scented

Don't hold your breath for PH BKK anytime soon, they are still furnishing the rooms so I'd say about Q2, 2017 soft opening if there are no further delays. But if anything, PH will be competition for St Regis -- I am not sure the leisure guests have waited for PH! Try Siam, MO or Pen instead, all wonderful. And if being on the river is not alluring to you, Grand Hyatt Erawan is another solid option.

Park Hyatt Bangkok Construction Update July 2016

offerendum

Why is this thread a review Did I miss something?

scented

Due to someone posting ads in review form I fear. Nothing new unfortunately.

Leaping_Deere

Sounds like it's a toss up between the Peninsula and the Mandarin. Sell them to me!

SeamasterLux

I'm not a fan of the lobby of the MO which often appears as a zoo and the fact that the hotel is very frequently visited by tourist coaches that invade the bar and restaurant areas.
That hotel isn't interesting to me apart from the author's wing. But from a value for money point of view, I don't find it particularly exciting. The Pen has a disturbing location for me given what I like to do in Bangkok but many will disagree.

The Siam is an extraordinary property. The St Regis is ok, especially if you can swing the Caroline Astor Suite. The Okura is indeed a nice property.
Plenty of cheaper options around that are ok like the Kempinski, the Anantara (former Four Seasons) and the Grande Sheraton. It does depend on what you're looking for.
If you know Bangkok well already, the Siam has the advantage to give you a very different, quieter, flavour of Bangkok

stimpy

I don't doubt that you saw this, but I do doubt the claim that this happens frequently. I've never seen anything like a zoo or tourist coaches full of people invading the bar and restaurants in all my stays over the years. It's been quite the opposite during my stays. The lobby is tightly controlled and especially tightly controlled when a member of the royal family is present.

MSPeconomist

Not Park Place.....it's the Hyatt Place Heathrow Hayes....and it looks very nice, much better than Hyatt Places in the USA, even the new ones.

The opening date for the PH has been pushed back a number of times, so who really knows? This is Thailand.

vuittonsofstyle

Having stayed at MO BK for over 3 decades I have never, ever seen this, either. I thought that the Lobby was the nicest I had seen it - very calm and attractive, with a pleasant buzz of guests.

rjque

Delux, so that explains it. We were only there for one night, so it was not a big deal, but I was a bit surprised given Lyn Middlehurst's rave. Service was excellent, as expected. We were pretty disappointed with the cocktail selection by the pool (it's decidedly Texas sorority girl sweet) but the beautiful on property bar more than made up for that.

pricesquire

Incorrect

It's the Siam and the Siam alone....then, a tossup between Mandarin Oriental and Peninsula.

surftb15

I prefer St Regis or anantara because I can walk to hair of the dog beer bar!

stimpy

I've made this point in other threads, so apologies for repeating it. We all have our preferences and likes when comparing the top hotels in cities around the world. But the difference maker in Bangkok is the age and history of the Oriental hotel. It is now celebrating its 140th year and you just cannot buy that kind of illustrious past. No amount of money invested in the other fine Bangkok hotels can give them what the Oriental has. And if you can recognize and appreciate what that history means, then there is no other choice than the Oriental.

All IMHO of course.

Annalisa12

Kempinski.

scented

May very well be the best Kempinski. For Bangkok however it's fairly average, and nowhere near the Top 10.

Leaping_Deere

I haven't been swayed by the Siam. I get the impression that it's a place best if you want to spend a whole day there relaxing or if you're a BKK veteran and just want to get away from it. I like to be a bit a nearer the action, I don't think we would get the best of it.

I was drawn to the Pen because I've had friends and associates who have stayed at the one in Tokyo & HKG rave about it and until have never had the opportunity to stay in one untill now.

However I do have a sentimentality towards the 19the century orient and the glamour of travellers to Indochina in those early days. I've only stayed in 2 MO and eaten at another two and I've found that the decor is bordering on gaudy in them. Is the MO styled in a colonial fashion, say like the Sofitel Hanoi and do you feel that way there or a bit more Russian oligarch?