Home 16

Home 16's rooms include a Family Room that sleeps up to seven guests, a 35 m² Deluxe Room with Terrace and several queen and king rooms, some with a private bathroom and others with a shared one. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and rooms can have air conditioning, blackout curtains, a hair dryer and free bottled water.

Depending on the room, the view looks over the courtyard, the street, the city or the garden, and sleeping capacity goes up to seven guests in the family room. Some rooms have an electric kettle, a walk-in shower or satellite and cable channels, so the equipment changes from one room to the next.

Home 16 has a 24-hour front desk and express check-in and check-out, along with luggage storage, lockers, daily housekeeping, and laundry and ironing services. A postal service and meeting and banquet facilities are also available, and the hostel has a shared kitchen for guests.

Room service and restaurants are available, along with a bar, a library, a karaoke facility and on-site entertainment. Staff speak English, Chinese (Mandarin) and Thai, and the hostel has a family room.

Tours can be arranged, and bicycles, car hire and a taxi service are offered, along with an airport transfer. The hostel also has a garden, a terrace, a spa with a sauna and a steamroom, and facilities for disabled guests.

Home 16 is on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok's Sukhumvit area, a busy district of offices, hotels and apartment blocks. Several diplomatic missions are close by, including the Consulate of Tunisia next door and the Embassy of Spain and the Embassy of Chile nearby.

Benjakitti Park is 250 m away, a large public park with a lake and a forest area. The Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre MRT station is 650 m away and Asok BTS station is 800 m away, and together they connect the hostel to the MRT and the BTS Skytrain across central Bangkok. Both Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports are 20.9 km away. The Jim Thompson House museum, devoted to the American businessman who revived Thai silk, is also in the area. The hostel's own garden and library give guests a quiet place to spend an afternoon between days out in the city.

A full day could start at the Grand Palace, 7.8 km away, and continue to the temples of Wat Pho and Wat Arun on the Chao Phraya river, or to the Chatuchak Weekend Market, a large market that is open on weekends. Khaosan Road, the backpacker street of Banglamphu near the old city, is good for an evening out.