Photos with the famous, inside a Siam mall
Madame Tussauds Bangkok is the wax museum inside Siam Discovery, one of the shopping centres clustered around the Siam junction in the middle of the city. You wander through themed rooms full of lifelike figures — film and music stars, sports heroes, world leaders and well-known Thai faces — and you are meant to get close, pose and take as many photos as your phone can hold. It suits teenagers who would roll their eyes at another temple, and it is indoors and air-conditioned, which matters on a scorching day or when the afternoon rain arrives.
Because it sits in central Bangkok, it uses the same fixed fare as any address in the city centre. Book a Van Pattaya to Madame Tussauds Bangkok ride and the driver brings you to the Siam Discovery entrance, not to a street corner you then have to find on a map.
Turning one attraction into a Siam day
The wax museum rarely fills a whole day on its own, and it does not need to. Siam Paragon, with SEA LIFE Bangkok Ocean World downstairs, is next door; Siam Center and MBK are a short walk away; and the BTS Skytrain stops at Siam station if you want to hop further. Plenty of families spend the morning with the wax figures, eat in a food court, then shop or visit the aquarium before heading back. At weekends the malls fill up from late morning, so an early arrival means fewer strangers in the background of every photo.
- Tell us when you want to go in, and we count back two to two and a half hours for the drive
- Choose one mall entrance as your pick-up point and send it to the driver on WhatsApp
- The Siam junction slows down in the late afternoon, so allow some slack for the ride home
- Going on to a Bangkok hotel instead of back to Pattaya? Mention it when you book
One car for parents, kids and the shopping bags
The fare covers the whole vehicle, tolls and fuel, so it is the same whether you are three people or nine. A couple can take a sedan from ฿1,200. A family of five or six with a stroller, or two families sharing the day, fits best in the Toyota Commuter van, which takes nine passengers and eight bags for ฿1,900 one way. Need to come back the same evening? Ask for a return price with waiting time. We fix it in chat before you go, and you pay the driver in cash at the end of the van Pattaya to Madame Tussauds Bangkok trip.
With younger children, the drive is the part to plan. Two hours and more is a long stretch for a five-year-old, so bring a tablet or a few snacks, and ask the driver for a short toilet stop on the way if someone needs one. Kids who nap on the motorway tend to arrive ready to pose with every famous face in the building.