There are nightlife districts, and then there’s Nana Plaza - three floors of neon, balconies and glowing doorways wrapped around one central courtyard.

Walk beneath the famous “World’s Largest Adult Playground” sign and the whole place opens up around you. Start with a drink downstairs and you can watch the entire plaza moving around you - girls calling from entrances, groups deciding where to go next and staircases disappearing toward another row of bars overhead.

That’s the real appeal of Nana: there’s always another option glowing somewhere above you. A polished super-agogo one minute, a smaller old-school room the next, then another staircase and an entirely different atmosphere again. Half the fun is never quite knowing which door will end up defining the night.

Once the neon comes on, Nana feels like its own little city within the city - Bangkok nightlife compressed into one brightly lit playground.