Place To Stay Near Samitvej Sukhumvit

[neighbortoThailand]

We are coming to Bangkok from a neighboring country. I'm planning on delivering our second baby at Samitivej Sukhumvit. We're an American family with a two year old. Looking for a good but inexpensive place to stay close to the hospital. Open to looking at hotels and guest houses, but would of course prefer a furnished (not necessarily serviced) apartment so we can cook and spread out a bit.

Any recommendations of places to look or places to avoid would be very much appreciated.

Also, I've seen that some short term apts don't include electricity in their quotes. Any ideas how much we should expect to pay at 6.5 bhts/unit in the months of Mar/Apr? That will help us compare prices.

Thanks.

[mrt273nva]

We are coming to Bangkok from a neighboring country. I'm planning on delivering our second baby at Samitivej Sukhumvit. We're an American family with a two year old. Looking for a good but inexpensive place to stay close to the hospital. Open to looking at hotels and guest houses, but would of course prefer a furnished (not necessarily serviced) apartment so we can cook and spread out a bit.

Any recommendations of places to look or places to avoid would be very much appreciated.

Also, I've seen that some short term apts don't include electricity in their quotes. Any ideas how much we should expect to pay at 6.5 bhts/unit in the months of Mar/Apr? That will help us compare prices.

Thanks.

How close would you like to be? about 2 or 3 kilometers away you can get a studio apartment for 3000-6000 baht depending on what you want. Where I am staying now is close to there, but I am moving next week because I hate the place.

[neighbortoThailand]

We want to be close enough that in peak traffic, we could get a taxi to take us to the hospital in under 30 minutes. I'm not familiar enough with the area to know how close that needs to be in terms of actual distance.

Where are you staying right now? Why do you hate it?

Thanks for your help!

[neighbortoThailand]

We want to be close enough that in peak traffic, we could get a taxi to take us to the hospital in under 30 minutes. I'm not familiar enough with the area to know how close that needs to be in terms of actual distance. Any suggestions on this?

Where are you staying right now? Why do you hate it?

Thanks for your help!

[mrt273nva]

We want to be close enough that in peak traffic, we could get a taxi to take us to the hospital in under 30 minutes. I'm not familiar enough with the area to know how close that needs to be in terms of actual distance.

Where are you staying right now? Why do you hate it?

Thanks for your help!

I'm on Phattanakarn at the moment. And I just realized that you are talking about the Samitvej Sukhumvit and not the Samitvej Sinakarin which is the one I am near. I guess it doesn't help you much because we are talking about different areas of town.

[Niranut]

When I had my baby at Samitivej, I stayed at the Civic Park Apartment complex, which is about a 2 minute walk from the hospital. It's fully serviced, furnished and all of that, so it may be more than you're looking for. Cost was 15,000/week (as I only stayed for 3 weeks) for a 2 bedroom. If I had stayed for the full month, it would have been a bit cheaper.

For electricity, at Civic Park it was 7 baht/unit and we ended up paying about 2,500 baht per week-- that was with the air on almost non-stop, and the air was an older model and not very energy efficient, I'm sure, as we pay 2,000 baht per month for air on all the time here at home They have a 24 hour free shuttle to the hospital, which is what I took when I was in labor as it's just a 30 sec. trip in the car (2 min. or so if there's a bit of traffic). It was good for me cause I had a 16 mo. old at the time and liked that Civic Park had a little garden with some playground equipment as well as a pool on the roof.

Again, probably a little bit fancier than what you had in mind, but it's an option. Also, the hospital also gave me a list of accommodation options in the area-- I think that's how I first heard about Civic. Did you get that list?

Hope that helps & feel free to PM if you need more details or anything.