5 minutes ago, Irons said:

The Gym is excellent 

Looks better than the Surawong. 

 

 

 

Highly recommend staying by the river. it is usually cooler and, unless you plan to do lots of shopping, gives you great travel opportunities on the new, cheap public boats...

33 minutes ago, orientfan said:

Highly recommend staying by the river. it is usually cooler and, unless you plan to do lots of shopping, gives you great travel opportunities on the new, cheap public boats...

not going shopping, just eat, sleep, and exercise and use the facilities at the hotel as much as possible. Have a few favorite restaurants we use for the evening. 

 

a few of them 

Buffet https://www.gojikitchenbangkok.com/

No Idea 

Kai New Zealand in Silom 

25 Degrees Burger Bar

 

Any top Indian restaurants ? Have been to a few, and its ok. One at Holiday in Sukhumvit

31 minutes ago, Hummin said:

not going shopping, just eat, sleep, and exercise and use the facilities at the hotel as much as possible. Have a few favorite restaurants we use for the evening. 

 

a few of them 

Buffet https://www.gojikitchenbangkok.com/

No Idea 

Kai New Zealand in Silom 

25 Degrees Burger Bar

 

Any top Indian restaurants ? Have been to a few, and its ok. One at Holiday in Sukhumvit

 

Food...

Kai - (as already mentioned) is excellent, as is the Buffet at the Marriott (Goji - one of the best in BKK).

 

Other recommendations: 

 

Cocotte - https://www.cocotte-bangkok.com/

Helena - https://helenabangkok.com/

El Mercado - https://elmercadobangkok.com/  (main branch)

 

Top Indian Restaurants: 

Indus - https://www.indusbangkok.com/

Rang Mahal - https://www.indusbangkok.com/

Gaggan - https://gaggan.com/about/ 

 

 

 

 

26 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Food...

Kai - (as already mentioned) is excellent, as is the Buffet at the Marriott (Goji - one of the best in BKK).

 

Other recommendations: 

 

Cocotte - https://www.cocotte-bangkok.com/

Helena - https://helenabangkok.com/

El Mercado - https://elmercadobangkok.com/  (main branch)

 

Top Indian Restaurants: 

Indus - https://www.indusbangkok.com/

Rang Mahal - https://www.indusbangkok.com/

Gaggan - https://gaggan.com/about/ 

 

 

 

 

Cocotte I eat a few times, but hard to get table without booking, so havent prioritized that one for awhile. 

Found a great offer with breakfest at Hilton next to Icon Siam, and booked two nights there, before heading for Divalux, a nice airport hotel.

 

Both have great fitness/ gym and ok swimmingpool. 

 

Thanks to those of you who contributed with nice suggestions.

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FYUCoBKMrnDRJf8x9

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UA7WJb5fQ6CB9zgz7

Marriott Soi 2 has an excellent gym...not the best pool for size and I'm struggling to think of a great one in a hotel in lower Sukhumvit....I use one in Phra Khanong called Opus...superb 25m pool and always quiet....the Marriott has a good jacuzzi and sauna however.

For eats I suggest the Italian, Via Emilia...you need to book however....for a superb krapow try Krapow Gapae off Asoke.

5 hours ago, smokie36 said:

Marriott Soi 2 has an excellent gym...not the best pool for size and I'm struggling to think of a great one in a hotel in lower Sukhumvit....I use one in Phra Khanong called Opus...superb 25m pool and always quiet....the Marriott has a good jacuzzi and sauna however.

For eats I suggest the Italian, Via Emilia...you need to book however....for a superb krapow try Krapow Gapae off Asoke.

Windsor suites I enjoyed staying before, had a great gym. Now been closed since after covid. 

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/DQSXHhBPexzPMVB97

Edited April 17, 20242 yr by Hummin

5 hours ago, Hummin said:

Windsor suites I enjoyed staying before, had a great gym. Now been closed since after covid. 

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/DQSXHhBPexzPMVB97

 

Top floor of Emquartier has a Virgin gym and excellent lap pool but the best thing there is the jacuzzi pool...really worth trying once just for the experience....towels provided but a whopping 800 Baht I think for single use.

Its over 5k Baht a month for membership so I moved to Phra Khanong.

On 4/15/2024 at 6:42 AM, richard_smith237 said:

 

Food...

Kai - (as already mentioned) is excellent, as is the Buffet at the Marriott (Goji - one of the best in BKK).

 

Other recommendations: 

 

Cocotte - https://www.cocotte-bangkok.com/

Helena - https://helenabangkok.com/

El Mercado - https://elmercadobangkok.com/  (main branch)

 

Top Indian Restaurants: 

Indus - https://www.indusbangkok.com/

Rang Mahal - https://www.indusbangkok.com/

Gaggan - https://gaggan.com/about/ 

 

 

 

 

 

Rang Mahal closes its doors for good at the end of this month I believe.

Hilton was a great breeze when I left BKK in March, but not so happy with the gym. 3 people at same time and it was full, and swimmingpool full of kids. Breakfest superb, location (did not leave the hotel for those days we stayed there, ) was great, but now we aiming for a new hotel we have not tried yet. 

 

Big swimmingpool, and the gym looks ok, and have a rower as well I see. Hopefully going to be a great experience and nice few days in BKK before we hit the road to Isaan for a couple of weeks, and then some Island experience again. 

 

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