Marriott to double size in Thailand
Jan 31, 2013, 4:07 am
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Marriott to double size in Thailand
http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-...land-36746.php
Looks like Marriott are growing through a new relationship in Thailand.
Looks like Marriott are growing through a new relationship in Thailand.
Jan 31, 2013, 4:15 am
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if the 5 to-be-built props are anything like the Rayong or Marriott Sukhumvit 57 don't count on a timely completion......
7 newly added props with an additional 3000 rooms averages over 400 rooms per hotel.............frankly, I don't believe it.......
2 new props in Pattaya with the existing Marriott last year renewing their mgt agreement for 7-yrs and the nearby Rayong prop having just opened - over kill
an RC in Bangkok - this city already saturated (with all brands)
Hua Hin - need a replacement for the lost lease on the previous Marriott here (along w the Courtyard Cha Am), but knowing HH quite well don't recall an open beach area to still build on........
BKK Exec on Surawong - where - my law ofc on Surawong and I don't recall any vacant land on this street........
7 newly added props with an additional 3000 rooms averages over 400 rooms per hotel.............frankly, I don't believe it.......
2 new props in Pattaya with the existing Marriott last year renewing their mgt agreement for 7-yrs and the nearby Rayong prop having just opened - over kill
an RC in Bangkok - this city already saturated (with all brands)
Hua Hin - need a replacement for the lost lease on the previous Marriott here (along w the Courtyard Cha Am), but knowing HH quite well don't recall an open beach area to still build on........
BKK Exec on Surawong - where - my law ofc on Surawong and I don't recall any vacant land on this street........
http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-...land-36746.php
Looks like Marriott are growing through a new relationship in Thailand.
Looks like Marriott are growing through a new relationship in Thailand.
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Jan 31, 2013, 4:31 am
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Jan 31, 2013, 9:16 am
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Having stayed a few times at the Imperial Queens Park in Bangkok (without any choice as my company put me there), I certainly hope they are going to spend alot of money on upgrading the place..... it is a terrible dump in need of some serious TLC! Not what one would expect from a Marriott at all!
Jan 31, 2013, 10:18 am
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A newly built JW in Pattaya?
hmmm...I wonder where will it be located?
Jan 31, 2013, 6:23 pm
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Still nothing on Patong Beach 
Jan 31, 2013, 11:31 pm
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looking into this a little more, and although the new props aren't scheduled to be completed until 2016, the RC here in BKK will be located on Sathorn Road and the Hua Hin prop, supposedly on a private beach, over towards the airport.......to bad as I prefer the Kao Takiab side of the city..........
http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-...land-36746.php
Looks like Marriott are growing through a new relationship in Thailand.
Looks like Marriott are growing through a new relationship in Thailand.
Feb 1, 2013, 2:42 am
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Well i guess it will just be a case of wait and see. Certainly I agree the Imperial Queen's Part would require a major refurb before it would be up to standard expected of a Bangkok Marriott but that is what is proposed. It will be three years before the refurbs are completed and longer still I would expect before the new hotels are open.
For those doubtful about whether Marriott will build these - and you are probably quite right to be doubtful given experiemce with other developments, perhaps we should look more to TCC for signs of the developments coming to fruition.
For those doubtful about whether Marriott will build these - and you are probably quite right to be doubtful given experiemce with other developments, perhaps we should look more to TCC for signs of the developments coming to fruition.
Feb 1, 2013, 2:49 am
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since I live here and have a vested interest in returning to a Marriott in Hua Hin .............. I used the Marriott their even before it was a Marriott (Royal Garden) I'll be following the progress of these props.........
can't comment on the Imp Pk as I live in BKK and never stayed their but the GM was a client of our law firm so I'll ask him for a little inside info.....
can't comment on the Imp Pk as I live in BKK and never stayed their but the GM was a client of our law firm so I'll ask him for a little inside info.....
Well i guess it will just be a case of wait and see. Certainly I agree the Imperial Queen's Part would require a major refurb before it would be up to standard expected of a Bangkok Marriott but that is what is proposed. It will be three years before the refurbs are completed and longer still I would expect before the new hotels are open.
For those doubtful about whether Marriott will build these - and you are probably quite right to be doubtful given experiemce with other developments, perhaps we should look more to TCC for signs of the developments coming to fruition.
For those doubtful about whether Marriott will build these - and you are probably quite right to be doubtful given experiemce with other developments, perhaps we should look more to TCC for signs of the developments coming to fruition.
Feb 1, 2013, 8:40 am
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On my last trip to Thailand I enjoyed the food so much that I, too, doubled in size.
Feb 2, 2013, 9:26 pm
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We need a Marriott in Chiang Mai! We stayed at the Four Seasons last Nov. It was very lovely but too far from the city.
Feb 2, 2013, 11:33 pm
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more Thai properties to be announced......
following dinner at a local Marriott here in Bangkok the discission with the GM was over the 7-previously announced new props to be added in Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya and Hua Hin ..............his new news were that an additional 4 props were due to be announced soon...............tried to get the locations out of him but he was tight lipped, but I did manage to get a negative on Chiang Mai (Thailands second largest city) stating it was to small a market (and if Chiang Mai is a no go, certainly Chiang Rai will also be a no go), so what locations are left besides those already covered??
Will Bangkok become another Shanghai with 22 properties???????????
Will Bangkok become another Shanghai with 22 properties???????????
Apr 28, 2013, 1:42 pm
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following dinner at a local Marriott here in Bangkok the discission with the GM was over the 7-previously announced new props to be added in Bangkok, Phuket, Pattaya and Hua Hin ..............his new news were that an additional 4 props were due to be announced soon...............tried to get the locations out of him but he was tight lipped, but I did manage to get a negative on Chiang Mai (Thailands second largest city) stating it was to small a market (and if Chiang Mai is a no go, certainly Chiang Rai will also be a no go), so what locations are left besides those already covered??
Will Bangkok become another Shanghai with 22 properties???????????
Will Bangkok become another Shanghai with 22 properties???????????