The Sheraton Royal Orchid is located on the Chao Praya River and is an expansive property with plenty of amenities.<\/p>\n
The lobby is grand and decorated with traditional Thai designs.\u00a0 The bellmen are very attentive and greeted me by name after two days at the hotel. The lobby has several gift shops, a reception area, a bar and restaurant. On the second floor of the hotel, there are many more shops (tailors, jewelry stores, a salon, etc..) an Italian restaurant, a traditional Thai Restaurant and Link@ Sheraton.\u00a0\u00a0 The third floor houses the Mandara Spa. There are conference rooms and plenty of areas for meetings and events.<\/p>\n
The hotel tower is 28 floors and has many suites.\u00a0 There is a concierge lounge on the 27th<\/sup> floor.\u00a0 \u00a0At check-in we were greeted by an Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) representative.\u00a0 He showed us to our rooms, explained our benefits and showed us the concierge lounge.\u00a0 He was extremely helpful and friendly during our entire stay.\u00a0 Every time we saw him, he greeted us by name and inquired about our stay.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rooms:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n As a Platinum member of SPG, I was upgraded to an Executive Suite.\u00a0 The room was extremely large and on the corner of the tower building which provided great views of the riverfront.\u00a0 There was a bedroom, bathroom with large shower and bathtub, a living room with desk, couch and chair and very large screen TV.\u00a0\u00a0 My colleague, also an SPG Platinum, was upgraded to a Junior Suite which was also in the Tower and just a smaller version of the Executive Suite.\u00a0 \u00a0The room was very comfortable.\u00a0 There was turn-down service but it was not regular. Some nights it would happen, other nights it wouldn\u2019t. The concierge lounge was very large with amazing views of the river.\u00a0 The lounge was open all day and closed around 10pm.\u00a0 In the morning, a light breakfast was served and the staff was very helpful and welcoming.\u00a0 As a Platinum SPG member, I was given the choice of eating in the lounge or restaurant and did not have to use my Platinum amenity for this benefit.\u00a0\u00a0 The concierge lounge had snacks and drinks available all day.\u00a0 At 5:30, the lounge served appetizers and drinks.\u00a0 The rules for entering the lounge after 5pm were very different than during the day.\u00a0 After 5pm, you have to dress appropriately and can\u2019t wear flip-flops, unless they have a gold decoration or flower on them.\u00a0 I had on the exact same flip-flops as my colleague, mine were plain black and hers had a gold buckle on the top.\u00a0 She was allowed to wear hers and I had to go change.\u00a0 The rules seemed to be enforced oddly.\u00a0 The appetizers and cocktails were very generous and delicious.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The hotel concierge was amazing.\u00a0 He was able to make very complex transportation arrangements for us and attended to all of our requests.\u00a0 All of the hotel staff were great.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The restaurants:<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n The SPA: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The Mandara Spa is beautiful and relaxing.\u00a0 The massage services are excellent. I would highly recommend the Traditional Thai Foot Massage or the Swedish Massage.\u00a0 The manicure and pedicure services are average and I wouldn\u2019t recommend them based on the prices.\u00a0 There were very few nail polish color choices, the foot massage and hand massage that you typically get with a mani\/pedi were pretty non-existent.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t have disposable shoes to wear after the pedicure, so you had to walk barefoot if you didn\u2019t bring your own flip flops.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Location:<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n Overall<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Overall, the hotel is a great value for the cost.\u00a0 The rooms are lovely and comfortable, the staff is very accommodating and the location is great.\u00a0 I would absolutely stay again.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Sheraton Royal Orchid is located on the Chao Praya River and is an expansive property with plenty of amenities. The lobby is grand and decorated with traditional Thai designs.\u00a0 The bellmen are very attentive and greeted me by name…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[742,65],"tags":[743,751,745,4],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nThe restaurants were all good.\u00a0 Very fairly priced for hotel restaurants and the service was good and consistent.\u00a0 Breakfast was served in the main restaurant and there was an enormous buffet in addition to an ala carte menu.\u00a0 The Thai restaurant was very good.\u00a0 There is traditional Thai dancing from 7-10pm about once every hour and it\u2019s a great show. The Italian restaurant is okay.\u00a0 There are many other great Italian restaurants in the city and I wouldn\u2019t run to eat at this one if you had a choice.<\/p>\n
\nThe hotel is located on the river and has its own river boat shuttle.\u00a0 Directly next to the hotel is the River Center Shops.\u00a0 There are daily dinner cruises that depart from the center and they can be extremely loud between the hours of 7pm \u2013 10pm. On the 22nd<\/sup> floor, I was able to hear the music every night from the dinner boats as they docked.\u00a0 The shopping center is not anything special.\u00a0 The stores are tourist traps and the restaurants are not so great.\u00a0 I would avoid the center except for the grocery store \u2013 a great place to pick up snacks, drinks, etc\u2026<\/p>\n