Miracle Grand, Vibhavadi Rangsit

[KhunDave]

I'm attending an event at this hotel and am staying over the night before. It will be mid-evening when I arrive - too late to go downtown for dinner. But I hate hotel food. Can any of you locals tell a guy from the North-country what eating options there are within walking distance of the hotel? I'm fine with Thai food, and nothing fancy is required.

Thanks for any help.

[arkom]

If memory serves me correctly, there really isn't much to eat around there except for some street side food stalls. There is IT City which isn't too far and they have a Foodland that is open 24hrs along with their food court which isn't too bad.

[scorecard]

If memory serves me correctly, there really isn't much to eat around there except for some street side food stalls. There is IT City which isn't too far and they have a Foodland that is open 24hrs along with their food court which isn't too bad.

I've used their meeting room / function facilities many times and I've been quite happy:

- They Listen to the customer, try hard to set things up to please the customer.

- Enough English to get by (not a problem becauce I speak Thai).

- Attend to coffeee breaks etc (good coffee, good snacks, good service).

- Concierge / staff at front door very focused and quick to get things organized.

- And I must be honest the food (yes the hotel food) was quite good and (the last time I used the restuarant - about 12 months ago) they had a western chef who always came to the table whenever western people were there; suggested / recommended / listened carefully, and came up with some pretty good (hotel) food.

They also had a small in house coffee shop (right hand side of the lobby as you walk in) which had a quite nice selection of wetsern style sandwiches and whatever I ordered was made fresh, and quickly, and quite cheap, and good coffee.

In regard to outside close food, as already mentioned, the place is a little bit isolated and transport other than motor cycle taxis may be not so plentiful mid to late evening.

And it's probably a fairly long trip (15 minutes on motor cycle) to find something other than street stalls. Suggest if you do look outside get the hotel to organize a motor cycle driver, explain to him what your looking for and make a plan for him to stay with you until your back to the hotel and tucked in.

Edited February 8, 2010 by scorecard

[WarpSpeed]

They have an excellent buffet there you will not find better food at decent price anywhere else locally..

The Foodland cafe up the road a piece as mentioned in the IT square is also very good but not on the same level, though quite acceptable and also good English speaking staff for the most part. For that matter depending on what time? That IT square at Chaeng Whattana also has a pretty good food court in the basement and I don't know how you feel about Hot Pot but it has one of those in buffet style as well and that even includes desert very reasonable..

*addendum* Taxi's are readily available at all hours...It's not in the stix folks.....

Edited February 9, 2010 by WarpSpeed