Going to the Movies in Thailand

Wednesday was a rainy day and it's also half-off at the movies so Caitlin and I decided to venture to Central Festival (the big mall near where Matt and I live) to catch a movie. In Thailand there are two options for your movie viewing experience, the regular movie theater and something called "first class". "First class" is about 7x the price of the regular movie experience (which was 100 Baht/$3). It includes lazy boys for each person, a table and a server! There's a buffet and they bring you cocktails to your seat lazy boy recliner.




As amazing as the whole experience sounded, we couldn't really justify spending 700 Baht/$20 on Grown Ups 2 (they obviously have a limited selection of English movies) haha so we opted for the good old normal no-leg-room theater.

Another interesting part of the movie-going experience here is a part during the previews before the main attraction when they ask everyone in the theater to please stand and pay respect while they play the King's anthem and photos of him scroll across the screen. In America this would be the equivalent of asking the audience to stand for the National Anthem during the movie trailers. They definitely do it a little differently here. It impresses me how much reverence they show their King. They not only respect him, they genuinely love him.