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Summary: With slick, minimalist lines, sophisticated guest rooms and suites, and an enviable location, Park Hyatt Bangkok has...
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With slick, minimalist lines, sophisticated guest rooms and suites, and an enviable location, Park Hyatt Bangkok has everything today’s Bangkok-bound luxury traveller needs.

Background

Once the scene of elegant garden parties hosted by the British Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, a prime corner plot in the heart of Bangkok was converted into one of the city’s leading luxury hotels in 2017  and the property has certainly retained its youthful persona thanks to architecture by AL_A, the London-based studio founded by Amanda Levete, with help from Bangkok-based Pi Design. The hotel and its adjacent Central Embassy luxury shopping mall are bound together by a continual looped form merging plinth and tower. Drawing on motifs and patterns found in traditional Thai architecture, the eye-catching façade is clad in extruded aluminium tiles, creating a shimmering moiré-like pattern that quickly reached icon status on the city’s skyline.

First Impressions

It’s a Park Hyatt so you know the vibe – intimate, contemporary, oozing with sophistication and subtle, modern touches. Guests arrive at upmarket Phloen Chit (Wireless Road no less) and are whisked into the sky to the hotel’s 10th floor sky lobby, which boasts spectacular urban panoramas. The hotel itself spans the ninth to 35th floors, and is approximately 45 minutes from Suvarnabhumi International Airport. In the lofty lobby, young but immaculately uniformed and razor-efficient front desk staff checked me in and directed me to a bank of elevators for the leap up to my King Corner Room (below).

With slick, minimalist lines, sophisticated guest rooms and suites, and an enviable location, Park Hyatt Bangkok has everything today’s Bangkok-bound luxury traveller needs.

The Room

The first thing you notice when you walk in is that view – it’s mesmerising and you could be forgiven for forgoing your most pressing engagements and perching yourself on the sofa to while away the evening people-watching (yes, the views continue into the bathroom). Once you drag yourself away from the floor-to-ceiling vistas, you’ll start to appreciate the efforts of New York design firm Yabu Pushelberg (they of the Park Hyatt New York design fame), which has dressed the hotel’s 222 rooms and suites in calming neutral tones accented by statement artworks (the ballroom is home to Japanese artist Hirotoshi Sawada’s awe-inspiring Pagoda Mirage, which incorporates hundreds of small, conical copper swirls, suspended en masse to evoke the reflection of a pagoda on water.

The room featured a king-sized bed, 180-degree city views that could be kept at bay with electronic blinds, an ample workspace, a separate dressing room and living room, and a sumptuous bathroom with Le Labo skincare products waiting. There’s the all-important Nespresso machine, an ornate minibar, and a 55-inch widescreen television.

I personally loved the bathtub and the work desk, which allowed me to respectively soak away a long day pounding the pavements of Bangkok and catch up on the real world once I was done.

Other stand-out guest rooms include the 55sqm King Deluxe rooms, and the luxurious Diplomat Suite, which offers an inspiring space with soaring views, a generous lounge and office area, a full pantry with dining area, and a powder room, all set amid 115–122 square metres.

With slick, minimalist lines, sophisticated guest rooms and suites, and an enviable location, Park Hyatt Bangkok has everything today’s Bangkok-bound luxury traveller needs.

Dining

In keeping with that oh-so-cool urbane persona, the Park Hyatt Bangkok boasts a chic Penthouse Bar and Grill designed by the Big Apple’s AvroKo design firm. The four-floor venue is also home to an intimate chef’s table, a standalone cocktail bar, a separate whisky room, and an exclusive rooftop bar that’s famed for its rare spirits collection. Here, in the Penthouse, service is intelligent and refined yet approachable and menu highlights include Sloane’s Pork Chop with candied cashews and orange, and a tamarind barbecue sauce; Hua Hin burrata with dehydrated tomatoes; Wagyu beef vol-au-vent; and Canadian lobster linguine with bacon and chives.

Downstairs, you’ll find The Embassy Room, an elegant space overlooking the hotel’s expansive outdoor swimming pool and which serves leisurely a la carte breakfasts with local touches – think Thai-style eggs with Chinese pork sausages.

Alternatively, The Living Room serves the best high tea in the city as well as light meals and evening cocktails and canapes, while The Bar specialises in Old World wines and small plates of perfection.

With slick, minimalist lines, sophisticated guest rooms and suites, and an enviable location, Park Hyatt Bangkok has everything today’s Bangkok-bound luxury traveller needs.

Events

In addition to its 12 residential-style meet venues, which consist of five salons, The Apartment, and a Garden Terrace, the hotel has a spectacular 5,812sqft pillar-less Ballroom (above) that can cater to 700 souls and which even has a private VIP viewing balcony. Alternatively, the Penthouse’s Mezzanine doubles as a semi-private space that’s ideal for intimate gatherings.

Facilities

You’ll also find the 40-metre pool a respite from Bangkok’s balmy days, and a 24-hour fitness centre, which is worth the lack of sleep to explore. For something a little more pampering, the Panpuri Spa features eight treatment suites, a whirlpool, a silver-lined steam room, and a menu laced with all-natural products.

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About the Author

Nick Walton

Nick Walton is Group Managing Editor of Artemis Communications, a leading boutique magazine and content solution company and publisher of The Art of Business Travel. A former travel editor of the South China Morning Post, he heads up the group's travel and lifestyle magazines, which include Alpha Men Asia, The Edition, Mirandus, Ikhlas, The Journal and Explorer Magazine.