Had a wonderful 4 night stay at the Dusit Thani back in March. This was our first visit to Bangkok & the Dusit Thani provided a great value for money hotel, in a perfect location to discover this wonderful city. Although we must admit our room was a little dated/tired, the rest of the hotel was wonderful.

After a sumptuous breakfast each morning it was so convenient to just walk out of the hotel & into the Sky-rail Station, and then discover the river & its ferries, the Temples & Palaces & not forgetting the shopping around Siam Square. The weather was great (30Deg), apart from one very heavy shower whilst we where visiting The Grand Palace.

Just across the (very) busy road from the hotel is Lumpini Park, a very pleasant place to stroll & a break from the bustling city.

We will definitely return to Bangkok in the future!

. . . . will post separate reports on the excursions we took whilst in Bangkok, especially the 'SUPERB' Spice Roads Cycle Tour, which included a visit to the Floating Market. Will also post some holiday photos & video here on TA soon.

We stayed at this hotel for three nights on route to phuket in early march. We booked through Kuoni. We arrived at 8am and fully expected not to be able to get into to the room but we were pleasantly surprised to find we could. When we got into the room we had been upgraded(perhaps because it had been my husband's birthday). The room was very large and luxurious. The bathroom was enormous and had everything we could possibly want.
The staff were absolutely charming and could not help us enough. On arriving back at the hotel the next day there was a beautiful cake, orchid and card for my husband. We had the included breakfast which was xcellent. We also had afternoon tea whcih was very fancy and great fun.
We ate at the thai restaurant- benjarong which was excellent although the wine was too expensive for us.
There was a beautiful garden in the centre of the hotel but beware there are mosis there and I got badly bitten.
The doormen were great at calling us cabs and took the numbers which is wise as there are many conmen in Bangkok.
We went to the grand palace by cab-£3. Beware again the conmen outside telling you it is closed and they will take you to another temple. This was beautiful and well worth visiting. Go early to avoid the coach tours which swamp the place.We also went to wot pho- quieter but equally at beautiful. From there head to the river and cath the boat along-very cheap. Lots of contrast bewteen opulent hotels and shanty.
Jim Thomsons house was well worth the visit and easily reached by sky train which is just outside the hotel. The hotel give you an unlimited day pass. From there it was a short walk to MBK- for shopping. Beware in here too of people stopping you to say they recognised you from the hotel and they wanted to tell you about Thai traditional goods sales- all very special and then wanted to put you in a tuk tuk to goodness only knows where- just say no thanks. Its a known scam, but easy to get sucked in by these charrming people.
Another fantastic thing to do is the vertigo bar at the banyion tree hotel- the doormen will call a cab-£2. The views are great as were the cocktails. To eat there would be great but expensive.
The bar at he top of the dusit offers great views but is open for a limited time early evening.
There were also a vietnamese, chinese, french and steak house as well as an italian restaurant. There is also some shops and a patiserie.
Lumphini park is opposite the hotel and well worth a visit- if only to watch the mass aerobics at 5pm- quite a sight and lots of fun.
Downsides of this hotel were the location. It is good for transport but very seedy within a few minutes. It was not possible to wander and find a nice restaurant. You really need to know where you want to go.
Bangkok is very busy and not a walking city but well worth one visit.
We went on an evening boat cruise with Pearl cruises- absolute rubbish and my husband got a really nasty food poisoning from the buffet. Was not worth the money-had us laughing though because it was so awful. Poor karioke on one deck and siamese cultural acts on th other- what a noise.
Overall we loved this hotel for its old fashioned glamour and excellent service. Glad we saw Bangkok but we were glad to get to the beach for a rest!

The hotel is in a good location for shops etc, but with the cheap taxis and easy Skytrain and underground (MRT) you can stay in most hotels (a lot of which are better than the Dusit Thani) in Bangkok and get around easily.

For the price of the hotel I do not expect to be able to here the people in the next room opening and closing their wardrobe draws and coughing. Also, unless you go on holiday on your own and with about 3 items of clothing, don't expect to get much more in the wardrobes.

There are a lot better hotels in Bangkok and I would certainly not recommend this hotel to any one. I only stayed there one night and did not use the facilities in the hotel so cannot comment on those.

I went there with my husband. Lots of people were in the hotel. That's the first reason which can guarantee that this hotel is good.
More impress while we were waiting for check in, the gentleman who (i think) is a front director come and assist us so we dont need to wait for anything. Then he took us to really nice room and do the check in there. Feel like a vip that we dont need to wait for anything.
Then the lugguages come in only few minutes since we step into the room.

We will never forget this lettle touches from this gentleman.

We will tell or of our Japanese friend to visit bangkok as it is one of the nice place then HAVE TO stay at Dusit hotel as this is just THE BEST!!!