Hotels in Ratchadaphisek – a focus in sharp contrasts

Hotels in Ratchadaphisek
a focus in sharp contrasts

Pride of Ratchadaphisek

Hotels in Ratchadaphisek are Bangkok hotels located within a 6 km stretch of Ratchaphisek Road between the Ratchadaphisek subway station and Petchaburi junction. It's a busy area bustling with commercial, office and condominiums with a variety of food and entertainment outlets.

Twelve Bangkok hotels are located within this area consisting of condominiums, night clubs, offices, restaurants, shopping malls and supermarkets.

Ratchadaphisek Road is actually a much longer road stretching from the Rama IX Bridge to the south up to Wong Sawang Road and the Rama VII Bridge to the north. This 30 km road loops round east of the city center linking the suburbs on the Thonburi bank of the Chao Phraya River to the city.

Ratchdaphisek Road also links to the Vibhavadi-Rangit highway leading to the old international airport at Don Muang. Traffic in the area of the hotels in Ratchadaphisek is horrendous, although two underpasses were built in recent years to ease congestion.

Thankfully, the Bangkok subway runs under this section of Ratchadaphisek Road from the Petchaburi to the Lad Phrao junctions providing fast and convenient transportation to:

Chatuchak weekend market (Chatuchak station)
the Sukhumvit entertainment area (Sukhumvit station),
Lumphini Night Bazaar (Lumphini station),
the Silom entertainment area (Silom station) and
old Chinatown in Yaowaraj (Hua Lam Pong terminal station)

Almost all the hotels in Ratchadaphisek are near and within walking of the Bangkok subway. The following stations serve this area; Petchaburi (PET), Phra Ram 9 (RAM), Thailand Cultural Center (CUL), Huai Kwang (HUI), Sutthisan (SUT) and Ratchadaphisek (RAT).

We'll start with the hotels in Ratchadaphisek near the Petchaburi junction and subway station and proceed northwards.

The Amari Atrium Hotel a 4-star hotel is about a km from the subway station. While the budget hotel Classic Place is closer at about 350 m.

The Petchaburi junction is congested. There's a mass of expressway flyovers and a level crossing just north of the junction, giving the area the dismal air of a rundown industrial town.

More hotels in Ratchadaphisek are found in Rama 9 Road, north of Petchaburi road. The budget hotels are A-one Hotel and Maxx Hotel. The 4-star hotels are Radisson Hotel and Royal Suite Executive Serviced Apartment

These four hotels in Rama IX Road are located from 800 m to more than a km to the east of the Phra Ram 9 subway station.

Please see the map to the hotels in Petchaburi and Rama IX area for the location of these hotels.

The atmosphere brightens up considerably as we enter the Phra Ram 9 junction and subway station. Here we have the Grand Mercure Fortune Hotel with the Fortune IT Center next to it is where you can buy computers and almost any accessory or add-on under one roof.

Shopping is far more pleasant here than at Panthip Plaza in Pratunam where you can be constantly pestered by pesky touts pushing pirated CDs. The center also includes a supermarket, fast food outlets and telecom shops.

As we proceed northwards, we get to the Thailand Cultural Center subway station and the Ratchada Theater nearby where you can view Siam Niramit, a spectacular drama that's a glittering display of Thai art, culture and history.

Carrefour, Tesco Lotus and Robinson are along this stretch serving the numerous condominiums beyond the main road. This area is well-known for seafood restaurants. A popular one serves barbecued prawns. You can't miss the signboard with a giant prawn.

You'll know you're in Huai Kwang from the numerous glitzy night clubs, karaoke lounges and massage parlors, euphemistically termed "entertainment complexes", with erotic names like Emmanuelle. Others prefer to invoke the names of mighty Caesar and Poseidon.

Emerald Hotel

The hotels in Ratchadaphisek near Huai Kwang subway station are the 4-star Emerald Hotel and Swissotel le Concorde within walking distance of the Huai Kwang station. The other hotel in the Huay Kwang area is Palazzo Hotel.

Swissotel le Concorde

Princeton Park Suite Hotel and Siam Beverly Hotel in spite of their stately names are actually budget hotels.

Siam Beverly Hotel

For hotels in Ratchdaphisek near the Sutthisan subway station, there's only the Grand Ayudhaya Hotel and the Veronica Residence.

Grand Ayudhaya Hotel

The chic condominiums, shopping centers and bright night clubs to the south make way for more mundane commercial blocks and apartments, a trend that continues for the rest of the way.

The Ratchadaphisek subway station marks the end of the hotel strip. Here we have the 4-star Chao Phraya Park Hotel.

Entrance to the Chao Phraya Park Hotel

To locate these hotels in Ratchadaphisek, please see the map to the hotels in Ratchadaphisek for an interactive map of the Ratchadaphisek area.

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Hotels in Ratchadaphisek are in an area of sharp contrasts and offer a wide range of cheap and mid-range hotels to visitors in an area with convenient shopping and entertainment to suit every budget and taste.

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