Have found the ideal location for anyone that loves to shop. This hotel is attached to the MBK shopping mall and also to the railway station. This means you can walk to hundreds of shops without crossing a road. The station is at the end of the mall and takes you straight to the Chatachak markets as well. Plenty of restaurants too. Great breakfasts at the hotel and the foyer bar does really lovely ice cream sundaes. Reception very efficient and we got a king size bed in our room. Beaut rooms too. Very safe with security at entrance to mall. Could not fault this hotel and our daughters loved their room. They even gave us interconnecting rooms without requesting them.

We were recommended this hotel from our travel agent as this was supposed to be THE hotel to stay in in Bangkok. First impressions were great - the lobby was great and we loved the juice and wet facecloths while checking in. We were pulled to the side and told that the hotel was fully booked and we were going to be upgraded to a Junior. Pretty impressed by this and were dying to see what our room was like. What a huge disappointment. The room was entirely average with extremely dated decor and furniture. The bathroom was styled in very 1990's heavy beige and white marble and the shower pressure was rubbish. We had previously stayed at the Amari Watergate in juut the lead-in room and it was 100 times better than a suite at the Pathumwan. The pool area was not much better with peeling paint on the decking and quite frankly, the pool area was really boring and old and we pretty much left not soon after we arrived. I was looking forward to a bit of pool time but this was not the hotel in which I would want to spend any time around the pool. Of course the location is amazing but I won't be rushing back the Pathumwan Princess anytime soon.

After arriving from Australia at 6am we were expecting to be able to only be able to check in & leave our bags till after lunch but we were given access to our room at 8am for a good sleep to get our Bangkok adventure underway.

Right on the doorstep of MBK gave us shopping options galore - all be it somewhat cheap - but when you add the hotels service, great breakfast & the pool & spa on the 8th floor you have a winner.

Staff are abundant but fade into the background till needed.

The room was comfortable & served it's purpose.

I would definitely stay again as this is the only hotel that has given me a room 6 hours before the advertised check in time with no additional charge.

Enjoyed my stay here from the 18th March to 22nd March 2008. The hotel is in a fantastic location right above the huge MBK shopping mall which I am led to believe has something like 2000 small shops/stalls, a Japanese department store and huge food court. Stayed on the 16th floor overlooking the pool and wide open view of what I guess is best described as downtown Bangkok.

The hotel isn’t new probably 15 years or a bit older and while it is well maintained it is showing its age in areas like the bathroom when compared to newer hotels. The room had everything you could want, decent sized closet, sufficient draw space, safe, fridge, TV with a reasonable selection of international channels, comfortable bed and being a bit older the room is on the larger side.

The lobby and public areas appear to have been given a makeover and are pretty nice as is the pool area which has a huge pool for a city hotel with plenty of sun beds around it.

As previously mentioned the hotel is in a great location apart from being above one of the biggest malls in Bangkok, it has undercover air-conditioned access when the mall is open from 10am to 10pm to the sky train station and above street access to the malls on the nearby intersection which saves having to cross one of Bangkok’s busiest intersections.

Overall a really good hotel in an even better location.