I stayed here in July 05 and I must say was surprised for the price how good it was. Decore is a touch dated but clean. Staff after they warm to u are great and food was excellent on all levels. The bath rooms are a little dated but very clean. When i first arrived the bed was too hard for my liking. Rather then make me change my room and hump all my gear from room to room, 2 guys rolled in a new bed. Great service. I would recomend this hotel for all class of guest from family to business and is close to all transport. Located in China Town, the ambience is sensational and alive with style, taste and color.
You can do no better for your doller then here.

Huge room, masssive bed, functioning air-con, satisfactory bathroom - all 22 floors above the mayhem of Bangkok and Chinatown and for under £30 a night, including a huge buffet breakfast. Highly recommended.

We have stayed at this hotel 5 times - both as a couple, parent-child, friends and a whole family of 5. Accommodation has been comfortable for all visits - and most particularly the family suite available, which was excellent for the whole group. We have also stayed in the Princess Suite, two bedrooms and bathrooms and a sitting room - very comfortable.

Staff at the hotel have always been exceptionally polite and helpful - and I have never had any pressure put on me to visit a friend's gem store - referred to in another post. Reasonable English is spoken by almost all direct contact staff.

The bar is a great place to chill at the end of a long day, before bed has to happen - and always enjoy the piano player and singer, as well as some of the antics of the girls in the bar - off the cuff entertainment with bottle juggling! Cocktails and my favourite Corona beer are relatively expensive for Thailand - but available, and appreciated at this time of day!

Rooms are not luxurious, but I don't require this for a holiday. I spend as little time in them as possible anyway! Bathrooms are large, with bath and shower, and plentiful hot water (if you really need it). Beds are fine for me - and there is a bar fridge, room safe, proficient air conditioning, bottled water per person per day.

Food experience a little disappointing - as I am not really a Japanese restaurant fan - and the revolving restaurant serves 80% this cuisine. The Chinese restaurant in the hotel is EXCELLENT - which you would expect in Chinatown! As stated many times, the breakfast is excellent - and usually sufficient for most of the day's intake for me. Room Services is not so great - and I have had a gut upset which I suspected came from there. There is a Chinese bakery in the lobby, a coffee and icecream shop (new), cafe with Western style club sandwiches etc. (adequate - poor at calculating correct change), ATM, small shop for drinks etc and UPS office for the shopping, if needed - as well as businesses, some of which sell retail at good prices - eg. Disney shop. There is also a tailor in the hotel, who I have never used.

We have come to know a few of the tuktuk drivers outside, and the hard sell stops with familiarity and business. They are just trying to make a living. BUT the pesky "no-meter" taxi driver who lurks is another story - easily managed by just saying no and walking on!

The LOCATION is nothing short of excellent - I love Chinatown - from the moment you walk outside, the bustle is upon you. The Chinatown markets, Little India, the thieves market (best source for watches), Memorial Bridge market at night, the flower market, river vegetable markets......

Walk 5 minute to Ratchawongse Pier and the great river system of Bangkok - this is an all boat stop - and has express boats. Walk to Hualamphong station is about 10 minutes NE, just outside Chinatown, KhaoSan Rd is walkable - 30 mins, and a good sight see in itself - or 80Bt tops for tuktuk. Grand Palace and Wat Pho 20 minute walk, winding through vegetable and flower markets, and very enjoyable and scenic - just watch out for touts when you walk, especially with a map in hand! Walking around is half the fun, and for us, part of the holiday attraction, watching Thai life, rather than rushing from one sight to another - take water though!

As you can tell, we enjoy staying at this hotel - for much more than the hotel experience itself. The whole setting and around the clock access to things to see is excellent. I get up early in the morning,and walk around the markets, watching the monks go about their morning routine, ogling and gawking at the food and camera snapping with permission.....then the shops open........then they close and the night begins. Just be careful not to venture too far from the crowds, as this area is also a red light district with all the associated activities - so I am told. It seems that Chinatown never stops - any time you look out your window (and the views are awesome), you can see movement - coming and going etc.

We stayed at Grand China Princess for a week.

Great features were: fantastic PIANO PLAYER/SINGER in Lobby Bat from 5pm-7pm and then in the Revolving restaurant. He is worth any tips and plays requests. Talented and lovely man. The BREAKFASTS are wonderful as all reviews say - plenty of food and eggs cooked to order. Attentive staff etc. Also the MASSAGES LADIES are also great and operate till 1am so if your fligth gets in late, you can see them in their salon or they will come to your room. NO noise in rooms despite it being in busy, noisy Chinatown. The river system and tourist and local boats 5 minutes walk away and river is fast , easy way to get around without Bangkok traffic. If you can cope with the alley ways, throngs of jostling people and humidity, then the best bargains can be found in Chinatown. You just have to work for it!! If you are not willing to do this, then the air conditioned MBK shopping mal is a 100 baht taxi ride away and is great. Excellent children;s clothes at MBK. Avoid western named hairdressers like Toni and Guy as they are a rip off - hairdressers in MBK located out of the centre asiles of shops great value. Lovely hotel staff member Juanita who found us lost and made a mobile call for us on her mobile when ours did not work and found us a taxi - then refused payment for her assistance. We are leaving her a present when we leave to thank her for her kindness. She simply recognised us at MBK from when we checked in to the hotel and came to our aid when we looked lost (as we were!).

Bad features : the beds are hard as rocks and the pillows are thin and hard. I had to roll up my bedspread to get a decent height I could sleep on. HOtel really needs to have diferent bed qualities for different guests needs. If you were old and had a bad hips or shoulders, beds would be very hard to handle. A night time massage and some sunbdowners (drinks) with music in the Lobya Bar were what gave me restful sleep. Hotel staff who press you to go to their friends gem shop everytime you leave the hotel (boring). Upset tummy from room service food from Cafe that does breakfasts - not life thretening, but as only food consumed that day (breakfast, lunch and dinner) was from the same place, it was definately the source of the tummy bug. Avoid it for lunch and dinners as food not good then but note the great breakfasts. Yellow flag (tourist) water boats - you have to be on the open pier and wave them down to wait for you - whatever you do, do not wait in the shaded waiting area for the boat as it will be taking off at high speed before you get fully on to the pier.