Discover Nightingale Olympic, your ultimate destination in Phra Nakhon, Thailand, where modern luxury meets authentic Thai hospitality. Located at 70 Tri Phet Road, our establishment is perfect for travelers seeking comfort and convenience. Enjoy top-notch amenities, vibrant local culture, and seamless access to nearby attractions for an unforgettable stay.
Welcome to Nightingale Olympic, situated at 70 Tri Phet Road in the heart of Phra Nakhon, Thailand. Our establishment seamlessly blends contemporary luxury with the warmth of traditional Thai hospitality, ensuring every guest enjoys a unique and memorable experience. With elegantly designed rooms equipped with modern conveniences, we strive to provide a haven of relaxation. Explore vibrant neighborhoods, rich cultural landmarks, and exquisite dining options just moments from our location. The attentive staff is dedicated to making your stay exceptional, providing personalized service tailored to meet your needs. Whether you’re here for leisure, business, or cultural exploration, Nightingale Olympic offers an exquisite base to immerse yourself in the local lifestyle. Join us for a stay where comfort, elegance, and culture intertwine, and experience the best that Phra Nakhon has to offer.
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Nightingale Olympic is perched on a picturesque hilltop overlooking 70 Tri Phet Road Wang Burapha Phirom, Phra Nakhon, 10200, Thailand
Yes, you can explore more about Nightingale Olympic, including its history, cultural significance, and upcoming events, by visiting its official website at http://nightingaleolympic.com.
Depending on whether or not you are superstitious, there may be something to look into over the fact that the footage we took was corrupted after visiting (spooky!). The staff are rude, I genuinely don’t understand why they have more than one or two staff members, we were the only people there in the 10 minutes we were inside. It’s really unnerving. Creepy. Wouldn’t take children here out of fear they may break something, and I can almost guarantee they’d charge you a literal limb to replace some of the vintage guitars upstairs. Worth a visit if you’re in the area for sure, just don’t obviously take a video or you’ll get yelled at
Strange place, worth a stop in and look around. It appears a 1960’s dep’t store froze in time and is still open (cue up the Rod Sterling music). The merchandise, fixtures, etc are all there. A few sales ladies will apparently sell you the items if you like. Frankly, even a vintage clothes buyer wouldn’t likely be interested. Some of the more interesting items were the musical instruments on the second floor. They are a bit militant about picture taking, so there isn’t much to share there. There is no cost to enter, so stick your head in and look around. If you spend more than 20 minutes, you’re dawdling.
Trippy, wild, and a living museum. Well … “living” is a stretch, but it was worth the trip. I tried to buy a bottle of perfume. Any guesses as to what they wanted to charge for the bottle in a trashed box. With all the perfume quite obviously saturating the silk-lined box lid? 6950 baht, or US 222. So … added benefit of comic relief. I ended up buying a hair net for 35 baht and stood firm when they wrote a price of 1400 on a piece of paper. I mean … geez, grandma. Yes, worth seeing.
After reading an article about the shop I wanted to visit, the article talked about 7 floors which I assume were open in its heyday. However that’s long since passed and there’s now only 2 floors open with a barrier across the stairs on the first floor. I wanted to visit before (in my opinion) the inevitable closure once the present owner can no longer run the shop. There were numerous staff on the ground floor all with absolutely nothing to do as at first I was the only customer in there. One of them came over and looked like she wanted to help me as I was browsing.The stock is weird with some obviously having been bought in the 60’s and never sold bit some of the vintage instruments look like they are not brand new and have been brought in later. Everything has a new price tag so you’re not going to get a valuable vintage instrument at 1960 prices. I wanted to buy something just to say I had done so, so I found the cheapest thing I could (a plastic shuttlecock) for 10 bhat. It was old and the white plastic was yellow so when the assistant saw my 20 note and tried to upsell and get me to buy 2 I stood firm despite her saying “two” numerous times. She then diligently wrote the details in her old fashioned ledger before I paid at a relatively modern till. Located in an undeveloped, traditional neighbourhood the shop is worth a visit if you’ve got time and want the experience but it’s nothing special, just a 1960’s department store stuck in time.
I first heard of this shop a couple years ago, and kept meaning to check it out, and finally did. Reviews and discussion were split on whether it was a fascinating place that’s well worth visiting, an old department store version of time travel, or if wasn’t viable as a shopping outlet due to carrying really dated stock, in an environment that made people feel uncomfortable. Now I get it; it’s both.I liked it, hence the 5 dots. Most of the stock wouldn’t be of interest to people, very old clothes, some old personal goods, old sporting goods and musical instruments (really old–I suppose some might be worth money related to that), and so on. I wanted to take pictures, to capture the theme there, but signs say not to, and reviews mention that it’s not welcomed. I saw a few modern items there, mixed in with really dated stock, which would make for an option if a visitor wanted to take part in a retail theme (new soccer balls, new dumbells).Then I saw what I would have been looking for, if I’d even considered that it existed: traditional Thai silk versions of Barbie clothes. Probably not actually silk, but that’s hardly the point given that Barbie is going to be wearing it. They sold the outfits separately (for 100 baht, $3, and absolute steal) or with a doll wearing an outfit who is essentially an Asian version of Barbie (for 280 baht, less than $10, when the outfit itself is surely worth that, if there even was a retail for such a thing). Barbie costs around $10 to $15, wearing plain clothes; I just bought those for Christmas around a month ago. As for the Thai clothes version, forget about finding those anywhere else; it’s not going to happen.My 5 year old daughter was thrilled. Except that she didn’t love the Rama 5 era style Thai “pants” version as much, so in dressing Elsa and Anna of course Anna got stuck wearing that. She liked it so much I swung back through to buy more before posting this. I checked and it is stock they refresh regularly, so if word gets out others will probably buy out all they have, and then they’ll get it back in.As for the staff seeming bored and giving you strange looks, sure, they did that. They warmed up when I spoke Thai to them but others won’t have that option. Go anyway; you’ll never see anything like this place again. “Old Siam” is a very old themed “mall” across the street that stayed viable; stop there too to actually buy Thai snack foods, modern clothes, or the modern version of what Barbie was wearing for adults. I bought a Thai silk jacket there for my wedding 11 years ago, the only time I’ve been in that building before this week.
Strange place but somehow fascinating. If you like to jump in the past then this is your place. Old logos, old furniture and not much going on.
Decided to visit Nightingale Olympic after reading about it on the BBC and thought it sounded suitably bizarre. With the extension of the MRT blue line its easy to get to and short walk from Sam Yot station. It hardly rates as a top tourist attraction, but if like me you enjoy the unusual it’s worth a visit. It’s kind of like something out of creepy movie where the staff somehow have failed to notice most of the stock is 50 or 60 years old and falling apart. This is not secondhand retro – this is the real thing that’s sat there for donkey years. It’s hard to imagine anyone really buys anything in this store, but an ancient beauty belt massager, which looks like it would disintegrate on touch, can be yours for a “mere” Baht11,500….They don’t like you taking photos but sneaked a few shots with my phone before I was asked to stop. If I was them I’d charge people to take photos, more likely to make money doing that than actually selling anything.Incredibly they have an online store, and a social media presence.
Nightingale Olympic department store provides an insight into an earlier era of shopping.From across the street, looking at the outside, it can be seen that Nightingale Olympic has seven floors, but only two are accessible.Opened in its present location in the 1960s, it seems as though no new stock has been introduced since the 1970s. The two floors feature exercise machines and sports equipment, such as heavy old wooden tennis rackets, board games, musical instruments, including drums and bongos with taut dry cracked drumheads, and lingerie.There is even a cat living in the shop, which came to life as we peered at one of the display cabinets. Affectionately called Bee by the staff, the cat seems inclined to curl up by the feet of a customer standing still for too long, as happened to me. [Shades of Mrs Slocombe’s catchphrase in the British sitcom Are You Being Served, “Have you seen my …..?”]Lingerie also featured in the window display. Catching my eye was one unfortunate mannequin who, at some stage, apparently lost her hands and had her right hand reattached to her left arm but whose raised right arm ends at her wrist. That mannequin, legs akimbo, wearing a petticoat, seems to symbolize that quirky “caught in a time warp” atmosphere about the place.It would be wonderful to keep this place open. I bought some bars of soap as a token gesture and received a handwritten receipt with my purchase.Nightingale Olympic is about 500 meters walk from the recently opened Sam Yot Station on the MRT Blue Line, on Tri Phet Road, off Charoen Krung Road which runs past the station.
One off special place in bkk. Reminiscent of antique stores and markets and curio museums in uk, USA and France. I hope it stays open forever!!
Well, it is indeed a bizarre place. Imagine those movies where you have to make an immediate escape from somewhere and you return 40 years later and find things as they were- that is this place. I must say I expected much more and was even more disappointed when there were only 2 floors open and I was stopped from taking pictures. I traveled a long way to see very little.My experience was probably a result of Covid cutbacks- there were only 3 or 4 staff on and everything above level 2 was not accessible. I struggle to understand how they make money really- almost nothing on display you would purchase, expect as a novelty item for the home or a gift. It would be better I think if they opened it as an attraction, charged a small amount and allow you to spend time and take a few photos. I was in and out in 15 minutes and disappointed. I would suggest if you are in Chinatown you are close and pay a visit otherwise do not go out of your way like I did.