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Posted by Aaron in News Friday, 30 July 2010 22:09 No Comments
From mid-summer (August 15), The Regency Club rooms and facilities at the Hyatt Regency Hua Hin will be unavailable to guests as the hotel will be starting a complete overhaul and renovation of all Regency Club rooms and facilities. The BARAI Spa will be unaffected.
Closing it down in the middle of the summer seems a little strange, but I suppose they need to do this in order to have it ready by the middle of December for the start of the peak season.
From the official press release listed below, it looks like they will be enclosing the balconies on the second and third floor rooms with glass sliding doors to incorporate what until now has been the balcony, into the room. As you can see from the photo below there is a decent sized balcony with a table and two chairs. Rooms on the ground floor had this area enclosed with glass walls, making a kind of sun room, and there was a sofa and chairs there.
Hyatt Regency Hua Hin Regency Club room
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Posted by Aaron in News, featured Sunday, 30 May 2010 23:25 No Comments
Best Hotels list 2010 features many Thai hotels and resorts.
Hotels and resorts in Thailand secured over 40% of the spots in the Asia categories in the results of the Traveler’s Choice 2010 poll conducted by Tripadvisor.com.
The Best Service category was dominated by Thailand, with independent travelers voting Thai resorts into 6 of the top 10 spots. The Kingdom also fared well in the Family Resorts, Relaxation & Spa as well as B&B and Inns categories, securing 50% of the top 10 spots in each category.
Thai resorts also managed a number of placings in the international categories of best hotels with The Secret Garden in Chiang Mai placing 5th in the list of top 10 bargain hotels in the world and the Cape Sienna Hotels & Villas in Kamala being voted the 4th most romantic resort in the world in 2010. Bandara Resort & Spa just made the list of top 10 Relaxation/ Spa Hotels in the World, at number ten.
Below are the results for each Asian category, with links to each hotel where you will find more information and photos.
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Posted by Aaron in News Friday, 14 May 2010 13:50 64 Comments
Bangkok hotel re-opening dates list updated daily.
Bangkok is now back to normal with all roads, hotels, shops and attractions operating as normal. I am leaving the previous updates below as a record of events.
Following the departure of UDD protesters in central Bangkok, the city is now in cleanup mode. A city-wide curfew remains until Sunday night. Hotels that were forced to close are cleaning up and preparing for re-opening, with most set to re-open Monday the 24th or Wednesday the 26th. This morning I have updated Bangkok hotel re-openings for the Ratchadamri and Siam areas which were the most severely affected areas, and will update the others later today.
I am calling many of the hotels in the affected areas every today to check whether they are open and when they are re-opening. I will list all hotel closures and re-opening dates here. Below is the list of their current status as of today. Check back daily as I will be updating this list of Bangkok hotel closures everyday until the situation is back to normal.
Updated 12 pm Bangkok time, Tuesday May 25th 2010
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Posted by Aaron in News, Thailand hotel news Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:23 No Comments
A new website dedicated to newly opening hotels and resorts in Thailand has just been launched over at www.NewThaiHotels.com.
If you are a lover of hotels and resorts, especially in Thailand, this is a website that you may want to keep an eye on.
Subscribe to their RSS feed, or better yet sign up to get an email alert whenever a new post is added to be sure you are one of the first to know about new hotels and resorts opening throughout Thailand.
One of the benefits of knowing about new hotel openings is that when a lot of hotels open, they go through what is called a “soft opening“, which is basically an unofficial opening a few weeks prior to the official grand opening. This gives the new staff and management time to get used to the day to day operations of the hotel and basically practice their service on the small number of guests who are more often than not staying at a reduced rate.
So if you are willing to put up with a few wrinkles being ironed out as well as the possibility that not all of the facilities may be yet working 100%, checking out a new hotel during a soft opening might be a good opportunity for you to have a vacation on the cheap.
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Posted by Aaron in News Monday, 3 August 2009 21:35 No Comments
I try to keep this blog focused on Thai hotels that I have stayed at so I can give people an idea of some of the great places you can find in Thailand.
However I also find that there are other things about Thailand that I want to blog about and let people know about that don’t necessarily fit in with the scope of this blog.
One of those things is news and information that would be of interest to tourist and/or people that were soon to make a trip to Thailand. It’s updated with a number of news items daily so if you are interested you may want to check it out, bookmark it or subscribe to the RSS feed.
The site is http://www.thaivacationnews.com/
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