Review: The Athenee Bangkok, a Luxury Collection Hotel

With conscionable 2 nights to walk successful Bangkok earlier I headed backmost to Tokyo, I wanted to cheque retired 2 Marriott Bonvoy properties successful the area.

After taking afloat vantage of precocious checkout astatine the W Bangkok, we hopped successful a cab and made our mode to The Athenee Bangkok, a Luxury Collection Hotel.

After a fistful of precise pleasant stays astatine Luxury Collection properties before, I was keen to cheque different 1 disconnected my list, particularly successful 1 of Bangkok’s astir prestigious locales.

The Athenee Bangkok – Booking

For this stay, I booked utilizing an manufacture rate. When I’d booked the trip, it was conscionable expected to beryllium maine staying; however, my friends decided to articulation maine astatine the past infinitesimal erstwhile 1 got injured connected our skis travel successful Japan.

Generally speaking, currency rates astatine The Athenee Bangkok thin to tally astir 5,800 THB ($170 USD, $220 CAD) astatine the debased extremity and 15,000 THB ($430 USD, $570 CAD) astatine the precocious end. For the astir part, you should beryllium capable to find a terms of astir 7,000 THB ($200 USD, $270 CAD).

When it comes to utilizing Marriott Bonvoy points, expect to wage betwixt 33,000–45,000 points per night.

Compared to our valuation of Bonvoy points astatine 0.6 cents per constituent (USD) / 0.8 cents per constituent (CAD), you’ll beryllium much oregon little connected target, depending connected your circumstantial redemption and the points-to-cash ratio.

This spot could beryllium determination wherever you use a Free Night Award, which you tin besides apical up with up to 15,000 points. On the different hand, if you’re capable to find a day that costs 35,000 Marriott Bonvoy points, you’re efficaciously reducing the terms to the yearly interest of your recognition paper of $120–150 (CAD).

As a Luxury Collection property, The Athenee Bangkok participates successful Marriott STARS, a preferred spouse program.

If you’re booking a currency rate, it’s successful your champion involvement to get successful interaction with an authorized question advisor, who tin corroborate the booking connected your behalf.

You’ll bask a fig of other perks passim your stay, specified arsenic a $100 (USD) spot credit, complimentary meal for two, and more, portion paying the aforesaid terms arsenic the best-available flexible rate.

The Athenee Bangkok – Location

The Athenee Bangkok is located successful the Lumpini neighbourhood, adjacent to Lumpini Park. The country is location to galore luxury condominium buildings and embassies, and is 1 of Bangkok’s swankier locales.

Depending connected your itinerary successful Bangkok, it whitethorn not beryllium the astir centrally located edifice for sightseeing. However, The Athenee is inactive adjacent to plentifulness of cocktail bars, good eating venues, and embassies astir the area, and it’s comparatively casual to entree the metropolis by transit oregon taxi.

Just down the thoroughfare from the edifice is the US Embassy, and during my stay, I noticed that determination were galore Americans staying astatine the hotel.

The Athenee is simply a just region from galore of Bangkok’s main tourer attractions, specified arsenic Wat Benchamabophit Buddhist Temple, which is located 30 minutes distant by transit. Likewise, The Golden Buddha (Wat Traimit Withayaram) is simply a 45-minute thrust distant from The Athenee, depending connected traffic.

Luckily, the edifice is ideally situated for casual entree to transit. A five-minute locomotion gets you to Phloen Chit BTS station, which is wherever you tin committee the Sukhumvit (Green) Line.

Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) is located 40 minutes distant by car, oregon longer if postulation is heavy.

The Athenee Bangkok – Check-in

We arrived astatine The Athenee Bangkok aft a lazy day spent poolside astatine the W Bangkok. The 3 of america were a spot worse for deterioration aft a precocious night, but were excited to spot however this edifice compared.

As we pulled up, we were met by the bellhops, who greeted america and swung unfastened the doors to the hotel.

The Athenee Bangkok – Exterior

The Athenee Bangkok – Vehicle access

The Athenee Bangkok – Entrance

The lobby astatine The Athenee Bangkok is grandiose, with a gorgeous expansive staircase acceptable arsenic the main attraction.

The Athenee Bangkok – Lobby lounge

The Athenee Bangkok – Lobby lounge

The Athenee Bangkok – Staircase

There are plush seats scattered astir the lobby lounge, which were comfy places to remainder arsenic we waited for friends to get aboriginal connected that evening.

The Athenee Bangkok – Lobby lounge

The Athenee Bangkok – Lobby lounge

We made our mode implicit to the check-in desks, which had a beauteous woody sculpture hanging from the walls.

The Athenee Bangkok – Check-in desks

After looking astatine my reservation, the subordinate invited america to implicit the check-in process successful the Executive Lounge, connected relationship of my Marriott Platinum Elite status.

We were escorted to the elevators and up to the lounge, and past were promptly offered a enactment of invited beverages. We opted for the Thai iced beverage this clip around, arsenic memories from the nighttime anterior pb america distant from the connection of sparkling wine.

The Athenee Bangkok – Thai iced beverage invited drink

As we chatted, different subordinate came to implicit the formalities. While I’d booked into a base-level room, I confirmed an upgrade to The Athenee Suite utilizing a Suite Night Award.

Since determination were 3 of us, the subordinate informed maine that we’d beryllium levied an other idiosyncratic fee. While this wasn’t a large deal, we didn’t person the aforesaid complaint astatine the W Bangkok, who gladly accommodated our full enactment without question.

The butler successful the lounge went implicit each of the services disposable to america astatine the hotel, and past we headed backmost to the elevators and down to our country connected the 21st floor.

The Athenee Bangkok – Elevators

The Athenee Bangkok – Elevators

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite

We recovered our suite astatine the extremity of the hallway, tucked into the country of the hotel.

The Athenee Bangkok – Hallway

The Athenee Bangkok – Room 2101

Upon opening the door, we recovered a spacious foyer that plays big to a array connected the close side, and a secondary bath connected the left. In the bath is simply a toilet and a sink.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite foyer

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite secondary bathroom

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite secondary bathroom

The foyer past opens up to the surviving room, which is marked by a ample couch, a minibar, and a desk.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite surviving room

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite minibar

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite minibar

The surviving country is rather roomy, and was a cleanable spot to big a fewer friends who besides happened to beryllium successful Bangkok aboriginal that evening. This is besides wherever the rollaway furniture was acceptable up.

I spent the pursuing time moving from the desk, and recovered it to beryllium a comfy and spacious country to beryllium for a fewer hours.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite table & armchair

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite desk

The surviving country leads into the bedroom, which has a agelong seat acceptable against the model and a king furniture arsenic the focal point. At the ft of the furniture is simply a plush reddish bench, which added a bully popular of colour to the room.

The furniture was notably comfortable, and I had a precise dependable slumber that evening.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite bedroom

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite bedroom

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite bed

To the broadside of the chamber is simply a tiny hallway that’s location to the room’s closet and a luggage rack. We besides recovered other bathrobes acceptable successful the closet.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite walk-in closet

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite closet

The main bath successful The Athenee Suite is rather spacious, though I recovered the décor to beryllium a motion of different time.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite bathroom

Upon entering, there’s a bathtub to the close and a agelong marble dual vanity to the left.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite bathtub

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite dual vanity

A toilet with a bidet is nestled successful the corner, crossed from the shower.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite toilet

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite shower

The presumption from our country looked retired implicit a bustling metropolis from 2 directions.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee Suite view

Overall, I recovered the country to beryllium well-appointed and rather spacious; however, I wasn’t peculiarly enthused by the wide décor, which conscionable simply isn’t my preferred style.

At the aforesaid time, having a confirmed upgrade successful beforehand of our enactment was overmuch appreciated, particularly since fitting 3 radical successful a base-level country would person been a spot of a stretch.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee King Room

The edifice was incapable to widen america precocious checkout successful the Athenee Suite the adjacent day, but offered to determination america to a base-level country instead.

The room, portion smaller, is inactive precise well-appointed, and the wide décor is accordant with the remainder of the rooms and the edifice arsenic a whole.

Upon entering, you’re greeted with acheronian brownish panels accented with acheronian reddish oak trim and brushed yellowish lighting.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee King Room foyer

The chamber features a king furniture with 2 nightstands, a tiny table and seat for getting immoderate enactment done, and a sofa that’s against the window.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee King Room bedroom

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee King Room bed

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee King Room seating country & flat-screen TV

The bath features a azygous vanity, a tiny bathtub, a toilet, and a walk-in shower.

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee King Room bathroom

The Athenee Bangkok – Athenee King Room toilet & shower

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite

I besides had the accidental to circuit the hotel’s top-tier Ratanakosin Presidential Suite, which is conscionable arsenic opulent and extravagant arsenic you mightiness expect.

The country is massive, and spans a whopping 3,766 quadrate feet.

Immediately upon entering, you get successful an elegant foyer with 2 aureate horses, and achromatic marble floors with bluish and golden accent walls connected each side.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite foyer

Turning to the close brings you to a gargantuan surviving room, embellished with a monolithic chandelier overhanging the room.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite surviving room

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite surviving room

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite chandelier

The remainder of the country is populated by assorted seating options scattered throughout. The full abstraction is brightly lit some arsenic a effect of the interior lights, achromatic walls, and a plethora of windows letting successful plentifulness of earthy light.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite room area

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite desk

Moving connected from the cardinal surviving room, there’s a 12-person eating country table, with 2 tiny chandeliers hanging above.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite eating area

The main chamber is simply a show to behold arsenic well, featuring a queen-sized poster furniture with elegant drapes dangling from the 4 corners.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite bedroom

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite bed

This suite is slated for six occupants, truthful determination are a fewer much beds successful a abstracted bedroom, but they’re somewhat much pedestrian compared to the main bedroom.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite secondary bedroom

The main bath is breathtaking. It features a treble vanity, different ample quadrate mirror, a walk-in shower, and a centrally placed bathtub with golden fixtures.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite main bathroom

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite bathtub

There is besides an workout motorcycle tucked into the country of the suite, which is simply a unsocial touch.

The Athenee Bangkok – Ratanakosin Presidential Suite backstage fittingness centre

Overall, the rooms astatine The Athenee Bangkok are upscale, and fitting of a Luxury Collection hotel. I appreciated the consistency throughout, arsenic it created a cohesive individuality wrong the hotel.

At the aforesaid time, some the Athenee Suite and the Ratanakosin Presidential Suite offered an elevated measurement supra the base-level rooms. 

While this benignant of décor isn’t needfully 1 that I’m overly enthused about, it’s inactive luxurious and opulent, and whitethorn cater good to radical with antithetic tastes than me. 

The Athenee Bangkok – Executive Lounge

One of the stand-out features of The Athenee Bangkok is the Executive Lounge, which is located connected the 26th floor. It’s officially known arsenic the Royal Club Lounge.

I coiled up popping by for the evening hors d’oeuvres service, and past again rapidly successful the greeting earlier heading down to the edifice for breakfast.

The Athenee Bangkok – Executive Lounge entrance

There are tons of seating options disposable successful the lounge, ranging from barroom stools, sofas, and restaurant-style tables with chairs for guests to take astatine their leisure.

The Athenee Bangkok – Executive Lounge seating

The Athenee Bangkok – Executive Lounge seating

The Athenee Bangkok – Executive Lounge seating

The acold broadside of the Executive Lounge is covered successful windows, erstwhile again bringing successful an ample magnitude of earthy airy inside.

We popped successful for a speedy snack and a portion connected the evening of our stay. The lounge had a reasonably awesome buffet, which included sushi, gyoza, tom kha gai soup, charcuterie, pastries, and airy snacks.

In addition, there’s a wide enactment of nutrient and drinks connected offer, including Thai iced tea, which I’d reason is simply a must-try.

The Athenee Bangkok – Executive Lounge evening cocktails menu

During evening hors d’oeuvres, I enjoyed a bully French 75 cocktail paired with fried atom and roasted chicken. 

The Athenee Bangkok – Evening hors d’oeuvres

We past decided to task retired into the metropolis successful hunt of immoderate section thoroughfare eats for dinner.

In the morning, the Executive Lounge puts connected a airy meal dispersed for eligible guests to enjoy.

The Athenee Bangkok – Executive Lounge meal buffet area

Here, you tin find a bully enactment of meal items, including congee, bacon, hash browns, sausages, tofu, Thai greenish curry, dumplings, caller fruit, and a crockery bar.

It’s worthy noting that the dispersed present isn’t rather arsenic abundant arsenic what you’ll find astatine the main meal buffet.

The Athenee Bangkok – Breakfast

In summation to the dispersed successful the Executive Lounge, the main meal country takes spot successful the dedicated buffet country astatine The Rain Tree Café. The meal buffet was 1 of the astir awesome spreads I’ve seen, and we took afloat vantage of the accidental to substance our bodies for the day.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Rain Tree Café entrance

The Athenee Bangkok – The Rain Tree Café buffet area

It’s worthy noting everything featured successful the meal buffet is organic.

There are tons of antithetic blistery buffet items available, including fried rice, reddish legume congee, silken tofu, beans, bacon, dim sum, and adjacent Hainanese chickenhearted rice, to sanction a few. You’ll besides find dishes from a fig of satellite cuisines, including Indian, Thai, Western, Chinese, and Middle Eastern.

Along with self-serve buffet options, determination are 2 unrecorded cooking stations, wherever you tin customize some your omelets and noodle crockery orders, and ticker the cook hole it close successful beforehand of you.

The acold buffet country is conscionable arsenic well-stocked arsenic the blistery buffet, with a foodstuff bar, caller chopped fruits, a wide assortment of cereals and toppings, and a large enactment of antithetic breads.

Overall, the meal was precise awesome from each angles, and we truly enjoyed everything the edifice had to offer. We each made respective trips backmost to the buffet to substance up for our past time successful the city.

It’s worthy noting that portion the work during meal was great, astatine times, it felt a spot excessively attentive. For example, arsenic I was toting backmost immoderate dishes from the buffet area, unit members often insisted connected carrying the dishes for me. 

This resulted successful a spot of an awkward exchange, since beverages and bowls of crockery are a spot tricky to walk off. Otherwise, we were often offered refills of drinks during our lengthy breakfast, and the unit astatine the assorted stations were fantastic.

The Athenee Bangkok – Dining

There are 8 antithetic restaurants astatine The Athenee Bangkok, and each highlights a antithetic cuisine. Most are catered towards higher-end clients, which is apt a merchandise of being nestled amongst embassies and posh buildings.

We didn’t dine astatine immoderate of the restaurants extracurricular of The Rain Tree Café; however, we noticed that each edifice was consistently busy. Perhaps during my adjacent visit, I’ll springiness 1 of the restaurants a visit..

Kintsugi Bangkok by Jeff Ramsey is located connected the 3rd level of the hotel, and serves modern Japanese kaiseki dishes. It’s unfastened regular for luncheon from 11:30am–2:30pm, and past for meal from 6–10:30pm.

This edifice has besides been reviewed by the Michelin Guide.

The Athenee Bangkok – Kintsugi Bangkok by Jeff Ramsey

The Athenee Bangkok – Kintsugi Bangkok by Jeff Ramsey seating

The Athenee Bangkok – Kintsugi Bangkok by Jeff Ramsey seating

There’s a bully magnitude of seating available, and the full edifice is decorated successful a distinctively modern Japanese fashion.

The Silk Road is located connected the 3rd level of the hotel, and specializes successful accepted Cantonese cuisine from dim sum to Peking Duck. It’s unfastened regular from 11:30am–2:30pm for luncheon and 6pm–10:30pm for dinner.

The interior plan is simply a throwback to the 1920s successful China with a dense Art Deco style. The seating options scope from ample circular booths to much intimate 4 idiosyncratic eating arrangements.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Silk Road

The Athenee Bangkok – The Silk Road seating

The Athenee Bangkok – The Silk Road seating

The Rain Tree Café is located connected the crushed level and is the hotel’s all-day and buffet restaurant.

It’s unfastened from 6–10:30am for breakfast, 12–2:30pm for lunch, past 6–10pm for meal from Monday to Saturday. On Sundays, the luncheon hr is extended by 30 minutes ending astatine 3pm.

The edifice features cuisine from crossed the world, with plentifulness of assortment to appease a wide scope of guests. There’s a peculiar absorption connected seafood for the meal service, which is erstwhile crab legs are disposable from the buffet.

The décor is precise expansive yet elegant, and gives feelings of home. The full abstraction is well-lit, with gangly ceilings and an wide casual prime – making it a large spot for all-day dining.

The Athenee Bangkok – Rain Tree Café seating

The Athenee Bangkok – Rain Tree Café seating

The Athenee Bangkok – Rain Tree Café seating

The View is simply a hep upscale cocktail barroom situated connected the 4th level of the hotel, close adjacent to the excavation and loungers. It’s unfastened regular from 9am–7pm, and has an extended drinks paper with accompanying snacks.

The House of Smooth Curry tin beryllium recovered connected the 3rd floor, and specializes successful authentic Thai cuisine. It’s unfastened regular from 11:30am–2:30pm for lunch, and 5:30–10:00pm for dinner.

The edifice prides itself connected showcasing authentic Thai flavours from crossed the state portion being arsenic sustainable arsenic imaginable by supporting section farms and increasing their ain spices.

The Athenee Bangkok – The House of Smooth Curry

The Allium Bangkok is besides located connected the 3rd level of the hotel, and its absorption lies with haute French dining. It’s unfastened regular from 11:30am–2:30pm for lunch, and 5:30pm–10:00pm for dinner.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Allium Bangkok

The edifice places a dense accent connected alliums, which is simply a genus of works that contains assorted aromatics specified arsenic onions, garlic, scallions, and chives – a surefire mode to warrant a flavour-packed meal.

The interior is chiefly outfitted with achromatic colours, and is contrasted with bright, bold reds, which gives the full edifice a melodramatic yet airy feel.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Allium Bangkok seating

The Athenee Bangkok – The Allium seating

The Athenee Bangkok – The Allium Bangkok bar

The Bakery is an artisanal bakery and java store located connected the crushed level of the hotel. It specializes successful day beverage and quaint French-inspired desserts. Its opening hours are regular from 7am–6pm.

This abstraction is simply a portion of a larger conservatory, and surrounds its guests with greenery successful each directions.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Bakery

The Athenee Bangkok – The Bakery seating

Lastly, The Glaz Bar is different edifice located connected the crushed level of the edifice close adjacent to The Rain Tree Café. The barroom offers tiny plates from crossed the world, which you tin brace with a wide enactment of cocktails.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Glaz Bar seating

The Athenee Bangkok – The Glaz Bar seating

The Athenee Bangkok – The Glaz Bar seating

It’s unfastened regular from 11am–11pm.

The Glaz Bar chiefly features achromatic colours with achromatic accents and has a royal consciousness to it – paying homage to the hotel’s determination erstwhile arsenic a royal palace.

The Athenee Bangkok – Other Facilities

The Athenee Spa is located connected the 5th level of the hotel. While I didn’t get the accidental to effort immoderate of the spa services this time, it looked similar a bully spot to get treatments done.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Athenee Spa

The Athenee Bangkok – The Athenee Spa attraction room

As with astir edifice spas, appointments should beryllium booked up of time. There are relaxation rooms overlooking the hotel’s pool, truthful beryllium definite to petition this successful beforehand to snag a spot.

The Athenee Bangkok – The Athenee Spa relaxation room

A ample resort-style excavation tin beryllium recovered connected the 4th floor’s rooftop garden. This outdoor country is afloat of lush greenery, with a manicured tract nearby.

The Athenee Bangkok – Pool

The Athenee Bangkok – Pool

The Athenee Bangkok – Pool lounge chairs

We spent portion of the day here, admiring the plot views and cooling down successful the heat.

The Athenee Bangkok – Rooftop lawn

The excavation is lone 10 metres abbreviated of being an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and is an perfect spot to aquatics laps.

Here, you’ll besides find a rooftop barroom called The View Bar, wherever you tin get immoderate respite from the vigor and bask airy snacks and a drink.

The Athenee Bangkok – The View Bar

The fittingness centre astatine the hotel, known arsenic Athenee Fitness, is besides recovered connected the 4th floor, adjacent to the pool. It offers Muay Thai boxing classes, successful summation to a assortment of escaped weights and value machines.

A enactment of treadmills, workout bikes, and elliptical machines look retired of brightly-lit floor-to-ceiling windows onto the outdoor excavation and entity garden. 

The Athenee Bangkok – Fitness centre

The Athenee Bangkok – Fitness centre

After your workout, you tin unbend successful the steamroom and sauna adjacent to the fittingness centre, oregon dainty yourself astatine the spa, conscionable 1 level above.

Conclusion

The Athenee Bangkok is simply a luxury edifice that joins aged with new, and French with Thai precise well. The edifice is built connected the grounds of the Kandhavas Royal Palace, and looks the part.

While the locale isn’t the astir convenient to get to and from the main tourer attractions, the country is filled with large eats and readily accessible transit options. It’s besides a large spot to beryllium if you’re successful municipality connected concern oregon doing immoderate diplomatic work.

While we were capable to unafraid the Athenee Suite arsenic a effect of utilizing a Suite Night Award, the base-level rooms are inactive nicely appointed, and would beryllium a large spot to walk a fewer nights successful Bangkok.

There are 8 world-class eating establishments located wrong the hotel, ensuring that guests ne'er person to spell acold careless of their eating preference. The situation is deciding whether oregon not to forgo a repast astatine 1 of the restaurants for thoroughfare nutrient instead.

Combine the comparatively debased currency rate, tenable outgo successful points, and the quality to usage a Free Night Award from a full big of Marriott co-branded recognition cards, The Athenee is an fantabulous edifice to walk a fewer nights successful Bangkok.

The station Review: The Athenee Bangkok, a Luxury Collection Hotel appeared archetypal connected Prince of Travel by T.J. Dunn.