This hotel is a little out of Bangkok centre, however is literally 2 minutes from the Skytrain, which works out about £2 for full days travel, so is perfect.
The holiday company decribes it as a 3* - It is at least a 4*, very clean, very tidy, very upmarket, with a FANTASTIC restaurant. The 8th floor swimming pool also provides lovely swimming with great views of the city skyline, especially at night !
Definately reccommended hotel. Only very minor downpoint is the staff are a little arrogant, but for the quality you get for the price, i can live with that!

What a wonderful hotel, the staff were lovely, very helpful with excellent suggestions for places to eat and how to get around Bangkok. Bo Lan restaurant is round the corner adn I would highly recommend it for a tasty, authentic Thai meal.

I'm writing from the DEPRESSING room @ TARA ...just to warn your guy about this hotel ,please DO NOT believe what you see from the web page
The Room : It's Dark ,Old and Dirty..
The Mini Bar :.Check the Mini bars Lists since I have report the missing goods from the list then the House keeping came and check with the dirty look and started questioning me about the missing item that never here at the first place ......Also check ALL the things in the Room that have the Price Lists on them because once again the Bath Ropes that should be here ...but ..NEVER HERE...Careful
Bring your own Extra Tea and Coffee if you are a coffee or tea Drinker... How Nice? ...

As this was our honeymoon and just a stop off in bangkok before phuket, the imperial tara was ok, nothing special. The room they gave us was a bit of a let down, it was a room on the side of the hotel and didnt have a balcony which ment we could not open our window, The breakfast was ok, large choice but a bit on the expensive side. The staff were friendly enough but the language barrier was a bit of a pain. the location wasnt the best as travelling from the centre to our hotel was a nightmare, it took us 2hours to get back to the hotel one evening but that obviously not the hotels fault.
But travellers be aware!!!! when we went to see the palace the thai people all stand outside the palace telling foreigners that the palace is closed to to go on the tuk tuk to visit other sight seeing places but in fact once ur on the tuk tuk, they make you go shopping, the tuk tuk drivers get fuel stamps for everyshop we went into, i was going crazy toward the end as it wasted our time because we wanted to see the sights not taylor, gold shops, the palace is always open so dont be fooled into thinking otherwise.
the rooms were very basic a bit old fashioned, if we stayed in bangkok again we would not stay in the imperial tara again.