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tower will open as Orient Express Hotel

Bangkok towards the end of this year,

the first in a collection under the Accor

umbrella – part of an agreement between

Accor and SNCF Group to develop the

brand. Designer Tristan Auer is responsible

for bringing the Art Deco influences and

plant motifs of the original Orient Express

carriages inside architect Ole Scheeren’s

futuristic pixelated 78-storey high-rise. What

that looks like is still under wraps, but in

addition to 154 rooms and suites, there will

be Thai and Cantonese restaurants, a rooftop

restaurant and bar on level 76, and a spa by

Guerlain. accorhotels.com

Steigenberger Hotel riverSide

Mandarin Oriental has had its home along

the Chao Phraya river for well over a century,

but in the first quarter of 2020 it will

welcome a new neighbour in the shape of the

Steigenberger Hotel Riverside. The 259-

room property, a conversion of an existing

building, will be the first in South East Asia

for the German group. Facilities will include

a spa with indoor and outdoor pools, a

17th-floor restaurant and a roof terrace one

floor further up. steigenberger.com

Kimpton

Capella and Four Seasons Bangkok are not

the city’s only two new hotels sharing one

master development. Sindhorn Village,

a 8.9 hectares mixed-use complex close

to Lumpini Park, will bring both the first

Kimpton and a second Kempinski hotel to

the capital by summer next year. Kimpton

Bangkok will have 349 rooms and suites, two

By the middle of the

year Minor Hotels’

Avani brand will

open its third

property in the city

restaurants, a g ym, pool and spa, as well as 124

serviced residences. The hotel is part of the

aggressive expansion plans Intercontinental

Hotels Group (IHG) has for the Kimpton

brand, with future properties in Asia in the

pipeline for Shanghai, Tokyo, Bali and more.

kimptonhotels.com

SindHorn KempinSKi

Meanwhile, the Sindhorn Kempinski –

sibling to the Siam Kempinski, just north of

the Royal Bangkok Sports Club – will have

280 rooms and 225 serviced residences when

it opens in July next year. Exact details of the

facilities are still to be confirmed, but they

will include a spa. Its second Bangkok hotel

will follow recent openings in Singapore and

Bali, with properties in China’s Guangzhou

and Hangzhou still planned for this year.

kempinski.com

voco SuKHumvit 11

Kimpton isn’t the only IHG brand coming

to Bangkok – in 2021, the 300-room

Voco Bangkok Sukhumvit 11 will arrive.

Voco is a new upscale brand in the IHG

stable that started life with Voco Gold

Coast in Australia in late 2018 (see also

our review of the new Voco in Cardiff at

businesstraveller.com). ihg.com/voco

melia bangKoK

In 2022, Spanish group Melia Hotels

will open its first Bangkok property,

also in Sukhumvit. Part of a mixed-use

development, it will have 315 rooms, various

food and drink outlets, a spa and g ym, and

meeting space. melia.com

From top:

Four Seasons;

Avani Sukhumvit;

Sindhorn Kempinski

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