I'll have to agree -- the Four Seasons Chiang Mai is spectacular, and the food is perhaps the best part. I had an incredible dinner and was fortunate enough to be there for the Sunday brunch -- served in the cooking school with seating outside -- when I visited in September. Service, of course, was unparalleled. I can't wait to go back and attend the cooking school.

Had a five-hour layover in BKK en route from CNX back to the U.S. (to NRT on TG and back to IAD on NH), and asked the hotel to arrange a car to take me to the Four Seasons in town to have dinner at Spice Market. I was very disappointed.