BUSINESS & LUXURY HOTEL
 Thailand
offers its visitors world-class accommodation prices that
promise the most value for money. Nowhere else can visitors
stay in five-star hotels at such affordable rates. Major tourism
destinations such as Bangkok, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and Phuket
and thriving commercial centers such as Hat Yai, Khon Kaen,
Lampang and Nakhon Ratchasima offer modern first-class hotels
with every conceivable convenience and international standard
convention facilities for groups numbering from 600 to 10,000
Baht. These will all have air-condition, TV, western-style
toilets and restaurants. Added to room charges will be an
11% government tax, and most of these hotels will include
an additional service charge of 8% to 10%.
Thailand Hotels Online Reservation
RESORTS
 In
most countries 'resort' refers to hotels which offer substantial
recreational facilities (e.g. tennis, golf, swimming, sailing
etc) in addition to accommodation and dining. In Thai hotel
lingo, however, the term simply refers to ant hotel that isn't
located in an urban area. Hence a few thatched beach huts
or a cluster of bungalows in a forest may be called a 'resort'.
Several places in Thailand fully deserve the name under any
definition-but it pays to look into the facilities before
making a reservation.
Thailand Resorts Online Reservation
Family-style hotels, bungalow complexes, guest houses, houseboats
hotels, motels, Chinese-style inns and hotels and beachside
huts complete a range of accommodation costing anywhere from
a few dollars daily to hundreds of dollar a night.
GUESTHOUSES & HOSTELS
Guesthouses are generally the cheapest accommodation in Thailand
and are found in most areas where travellers go in Central,
Northern and Southern Thailand. Guesthouses vary quire a bit
in facilities and are particularly popular in Bangkok and
Chiang Mai where stiff competition keeps rates low. Some are
especially good value, while others are mere flophouses. Many
serve food, although there tends to be a bland sameness to
meals in guesthouses where you are in Thailand. Thai youth
hostels rang in price from 50 Baht for a dorm bed to 250 Baht
for an air-condition room.
Thai branch of Hostelling International (Tel. (+66-2)
282-0950, Fax: (+66-2) 281-6834). International Youth Hostel
Federation, at 25/2 Phitsanulok Rd., Sisao Thewet, Dusit,
Bangkok 10300
Current listings of accommodation and rates are available
from the local offices of the Tourism Authority of Thailand
in and around Bangkok. Offices in each region include: Central
: Kanchanaburi, Phra akhon si Ayutthaya, Lop buri, Pattaya,
Rayong, Cha-am, Nakhon Nayok, Trat
North : Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Phitsanulok, Tak
Northeast: Nakhon Ratchasima, Ubon Ratchathani, Khon
Kaen, Nakhon Phanom, Udon Thani
South : Hat Yai, Phuket, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat,
Narathiwat
Accommodation
Information from Tourism Authority of Thailand
|
