Hotels we recommend
Where to stay in Thailand
Twelve hotels in Thailand we would book for a client, in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Krabi. Eight hold MICHELIN Keys. Eight 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
- 12
- Cities
- 3
- With MICHELIN Keys
- 8
- With partner perks
- 8
- Newest
- 2024
By city
The hotels
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Bangkok · 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
Chiang Mai · Chang Khlan
Anantara Chiang Mai Resort
2005 · 86 rooms · Renovated 2022
A riverside resort of 52 rooms and 34 suites on Charoen Prathet Road on the Mae Ping in Chiang Mai, built around the century-old former British Consulate, now the 1921 House, with a separate block of 25 serviced suites across the road. Kerry Hill designed it as The Chedi in open-plan modern tropical style with Lanna touches; its rebrand to Anantara was announced in 2013.
Chiang Mai · Mae Rim
Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai
1995 · 76 rooms
A resort of 64 pavilions, 12 pool villas and 22 residences on 13 hectares in the Mae Rim valley north of Chiang Mai, facing the Doi Suthep range, opened in 1995 and a Four Seasons since 2003. It is laid out like a Lanna village, with the pavilions set around a working rice farm, lakes, lily ponds and a family of water buffalo.
3 MICHELIN Keys · Four Seasons Preferred Partner
Krabi · Khlong Muang
Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve
2009 · 54 rooms
A beach resort of 54 villas and pavilions at Nong Thale on the Krabi coast, set in rainforest below the limestone mountains and facing the Andaman Sea, opened in 2009 as the first Ritz-Carlton Reserve. Rooms are in Thai style, with hand-painted screens and domed ceilings, private pools or verandahs, and a personal butler, the Ton Hong.
3 MICHELIN Keys · Marriott STARS
On our list
Hotels in Thailand 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.
Pansea Beach
Three MICHELIN Keys; on our list for the first Aman, Ed Tuttle's pavilions above Pansea Beach.
The first Aman, 1988, on a headland above Pansea Beach — forty pavilions and forty-four villas by Ed Tuttle, who took the roofs from Thai temples and has been copied ever since.
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.
Lamai
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for all-pool villas on a private hill above Lamai Bay.
All-pool villas on a private hill above Lamai Bay, with what was Samui's first hydrotherapy spa.
Plai Laem
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for hillside villas above a coral cove at Plai Laem.
Twenty-three villas on a hillside at Plai Laem, above a coral cove on the Gulf of Thailand.
Ang Thong
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for yacht trips to Angthong National Marine Park.
Pool villas above the Gulf of Thailand, looking out to the islands, with yacht trips to Angthong National Marine Park.
Plai Laem
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for a headland at the northern tip of Koh Samui.
Sixty-seven villas on a secluded headland at the northern tip of Koh Samui, sixty of them with private pools.
Natai Beach
Two MICHELIN Keys; on our list for the Aulis Phuket chef's table on Natai Beach.
Beachfront villas on Natai Beach, north of Phuket, and home to Aulis Phuket, a Michelin-starred chef's table.
And 5 more in Thailand on our list, on the guide’s map.
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; The St. Regis Bangkok; Anantara Chiang Mai Resort; Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai and Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve. Each has its own page with the rooms, the restaurants and what booking through us adds.
Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok (three MICHELIN Keys); Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai (three MICHELIN Keys); Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve (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.
Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve: its rooms start at 75 square metres. Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai from 70; Dusit Thani Bangkok from 50 and The Ritz-Carlton, Bangkok from 50.
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); The St. Regis Bangkok (Marriott STARS); Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai (Four Seasons Preferred Partner) and Phulay Bay, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve (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.
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