Bangkok is the trip you take when Chiang Mai feels too sleepy. The Skytrain and metro mean you can actually move through a city this dense, the street food is genuinely world-class for a couple of CHF per meal, and the malls double as air-conditioned coworking when the heat gets serious. One of the top picks on this list for remote work: easy cost-to-value, a dense organised-events scene so meeting people is trivial, and a city that offers so much it tips into "too much distraction" territory if you let it. If you happen to be passing through in mid-April, Songkran — the Thai New Year water-fight festival — is worth experiencing once. Same +6h timezone gap as Chiang Mai; same async-only caveat. Avoid March–May (peak heat) and June–October (rainy season can be relentless).