Value for money. The room quite small. There is bad smell in the room. Air conditioner quite loudly. Large space in bathroom. The furnitures are very old. Breakfast are basic food and not various. Very poor wifi in the room and public area. Nice people.
Hotel is in good location, between Jatujak market, and buildings that you need to see. Rooms are clean, with air conditioning, Sat TV, but water for shower is having problems with pressure. You have free Wi-Fi 5 hours for day,every day. You just need to ask for the pass on reception. Also, free Wi-Fi in lobby of hotel. Breakfast included in price, served at 06-10am. Nothing special, but ok. I was in room, looking in the street, no loud. Have massage saloon in hotel, but is cheaper in saloons on street. Nearby is train station, fast access to every point of town. And cheap.
The hotel rooms are clean and comfortable, the wifi consistent and dependable, but the breakfast options are out of this world! Thai and European cuisine together makes one want to stay at the breakfast table.
Not value at all. Hotel not clean with bad smell. Reception also not friendly at all. Wifi only 3 hours free, after that u have to purchase with hotel. Overall for me is zero. Not worth it. For those who want to book hotel, please see on your own don't get cheated by the picture itself.
Never ever will come again to this hotel.
The hotel is well located on Pradipat, a major street in Bangkok. The Skytrain is easily accessible (800 m) and many buses pass the door. It is also very easy to get to the weekend market at Chatuchak from the hotel - less than 2 km of easy walking, or 5 to 10 minutes in a taxi. The staff that we met were all pleasant and friendly, and enough of them spoke enough English to make life quite easy. The buffet breakfast was also good. While our room was large, with a good bathroom and a comfortable bed, we did not like it very much. It was long and thin, and the only window looked out onto a corridor. We could not see emergency lighting anywhere in or near the room, which worried us. Despite the staff's efforts, I think that we will not be going back there again.
I have been staying at the Pradipat Hotel during many of my trips to Bangkok, and sometimes I stayed there for over a whole month. It is a very unpretending, dated, a bit shabby kind of hotel, not suitable for everyone, but liked by the Thai and Middle-East clientele.
On the ground floor, behind the reception, they have rooms that they rent "by the hour" (you know what I mean), with parking space in front of the room door and a heavy plastic curtain that hides your car from the view of others, very convenient for some intimate and discreet meetings. They don't discriminate anyone based in their sexual orientation.
A funny thing about this hotel is that it was designed to drive your car up to your room, with ramps and wide corridors, wider than some sois in Bangkok; they don't use these ramps anymore, but as kind of store rooms.
Some of the rooms are like small apartments and you can have as many people there as you want. Say that you are a group of five or six backpackers and you want to find a hotel for less than $5 per night per head, with air-cond, full en-suite bathroom, living-room with fridge, two TV sets with channels in English, two double beds and a big couch (enough for a couple) in a location near the Sky train and with girlies and gay bars around: this is the place.
If you go with a Thai friend and he/she negotiates the price of your stay, putting the room under his/her name and paying in advance, you can get it for half the advertised price.
Forget about the breakfast or restaurant in the hotel, try the many coffee-shops, street vendors or family-run restaurants along Pradipat Street, or try the Food Court at the nearby Big C hipermarket in Pahonyotin Road, only 10' walk from the hotel, where you can have a decent meal for less than $3.
On Saturday and Sundays you can walk along that road to the huge Chatuchak Weekend Market, a 30' stroll, depending on the many stops you make to look at the stamps, coins, amulets, old magazines, etc..., before reaching the actual market.
