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The Best Places to Drink and Stay in Siam Square & around

  1. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame either the Dutch embassy gardens or Lumphini Park depending on your room, which tells you a lot about the neighborhood. This Forbes Four Star hotel sits in Phloen Chit, a quietly serious part of Bangkok, and leans into its name, a Thai word for flower garland. The lobby hums with a ground-floor café that spills into a garden, and the rooftop bar is a worthy end to any evening.


  2. Brass and marble meet hand-woven silk in the lobby, which architect André Fu designed as a riff on the original Manhattan property filtered through Thai craft traditions. It's a luxury hotel occupying the upper floors of a Ratchadamri high-rise, with three floors given over entirely to dining and drinking, city views included. Forbes Four Star. The art deco bones are confident enough that you almost forget you're in a tower.


  3. Heads of state have a habit of turning up here, Barack Obama and George W. Bush among them, which tells you something about the register of the place. This is a grand Bangkok hotel on Rajadamri Road, done in a classic Thai palatial style that feels settled and unhurried. It holds a Forbes Four Star. The location is central enough for tourists, polished enough for presidents, and the staff navigate both without blinking.

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  4. Tucked behind Siam Paragon, one of Southeast Asia's great retail cathedrals, this Forbes Four Star hotel manages a quiet the mall crowd outside never seems to find. An O-shaped layout puts three saltwater pools and gardens at the center, and the marble lobby reaches up to 46-foot pillars. The site itself once served as a royal summer retreat, and the grounds still border a private royal residence, which keeps things grounded in a way no amount of lobbying could.


  5. Rank 5. Firefly

    Cocktail Bar

    The forest green and gold palette announced the dress code before the menu did. Firefly is the lobby bar of the Sindhorn Kempinski, where live jazz sets the tone for evenings that run from serious whisky to cocktails that take a few liberties. A Casa del Habano smoking parlor sits just off the main room for anyone who wants to stretch the evening further. It landed on Asia's 50 Best Bars list, which tracks for a room this considered.


  6. A 37-floor luxury hotel above the Ratchaprasong commercial district, with a double-height lobby and rooftop pool that genuinely earns the word lagoon. Rooms mix classic luxury with Thai touches and Byredo products in the bathroom, Chromecast on the TV, and city views worth staring at. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key. There's enough to eat and drink on-site that leaving feels almost optional, including an old-school European steakhouse that's been a neighborhood institution since the Sixties.

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  8. A cantilevered bedroom that hangs over Bangkok is a reasonable way to announce that this sleek 94-room luxury hotel on Rajdamri Road has a personality. The lobby's clean lines are softened by warm wood and a bold tapestry, and the complimentary minibar signals the tone throughout. A French-leaning restaurant and cocktail lounge occupy the glass-walled ground floor, and the BTS Skytrain is about a minute's walk away.

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  9. A boutique-ish hotel on Langsuan Road that plays Bangkok's glossy-modern scene against something more considered: interiors that nod to the city a century ago, rendered with an ornate level of detail you don't usually get from a hotel chain. Rooms are generous even at entry level, with roll-top tubs and separate showers standard. The rooftop pool looks out over one of the city's better skylines, and the Speakeasy bar upstairs is considerably grander than the name implies.

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  10. Rank 7. The Loft

    Cocktail Bar

    A bronze spiral staircase on the 56th floor of a Bangkok skyscraper sets the tone for this cocktail bar, where art deco meets art nouveau and the city sprawls out below in every direction. The drinks program pulls from a 1935 Waldorf cocktail book, so the pours run spirit-forward and serious. The kind of place where the view does half the work, but the bartenders are clearly doing the other half.


  11. Large floral murals rising above each bed are the most distinctive design note in this 562-room hotel sitting in Siam, Bangkok's commercial center. The scale is real, including direct access to Paragon Shopping Mall, but rooms stay calm and well-ordered. Three restaurants cover Thai, globally minded cooking, and a seventh-floor pool lounge with wood-fired food above the skyline. The THANN spa runs salt therapy and oxygen treatment alongside the usual massage menu.

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  12. The infinity pool sits three stories up on stilts, suspended over Phaya Thai Road like it's daring the city to look away. This boutique hotel is the first MGallery property in Asia, a French-branded operation with a French architect behind its two-building design. Rooms run spacious by Bangkok standards, with floor-to-ceiling windows, daybeds, and soaking tubs. A spa, rooftop bar, piano bar, and a Michelin-starred restaurant fill out the rest.

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  14. Rank 14. Bar.Yard

    Backyard Barbecue

    A tiki bar meets American backyard barbecue on the 40th floor of Kimpton Maa-Lai, which is a more coherent idea than it sounds. Tropical cocktails, a DJ running electro-funk, and a kitchen open past 1am mean no one has to leave early if they don't want to. Grab an outdoor table if the weather cooperates and the city sprawls out below you.


  15. Rank 14. Crimson Room

    Cocktail Bar

    Gins are kept cold behind the bar, but the piano on stage runs warm all night at this red-soaked cocktail bar inside Velaa Sindhorn Village. The room leans full cabaret, and the cocktail menu follows suit, with drinks built around jazz history and cultural lore from across the globe. By late evening, people are on their feet, which says something about the live performances and the pours in equal measure.


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