Tara Monte Hotel Pratunam

The rooms at Tara Monte Hotel Pratunam include superior and deluxe rooms, with capacity from two to four guests and a choice of bed set-ups in some of them.

Rooms can have air conditioning, a desk, free bottled water and a shower, and some have a refrigerator, a coffee and tea maker or blackout curtains. A deluxe room has a city view. Rooms can also have a TV, a mirror, a closet and blackout curtains.

The hotel has an elevator, a 24-hour front desk and 24-hour security, and it offers luggage storage, daily housekeeping, ironing and laundry service. There is an airport transfer, taxi service and a concierge, tours can be arranged, ticket services are available, and a doctor or nurse is on call.

Restaurants, a kitchen and food delivery provide dining options, and on-site parking is available. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, Wi-Fi is also available in public areas, and satellite and cable channels are offered. The languages spoken include English, Hindi and Thai.

The front desk is open 24 hours a day, but check-in itself runs from 14:00 to 23:00, and check-out is until 12:00.

Tara Monte Hotel Pratunam stands on Ratchaprarop Road in Pratunam, a busy district of Ratchathewi lined with clothing shops, food stalls and shopping malls. Pratunam Market and the Four Seasons Mall are both 100 m away, so the streets around the hotel are full of shoppers and street food, and the area suits anyone who wants to browse clothing and eat on the go.

The Airport Rail Link Ratchaprarop Station is 150 m from the hotel. The line runs to Suvarnabhumi Airport and connects with the BTS skytrain at Phaya Thai. Siam Paragon, a large shopping centre, is 1 km away and sits beside Siam BTS station in the Siam shopping area, where several big malls are close together, and Jim Thompson House, the former home of the American silk entrepreneur Jim Thompson, is also nearby.

For a day out, the Grand Palace is 5.3 km away, and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha, Wat Phra Kaew, stands inside the same complex, so the two can be seen together. Wat Arun, on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River, is another temple worth the trip, and the Chatuchak Weekend Market, with its thousands of stalls, is open at weekends.