Centara Hotels in Bangkok

Second time here. Was given a bit too small room with noisy aircon. Overall was good though.

Centara Life Hotel Bangkok Phra Nakhon * Showers, no rain shower head, great water pressure and hot water! But it keeps switching from hot to cold constantly * Breakfast 250 baht per person. It was less than average tasting. I’m unsure why it has such high ratings. Just normal omelette, bacon was too chewy, rain was plain, there was a cool espresso machine, egg soup noodle was good, meat was dry. * Complementary welcome drinks * They make guests download their app to get request like housekeeping, ordering tuk tuk to Khao San road (food, bar, shopping vendors), additional amenities if room runs out, laundry service. It doesn’t work very well. It keeps saying housekeeping and amenities requests has been completed, but it wasn’t. I don’t know if it’s automatic or someone is housekeeping was lying here or just broken system to use the app for such requests. * Laundry service (ridiculous price in my opinion) * 250 or around $6 a Jean or pants * 100 or $3 for a tshirt

Centara was a lovely place to stay at! Staff prepared a cake for our anniversary, which was very sweet of them! Location is 8min walk from Ratchaprarop (airport rail line), which makes it easy to get to and from the airport. It is 21min walk to Chit Lom (BTS) though, which is quite far. But 10min walk away is Platinum, and another 10min away is centralwOrld (HUGE shopping mall) and Big C (HUGE supermarket). Location of the hotel is considered good. Pratunam night market right beside (outside Palladium shopping mall), and December’s (female clothings store) is further down from Platinum. 20min beyond Platinum is MBK Center. Abit far to walk but if you make stops in between, you’ll get there. Then Siam area will be after MBK, but also on the way back to Centara. The original Go-ang Pratunam chicken rice is abt 10min walk away too. In an anti clockwise direction, nearest Centara would be Platinum, December’s, MBK, Siam area (Siam Paragon, Siam Center, Siam Square), centralwOrld, then back to Platinum. Opp Platinum is the chicken rice, and diagonally opp Platinum is Palladium, then Centara. There’s also a massage place right at the doorstep of the hotel L1 which i went 4 days out of our 5 days stay there. Tem, Max, Pond and Kung did a wonderful job. Overall a pleasant stay and I wish we could stay longer!

The room is fitted with basic function. Overall is good. However, if you plan to spend your time within hotel e.g. lunch/dinner, it betters to book by booking agancy since it offers better deal (more special menu) and price (at cheaper price!!) event if in house guests get 15% discount)

Room was nice and spacious, toilet clean, and large breakfast variety. Unfortunately, requests for amenities were frequently wrong, and sometimes they dont arrive. The staff were not always friendly, but the reception staff were helpful Location is near to sian Paragon and a lively area of the city.