Mandarin Oriental Bangkok

One of the world's most storied hotels, The Oriental has graced the banks of the Chao Phraya since 1876, hosting royalty, luminaries, and discerning travellers for generations. The Author's Wing preserves the hotel's original 1876 rooms, favoured historically by Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, while the River Wing's suites and the hotel's own Thai cooking school and spa continue a hospitality tradition now in its second century.