What is special about Khao San Road?

You can get there by (super cheap) taxi anyway, so why stay away for that?? I visit Khao San road every time I'm in Bangkok (and that's been for several decades), just for the fun, the other products they offer (food, clothes, gadgets).

There is a good tolerant atmosphere where young people dance on the street and where the massage takes place on the street.

You will find wonderful restaurants where all ages are represented.

The only drawback are the extremely pushy taxi drivers and tuk tuk drivers, as well as the men who want to take you to an erotic affair.

I also hear that, to my great regret, the government wants to impose some restrictions on this street, that will certainly bring down the atmosphere.

So hurry up!

For me, the Khao San Road is not worth it. I was last there 3 years ago, but also several times in the 33 years before that. At 23 I traveled through Thailand for half a year, WITH a backpack, but since I worked for an airline, never again. Always with a sturdy case (Delsey or Samsung). To me, the brats roaming Khao San Road were imitators, looking for something authentic with their Tony Wheeler guidebooks (Thailand on a Shoestring and the like) and wanting to steer clear of the mainstream tourists, while being a hot spot themselves. made famous by the movie “The Beach”, in which the Khao San Road was portrayed as a busy street with dark hotels and unsavory characters… I always had the feeling that these tourists believed that backpackers are not tourists and that they all are individualistic travelers, who know better than tourists who dress decently and don't walk around with a backpack, is easy to open, where everything falls out easily, is difficult to reach and does not protect the souvenirs you put in it.
I used to go there mainly because you could get a fake student pass or even journalist pass there. But then I would quickly leave.
For young people who come to Asia for the first time it can be quite a good meeting place, but for me it remained the opposite of what many thought it was. A place where individual mass tourists met, a ghetto of foreign tourists…