Hotel De Bangkok

Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms at Hotel De Bangkok, and the choice of layouts is wide: there are rooms with a king bed, rooms with two queen beds and rooms with a single bed and a queen bed. Several rooms have a private bathroom with a bathtub, and some have city views.

Depending on the room, guests can find city views, a bathtub, a telephone, an electric kettle and satellite or cable channels, and some rooms sleep up to five guests. A few rooms offer a choice of bed set-ups.

Hotel De Bangkok has a 24-hour front desk, a concierge, an elevator and facilities for disabled guests, and it is wheelchair accessible. Express check-in and check-out are offered, along with luggage storage, safety deposit boxes, laundry service, dry cleaning and daily housekeeping.

The hotel has restaurants, a bar and a coffee shop, with restaurant lunch and food delivery also offered. Breakfast comes in Asian and buffet styles.

Tours and car hire can be arranged, and a taxi service is available. Wi-Fi is also offered in the public areas, and the business facilities include a laptop workspace and a laptop safe box. Guests can park on site for free, and there is bicycle parking.

Hotel De Bangkok stands on Ratchaprarop Soi 12, a side street in Makkasan within the Ratchathewi district of central Bangkok. The neighbourhood sits beside Pratunam, an area known for its markets and clothing wholesalers, so the streets nearby have a busy, urban feel. Business travellers and sightseers can both use it as a base, with shops and a hospital close by.

The Airport Rail Link station at Ratchaprarop is close by, and the same line runs to Suvarnabhumi Airport. Siam Paragon, a large shopping mall, is 1.4 km away, and the Jim Thompson House, a museum of traditional Thai teak houses and the silk pioneer who assembled them, is 1.8 km away. Chatuchak Weekend Market, 4.8 km away, is open on weekends and sells clothes, food, plants and crafts. Phyathai 1 Hospital is a short distance away.

For a full day, combine the shopping and museums nearby with the old city. The Grand Palace is 5.6 km away, and Wat Arun sits on the opposite bank of the Chao Phraya, so a boat trip along the river links the two. Both sights are well known and easy to fit into one outing, with the riverside piers offering a route between them and the old city's temples close to the Grand Palace.