The French Hotel chain Accor, which seems to have more brand names than a model's closet, is opening a new 3-star All Seasons outlet in Thailand. The All Seasons Gold Orchid Bangkok is taking room reservations for a week from Saturday on, so this touted opening looks to be real.
Like most Bangkok hotels, this one is a good value, with standard rooms listing for around $50 and junior suites going for $85. This is despite this year's tumble of the U.S. dollar against the Thai baht.
You've got to love the spin on this description from another booking site though: "Strategically located 45 minutes from Suvarnabhumi Airport and 15 minutes from the city...Adjacent to Vibhavadi Rangsit Expressway." So if your strategy is to be far away from everything except traffic, this is your place!
Should you believe everything you read in a hotel review? Should you jump off a skyscraper if someone tells you too? Of course, you have to take everything you read everywhere with a grain of salt, but blogger thru-e-rain decided it was better to be safe than sorry after her online review discoveries on her recent trip to Bangkok with her Mom. Her plans went astray when the Baiyoke Sky Hotel was fully booked and she ended up settling for the Baiyoke Suite instead. That's when things got a bit strange:
I was reading online hotel reviews and they were mostly NEGATIVE in nature. Almost 95% said it was a terrible hotel to stay in ... The scariest review that I read was that someone went into their room at 5am in the morning, and fortunately the couple was awake and asked what that fella was doing, and that chap just said he got the wrong room and left. Atrocious right?! ... So I had this formation to BLOCK the door, should anyone want to try to get in to attack us! Nice? I used all the portable stuff there was in the room already, short of carrying the huge sofa to the door as well.
The result? Well, she doesn't say exactly, saying that the hotel was actually pretty nice. So presumably no mystery men got past her blockaded door and the holiday was happy ever after.
The Veronica Residence Boutique Design Hotel in Bangkok seems pretty confused about its identity. They claim to be both design and a boutique hotel. Luckily for the hotel, it is quite stylish, modern, and trendy--fulfilling the design and boutique hotel criteria.
There's 41 rooms, half of them suites and one of them a VIP suite but that's not for you to touch:
Veronica Residence is a small boutique hotel on, I found it a nice change, especially as all other hotels in this area are of the traditional type. The room I had was a deluxe room and it was nicely designed with light colors and some Chinese elements. I also had the Grand VIP room shown to me just to have a look. It was not too expensive, too and had a Jacuzzi in it.
We imagine them showing off the room while luring you with Champagne and caviar that's always out of your reach, tempting you to take the VIP room. But hey, in a designer boutique hotel, each room should be snazzy enough anyway.
We are suckers for a room with a killer view. We find that we are even more likely to forgive some minor hotel inconveniences if we can stare out the window at something pretty--yeah we are that shallow. Let's help out our fellow hotel mavens by uploading rooms with killer views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. We will feature our favorites in this space from time to time. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number of the hot view.
We hope you are not afraid of heights if you stay at one of the worlds tallest hotels, the Baiyoke Sky Tower which has 88 floors. This killer view of Bangkok was taken from the 83rd floor.
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by Tim L.
