Created to connect people through cooking, the well-run Hom Hostel sits incongruously on the edge of one of Bangkok’s nightlife areas. But with clean dorms, simple rooms, a huge kitchen, a rooftop garden and cooking demos and classes, it’s a great option for travellers curious about Thai cuisine.
The Roaring Twenties are reimagined with DJs and modern amenities in this Art Deco-inspired boutique hotel. Smart rooms with wooden floors, eclectic furniture and plenty of marble, a small pool, a funky rooftop bar and a fine Italian restaurant make for a great downtown stay for couples.
The Well is a health-oriented downtown hotel with boutique amenities. Some of the rooms feature exercise bikes and the restaurant serves excellent health juices and well-designed food therapy menus, both Thai and western, and there’s a spa, a pool, a gym offering free fitness sessions.
This property in Bangkok's happening Thonglor neighbourhood will appeal to those seeking panache. The delightful interiors successfully marry Art Deco flourishes with contemporary Thai touches, while facilities include a lush outdoor swimming pool, contemporary Asian restaurant and fabulous rooft...
Brash and funky, Lub d Bangkok Silom is an excellent, centrally-located and safe hostel for young sociable travellers. With friendly staff, decent dorms and smart rooms, lots of travel information, free tours and a bar in the common area, this hostel pulls out all the stops to make guests feel co...
When Kimpton Maa-Lai opened, its bars, restaurants and café were bustling from day one. The hotel draws crowds with a delightful cocktail of smart service, unpretentious comfort food and an anything-goes appeal, plus some of the comfiest rooms in this part of town.
A huge and grand affair offering a distinctive Thai flavour, great service and plenty of pomp and circumstance, the Shangri-La sits right on the banks of the Chao Praya river, perfectly situated to explore both the city’s historical sites and the downtown shopping areas.
The Cabochon is a small, quiet and elegant heritage-style boutique hotel in downtown Bangkok, offering retro charm with great attention to detail and friendly service. The restaurant serves authentic Thai dishes and the rooftop swimming pool is 25m long, offering stupendous views of the city.
The Eastin Grand Hotel Sathorn is a large elegant hotel in Bangkok’s business district, close to the river and main tourist sites. An excellent and quite unique British restaurant and a highly reputable Chinese eatery, a large infinity pool, and a spacious gym round off the picture.
The Siamaze is a plain and clean hostel with simple facilities in an unassuming apartment block, a little off-the-beaten-track but well connected by public transport. For visitors looking for a comfortable hostel at a great price, it’s perfect and the private rooms are exceptionally large.
Taking over a crumbling former bank building in Bangkok’s Chinatown, this taxidermy-studded boutique hotel feels like a film set, natural history museum and dandy bachelor pad all mashed into one. Top service and an excellent breakfast supplement its photogenic looks. A perfect base to explore th...
CHANN, located on a quiet canal on the west side of the Chao Praya river, is a simple, urban boutique hideaway offering 22 rooms and four suites clad entirely in wood. All have balconies or patios overlooking the canal and the local community along its banks. There's also a decent restaurant.
This family-friendly hotel in downtown Bangkok offers excellent facilities and a couple of good restaurants. The compact rooms come with great views, but it’s the spacious suites, some with two bedrooms and kitchenettes, that are among the city’s best for long-stay guests with children.
Udee Bangkok is a smart, small and simple hostel on a quiet lane close to Chatuchak, where Asia’s largest outdoor market is. Chinese and Thai design elements, friendly and well-informed management, and safe, clean rooms and dorms, as well as a communal rooftop make for a relaxed and quiet stay.
The Bed Station is a smart, sociable and lively hostel in downtown Bangkok, in spitting distance of a skytrain station, and ideal for guests wishing to explore the city. Good security, friendly staff and clean dorms and rooms make this an ideal stay for young solo travellers and couples.
Bangkok’s only low-rise resort hotel sits on the banks of the Chao Praya, a little away from the city, and offers 396 elegant, contemporary style rooms with balconies arranged around a decent-sized pool, great amenities and a plethora of eating options.
The Sivatel is a simple and smart high-rise hotel in downtown Bangkok, close to public transport, foreign embassies and the city's shopping and nightlife districts. The rooms (all suites) are generous in size, the pool is one of the largest in the area. The restaurant serves delicious, organic we...
This large, luxurious hotel offers near faultless service in the heart of the city's shopping district. Highlights include an outdoor pool, an impressive all-day international food gallery and a 32nd-floor executive lounge with incredible views of the city.
The Continent is a smart, friendly high-rise hotel in downtown Bangkok, minutes away from shopping and entertainment areas and as close to public transport options as one can get. It offers great views from the rooms on the upper floors.
Adventure Hostel is located in a refurbished 1960s shop house next to a skytrain station, ideally located for the popular Chatuchak market. Few thrills but very clean dorms and attractive common areas make this hostel a simple base to explore the city from.
The Luxx XL is a quiet boutique hotel in the up-scale Lang Suan area, which is crammed with eateries, bars and music venues. With its bright lobby, small, garden-fringed pool and large simple rooms and suites, the property is the ideal springboard into the city’s hi-so nightlife and shopping.
The U Sathorn is a sprawling resort tucked away in a quiet and rather remote corner of downtown Bangkok. J’aime Restaurant serves incredible Michelin-star French cuisine in an informal setting, though there are also more generic dining options available at the Library Bar.
Rosewood's second hotel in Thailand brings serene residential-style living to one of Bangkok's busiest corners. Slip off the main road and into grown-up getaway, with large suave rooms, a brace of excellent bars and restaurants, a tip-top spa and attentive service.
Located in the very heart of downtown Bangkok, right next to the US Embassy, the Oriental Residence brims with quiet, understated luxury for business and leisure travellers. A decent-sized pool offers stupendous views over the surrounding area. All rooms have a kitchenette, well-suited for families.
There are one to many dishes vegetarians and vegans alike have to miss out on because of their dietary needs.
Those visitors of Bangkok who have baht to blow and want to challenge their taste buds should head to Sra Bua by Kiin Kiin.
With a name like Smooth Curry, it may come as no surprise that this particular restaurant has some of the best gaeng (curry) in town.
Do not let its quirky name fool you: Cabbages & Condoms is serving up some of the most mouthwatering and authentic of Thai cuisine in Bangkok, in addition to a good helping of sex education.
This restaurant made headlines when it opened because of its zero-waste, urban farm concept.
The swell of Japanese expats to the area means that Thonglor is in no short supply of incredible Japanese cuisine.
Housed in retrofitted shipping containers that spill out into a lush garden dining space
