Escaping the streets in Bangkok to Thailand’s best resorts. From the best Bangkok hotels to boutique and luxury Thai Resorts.
After late nights in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit area, we escape the hubbub of big city life and go in search of more serene experiences, which are often hard to come by in Bangkok’s central districts. To find them we taxi to the Chao Phraya riverside; a locale I recently fell in love with following a stay …
We start the day with pumpkin curry and stewed pork leg in Thailand’s rural rice fields. We end the day 350 kilometers away on top of Bangkok’s big city vistas. Just one of Thailand’s many extraordinary contrasts in travel. Our stay is at the Hilton Sukhumvit Hotel and it marks a somewhat significant milestone of …
For this escape we journey just a handful of Skytrain stops away to find a new cityscape and a new Bangkok. We leave behind our somewhat suburban Sukhumvit location, to find ourselves in Bangkok’s shiny commercial centre, snugged up at the Intercontinental Hotel. We are located smack in the centre of Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong area, one …
A quick guide to the coolest design hotels in Bangkok. These are the go-to hotels for Bangkok’s cool crowds with regular events, maybe a pool party or two, and of course regular listings of international DJs and clientele of models and local celebrities. This list fits all budgets and covers varying tourist areas of Bangkok. As …
With thousands to choose from, it is no doubt a strenuous and daunting task to uncover the best budget hotels in Bangkok. I will therefore whittle down my own favourites taken from nearly ten years of travel to Bangkok. Bangkok is well-known for affordable luxuries and our budget hotel picks, which range from 800 Baht …
In most hotel write-ups we share the hotel name in the title… but on this occasion we’re being sneaky. With many International Brands, like the Holiday Inn, there comes a preconception “If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, right?”. In reality, this couldn’t be further from truth. I felt the same with the Ibis’ …
Normally Captain Hook Resort wouldn’t pass our first selection criteria; skimming through resort names “no, no, no, nope, no, Captain Hook Resort? Definitely no. Sane people don’t travel the world for Peter Pan fun time resorts… but in many ways this works to our favour as Captain Hook Resort proves to be a gem of …
On our escape to Koh Yao Yai we stay at a number of resorts and without a doubt Santhiya Koh Yao Yai is the best of them, by a long way. While paying above our usual budget we are happy to go the extra and yes we are rewarded. Santhiya exceeds all expectations, the pool …
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Easily in contention for my favourite Thai island Koh Tao is found in the Gulf of Thailand and is the smallest of the three island archipelago of the Surat Thani Province (Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao). This is the ‘safe side’ of Thailand free from threat of Tsunamis. Koh Tao is my hideaway …
Today we are at the Village Coconut Island Resort in Phuket. A contrasting change from our boutique hideaway experience at Sala Phuket Resort. From one side of luxury to the next. While previous days were spent in privacy and seclusion we are now on a resort island with excitement and activities at our finger tips. …