The Peninsula -, Bangkok > Reviews

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 ... Read review

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 ... Read review