Dusit Thani Bangkok

On our recent visit to Thailand we stayed for nine days at the Dusit Thani in Bangkok. It is billed as a five star hotel and picked our rooms up on line for around £100 per night.

On arrival at the Hotel, there is everything you would expect from this level of class hotel. The service is second to none. There is a little bizarre checking in ritual which takes you to a small area where you check in, maybe to get people staying in our wing away from the busy reception. he check proceedure is very complicated and they also charged me £50 per day as a deposit and took the cost of the room as a deposit on my credit card. This pretty much wiped a load of avaliable balance of this card for a week. They also didn't charge the deposit upon departure and charged the card again for the room, this did kill the credit card for a week....

The Hotel is located next to the busy Silom area of Bangkok and is right next to the Sala Dang BTS Station and the Silom MRT Station, so getting to most points in Bangkok is very easy. Across the road is Lumpini Park, a great place for kids with a load of wildlife including a 2M monitor, which Elizabeth loved.

The Hotel as many Restaurants and facilities. The pool is excellent and the Gym looked great. There are Thai, Vietnamese, Australian Steak House food and a big Night Club. Unfortunately the cost of these is prohibitive! A glass of beer and a coke around the pool cost £8.50. For me that is too much........

The rooms are the biggest let down. If I had paid half the cost of the room, then the room would have been just adequate, however the room did not meet my expectation. We have stayed at the Dusit Thani in Hua Hin and the rooms are 100% better. The room was clean and tidy, but old and tired.

There were nice touches like milk and cookies for Elizabeth and on our second stay they left us baby shampoo and shower gel.. Breakfast was fantastic! Beans and bacon everyday, aswell as all the international dishes you would expect including great coffee.

The check out was a real pain, both times they messed up the total of the bill, on the second occassion the overcharge was nearly £80.

So as far as an overall score goes, I can only give the Dusit Thani 6/10. I so wanted to love this Hotel, unfortunately not even spending £1000 over nine days could do this.