Wow - I had a very pleasant stay of 7 nights at Adelphi Suites on Sukhumvit soi 8 in Bkk!
On the sunny side:
- very friendly personnel, very helpful
- clean, modern, large, well-furnished rooms with big TV, DVD/CD player, small kitchen, etc.
- nice clean bathroom
- there is a pool, although small, it is good for refreshment
- gym
- breakfast included, the breakfast is more than adequate. The choice is not as huge as at those giant hotel buffets, but everything one could wish for is provided: eggs scrambled, fired or cooked, toasts, butter, jelly, joghurt, fruits, juices, cereals, etc.
- guest friendly: it is possible to bring guests to your room, the front desk will keep for you their ID(s) - one or several :-)
- very close to nana skytrain station
- very close to the Sukhumvit nightlife (Nana Plaza, Soi Cowboy is not far away either)
- free internet access everywhere: there is wireless access throughout the hotel and the lobby. In the room the signal can be weaker, but in each room is also a CAT5 ethernet connection (bring your own patch cable or buy one there). The front desk will provide you with login data.
The negatives / possible improvements:
Adelphi Suites gets best marks from me in everything, but as a nitpicker, I can always find some details I am not happy with. Please understand the following points as minor potential improvements:
- The Aircon in my room (#503) was noisy, far from what I had in other hotels where it was barely audible. It was really annoying in the first night, but then I got used to it and it didn't bother me anymore.
- The bathroom often got smelly. This is not unusual in Bangkok, where one is often confronted with stenches of different origin, but it seems the drains are not equipped with inverted syphon traps, so that bad odors can occur.
- Mold: I rate the bathroom as being overall very clean. In some corners, black mold is beginning to set in. Note to the manager: this can be easily fixed by regularly (every moths or so) spraying some 2.5% concentration chlorine on these spots. The mold will lose its black color and will not be able to reestablish itself there for a long time.
- Again the bathroom: the door of the shower is not closing properly
I was very happy to stay at Adelphi Suites, I would like to thank the Management and the Personnel for the nice experience. I am dying to come back to BKK and Adelphi Suites.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC.
Management Response
adelphiBangkok, General Manager
(Management representative)
Jul 19, 2008
Dear Manarak, Frankfurt
We really appreciate your nice comments with a positive and negative feedback as they are valuable for us to improve and some of them are an inspiration for our staffs.
You can see at my previous responses about Air conditioning, some of them have already been fixed and all of them will be finished fixing at the end of this month. For this problem, I apologize for your uncomfortable. As for the smell from the bathroom, we will make sure that there is no bad smell from the drain.
However, thank you very much for your advice about our sanitary. We will apply your recommendation with our technique to clean the bathroom which is very helpful for us and also as for the door, we will check it very soon and make sure that the door will be fixed properly.
We look forward to having a chance to welcome you again for your next trip to Bangkok.
Kind regards,
Abel Benmoussa
General Manager
This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of TripAdvisor LLC.