Bangkok

On 18 December, the Four Seasons made its grand return to Bangkok. The group had lost its previous property in early 2015, when the Four Seasons Ratchadamri - in the heart of the city's commercial district - became the Anantara Siam Bangkok Hotel & Spa, owned by Thailand's Minor Hotel Group. Four Seasons...

Ascott is continuing to expand lyf, its co-living brand. This "millenials" version of its urban residences, which made its first appearance in Singapore in 2019, opened a new establishment in Bangkok at the end of July, lyf Sukhumvit 8 Bangkok, a residence located in one of the city's most fashionable shopping centres, with...

While Garuda Indonesia has long toyed with the idea of spreading its wings to Europe, the two routes currently served by the airline - Amsterdam-Jakarta and London-Denpasar-Jakarta - are to undergo a sharp reduction in capacity. Flights to London have been suspended. The three weekly flights offered by the airline are no longer open to...

After Kuala Lumpur and Sao Paulo in 2018, luxury group Four Seasons is continuing to expand its offering in a number of major business cities. Of the nine hotels to open this year, only three are authentic resorts, with a new establishment in Napa Valley, within a wine estate, and another in Mexico,...

AccorHotels has just unveiled its first Orient Express hotel project since the hotel group and SNCF entered into a partnership in 2017 to develop this new prestige brand. And, coincidentally, this comes just a few days after LVMH announced that it was buying Belmond, the former Orient Express group which...

A forum held earlier this year in Bangkok took stock of developments in the Thai capital, analysing in particular the implications for the hotel sector. According to the forum's organiser, Bill Barnett, Managing Director of consultancy firm C9 Hotelworks, the development of the city's infrastructure will have a lasting effect on the city, which is in the throes of...

The new lounge inaugurated by Air France-KLM in Bangkok is located in Hall G of Suvarnabhumi airport, on level 3. This 660 m² lounge - an increase of 20% compared with the airline's previous lounge - has a capacity of 142 passengers. It is...

Already boasting a network of 12 European cities, including Paris CDG and Brussels, Thai Airways International will be reopening its Vienna-Bangkok route in October. The route was launched in 1988, but ceased operating in 1993. The carrier will operate the new route with four flights a week using Boeing 777-200ER aircraft equipped with...

Identity card Formalities: a valid passport. Area code: +66 (Thailand); 02 (Bangkok). Time difference: +5 hours in summer, +6 hours in winter. Currency: Baht (THB). 1 euro = 38.5 THB (Nov. 2016). Getting there THAI AIRWAYS INTERNATIONAL, Thailand's national airline, flies daily to...

In Bangkok, I'm always on the lookout for new foodie addresses. I love discovering new restaurants and new chefs. In the Sukhumvit district, I love Upstairs at Mikkeller. Firstly because it's an idyllic place, an old house with a lot of glass, surrounded by a luxuriant garden. On the ground floor or on the terrace, you can drink Danish beers - the...

A traveller returning to Bangkok after a few years' absence is bound to ask the question: was traffic this Dantesque back then? The answer is no. It's true that ten years ago, or even five years ago, the famous pink taxis were already moving at a snail's pace on certain main roads, but not at...

Why did you launch Thailand's first coworking space? Amarit Charoenphan - I launched Hubba in June 2012. My original plan was to set up a business from home, but I was feeling lonely, unmotivated and disconnected from other people. I was going to work in cafés, but the...

It's a permanent Scottish shower, from which, strangely enough, only the best is retained, in a city where the surprising ballet of tradition and modernity continues to act like a magnet. Modernity, that is, is the business of Silom and Sathorn, the two great parallels linking the Chao Praya River to Lumphini Park and the...