Sleep cafe @ Hidee

Every room has air conditioning. The rooms run from an 8 m² single room to a 45 m² capsule, and the beds include single, double and king sizes, with rooms that sleep between one and three guests.

Some rooms have a private bathroom and others use a shared bathroom, and free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms. The Triple Guest Room has three single beds, and the Family King has a king bed and a single bed for up to three guests. Flat-screen TVs appear in several rooms, and the capsules are each set up for a single guest, and the Single Room sleeps up to two guests.

The building has a lift, a coffee shop on site and a front desk open 24 hours, and the public areas are air-conditioned. The coffee shop makes it a place to pause during the day, with espresso, lattes and iced coffee on the menu.

The property also has a fireplace, and a 24-hour security service runs alongside the front desk. English and Thai are spoken.

The property is smoke-free and has non-smoking rooms, and it offers a family room alongside its single rooms and capsules.

Pratunam is a busy commercial district in central Bangkok, lined with malls, clothing wholesalers and street stalls. Sleep cafe @ Hidee is on Phetchaburi Road, in the middle of that shopping and street life, so the shops and food stalls of the immediate streets are right outside the door and the area stays lively through the day.

Phaya Thai station, 450 m away, is the hostel's closest link to the rest of the city: the BTS Skytrain runs from there, and the Airport Rail Link connects with Suvarnabhumi Airport. Siam Paragon, the large shopping mall at Siam with an aquarium inside, is 650 m away, and Jim Thompson House, the former home of the American silk entrepreneur, is 900 m away.

A day could start at the Grand Palace, 4.8 km away, and continue to the temples of Wat Pho and Wat Arun, both close to the Chao Phraya river, before an evening at the Asiatique riverfront complex, a set of shops and restaurants on the Chao Phraya. Chatuchak Weekend Market, 5.4 km off, is the big choice for a weekend shopping morning. In the evening, the streets around Pratunam and Phetchaburi Road fill with street food stalls, which are close to the hostel on Phetchaburi Road itself.