HotelChatter - Tag: Thailand Hotels

Khon Kaen: Should Colored Lighting Be Allowed In The Bathroom?

ASchechter — 2011-12-20T09:38:14-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/Glacier.jpg" class="top">We've enjoyed seeing the way mood lighting has worked its way up as a kind of current hotel trend. Perhaps most notably seen inside <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Yotel+Times+Square/local/4852">Yotel</a>'s spaceship cabins, we've also documented the effects at <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/11/21/8416/2208/hotels/">The Water Club at the Borgata</a>'s rooftop spa and at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/5/14/92532/7615/hotels/Mood_Lighting_or_Hi_Tech_Toilets_What_Kind_of_Hotel_Geek_Are_You_">Peninsula Tokyo</a>. But should the trick be used in hotel bathrooms as well? <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/thomaswanhoff">@thomaswanhoff</a> photographed and tweeted this show from a hotel in Thailand called the Glacier Hotel over the weekend. We're seriously digging the blue-lit sideways teardrop sink, but realize it might not be for everyone. In fact, a quick hop over to <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/TripAdvisor">TripAdvisor</a> shows at least one guest who, while approving of the hotel in general, couldn't

Bangkok: Inside the Newest Anantara Hotel: The Anantara Riverside Bangkok

JetSetCD — 2011-12-19T10:31:50-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/BKKMarrmain2.jpg" class="top"> The hotel's Longtail Bar on its private dock While Thailand was flooding these past few months, a hotel right on the river in Bangkok was busy renovating and changing brands. Luckily the new <a href="http://bangkok-riverside.anantara.com/">Anantara Riverside</a> (formerly the Marriott Riverside) wasn't effected by the high waters and now that the country is drying off, they're ready to welcome the return glut of travelers. Until the end of April 2012, they're offering rooms from 3,888 THB ($125 USD) per night; it's the <a href="http://bangkok-riverside.anantara.com/Bangkok-Riverside-Journey-Begins-Package/">Journey Begins package</a>, which includes a room upgrade, breakfast, internet and discounts on the spa and further dining. During a recent trip to Thailand at the very start of the flooding, we spent two nights at

Bangkok: As Bangkok Dries Off, a Hotel Renovates and Relaunches

JetSetCD — 2011-12-15T16:54:39-05:00

Check out that pool. Would you believe that it's just outside the very middle of the bustling metropolis that is Bangkok, Thailand? Now that the city is drying off after catastrophic flooding, it's time to head back and luckily there's a new hotel to make things interesting.

Well, actually it's an old hotel. But it's a new hotel too! You see, the Marriott Riverside Bangkok has been renovated, revamped and relaunched as the Anantara Riverside.

BANGKOK: Who Is The Magic Doorman?

ASchechter — 2011-11-03T11:15:01-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/61268/1195422351496392571johnny_automatic_magician_doing_a_trick.svg.hi.png" class="top">If our recent coverage of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Bangkok%20Hotels">Bangkok</a> hotel scene hadn't already whetted your appetite to visit the Land of Smiles yourself (perhaps you could time your trip to the opening of the future <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/9/9/93044/76337/hotels/A_Sexy_Skyscraper_for_the_Upcoming_W_Hotel_Bangkok">W Bangkok</a>?), then maybe this will get your travel wheels spinning. To the Four Seasons, that is. <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/FOUR+SEASONS+BANGKOK/local/1906">Four Seasons Bangkok</a> has a special trick up their sleeve, in the form of what they call the "<a href="http://press.fourseasons.com/bangkok/hotel-team/narongsak-khamkaew.html">Magic Doorman</a>". Narongsak Khamkaew is a Bangkok-born doorman at the hotel who just so happens to be an amateur magician. Or is he an amateur magician who also happens to work at a hotel? We can't really be sure. Either way, he bought a David Copperfield

Phuket: The Hotel Pools of Phuket: Private Villas Mean Private Pools at the Anantara

JetSetCD — 2011-10-14T16:13:28-05:00

<![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Ananplprivmain2.jpg" class="top"> Sometimes you just don't want to share a hotel pool with other guests. Perhaps you want to skinnydip, or meditate, or have family time, or just float in the middle of the pool and completely, utterly zone out. Whatever your reasons, we get it. So does the <a href="http://phuket.anantara.com/">Anantara Phuket Villas</a>, because each of their 83 villas comes complete with its own private pool, plus deck with loungers, a traditional Thai Sala, outdoor shower and giant sunken bathtub. Guests can easily spend the majority of a weeklong vacation here lost in the luxuries of their private abodeheck, there are even rose petals and salts provided for the fancy bathtubbut for the rest of the time, there's always