The first resort to open on the city’s wild green lung is a trailblazing beacon of green living When I meet Jirayu Tulyanond, the thirty something creator of an ambitious new riverside resort called the Bangkok Tree House, we don’t wai or shake hands. We can’t, as they’re full with all the bits of Styrofoam,… [more]

Barely a month passes when we don’t receive an invitation to the opening of some new hotel, be it uber-luxurious or a trendy but cheapie. Sometimes, in our more cynical moments, we wonder where it will all end, but there’s no doubt the end result is more choice and bargains for you. Here are four… [more]

New hotels open all the time here, every few weeks it seems, so it takes something special to grab our attention. Dressed to the nines in bold, extravagant lashings of faux-Euro classicism, Hotel Muse has managed it. An upscale new 174-room hotel on upmarket Lang Suan Road, it’s neat, faintly art deco exterior segues into… [more]

By Amornsri Tresarannukul  Fancy soaking up history in the centre of old Bangkok?  If so, Feung Nakorn Balcony, a one-year-old family-run hotel named after the road on which it sits, is a winner.  One of the fi rst western-style roads to be built during the reign of King Rama V, Feung Nakorn Road, with its… [more]

by Max Crosbie-Jones Our stay at this four-month-old hostel right on the Chao Phraya River was hardly uneventful. While trying to find it we were snarled at by mad dogs after a wrong-turn led us down a scuzzy backalley, and later on that evening a flood (our stay coincided with a river surge caused by… [more]

By Max Crosbie-Jones When bijou little boutique hotel, The Bhuthorn, opened back in 2010 we were smitten. A beautifully restored century-old shophouse filled with elegant antiques and with a hard-to-trump Old City location, it remains one of our favourites, the B&B we gush about to visiting friends. Now, buoyed by its success (not least a… [more]

Where is the welcome? Where is the charm? Where, er, is the toilet paper? These kinds of questions are commonplace among hostel-goers. Even more so if you’re staying around backpacker barrio Khao San Road, where often the only thing that comes guaranteed is a sour-faced receptionist. Mercifully, though, there is Baan Dinso to restore your… [more]

Even travellers who normally balk at the prospect of “lording it up” will not regret staying at this gated riverside residence within walking distance of Wat Po and Pak Klong Talad (Flower Market) – the former, century-old home of HRH Prince Chakrabongse, no less. The accommodation consists of four luxe teak villas that rise within… [more]

Over the river and through the city outskirts lies a little boutique hotel that is not a far cry from Grandma’s house – your Thai grandmother of course. The Bangphlat Resort is much more than just a bunch of rooms, it’s two neat rows of authentic Thai houses with 30 years on its side –… [more]

Marble-encrusted lobbies, Michelin-star chefs and five-star everything are what we expect from the new Bangkok hotel. But now and again, once in a blue moon, one really takes us by surprise. The Bhuthorn – a tiny 3-room B&B offering 20th century soul over 21st century functionality – is one of them… and it is stunning…. [more]