Bangkok's hotels return to life this week

HOTELS in Bangkok's city centre, which closed for business last week, are resuming operations this week after anti-government protestors were forcibly vacated from the area.

  27/05/2010 15:03

Novotel Bangkok on Siam Square, on Rama I Road, reopened yesterday. Four Seasons Hotel Bangkok and Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok, on Rajdamri Road, did so today, while Century Park Hotel Bangkok, on Ratchaprarop Road, will follow suit tomorrow.

The 505-room Centara Grand hotel, adjoined to the CentralWorld compound, parts of which were destroyed by arsonists last week, is slated to resume operations on June 1.

InterContinental Hotels Group CEO, Andrew Cosslett, told TTG Asia e-Daily InterContinental Bangkok and Holiday Inn Bangkok, both located on the Ploenchit Road/Ratchaprasong Intersection, will reopen later this week.

Despite the political crisis, Cosslett said the chain remained confident in Thailand, and was in the process of adding three new properties to its current portfolio of nine hotels in the country.

Meanwhile, the opening of The St Regis Bangkok will be delayed by a month or two from the original scheduled opening in October. Construction of the hotel was stopped during the six-week riots, according to Starwood Hotels and Resorts regional vice president Wayne Buckingham.

(Sources: Sirima Eamtako, Beijing, TTG Asia)

 

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