As a writer, I am a sucker for historical hotels, but especially the haunts of iconic authors of old. Tell me Hemingway drank there or Melville stayed the night, and I will visit. So an “Authors’ Lounge” in a five-star hotel with a beautiful river view in the heart of Bangkok? This is not to be missed.
The Mandarin Oriental Bangkok is one of two flagship properties of the reputable hospitality company. The original hotel, then simply The Oriental, was the first modern luxury hotel in the Kingdom of Siam, in a 20-room building built in 1876 along the banks of the Chao Phraya River.
