extending to April 16). The festival originally marked the traditional Thai solar new year and the start of the rainy season. The modern celebration is the famous water-throwing festival — Thai cities (especially Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Pattaya) transform into mass water fights for the three-day holiday.

The Bangkok Songkran trip is the proper Singapore-Thailand short-haul travel format. 2.5-hour flight from Singapore Changi, multiple daily flights via SQ, TR, FD, TG. The April timing aligns with the Singapore school holiday + the Thai festival — making it one of the popular regional travel windows.

The THB$1000 dinner pricing (~SGD$42 at 2019 exchange rate) puts this in the upper-mid Bangkok restaurant tier. Different from the budget Bangkok street food (THB$50-150 per meal) or the high-end fine dining (THB$3000-5000 per person), the THB$1000 tier covers proper sit-down restaurants with multiple dishes for two.

Bangkok dining at this tier typically runs:

Modern Thai restaurants (Bo.lan, Le Du, 80/20 — though those skew higher)
Sit-down regional Thai (Isaan, Northern, Southern specialty)
Hotel restaurants (mid-tier 4-star properties)
Casual Thai-Western fusion (Greyhound Cafe, After You, etc.)

Day 1 of a Songkran trip typically runs the “settle-in” energy. Arrive afternoon, check into the hotel, freshen up, head out for the proper first dinner. The first meal sets the trip’s eating mood — the substantial-but-not-overwhelming dinner that signals the trip’s start.

The Bangkok dining scene is one of the strongest in Southeast Asia. The combination of: