5
Simon -
a month ago
I stayed here at Somerset Ekkamai and I loved it! It’s at a great location and has everything in its vicinity. The street we’re on has a Thai-Chinese restaurant with a beautiful koi pond, a sushi restaurant, Korean BBQ, a ramen shop, a really lively bar at the start of the Soi, and some more. And of course there’s a 7-Eleven right around the corner.
Somerset Ekkamai itself has a restaurant (Occa’s) that delivers to your room, a massage parlor inside Tower A that’s open till 12am, a pool that closes at 9pm, a well stocked gym, a play area for kids, a tiny pet park below Tower C, and enough parking space.
The staff here are super nice and always ready to help with anything. This place caters to mostly Japanese and so much so that everything text-based is only in English and Japanese. I didn’t see any Thai anywhere which was a surprise.
Room service was awesome and they’d often clean up my room while I was out and about. I once received a towel with lip stick stains on them but it was promptly exchanged. They also regularly gave me small bottles of bathroom and body supplies. I really liked the conditioner and body lotion.
The common area on every floor has a kitchen with a fridge, coffee machine, kettle, microwave, and ceramic crockery for you to use. There are also board games in that room but I’ve never seen anyone use it. I put E4 on the chess board hoping someone would play black but the pieces never moved.
The bed was super comfy and the view was awesome. It was really amazing to wake up to the spire of a temple every morning.
You can also rent the serviced apartments long term so ask and check for it. I spent about 1350THB per night for my room, and paid 300THB for the breakfast buffet whenever I wanted to eat it. I’d recommend not paying for it upfront while booking as you may not eat the buffet everyday.
Overall, a solid 9.8/10. Thank you for everything, Somerset!