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If you have to stay out at Don Muang International Airport, or have business at IMPACT Arena and Convention Centre, this is a convenient hotel for both. Westerners might appreciate a room five minutes away from Terminal 1 by air-conditioned walkway and never having to venture outside. Rooms on the exclusive women’s floor, accessed by a private elevator, have a feminine touch in their decor and upgraded bathroom amenities. The look is modern and spacious. There are conference and banquet facilities for up to 1,000 guests and the business centre is open 24 hours.
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This large hotel is famed locally for its space-age appearance and beautiful atrium lobby. Even though it’s close to the city centre and a short walk from the new underground, it might be a bit out of the way for some. To others, that’s the beauty of the place. Free shuttles are provided to Siam Square. The rooms are large, comfortable and elegantly understated, and some have terrific views of the city. Service is friendly and efficient. There’s broadband internet in every room and in the well-equipped business centre. Wi-fi is available only on the executive floor.
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This spacious, cheerful business hotel doesn’t take its [name] from an American political scandal, rather from the busy central district in which it’s located— Prathu means gate in Thai, nam means water. It is surrounded by a busy shopping area and is a short walk from the huge Central World Plaza shopping centre. The interior is a classic blend of East and West, with large, understated rooms. The top three floors are reserved for executive rooms and have their own reception and lounge, butler service and complimentary breakfast buffet. The staffed business centre is open 24 hours.
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This hotel is a little off the beaten track, sitting just across the river from downtown Bangkok and its hazy silhouette, but it feels more isolated than it actually is. With its rustic touches and hardwood everywhere, it’s a favourite with business travellers who want to feel like they are getting away from it all when the meetings end. And they can get still farther away by taking an exotic night cruise aboard the Manohra Song, the hotel’s restored rice barge, to the ancient Thai capital of Ayutthaya. If you love luxurious, sprawling resorts but hate cities, this could be your place.
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This is a no-tourist zone. The liberal use of wood and muted colours will tell you from the moment you enter the lobby that you’re among businesspeople. The luxurious apartments are more executive home than Holiday Inn and your neighbours are more likely hoping to make a good business deal than get the perfect tan. The comfortable rooms are well-equipped, with microwave ovens. If you feel more comfortable in a place like this, come even if you intend to stay only one night. Centre Point has five other locations in the city, all fairly similar, with apartments up to four bedrooms.
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Sitting amid drab office buildings in the heart of the Sathorn Road business district, this intimate hotel seems out of place. Step inside and you’re transported to a tranquil world before faxes and beepers. It’s unique, and popular with business travellers and airline crews. It’s not far from the Skytrain and the famed Patpong nightlife area on Silom Road. The business centre has translation and secretarial services, and the Evergreen Club upstairs has a conference room and small library. The lobby bar has live easylistening music in the evenings.
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This beautiful hotel is a work of art, the lobby majestic, the rooms stylish and serene. Everywhere you look, your eyes come to rest on traditional statues, figurines and paintings. You will sometimes forget that you’re in the heart of Bangkok, surrounded by shops and office buildings. The business centre is staffed round the clock and meeting rooms accommodate groups large or small. Conference facilities cater for up to 800. But work will seem miles away as you stroll the lush gardens that envelop the huge lap pool or allow a masseuse in the Madara Spa to melt life’s tensions away.
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When the old Erawan Hotel was being constructed in the 1950s, a number of strange events caused workers to lay down their tools until the spirits were appeased. Astrologers were called in and work resumed after a shrine was built. Erawan Shrine is still popular with devotees. This palatial, luxurious hotel is built on the same site as the original, behind the shrine, and rumour has it the spirits will take good care of you. A business-oriented hotel with lovely decor and huge bathrooms.
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If you like wide open spaces, you’ll love this hotel. The elegant rooms, restaurants, meeting places and ballrooms all share one characteristic—they’re huge. The hotel also boasts enormous conference facilities. The guest rooms have unobstructed views, enhancing the feeling of spaciousness that sets this hotel apart. Whatever brought you to Bangkok, business or leisure, this hotel is ideally located. It’s surrounded by bustling business and shopping districts, is next door to Gaysorn Plaza and the Skytrain and a short walk to Central World Plaza.
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The Metropolitan is the hotspot for those who want to be at the centre of the action. The hotel is positioned at one remove from Bangkok’s traffic, yet steps from the city’s buzzing nightlife, tucked away in the Central Business District minutes from the main shopping areas and a 30-minute drive to the International Airport. Guest rooms are some of the largest in Bangkok. A cool East-West aesthetic with modern Oriental accents is combined with award-winning cuisine, a spa and the chic Met Bar.
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This clean, bright hotel is the closest to BITEC convention centre and the new Suvarnabhumi International Airport, due to open in March 2006, but otherwise there’s not much reason to stay so far from downtown Bangkok. Rooms are simple but comfortable. Conference facilities include eight meeting rooms, the largest seating up to 300 people. There are Chinese and Japanese restaurants, both with private rooms suitable for business dinners, as well as an international restaurant, the Rommai, which serves good buffets throughout the day.
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A comfortable place on a quiet street not far from the Sukhumvit Road entertainment districts and shopping. Rooms are bright, and warmed by hardwood and the kitchens are pretty well-equipped. Home entertainment includes a huge TV screen and equipment to play VCR tapes and assorted discs, with speakers in the ceiling, even in the bathroom. You also have access to wireless internet anywhere in the building, from the library to the pool. Ease your tensions away with a massage in the spa. Free shuttle to Nana Skytrain station.
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Simply another of the world’s finest hotels in a city known for great inns. Set in lush, manicured gardens, the Shangri-La’s wings fan out along the banks of the Chao Phraya River. Its lobbies, lounges and restaurants are beautiful and fastidiously opulent, with nothing left to chance. The personalised service is extravagant but natural and never oppressive. The rooms are luxurious, with subtle tones, teak, marble and everything in its place. Rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit in the magical CHI Spa or take a romantic dinner cruise from the hotel’s private pier. In such a beautiful location, you won’t be surprised to hear a director yell “Action!”.
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If you love food, you don’t have to look any further. Whether your passion is Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Italian or a creative fusion of Asian and Western, the restaurants here are locally famous and have a reputation for treating you royally. Even the room-service meals are exceptional. This friendly hotel, with many government offices nearby, has long been popular with Thai businesspeople. It’s also close to Chitralada Palace and the Royal Turf Club. There is a Skytrain station across the street, so it’s never far from anywhere in central Bangkok.
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The Bangkok Convention Centre takes up the fourth and fifth floors of this hotel/meeting/shopping complex, with facilities for up to 5,000 people in the main auditorium, making it the largest integrated convention and hotel facility in Thailand. Guest rooms have high-speed data lines and fax machines available on request. After work, the Centara Spa is a marvellous facility in which to lose yourself.
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The friendly staff in this small, welcoming, Swiss-managed hotel will do their best to make you feel at home, comfortable and safe. The great location, on pleasant Convent Road, is a short walk from Silom Road’s famous entertainment areas, shopping, restaurants and medical services, as well as both Skytrain and subway stations. If you like cheese fondue, the real thing is served in the Swiss Café. It just might leave you speechless, especially if you’ve tried fondue in Asia before. The efficient business centre offers translation and messenger services.
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Overlooking Lumphini Park, this legendary Bangkok hotel is a magnet for Thai movie stars and European expatriots for whom being seen at The Dusit has currency. It is an outstanding hotel, with elegant Thai decor that uses silk and teak liberally, and excellent restaurants. It’s located in the heart of the Silom entertainment district, next door to the Patong nightlife district. Underground and Skytrain stations are just outside. The facilities are first-class, with 24-hour butler service, a health spa and state-of-the-art fitness centre—even a golf school and outdoor driving rang
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This 130-year-old hotel on the Chao Phraya River is in select company. Vying for the rank of the world’s finest, the Oriental tops many people’s list. Even less well-healed travellers have been known to save up for this special treat. The army of exquisitely trained employees will remember almost everything about you the next time you come, not least your [name]. From the pampered elegance of the Oriental Spa, to sultry jazz in the famous Bamboo Bar, to the Authors’ Wing with rooms [name]d after famous writers who stayed there, your stay could be a treasured memory. Efficient secretaries staff the wellequipped business centre.
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This relative newcomer has quickly made an impression on Bangkok’s incredibly competitive hotel market and is already recognised as one of the city’s better hotels. Its huge rooms are luxuriously appointed, with the latest comfort-control technology (including personal fax machine). All have a view of the river. The marble bathrooms are beautiful—soak in the bathtub while watching television on a fog-free screen or talk hands-free on the telephone. The restaurants are among the finest in Bangkok. You might never want to leave the hotel, but ease the pangs of withdrawal by using the Rolls Royce limousine.
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This exceptional low-rise hotel sits peacefully amid acres of coiffed gardens. It whispers tranquillity and you’ll never forget which part of the world you’re in; it oozes South-East Asia. Inside it’s sheer elegance in silk, teak and stone, the designers taking inspiration from the city of Sukhothai, Siam’s first capital. Outside are enchanting courtyards with reflecting pools and sculptures. The guest rooms are huge, in muted earth tones, with bathrooms you could lose yourself in. The business centre is open 24 hours a day.
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Location, location, location... All of central Bangkok is only minutes away, with both the Skytrain and underground lines stopping nearby and the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre just one subway stop from your door. There are a number of meeting and event facilities, including the Grand Ballroom, which can seat 1,000 people, and the latest audio-visual equipment is available. The exclusive executive floor includes butler service, complimentary breakfast, afternoon tea and evening cocktails in a private lounge.
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