Keep cool in the Bangkok heatwave with these 8 indoor activities!

Things are heating up in Bangkok, and we have a couple of summer activities lined up for you if you want to stay indoors but still have loads of summer fun! While entering the summer season may mean cutting short the morning market trips, street shopping, and afternoon city walks, there are still tons of other things to do in the Land of Smiles! 

This may actually be the perfect time for you to finally watch a Muay Thai match, visit the aquarium, or get your much-deserved stretching experience. Read on below to discover eight activities to keep you entertained, despite the sweltering heat outside.

Test your shooting skills at the Bangkok Shooting Range! This experience is perfect for first-timers who want to know the basics of practice shooting like gun handling, proper posture, and focusing on your target board. If it isn’t your first time, however, you’re still in for a treat since practice shooting is also considered as a stress-relieving activity.

To kickstart your practice shooting experience, choose your preferred gun first (handgun, rifle, shotgun) then head over to the shooting range!

Another activity for those who want to feel the thrill while staying indoors is this go-kart experience! Race your heart out on the tracks alongside your friends, family, and loved ones after you’ve all picked out your karts and speed preferences. This experience is open for all ages, so don’t worry so much if you plan to bring your kids with you. Once you’re all set and ready, let the racing competition begin!

Boxing fans will love this next activity on our list! Muay Thai is Thailand’s pride and joy when it comes to sports, so watching a match during your Bangkok trip is a must do. To further up your experience, witness a match at one of the oldest but grandest stadiums in the country, Rajadamnern Stadium. Both locals and foreigners gather at the stadium to watch nine different matches in a week, so make sure to grab your ringside seat to fully see the match up close.

Welcome to Southeast Asia’s largest aquarium — SEA LIFE Bangkok Ocean World! Inside this massive aquarium are over 30,000 sea creatures for you to marvel at and some, even meet up close. Animals like turtles, penguins, seahorses, fishes, and sharks are just some that you’ll come across as you explore the ocean world. 

You can meet and feed otters, seahorses, penguins, and even sharks if you’re brave enough! Other activities that you can do here include riding a glass-bottom boat to get up close and personal with selected sea animals, diving with sharks (you’ll be accompanied by professionals, of course!), and watching underwater movies like Aquaman in 4D!

This list of indoor activities to do in Bangkok will never be complete without a good massage and stretching session! Thailand is known for offering the best massage services, but they have this new and much-needed service called stretching. Get ready to get stretched by professionals who will release all the stresses and pains from your body and leave you more flexible than before! The experience comes with a free consultation, so you can choose the stretch package that best suits you. They offer a 60-minute basic office stretch and a 60-minute basic sport stretch as well. If you feel that you need more than the basics, go ahead and treat yourself to a 90-minute advanced office stretch or a 90-minute advanced sport stretch.

You just can’t have enough relaxing treatments, so we’re adding another must-experience to this list — floatation therapy! This type of therapy is another perfect way to relieve your stress and literally have your worries float away. Your peaceful floatation therapy starts as you enter a floating pod that will keep you isolated for 60 to 90 minutes. Once you’re inside the pod, you can go into a deep meditation that will let all your body and mind tensions dissolve into relaxation.

If you enjoy energy-pumping activities, then Bounceinc in Bangkok should be your next destination! This jumping experience will keep you hyped up for a good hour or two since there are so many sections to explore here like the X-Park, a trampoline area packed with obstacles, The Wall, a vertical trampoline area perfect for freestyle tricks and wall running, Slam Dunk, a trampoline area with basketball rings, and the crowd favorite, Free-Jump Arena, where you can all just jump and bounce however you like!

To cap off our list of indoor activities to do in Bangkok is this VR (virtual reality) games experience, perfect for families and friend groups! This VR games experience starts once you choose the amount of time you want to spend playing multiple games like Private Property, Ohshapee, Baam Squad, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Rick and Morty, and Affected: The Manor. If you’re a beginner, you can try games like Paper Fire Rookie Arcade, Thundergod, Boneworks, and Crisis Vrigade. There are so many games to choose from, and if you want to play as many as you can, we suggest availing the 2-hour play package!

Now that you have an idea or two of what you can do indoors to beat the Bangkok heat, go ahead and invite your friends and loved ones to any of these experiences for a Bangkok trip to remember! Happy travels and stay hydrated! 💦