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Grand China Princess Hotel: A hotel with two faces   Check Rates
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  • Our family stayed here 3 years ago, on the first 4 nights of our first visit to Thailand. We immediately fell in love with both the hotel and the surrounding Chinatown.
    Excellent, newly refurbished (?) room on the 18th floor, with a magnificent river view. Smiling staff at the front desk when we arrived, a nice cold welcome drink and, behind the desk, an adorable young lady who won the the hearts of my two young sons.
    We had several meals here during our stay, and we always found both the food and the staff extremely nice.

    Last year we went back with high hopes. But this turned out to be one big dissapontment.
    No smiles at the desk when we arrived. Instead we had to argue to have them accept a family with two kids staying in a triple room (even though this had actually been booked and confirmed).
    The room this time was on the 7th floor, facing the back, and extremely uninspiring. In urgent need of renovation, or at least a good cleaning (the bathroom was actually smelling).
    Also the staff seemed to have been shifted. Apart from the guy at the roof-top bar/pool, we were met mostly with ignorance, and suspicion, during all of our stay.

    I'd like to think that we were just extremely unlucky the last time. And maybe we had build up too high hopes. But it didn't feel good.

    Anyway, we still love Chinatown (it is without doubt the most exiting area in Bangkok!), and we might even go back to Grand China.
    Others here have had other views recently, so, again, maybe we just were unlycky.


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    Theme: Hotel
    Comparison: about average
    Prices: US$20-40  » Currency Converter
    Address: 215 Yaowarat Road, , Bangkok, Central
    Directions: Chinatown
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