On our final keep in Bangkok, we stayed on the Majestic Grande Resort Bangkok. Each time we journey round Asia, we like to make use of Bangkok as a hub. It’s an ideal metropolis with superb avenue meals and many therapeutic massage locations that assist us recover from our jet lag rapidly, and flights typically appear to be cheaper than elsewhere, each for flying into Asia from Europe and to cowl shorter distances inside Asia. More often than not, we keep within the space close to the Chao Phraya river, as a result of I merely love being by the water. However this time, we wished to discover a distinct space of Bangkok and selected Sukhumvit.
The Majestic Grande is an upscale resort in Sukhumvit with 251 rooms, two eating places, a bar, and an ideal little outside pool which we discovered splendidly refreshing within the Bangkok warmth.
The foyer of the Majestic Grande Resort, with a pleasant piano participant who performed virtually each day throughout the afternoon and early night
Welcome cocktails! As an alternative of being served a drink instantly throughout test in, we got two vouchers for a welcome cocktail that we might have on the bar any time throughout our keep (earlier than 8pm). Good thought!
The Sukhumvit Location of the Majestic Grande Resort Bangkok
The resort is simply across the nook from Ploenchit BTS (skytrain) station, which is an enormous bonus level in Bangkok. Visitors could be horrendous wherever within the metropolis, so having the ability to get proper to the resort with the skytrain is a large plus and makes getting across the metropolis and exploring far more snug.
The encompassing space of Sukhumvit is an upscale residential neighborhood that includes loads of bars, eating places and buying malls, in addition to an ideal collection of avenue meals. Despite the fact that the well-known Sukhumvit Soi 38 has been closed down, there is no such thing as a scarcity of avenue meals right here. We discovered ourselves going out for variations of papaya salad and barbecue rooster just about each evening. Duang Phithak Rd, which is simply subsequent to Sukhumvit Soi 2 (the place the resort is), has an enormous row of avenue meals stalls that each one appear to promote some model of papaya salad. Simply on the opposite facet of Sukhumvit Highway close to Soi 1, there are a number of seafood stalls which had nice wanting fish as properly – you received’t go hungry.
We additionally spent a night having fun with stay music at Examine Inn 99, an outdated little neighborhood bar the place a band performed well-known songs and appeared to know just about everybody within the viewers. It was cosy and a pleasant, relaxed night out – though we did really feel a bit younger there, most company had been fairly a bit older than us.
And eventually, the resort was only a quick distance from Theta State Float Middle, the place we spent a number of hours floating in isolation tanks and sipping blue tea.
Our room
We stayed in a Superior Room on the ninth ground, with views of the encompassing space, a king dimension mattress and an enormous bathtub. The room was a gadget lover’s dream, with a “grasp panel” subsequent to the mattress which helps you to management just about something within the room, from the aircon and the lights to the ‘Don’t disturb’ signal on the door. There was additionally a multimedia hub within the wall with loads of energy plugs, wired web (there was Wifi all over the place as properly) and even VGA and HDMI plugs to attach your pc to the 40″ flat display TV. You’ll be able to think about that went down properly with us working-from-the-road kind vacationers!
Our room, with a kingsize mattress and further massive home windows
Wide selection of toilet facilities, which got here in useful as we had a 40 hour journey again to Europe in entrance of us!
Eating choices on the Majestic Grande
The resort has a buffet restaurant on the seventh ground, known as Dine@7, serving worldwide delicacies, with seating each inside in addition to outdoors by the pool. There’s additionally an Indian restaurant on the bottom ground serving contemporary kebabs and curries. We didn’t get an opportunity to attempt the Indian restaurant however had breakfast and lunch on the buffet restaurant.
Breakfast was nice and actually worldwide with objects from all around the world. Numerous contemporary fruit, an enormous collection of pastries and all the things wanted for a ‘Full English Breakfast’ had been the fundamentals. However there was additionally Sushi, salads, noodle soups – the listing is lengthy.
A small a part of the large breakfast buffet, with some chilly meats, cheeses and sushi. I loved the Japanese fashion omelettes (tamagoyaki), which felt like reputable breakfast sushi!
We discovered all of the components wanted for a full English breakfast, a lot to the enjoyment of my English boyfriend
I at all times begin my resort breakfasts with a plate of fruit, it helps me get up. So this enormous alternative of fruit plus readily ready fruit salad was my good begin into the day
We had been very proud of the breakfast buffet, and didn’t assume we’d eat a lot at lunch, however oh we had been so flawed! The lunch buffet was much more assorted than breakfast, and the standard of meals actually spectacular for a buffet. The egg station from breakfast was an out of doors barbecue station making scrumptious saté, and the fruit buffet was a large dessert choice that I actually ought to have stayed away from however clearly couldn’t.
A collection of the dishes discovered on the worldwide buffet on the Majestic. My private favourite: the learn duck curry (backside proper) was the spotlight of the Thai part at lunch. The duck was fantastically tender and the sauce simply the correct amount of spicy, candy and bitter unexpectedly.
A prawn cocktail starter
A collection of desserts, and the attractive little pretzel I had with an enormous plate of cheese. Standout dish was the lemon merengue pie (high proper): Greatest lemon merengue pie ever. We ate three of these, simply to ensure they had been uniformly good. They had been. I’ve been craving lemon merengue pie ever since and I’m about to cease scripting this to go bake one, although it received’t match those we had on the Majestic.
The dessert buffet which I couldn’t resist
The Pool
The pool space was an ideal little rest zone, with solar loungers and tables for a day snack or drink. The pool itself was very fancy, with ornate decorations and areas that had been tucked away and had a jacuzzi and bubble beds.
Bubble beds between Thai fashion elephant fountains
This nook of the pool had a jacuzzi in it, nice cooling down within the afternoon. In the event you want heated jacuzzis, the spa additionally had a sizzling jacuzzi inside!
Poolside tables for eating and afternoon cocktails
Majestic Grande’s Gymnasium & Spa
The Spa and wellness space on the Majestic. Huge jacuzzi! Nice for the occasional wet day in Bangkok
In the event you’ve learn any of our different resort evaluations, you’ll know that we love a very good resort fitness center. The fitness center on the Majestic Grande had all of the machines we wanted for a very good exercise, with a collection of free weights and a Smith Machine. The cardio machines appeared out to the pool space.
The spa featured a sauna and jacuzzi which had been each freed from cost, and supplied a variety of therapeutic massage and physique remedies, together with – in fact – the well-known Thai therapeutic massage.
The fitness center, the place we tried to work off the harm accomplished by our three lemon merengue pies
The decision
The Majestic Grande Resort was in a really handy location and straightforward to get to. The room had all the things we wanted and the excessive tech perks scored brownie factors with us.
While I really like being by the river, I used to be pleasantly shocked by Sukhumvit and particularly its meals choices. That being mentioned, you could possibly additionally simply eat on the resort 24/7. We had been actually impressed by the standard and collection of dishes supplied each for breakfast and for lunch. And we’ll always remember that lemon merengue pie.
We loved our keep as company of the Majestic Grande Resort Bangkok. All opinions are my very own and I’ll solely advocate motels and actions I actually get pleasure from. Try the resort web site for more information!
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