Pailyn Sukhothai

The hotel is well looked after, the service is good, but the cleanliness of the accommodation is not that good.

Booking through Trip is almost 300 more expensive than Agoda and there is no breakfast included. The hotel is old, musty, location near the Loy Krathong festival, but there is nothing around. Almost deserted Bad reception Will book with trip.com and book through Agoda. It's cheaper and better.

This long-established, four-storey hotel is located on National Route 12, approximately 10km west of downtown Sukhothai (just before Sukhothai Historical Park). In the past, this prestigious hotel has hosted members of the Japanese imperial family, including Prince Akishino, Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko, and features an innovative exterior that exudes a sense of prestige that is second to none in Sukhothai. Although it has been nearly 30 years since it opened and the interior is inevitably showing signs of aging, the colonial-style guest room building surrounding the courtyard pool, the design of the lobby area reminiscent of a temple, and the guest room interior reminiscent of a traditional Thai house, which makes generous use of wood and rattan furniture from northern Thailand, give the hotel a glimpse of the unique appearance of a long-established luxury hotel. However, both the soft and hard aspects of hotel management, such as the maintenance and renewal of the hotel facilities since the hotel's founding, and the service provided by employees, are already lacking, and one cannot help but consider that the hotel's past reputation has also declined. (Incidentally, there was no reception staff present at check-in or check-out!) This hotel group originated in the old town area of ​​Phitsanulok, and was originally one of the city's leading luxury hotels, catering to group tour guests from Japan, but it should be remembered as a bad story of the management's lack of interest in running the hotel and resting on its past reputation.