YAYYY
, I'm finally going over to Bangkok after a year!
(▰˘◡˘▰) ≧◡≦ Gonna eat like mad there. While going through the list of hotels/resorts, I saw this Waterford Sukhumvit 50 (Something like a resort style place) through expedia. The thing that caught my attention is that this resort is super cheap and theres a outdoor pool for all the guest! I actually saw this resort last year, but I think its abit too from the city and the price is abit too cheap to convince me that I can have a comfortable stay over there. I ended up staying at
Amber Boutique Silom last year. Its an AWESOME HOTEL. Will do a review about that some other days.
After reading some of the review (not much bad reviews) this year, without much hesitation, I went to book a 3 nights stay with them haha. For 3 nights, I booked at a price of SGD 32 per night and a total of $126 (adding all the taxes and service charge) for a room! Really super cheap. The price tends to change everyday, it can go to as low as $20+ or maximum maybe around $30+.
But I actually start to regret my impulsive decision after reading more comments. Theres people commenting that staying there = feeding the mosquito and some other pretty bad comments like their shampoo/body wash smells like insect repellents, bathroom stinks and all. But oh well I had already booked it. I am really damn paranoid before I reach that place HAHA.
DIRECTIONS FROM AIRPORT (Colour shown is the colour of the respective line):
This hotel/resort is located near On Nut BTS, around 9 stations away from Siam BTS (Siam paragon/Siam Center). Its really abit hard to find this place. We took
Airport Railing (ARL) from Suvarnabhumi Airport and
alight at Makkasan Station (Cost us 31 or 35 baht per person and around 20min ride). Here is the troublesome part. As in Bangkok, all
BTS, MRT and Airport Railink are all separated. You have to tap in and out when you want to make a transfer. So we have to tap out from Makkasan station and
walk towards Phetchaburi MRT station and buy a tickets
to Sukhumvit MRT(1 station away) which cost us I think
10baht per person. When we reach Sukhumvit station, we have to tap out again and
walk to Asok BTS station to finally take the
BTS to On Nut BTS. o(╥﹏╥)o The fare from Asok to On nut is about
31baht per person. So the
total fare from the airport will be 76baht per person. Its definitely better to take a cab if you have more than 2 person to save the trouble. But we gave up at Asok BTS HAHA.
┐(‘～`；)┌ We just took a cab there since its not walkable from On Nut BTS as it will takes around 20-30min walk. But don't worry, they provide free Tuk Tuk service from the resort to BTS. As we are not very sure where the Tuk tuk is, we will just cab from Asok. This place is really abit "Ulu". The cab uncle also don't really know where is it and I'm not sure if he is cheating our money or what, he actually goes a very big round. And he just alight us at some random nearby place. This ride actually cost us 130baht. Lucky that we are able to saw a sign that can direct us to Waterford Sukhumvit 50 (but still need to walk quite far away from main road). When we are walking halfway, a staff saw us and ride us back to the resort. Lucky us
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FINALLY REACH THE HOTEL/RESORT. The check in time is actually 2pm, but we reach at 8+ due to our early flight haha. I thought they will let us wait till 2, but they just let us check in immediately without any extra charge! They are really nice and friendly!
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| Outdoor swimming pool!! |
The view of the hotel/resort from the outside is really pretty! Theres swimming pool and gym for guest use!
We booked the Superior Room. The room is decent, with a dining area, fridge, microwave, bathroom and separate bedroom.
They will provide you towel, shampoo and body wash, but not toothbrush and toothpaste. So remember to bring yours. They also provide 2 bottle of water everyday! They will make up the room everyday, change the towel, refill the shampoo and body wash, but the bedsheet remained unchanged. There are stains on the bed sheet and towel. But not serious. Actually its not as bad as what I thought it will be.
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| Dining area (Room entrance) |
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| Bedroom! ps we messed up our bed ╮(─▽─)╭ HAHA |
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| View from the bed! |
As I mentioned just now, they provide free Tuk Tuk service from the resort to On Nut BTS. Theres a small mall, Tesco Lotus over there too! You can get your groceries over there. Or you can travel to Asok BTS (5 stations away, 31baht) We waited for about 10-20min for a tuk tuk ride, depending on you luck. They may move off immediately if the number of guest on tuk tuk is full. Do note that some guests will actually cut your queue when you are waiting for the tuk tuk back to the hotel from the BTS as there isn't any specific queue line. Theres a time where we waited for 15mins and the tuk tuk finally arrived, some other people just rushed to the tuk tuk even though they just came. We had no choice but to wait for another 15min. You can choose to walk, not sure how long will it takes. Maybe around 20-30min?
After staying here for 3 nights, I'm actually quite satisfied with the stay with this price, ignoring the 3 mosquitos i found and 2 mosquitos "corpse" on the wall by previous guest and some bedsheets stains hahaha! Its a good thing that we never get bitten by any of the mosquito. Just on the air-con even when you are out to prevent mosquitos.
But I doubt I will booked this hotel again as its really pretty far from the city area. Check out my another post for another hotel (Lit Bangkok Hotel) review in Bangkok. (✿◠‿◠)
Overall rating: 3/5
Nearest BTS: On Nut
Nearest Mall: Tesco Lotus, Terminal 21
Address: 890 Soi Sukhumvit 50 (Chuenjit), Bangkok, 10260 Thailand
