The Character Yaowarat

The Character Yaowarat offers studios, suites and king or queen rooms, with air conditioning in the rooms and free Wi-Fi in all of them. Some of the rooms have a private bathroom, and some come with a kettle and a refrigerator.

Several rooms have a city view, and the King Studio has a street view. Beds are king or queen. Several rooms sleep up to three guests, and the Balcony Room sleeps two.

Guests can use private check-in and check-out, and the laundry service is on site, so clothes can be washed without leaving the building. Free Wi-Fi is available in all rooms, and Wi-Fi also covers the public areas.

Check-in runs from 14:00 to 23:59 and check-out is by 12:00, so arrival times need to fall inside those hours.

The Character Yaowarat is in Yaowarat, the old Chinese quarter of Bangkok, where shophouses, temples and street-food stalls crowd the streets around Yaowarat Road. Its narrow lanes are lined with old shophouses and small shrines, and the district is busiest in the evening, when the food stalls fill the pavements and stay lively well into the night.

Wat Mangkon MRT Station is 350 m away and Hua Lamphong Railway Station is 850 m away, so the metro and the long-distance trains are close by. The Chinese food market and Yaowarat Road are a few hundred metres from the hotel, and Wat Chaiyaphummikaram, a Buddhist pagoda, is among the nearest sights. Wat Samphanthawongsaram Worawihan is 200 m away and the Luang Kocha Itsahak Mosque is 150 m away, so Buddhist and Muslim places of worship sit within a few streets of each other. The Grand Palace is 2.3 km away, among the royal sights of old Bangkok.

A good day here starts at Wat Traimit, which houses a solid gold Buddha, and continues on foot through the Chinese food market before the stalls along Yaowarat Road open for the evening. The Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha are a longer trip away, and are worth a separate morning.