Definitely a Bangkok legendary top-end hotel
We come to Bangkok every few years and, now that we can occasionally afford to, we’re working our way down the list of top-end hotels here. We stayed here for three nights in August 2011. The Sukhothai is definitely top-end, worth its place in Leading Hotels of the World. I would put it on par with the Grand Hyatt Erewan, maybe not quite at the level as the Mandarin Oriental (though we have only visited but not stayed there), and a step up from the Banyan Tree next door (visited but haven’t stayed).
Service is excellent from the moment you arrive. As they should, the doorman tells you to forget about your bags and escorts you to a seating area in the lounge where someone from the check-in counter meets you. She then escorts you personally to the room and explains the gizmos to you. Your bags arrive shortly after. We arrived at about 10:30, well before the 14:00 check-in time, but they never even mentioned it. We were also allowed a late 17:00 check-out when we left.
Our room was a Deluxe Studio on the 6th floor, overlooking the pool and tennis courts. It was spotless, huge, tastefully decorated, and had a proper one-piece quality king size bed. They also brought in an extra bed for our daughter, and it too was the best quality roller bed we’ve seen, on par with a real bed. The bathroom is gigantic, accessed through the large walk-through closet. It has a separate large tiled shower with 5 water spouts, two counters and basins, a large and deep double-ended bathtub, a separate toilet, huge thick towels, and high-quality toiletry supplies. Wi-fi is free and there is an iPod connection to the Bose sound system.
One small warning about the room: it has two tall skinny windows that open up for fresh air, which is great, but they open up pretty much to floor level and they are wide enough that a child could easily walk right out and fall six floors down. See the attached photo of this.
The pool is large, clean, and has one end decently deep enough. There are ample loungers, umbrellas, and "tents" around the pool. Our one complaint about service, however, lies here. We went to the pool four times, twice in the rain. The two times it wasn’t raining, no one ever greeted us, escorted us to loungers, and set up our towels for us. We saw that they did do this sometimes for others, but they never seemed to catch our eye and we had to go get our own towels. It’s a small thing, but expected at a hotel in this league. We never did have someone come up and ask us if we would like to see a pool-side menu. This is why I have given service a 4 out of 5 rating.
This was our first time in this Lumphini Park / Sathorn Road neighbourhood. It was pleasant enough, but you don’t get that central feeling you get at Rama 1 between the MBK mall and the Erewan Shrine. The nearest SkyTrain stop is just a tad too far to walk regularly, but the Lumphini subway train stop is an easy 10 minute walk. That train line goes directly to Chatuchak weekend market.
We would stay at this hotel again, except for the fact that we wish to try more of Bangkok’s excellent hotels. We would recommend this place to friends.
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