Best 3 Hotels Around Nana 1500bht~3000bht

[gustavo]

So far stayed at:
DoubleTree Phloen chit (Soi 2) - Hotel is nice, breakfast is good selection, but first day all western food was rubbish including bacon. Reason I will not stay there is their pool with 0 minutes sun per day, no view with super cold water. I like to have 2-3 hours session working beside pool. I had good view from my room on two small hotels with rooftop pools/with bars. 

The Quarter Phloen Chit - Average breakfast, great pool with almost no one there between 11am-2pm. Rooms are nice but walls and floors are paper so you hear everything. Good thing i was at the corner with only neighbours bellow and above me.

 One near Soi Cowboy:

The Continent Hotel Sukhumvit 7 ASOK BTS - Grab drivers are not smart to find it, pool was small but since it was raining all the time i had no chance to use it. Rooms nice, breakfast good.

 

I guess i'll stay in Novotel Sukhumvit 4 next week for 3 nights, then heading to Pattaya for 3 nights, and will see if will try something else on my return 3 nights or repeat Novotel

[JVHyatt]

On 1/21/2024 at 3:49 PM, gustavo said:

So far stayed at:
DoubleTree Phloen chit (Soi 2) - Hotel is nice, breakfast is good selection, but first day all western food was rubbish including bacon. Reason I will not stay there is their pool with 0 minutes sun per day, no view with super cold water. I like to have 2-3 hours session working beside pool. I had good view from my room on two small hotels with rooftop pools/with bars. 

The Quarter Phloen Chit - Average breakfast, great pool with almost no one there between 11am-2pm. Rooms are nice but walls and floors are paper so you hear everything. Good thing i was at the corner with only neighbours bellow and above me.

 One near Soi Cowboy:

The Continent Hotel Sukhumvit 7 ASOK BTS - Grab drivers are not smart to find it, pool was small but since it was raining all the time i had no chance to use it. Rooms nice, breakfast good.

 

I guess i'll stay in Novotel Sukhumvit 4 next week for 3 nights, then heading to Pattaya for 3 nights, and will see if will try something else on my return 3 nights or repeat Novotel

Novotel on 4 has good rooftop bar action.  How was it taking girls back to Doubletree Ploenchit.  Not wild about the elevator placement …. 

[Something]

I've had the chance on two longer trips to stay at the Ambassador, and the ParkRoyal Suites. Out of curiosity I checked into the Nana hotel for one night, and on a non-monger trip through Asia I spent about 4 nights in the JW Marriott (I usually stay at Marriotts when I travel domestically). I generally don't bring back girls to my actual room, I usually book a short term hotel or a hotel nearby just to have it handy. 

1) JW Marriott is by far the nicest, however I was upgraded because of my titanium status, so I can't speak for the normal rooms. If you're looking for discretion, the staff is definitely discrete, I saw a few gents with some real lookers walking into the hotel. The only thing I would note is that the hotel lobby has a large bar right in the center, so there's a lot of people just hanging around and watching the comings and goings. The JW Cafe breakfast is nice, and room service food is actually pretty decent if you're too exhausted from your flight to go out into the city for a meal.

2) ParkRoyal I like this place the best just because its a "serviced apartment" type of place, you'll have a kitchenette, a washer dryer, etc. Located on the Soi 6 its an easy walk to the Nana BTS, and right by Kasalong and Lolita's if you're looking for nearby fun. The bathroom is a little old, but everything was clean from my stay, and it feels like most of the furniture was recently replaced. For discretion, I can't say specifically, as I didn't bring anyone back to this hotel, but I saw a few guys walking back with Thai ladies, so it definitely happen. Only thing that might be awkward is there's only two elevators, and so sometimes there's a wait. 

3) Ambassador is close in terms of quality with the JW, the room furniture was a little dated feeling, but the bathroom is really nice. The bars and restaurants are located off the main lobby, so when you go through the main entrance its just people commuting to and from the elevators. Not sure if that has changed given the front of the hotel's being renovated. Breakfast was fine, just the buffets laid out a little weird where like juices and the bread/toast section are on the opposite side of the place compared to where the rest of the buffet is (not really a bad thing, just an observation). Again my observations might all be stale, I have no idea what the inside looks like right now given the construction going on. 

Not a top 3, but figured was worth sharing:

Nana Hotel its all about location, the rooms are kind of whatever, the king beds are massive, linens I remember having a kind of "papery" feeling, bathrooms small and a typical Thai wet bathroom (noticed some mold in the vents). Also there was no hotel key card when I checked in, I got a metal key attached to this hilariously large wooden stick, luckily I had cargo shorts so I could put it away in the deep pockets. Everyone knows why you're staying there, when I was heading down to see the plaza I was in an elevator with an older gent and his Thai girlfriend and they were talking about picking a third partner together. I didn't make eye contact but had to contain my smile. If you walk through the halls at night you'll hear plenty of grunting and moaning. I wouldn't stay here for any extended period of time, but it's pretty nifty to walk out into the parking lot, pick a girl in front of the nana sign, and walk back in like 5 minutes. Breakfast was decent, its kind of funny to watch some people have their post-LT breakfast with a Thai girl.

 

Edited January 23 by Something
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[gustavo]

10 hours ago, JVHyatt said:

Novotel on 4 has good rooftop bar action.  How was it taking girls back to Doubletree Ploenchit.  Not wild about the elevator placement …. 

No problem at all. Just passed by reception without anyone asking anything 

[little_me]

10 hours ago, Something said:

I've had the chance on two longer trips to stay at the Ambassador, and the ParkRoyal Suites. Out of curiosity I checked into the Nana hotel for one night, and on a non-monger trip through Asia I spent about 4 nights in the JW Marriott (I usually stay at Marriotts when I travel domestically). I generally don't bring back girls to my actual room, I usually book a short term hotel or a hotel nearby just to have it handy. 

1) JW Marriott is by far the nicest, however I was upgraded because of my titanium status, so I can't speak for the normal rooms. If you're looking for discretion, the staff is definitely discrete, I saw a few gents with some real lookers walking into the hotel. The only thing I would note is that the hotel lobby has a large bar right in the center, so there's a lot of people just hanging around and watching the comings and goings. The JW Cafe breakfast is nice, and room service food is actually pretty decent if you're too exhausted from your flight to go out into the city for a meal.

One thing to be aware of on the 5 star end is you never know when some dignitary is going to show up for whatever and the hotel go to high security.

I stayed way out at the Shangrila years ago (along the river), I went down to the lobby and found metal detectors installed one morning that weren't there at 2:00 am, which a small group of security manning them. Wandering through the hallways between that hotel lobby and the more "mall" kinda area nearer to the skytrain I noticed the door to one of the ballrooms open and it was full of uniformed police.

No idea who showed up with that kinda security to stay at Shangrila, and I was checking out that day so I never got to find out what kinda checks they were doing on guest's coming and going. But I do know that Clinton and Bush have both shown up and stayed at the Marriott (after they term in office), at least once, Clinton likely multiple times. And am sure the lobby was probably full of local security on top of the secret service detail. 

I'm sure these stays are rare, and the hotel probably tries to operate as normally as possible... But it happens.  (I'm sure none of them are staying at the Nana hotel!!! or really even the double tree or the Landmark...)

Edited January 24 by little_me

[Something]

I didn't think about that, it's a good point, could get really weird if you were at the JW in that situation.

If I'm ever president of a nation, Thailand is welcome to send me to the Nana hotel 🙂