The Backpack Hostel

Accommodation at The Backpack Hostel is in dormitories and family rooms, from a bunk in a 12 m² shared female dormitory to family rooms sleeping up to eight guests. Most rooms have a shared bathroom, air conditioning is available in several rooms, and some family rooms have a city view while others have no window.

Bedding ranges from bunk beds to single and double beds, and several rooms include linens, toiletries and a hair dryer. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and buffet breakfast is offered, while towels are available at an extra charge. The bar, the shared lounge and the shared kitchen are open to guests as well.

Guests can use the bar, a restaurant, a shared kitchen and a shared lounge and TV area, and buffet breakfast is offered. The hostel also has a gift and souvenir shop, a game room, lockers, safety deposit boxes, a convenience store and a concierge. Tours and ticket services are available, and there is a taxi service.

Free WiFi is available in all rooms, and Wi-Fi is also offered in the public areas. Some rooms have air conditioning, a hair dryer, toiletries and a shower, and the hostel has an elevator. English and Thai are spoken here, and meeting and banquet facilities are also available. Both the bar and the restaurants are on site.

The Backpack Hostel is on Maha Set Road in Sipraya, a riverside part of Bangkok close to the Silom district. The streets around it mix temples, mosques, churches and older buildings, and the Chao Phraya river is close by, so it is easy to see the older side of the city on foot and by boat.

The Hua Lamphong MRT station, next to the main railway station, is 950 m away, and the Si Phraya ferry pier is 700 m away for boats along the Chao Phraya. Across the river, Wat Arun is 3.7 km away, and the Grand Palace is 3.8 km away. Jim Thompson House, a museum of traditional Thai houses set around a garden, is a little further, and the Yaowarat Chinatown Heritage Center is 1.1 km away.

For a day out, combine the temples on the river, Wat Pho and the Grand Palace, with a walk through Yaowarat, Bangkok's Chinatown, where the evening food stalls are busy. Boats from the Si Phraya pier run along the Chao Phraya, a simple way to reach the temples across the river. The Chatuchak Weekend Market is a long trip across the city, worth making on a weekend, and the Tingly Thai Cooking School is close by if you want to learn a few dishes.