Lo-Ha Guest house

The rooms at Lo-Ha Guest house come with single, double or queen beds, and several have a balcony, a city view or a street view. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and Wi-Fi also reaches the public areas of the guesthouse.

Several rooms have air conditioning, flat-screen TVs, blackout curtains and streaming services such as Netflix, and the rooms with a private bathroom include a shower, toiletries and towels. Some rooms have a hair dryer, a kettle and a coffee or tea maker, and others have a telephone or a desk. Rooms with a city view look out over Bangkok, and those with a street view look onto the street.

Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and Wi-Fi also reaches the public areas of the guesthouse. The garden and the terrace are spaces for relaxing, and the guesthouse provides laundry service, dry cleaning and luggage storage, with bags accepted before check-in and after check-out.

Breakfast is served in Asian and Western styles, with a breakfast takeaway service, a coffee shop and food delivery. Express check-in and check-out are available, and there is 24-hour security. Languages spoken include English, German and Thai, and the express service suits guests who arrive or leave at short notice.

The garden hosts occasional outdoor events, and its seating areas are the main shared space where guests meet and talk with other travellers.

Lo-Ha Guest house sits in the Khaosan area of Bangkok's old quarter, where the backpacker street of Khaosan Road meets the quieter lanes around the temples and museums of the Rattanakosin district. Here the historic landmarks sit alongside the street food, night stalls and cafés of Khaosan Road. In the evening the main street fills with people, while the lanes behind it are calmer, and the guesthouse's garden offers a quiet pause between the two.

Khaosan Road is 850 m away, and Sam Yot MRT station is 800 m away for travelling further across the city. The Temple of the Emerald Buddha (Wat Phra Kaew) is 1.2 km away and the Grand Palace is 1.4 km, while Wat Arun lies across the river at 1.9 km. The Metal Palace (Loha Prasat) and the temple of Wat Thep Thidaram Worawihan are within a short walk, so the rooms are a practical starting point for a day of temple visits.

A good first day is to walk to the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew in the morning, then take a river boat across to Wat Arun and back, with the evening spent on Khaosan Road. Chatuchak Weekend Market is a longer trip across the city, open on weekends. The Jim Thompson House is also a museum worth seeing for its traditional Thai houses and its silk collection.