The hotel organizes cultural tours and excursions to many of the city’s major sights and around some of its most picturesque streets and canals; the helpful concierge can offer suggestions and help you plan your visit, too. The airport is approximately 45 minutes away, and the hotel can arrange transfers upon request. Suites have separate living areas with more sitting space. There’s also free parking at the hotel. The large fitness center is practically a club, with all modern equipment, a sauna, and locker rooms. The large, stone-tiled bathrooms all have single or double sinks, soaking tubs, walk-in rainfall showers, designer fixtures and toiletries, and bathrobes. The outdoor pool is large, lined with umbrella shaded loungers; there’s an attached hot tub. A kids’ club with organized activities means that parents can have some time to themselves while kids have fun, too. The hotel also has outdoor tennis courts. There’s a fully equipped business center, as well as meeting and event spaces. Please check our partner sites when booking to verify that details are still correct.

With a full-service spa, large outdoor pool flanked by lounges and palm trees, a modern fitness club with a sauna, a kids’ club, and nine restaurants and bars — as well as a dinner cruise — the resort has plenty on-site to keep guests entertained. Fun extras include a cooking school, organized cultural tours around the city, and a smartphone in each room with free 4G. Rooms are large and luxurious, and all have private balconies, many with river views. It’s worth noting, however, that prices for food and services can be high, and guests who want to be in the city center may be disappointed by the location. Arriving by water shuttle is particularly impressive, with the palm trees and waterfront bar setting the scene. The lobby itself is a sprawling, low-ceilinged room filled with gray cushioned seating areas, red carpets on marble floors, black lacquered tables, and fresh tropical flowers; at the heart of the lobby, in an interior courtyard open several stories up to a ceiling of skylights, is a winding decorative pool filled with colorful lotuses and surrounded by seating areas.

The outdoor pool is large, lined with umbrella shaded loungers; there’s an attached hot tub. A kids’ club with organized activities means that parents can have some time to themselves while kids have fun, too. There’s a fully equipped business center, as well as meeting and event spaces. The lobby itself is a sprawling, low-ceilinged room filled with gray cushioned seating areas, red carpets on marble floors, black lacquered tables, and fresh tropical flowers; at the heart of the lobby, in an interior courtyard open several stories up to a ceiling of skylights, is a winding decorative pool filled with colorful lotuses and surrounded by seating areas. Arriving by water shuttle is particularly impressive, with the palm trees and waterfront bar setting the scene. The expansive grounds themselves are beautiful and lush, filled with tropical plants, water features, sitting areas, and wooden sculptures, and antiques. With nine restaurants and bars, you’ll never have trouble getting a table for any meal. The shuttle also goes across the river to the night market.

The expansive grounds themselves are beautiful and lush, filled with tropical plants, water features, sitting areas, and wooden sculptures, and antiques. With nine restaurants and bars, you’ll never have trouble getting a table for any meal. The shuttle also goes across the river to the night market. The airport is approximately 45 minutes away, and the hotel can arrange transfers upon request. The hotel organizes cultural tours and excursions to many of the city’s major sights and around some of its most picturesque streets and canals; the helpful concierge can offer suggestions and help you plan your visit, too. There’s also free parking at the hotel. The large, stone-tiled bathrooms all have single or double sinks, soaking tubs, walk-in rainfall showers, designer fixtures and toiletries, and bathrobes. Suites have separate living areas with more sitting space. The large fitness center is practically a club, with all modern equipment, a sauna, and locker rooms. The hotel also has outdoor tennis courts.

And even though the hotel has been welcoming loyal guests since the late 1990s, it managed to stay relevant throughout the following decades. Its picturesque lobby doubles as a museum (a publisher and his family once lived here), showcasing volumes of old magazines, antique printers and keepsakes. Guests are encouraged to browse around, and the friendly staff are more than happy to share stories about the place. But it’s the suites you’ll want to book. Spread over the top half of the building, they feature separate bedrooms and marble-trimmed bathrooms with bowl-shaped tubs the size of plunge pools. Fittingly for a building of this age, none of the room’s floor plans are the same. Some have large marble-clad bathrooms, others come with roll top tubs and snug balconies. While two of them were damaged beyond repair, their floorboards and wall fixtures now live on as upcycled furniture – the third one has been meticulously restored as a jazzy, exclusive-use cocktail bar at the back of the property. The only con: the rooms aren’t exactly sound proof and tuk-tuks start clattering through the street from the early morning – pack earplugs if you’re a light sleeper. Most rooms have antique furniture, roll-top bathtubs and showers big enough for two, and the river-facing balconies are a great setting for a romantic sundowner. With 18 rooms and four suites spread over several teakwood villas, this is one of the biggest hotels on this list, yet it has a delightfully intimate vibe. The vermillion-red façade and all-red swimming pool set the tone, followed by a lobby with an opulent mishmash of antiques, faded mirrors and shimmering chandeliers. Rooms are kept intentionally simple with lots of warm wood, natural textiles and a touch of mid-century-modern design.