The hotel industry has been hard hit, for obvious reasons this pandemic. It is therefore eyebrow raising to see a number of new hotels opening this past year. In Nimmanhaemin alone there are at least four new hotels which have opened up or under construction.
Charoen Prathet Road is also to have a new five star hotel, the Meliá, which will open its doors in the next few months, following years of renovations and upgrades on the old Porn Ping Tower.
A 260 room urban hotel is slated to open its doors for business in the fourth quarter of 2021.
Owned by Thailand’s real estate group Asset World Corporation (AWC) and launched by Meliá Hotels International, the five-star hotel is part of the Meliá brand’s roll-out plan in key destinations across Thailand which will include Meliá Koh Samui and Meliá Bangkok Sukhumvit.
The hotel will have two restaurants, two bars, two lounges including an executive lounge on the 21st floor with a panoramic view of Chiang Mai. It will also have a spa, the Meliá’s signature YHI Spa, a fully equipped fitness centre, swimming pool, ballroom and four other meeting spaces.
The casual old 360-degree Blue Bat Bar will be a new sophisticated rooftop bar – the highest in the city – on the 22nd floor. Featuring two bars connected by a glass bridge, the bar will offer spectacular views of the River Ping to the city’s east and famed Doi Suthep Temple on the mountaintop to the west.
One of its restaurants will be Thai, the other Mediterranean with an emphasis on Spanish cuisine, where the brand is headquartered.
“The global pandemic could not dampen our determination to unveil an extraordinary hotel that promises to exude the mystic splendour of Northern Thailand with Meliá’s warm Spanish hospitality, distinctive passion for service and focus on the customer’s wellbeing ever-present,” added Meliá Chiang Mai’s General Manager, Edward Snoeks.
