Heritage mansion and courtyard dive school

So Heng Tai Mansion

Talat Noi, Samphanthawong (Chinatown), Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

A roughly 200 year old Hokkien courtyard mansion in Talat Noi, still owned by the founding family, where the central courtyard now holds a scuba training pool. You can sip a homemade coffee in a heritage house that doubles as a working dive school, watching or taking a dive right beside the old timber galleries.

The front of So Heng Tai Mansion in Talat Noi, Bangkok.

The front of So Heng Tai Mansion in Talat Noi, Bangkok. Photo by Phoebus 28, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Hours

Official source, current

Roughly 09:00 to 18:00, closed Mondays (open Tuesday to Sunday). Doors may be shut during opening hours if a diving course is running. One blog instead lists it as open daily.

“Open daily from 09.00 a.m. - 06.00 p.m. (Closed on Mondays)”

tourismthailand.org · Checked 7 Aug 2026

Price

Single report

About 50 baht entrance, deducted from any food or drink you buy inside. One blog instead reports entry as free with a required cafe purchase, so treat the 50 baht as indicative, not confirmed. Diving course prices were not found on any fetched page.

“There is an entrance fee of 50 TB, which is then deducted from the cost of any food or drink purchased inside.”

thailandee.com · Checked 24 Jul 2026

Age suitability

Not verified

Not verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.

Checked 24 Jul 2026

Caveats

VERIFY re-fetched three pages fresh this run and all extractor claims held. Price: thailandee states verbatim "There is an entrance fee of 50 TB, which is then deducted from the cost of any food or drink purchased inside" so the 50 baht value and snippet are confirmed, kept as single-report because it is a travel…

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