Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit
by the TopOfHotel team
Sheraton Grande wins on one thing nothing else here matches — a covered Skywalk straight onto two train lines and into Terminal 21, no street, no heat.
Sheraton Grande wins on one thing nothing else here matches — a covered Skywalk straight onto two train lines and into Terminal 21, no street, no heat.
In-Depth Review
Rooms and decor
Reviewers who booked a Grande Deluxe — a 42-square-metre room on the 27th floor — describe a restrained classic Thai style — teak herringbone floors, a headboard upholstered in gold pikul-flower silk, and a carved wooden lamp that reads as craft rather than kitsch. The king bed runs Sheraton's signature setup with 300-thread-count cotton sheets and four pillows, and a bedside switch drives the blackout curtains. The window looks over Asoke and the towers around it, and the bathroom is travertine marble stocked with Le Grand Bain products. Rates land around $170 to $240 a night depending on season and floor.
Food and amenities
Rossini's, the hotel's Italian room, has been running 25 years and rolls its pasta in-house daily — the black-truffle tagliolini is about $24, the osso buco Milanese roughly $36. Basil, the Thai restaurant, is well known across the city for properly fierce dishes like jungle curry near $18. Breakfast is the Orchid Cafe buffet, around $47, with an eggs-to-order station and khanom jeen rice noodles. Down at pool level, the Mandara Spa runs a 90-minute couple's massage near $150 in a room with a private jacuzzi.
Location and getting there
This is the whole reason to book here. A covered, air-conditioned Skywalk runs from the lobby straight into BTS Asok and down to MRT Sukhumvit, so you reach two train lines without crossing a road or feeling the heat. Terminal 21 mall sits directly across that walkway. Siam is about 10 minutes by skytrain, Silom around 15, and Suvarnabhumi airport roughly 40 minutes by taxi. The flip side: Soi Cowboy's bar strip is a 5-minute walk east, so this is a busy, well-lit, never-quite-silent corner of the city.
Things to know before booking
Three honest caveats. First, the noise — Asok is one of Bangkok's loudest junctions and the nightlife nearby carries, so request a high floor if you are a light sleeper. Second, there is no river view; if water and sunsets are the point of your trip, the riverside hotels earlier on this list deliver that and this one cannot. Third, prices climb fast above the entry rate and the hotel fills up over high season (November to February) — book several weeks out to hold the rate you want.
Our take
Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit is the answer for people who came to move: two train lines and a mall connected by one covered walkway, plush Thai-styled rooms, and a pool garden that genuinely makes you forget the traffic outside. It is not the romantic riverside escape — it is the smart, fast, central base. For business trips and couples who want the whole city a train-ride away, near $170 a night reads as fair value, and the repeat-booking reviews back that up.
Score Breakdown
Assessed by our editorial team from data and real guest reviews
The Honest Verdict — pros & what to know
- Best transit connection on the entire list. A covered, air-conditioned Skywalk runs from the lobby straight to BTS Asok and MRT Sukhumvit, so you can reach Siam, Silom or the old town without ever touching a taxi.
- Terminal 21 mall sits directly across the walkway — food court, cinema and shops a two-minute stroll from the door, handy on a late arrival or a rainy afternoon.
- Rooms feel genuinely plush: teak herringbone floors, Thai-silk headboards, marble bathrooms and 300-thread-count cotton bedding on a king bed with four pillows.
- The Garden of Eden pool is the surprise — a 25-metre lap pool buried in a four-metre-tall banana, palm and fern garden with a faux waterfall, so quiet you forget Asok is outside.
- Strong, consistent Marriott service with guest scores around 9.3 to 9.6, and a renowned in-house Thai restaurant (Basil) plus a 25-year-old Italian (Rossini's).
- Asok is one of Bangkok's busiest junctions and Soi Cowboy's bar strip is a 5-minute walk east, so lower floors can pick up street and traffic noise at night — ask for a high room.
- There is no river view here. If you came for sunsets over the Chao Phraya, the riverside picks earlier on this list do that better; this is a pure city hotel.
- Rates open near $170 a night and climb steeply for suites, and the hotel books out fast over high season (November to February) — reserve weeks ahead.
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Insider Tips
- Take the covered Skywalk from the lobby straight to BTS Asok — you never have to walk down to street level or wait at a crossing.
- Cross the same walkway into Terminal 21 for a cheap food-court dinner and the themed floors; it beats paying hotel-restaurant prices every night.
- Book the Garden of Eden pool for late afternoon, around 4pm, when the garden shades over and the crowds thin out before sunset.