This hotel is the definition of the much overused term "boutique hotel". Charming, elegant, warm and caring. I just wished I had stayed longer so I will have to return.

5 years ago, as a woman traveling alone for the 1st time in SE Asia, I was incredibly lucky to begin my adventure in the wonderfully atmospheric and beautifully designed OBI which became my home from home ( and where I stayed 3 times in those 10 weeks). I return half a decade later with my husband enroute to Cambodia and Vietnam and we kickstart our trip there. I naturally am concerned it won't live up to my memories, or that the extensive work and personal travel and hotel experiences in between will result in not as good an experience. I needn't have worried. OBI is quite unique, classy, warm, cosy and imbued with a wonderful caring and gentleness which comes directly from the owner Nantiya. There is no need to repeat (but I will endorse) all the wonderful reviews here. Just needed to say I still feel very lucky indeed to have found this Bangkok gem ( and can't wait to try a combo with Joey's Treehouse on my next visit, which I hope will not take another 5 years).

I stayed at this hotel my 1st 2 nights in Bangkok. I was a disaster when I arrived from the 24 hours of travel - it was 2AM when I got to the hotel, after giving the driver the number to call (I did not print the map as instructed) and he got instructions from the attendant, who was waiting up for me. After that, if I needed a cab, they would review where I wanted to go, write it in Thai, then talk with the cab drivers to make sure I was going to get where I wanted to go. They also wrote the only two words I learned over my entire visit so I would have them to reference. I commented that I liked the orchids in the breakfast area, and they appeared in my room. Computers are available in your room with internet. Then to top it all off, I forgot my shoes in the cabinet in my room when I left. When I came back through Bangkok, I stayed at another hotel close to the airport for a few hours. I emailed the staff about my shoes, and they delivered them to the other hotel with no cost to me. Kind, wonderful, fantastic people.
Breakfast - I was exposed to all of the Thai fruits (provided and explained), coconut yogurt and coconut pancakes, which I wish I could eat every day, and the traditional rice soup. Old Bangkok Inn provided the best breakfast experience I had for my entire month in Thailand.

This was a lovely place to stay in Bangkok, the perfect alternative to a chain hotel. The staff are super helpful and friendly, the rooms are lovely, and the location is really good. Little touches like the small gift left on our bed (we got chopsticks!) and the arrival drink set the hotel apart. But most of all the place is clean, comfortable and full of character - the building is historic and the renovations sympathetic. It also does its best to be a green hotel!