Stayed 16-Oct-2016 for 2 nights in standard twin room without breakfast. Was offered a double room number 207 on check-in. We arrived at 20:00 and the corridor to our room looked like bare concrete. The main room-door looked like a bathroom door and my colleague in the adjoining room was trapped inside for 10 minutes unable to release the pressure-stud door-chain. Room had wooden palettes for furniture and the ceiling looked grotty with visible pipes. The room had a kettle and coffee, but no tea.
The shower was good and clean. There are free gel/shampoo fixed to the shower, but no shelf to place your own shampoo/gel.
In daylight, the room and concrete-look floors looked nicer, I grew to like it. The hotel is designed to look like a warehouse. It is not, like I first thought in the gloomy night time lights, an actual warehouse.
No restaurants nearby at nights. I ate at a Thai cafe diagonally opposite the hotel and only saw 1 group of tourists walk by. It is mainly a Thai area and there are ladyboys and girls hanging around the street corners.
We arrived the day after the King passed away and the area was sombre. I walked around the area and there were Thai men drinking in the dark in bars.
If it wasn't for the sombre occasion, I'd feel less safe walking around at night.
The hotel is well located to see all the central sights by foot e.g. Grand Palace, Wat Saket, that you'd expect to pay a lot more to stay there, it is just the grim area. It was totally safe to walk arou