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Bangkok at a glance
Bangkok is Thailand’s capital and its largest city, built along the Chao Phraya River.
We cover six areas. Our hotels in Silom and Sathorn, Siam and Chinatown are all within about 600 metres of a BTS or MRT station, in straight lines, and so are all but one in Sukhumvit, where Grande Centre Point Sukhumvit 55 is about 900 metres from Thong Lo BTS. The Riverside hotels sit on both banks of the Chao Phraya. The Old Town, around the Grand Palace and Khao San Road, is the exception: none of our hotels there is within 1.3km of a station.
Location scores across our Bangkok hotels run from 9.8 to 8.2, and the lowest belongs to a hotel only 580 metres from a BTS station, but 7.6km from Asok. In a city this size, check where a hotel is before anything else.
Six areas.
One bar.
Every Bangkok hotel here shows its working: which platforms, how many reviews and what they scored. A pick clears two platforms, 150 reviews between them and nothing under 8.5. The ones badged Also Listed fall short of that, and each one says where.
Where to stay in Bangkok
Pick the area first and the hotel second. Ordered by the average guest score of the listings in each area, the same basis as the hotels below.
The Bangkok hotel list
Ranked by the average of each hotel's guest scores across the booking platforms, then the number of reviews. Having stayed somewhere does not move it up.
Travel guides
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Bangkok BTS and MRT: the Fares, the Cards, and the 45 Baht Cap
The 20 baht flat fare needed a Thai ID card and has been cancelled, so a visitor pays the ordinary fares: 17 to 44 baht on the MRT Blue Line and up to 65 on the BTS. The Cabinet approved a 45 baht cap across every line for 1 January 2027, but as announced it is a refund for registered Thai citizens only.
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New listings, price movements worth knowing about, and the occasional note on somewhere that stopped clearing our bar. No list exists yet, so this button does nothing on purpose.