Hotels we recommend
Where to stay in Bangkok
Nine hotels in Bangkok we would book for a client, in Wireless Road, Sathorn, Silom, Bang Rak, Ploenchit and beyond. Six hold MICHELIN Keys. Six of them book through a partner programme, which adds an upgrade where one is free, daily breakfast for two, a hotel credit and late checkout, at the hotel's own rate.
- Hotels
- 9
- With MICHELIN Keys
- 6
- With partner perks
- 6
- Newest
- 2024
The hotels
Wireless Road
The Okura Prestige Bangkok
2012 · 240 rooms
A 240-room Japanese hotel on floors 24 to 34 of the Park Ventures Ecoplex, at the corner of Phloen Chit and Wireless Road in central Bangkok, opened in May 2012 as the first Okura Prestige hotel in Thailand. The lobby is on the 24th floor, the pool is cantilevered out from the 25th, and a sky-bridge runs straight to Phloen Chit Skytrain station.
2 MICHELIN Keys
Sathorn
W Bangkok
2012 · 403 rooms
A 403-room hotel in a 31-storey glass tower on North Sathorn Road in Bangkok's Silom–Sathorn business district, paired with The House on Sathorn, an 1889 neo-classical mansion next door that was the Russian embassy until 1999 and now holds its restaurants and bars. The tower's interiors by SODA set W's neon edge against Thai myths and folklore.
Marriott Luminous
Silom
Dusit Thani Bangkok
1970 · 257 rooms · Renovated 2024
A new 257-room hotel at 98 Rama IV Road, facing Lumpini Park, rebuilt from the ground up on the site of the 1970 original as part of the Dusit Central Park development and reopened on 27 September 2024. Every room looks over the park from a cantilevered window seat, and the old hotel's golden spire, now inside a spire three times larger, and its carved teak ceilings were kept and built into the new one.
1 MICHELIN Key
Bang Rak
Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok
1876 · 331 rooms · Renovated 2019
The hotel that opened as The Oriental in 1876 on the Chao Phraya at Oriental Avenue, in Bangkok's riverside district: 331 rooms including 60 suites, across the historic Authors' and Garden Wings and the River Wing, which Jeffrey Wilkes redesigned in 2019. Writers and royalty have stayed here for 150 years, and it holds three MICHELIN Keys.
3 MICHELIN Keys · Mandarin Oriental Fan Club
Wireless Road
The Athenee Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok
2000 · 374 rooms · Renovated 2017
A 374-room hotel at 61 Wireless Road in Lumpini, Bangkok, on the grounds of the Kandhavas Palace, where Princess Valaya Alongkorn lived until her death in 1938. Formerly the Plaza Athenee, it reopened in 2017 as a Luxury Collection hotel with interiors drawn from Thai royal ceremony, colours and art, with a European touch.
Marriott STARS
Ploenchit
Rosewood Bangkok
2019 · 155 rooms
A 30-floor tower on Ploenchit Road in Lumpini, Bangkok, joined directly to Ploenchit BTS station, with 135 rooms, 20 suites and three houses with plunge pools. Kohn Pedersen Fox shaped the sloping tower on the wai, the Thai gesture of greeting, around a central atrium hung with vertical gardens.
2 MICHELIN Keys
One Bangkok
The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok
2024 · 260 rooms
A hotel opened in December 2024 in a tower of the One Bangkok district on Wireless Road, looking over Lumpini Park. It has 260 rooms and suites with floor-to-ceiling windows, many with balconies, and interiors that set Thai craft against a contemporary frame.
1 MICHELIN Key · Marriott STARS
Khlong San
The Peninsula Bangkok
1998 · 367 rooms
A W-shaped tower on the Thonburi bank of the Chao Phraya at Charoennakorn Road, opened in 1998, set back from the street by a long driveway and fronted by riverside gardens. With about ten rooms to a floor, every room faces the river, and the hotel's boats cross to the Skytrain on the far bank.
2 MICHELIN Keys · The Peninsula PenClub
Rajadamri
The St. Regis Bangkok
2011 · 228 rooms
The first St. Regis in Thailand, opened in 2011 in a 47-storey tower on Rajadamri Road with a skybridge to the BTS Skytrain. The rooms look over the greens of the Royal Bangkok Sports Club or the city skyline, and every stay comes with St. Regis butler service.
Marriott STARS
On our list
Hotels in Bangkok we rate but have not yet stayed in, drawn hollow on the map. The hotels above are first-hand; these are where we are going next. We book them as we book the rest.
Charoen Krung, Sathorn
Three MICHELIN Keys and Forbes Five-Star; on our list for riverside villas with pools on the Chao Phraya.
A hundred and one keys on the east bank of the Chao Phraya, seven of them riverside villas with their own pools. Hamiltons built it, BAMO drew the insides, and Mauro Colagreco cooks in it.
Dusit
Three MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Bill Bensley's suites among twenty-five thousand antiques.
Thirty-nine suites on three acres at Dusit, hung with twenty-five thousand antiques. Bill Bensley drew the architecture, the interiors and the gardens; the family has held the land since 1973.
Charoen Krung
Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok at Chao Phraya River
Two MICHELIN Keys and No. 3 on the World's 50 Best; on our list for Jean-Michel Gathy's water courtyard on the Chao Phraya.
Jean-Michel Gathy's riverside hotel on the Chao Phraya, its rooms set around a central courtyard of water and gardens.
Lumpini
Two MICHELIN Keys and No. 48 on the World's 50 Best; on our list for Jean-Michel Gathy's design beside Nai Lert Park.
A Jean-Michel Gathy design beside Nai Lert Park, seven acres of garden in the middle of Bangkok.
Ploenchit
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for a 40-metre saltwater pool on Wireless Road.
On Wireless Road with direct access to Central Embassy and Ploenchit station, and a 40-metre saltwater pool.
Sathorn
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for its own grounds on South Sathorn Road.
A hotel in its own grounds on South Sathorn Road, in a Club Wing and a Main Wing, with a 25-metre infinity-edged pool.
What to know
The Okura Prestige Bangkok; W Bangkok; Dusit Thani Bangkok; Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok; The Athenee Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok; Rosewood Bangkok; The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok; The Peninsula Bangkok and The St. Regis Bangkok. Each has its own page with the rooms, the restaurants and what booking through us adds.
Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok (three MICHELIN Keys); The Okura Prestige Bangkok (two MICHELIN Keys); Rosewood Bangkok (two MICHELIN Keys); The Peninsula Bangkok (two MICHELIN Keys); Dusit Thani Bangkok (one MICHELIN Key) and The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok (one MICHELIN Key).
Of the hotels we recommend, The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok, which opened in 2024. Rosewood Bangkok followed in 2019.
Dusit Thani Bangkok: its rooms start at 50 square metres. The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok from 50; The Peninsula Bangkok from 45 and The Okura Prestige Bangkok from 43.
W Bangkok (Marriott Luminous); Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok (Mandarin Oriental Fan Club); The Athenee Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Bangkok (Marriott STARS); The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok (Marriott STARS); The Peninsula Bangkok (The Peninsula PenClub) and The St. Regis Bangkok (Marriott STARS). Booked through us, each adds a room upgrade where one is free, breakfast for two each day, a hotel credit and early check-in or late checkout when the hotel can give it, at no extra cost to you.
W Bangkok: Don Mueang (DMK) is 28.2 km away and Suvarnabhumi 34.5 km; the hotel arranges transfers. Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok: Suvarnabhumi International Airport is reached by expressway; the hotel arranges chauffeured transfers with meet-and-greet. Rosewood Bangkok: Suvarnabhumi (BKK) and Don Mueang (DMK) are each about 45 minutes by car. The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok: Don Mueang (DMK) is 25.9 km away and Suvarnabhumi (BKK) 33.9 km; the hotel runs an airport shuttle to both. The Peninsula Bangkok: Suvarnabhumi (BKK) is 39 km, about 45 minutes by car; Don Mueang (DMK) is 33 km, about 30 minutes. The St. Regis Bangkok: Don Mueang International Airport is 30 km and Suvarnabhumi Airport 40 km away; the hotel limousine costs THB 4,500 one way.
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