Which hotel would you choose?
Family of 5 with 19,17 and 15 year old girls next July booking a custom trip with BA. Our hotel options for 3 nights are Mode Sathorn, Ambassador or Lancaster. Our plan is to visit the Grand Palace and main temples, markets and shopping. We are happy to use BTS to get around but would like to be in an area with some food/shopping/ entertainment options close by/walking distance. Which of these 3 hotels would best suit us?
For proximity to BTS Skytrain for shopping and general travel around the city but more importantly - you mention entertainment - nightlife on the doorstep I would go with the Ambassador. Read the reviews here on TA though.
Are those the only 3 options?
The Ambassador is a 5 minute walk from the Nana BTS station that I use often when I visit(along with Asok). The currency exchange shop, Vasu, is also right on Sukhumvit. It's a short walk to Terminal 21 for food and a little shopping. You can get pretty much anywhere in the city staying there.
Are there no options down by the riverside? I would think that if this is your first visit, that may have a better feel...especially with 3 girls.
Ambassador Hotel Bangkok is near BTS Nana station, near BTS Asok station, and near Terminal 21 mall.
Emquartier, Emporium, and EmSphere malls are nearby.
Edited: 5:35 pm, September 02, 2025You need to be Riverside. Best area for Bangkok to get around the sites and temples. With five in your party the BTS will work out expensive getting to the river and back. It will work out much cheaper taking a metered taxi. Mode Sathorn is right next to Surasak BTS one BTS from the river and central pier to take river transport.
Take a look at Centre Point Silom or Chatrium Riverside. A much more pleasant area and IconSiam just across the river IMO a better shopping mall than most of those mentioned in previous posts
There are better hotels, but of the three I guess the Ambasssador is the best bet. It’s an old hotel that was refurbished fairly recently. It’s on Sukhumvit Soi 11, which is a tourist and expat nightlife district with many restaurants, dancing venues and (non-naughty) bars. Lots of live music.
It’s near the BTS Skytrain, but — more important — it’s within walking distance (or one BTS station) of MRT Station Sukhumvit. With the MRT Blue Line, you can ride in 20 minutes to Sanam Chai, the most beautiful subway station you’ve ever seen, that’s around 10 minutes walk from the Grand Palace and Temple of the Reclining Buddha, with iconic Wat Arun just across the river. Sanam Chai also exits directly onto Rajinee Pier, where you can take a Chao Phraya river boat. One cheap and good excursion is to take a Chao Phraya Express orange line boat to its terminus in Nonthaburi for 16 baht, a one-hour cross section of Riverine Bangkok.
From Nana BTS station, near the Ambassador, near Terminal 21, a quirky mall with a legendary food court, and you’re two stops away from the awesome luxury mall complex at Phrom Phong — the Emporium, EmQuartier and EmSphere — and 3 to 4 stops in the other direction from the constellation of malls in Siam-Ratchaphrasong — Central World, Gaysorn, Siam Paragon, Siam Discovery, Siam Center. For the girls, Siam Square is a source of youthful fashion for the young ladies of Bangkok.
One more stop to National Stadium brings you to the MBK mall, full of bargains of all sorts, and a short walk to the amazing food street Bangthat Thong, lined with small restaurants featuring every kind of Thai cuisine and seafood, and thronged in the evening with fashionably dressed groups of young people.
I too would book the Ambassador.
+1 Ambassador
Edited: 10:09 pm, September 02, 2025#2 there are other options but these were best priced to meet our budget as a family of 5 needing 2 rooms.
I already looked at Chatrium Riverside and it is above our budget unfortunately. Of the 3 hotels above the Lancaster is the most expensive costing €700 (approx 27000 baht) for us for 3 nights. We could stretch to €830 for Royal Orchid, Riverside if we would enjoy a much better experience there.
Alternatively to secure package we just need to book one nights accommodation so we could just book our first or last night in one of these hotels and book our main 3 night stay separately ourselves if you think we could get a better hotel for similar price.
The cheapest option on BA package is Cross Vibe hotel near OnNut station which I dismissed as being too far out but maybe it would be an option for our night to/from airport. We haven’t yet decided whether to do our 3 nights in Bangkok at the start or end of our holiday.
Actually On Nut is a great location only about 20 minutes by BTS away from Tourist Central (Sukhumvit and Asoke). There’s a big Lotus’s hypermarket there, much street food and Thai traditional markets.
I don’t exactly understand the rules of this package. Have you actually researched the cost of just booking a flight and choosing your own hotel?
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