Advantages: Affordable luxury, gorgeous rooms Disadvantages: When the wind is blowing the wrong way, you can smell the pongy river from the pool
Okay, the above opinion is based entirely on my own experience and I am sure a lot of people will disagree with me. Especially my parents who say that I am prone to exaggeration, plus Conde Nast Traveller magazine who only ranks the Peninsula Bangkok 5th best in the Asia (leisure travel) category for 2003. However, having done a reasonable amount of business and leisure travel over the years, particularly in Asia, the Peninsula Bangkok (let’s call ... ...I have stayed at the PB three times in total and always for leisure. The first time was in July 2002, when we (me and hubby-to-be) decided to have a last-night splurge after a fortnight in Thailand. We loved it so much that when we decided to get married in Thailand in April 2003, there was no hesitation in booking the PB for the first four nights at the start of our trip, as well as the by now obligatory last night to ease the pain of going home.
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pinseyt 07.05.2004
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Advantages: Good location, great employees, lovely rooms and deliscous food. Disadvantages: Service can be 'too' good
...to Bangkok (April 2008) for the first part of my honeymoon, we decided that if we were going to Thailand we had to see the capital just to say we had done it. We arrived in our taxi on the opposite side of the river to the peninsula, and looking at it from a distance of around 150m, it looks amazing. It sits on the opposite side of the river to the city itself away from the hundreds of other hotels in Bangkok. We got escorted through a small lobby ... ...its surroundings.
We followed the helpful peninsular representative down a small jeti and were confronted with an old rive boat converted into a peninsula shuttle boat. It took us gently across the river and docked in the peninsula's own private docking area. We were escorted to the lobby where all the relevant booking in was conducted. We started worrying about our bags because we hadnt seen them since we had got out of the taxi...However when ...
B_O_M_B_A 14.07.2008
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Location. The Peninsula Bangkok rises along the Chao Phraya River, six kilometers from ... more
the historical Sanam Luang district in Bangkok, Thailand. This hotel operates a private river pier and ferry shuttle that delivers guests to nearby River City shopp...
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Location. The Peninsula Bangkok rises along the Chao Phraya River, six kilometers from ... more
the historical Sanam Luang district in Bangkok, Thailand. This hotel operates a private river pier and ferry shuttle that deliversguests to nearby River City shoppi...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
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