Is Novotel Suvarnabhumi Bangkok Airport hotel the largest hotel lobby in the world?

Here are some numbers that'll put your head in the clouds ...

The rather new Novotel Suvannabum Soufarnapoom Suvarnabhumi hotel boasts the largest lobby of any hotel in the world. Not just of any Bangkok hotel, we're talking worldwide.

Its two buildings covering 10.5 hectares are joined by a HUMONGOUS glass atrium soaring to five stories in height.

The lobby itself covers 2,800 square metres, jing jing. That's roughly half a football field!


The bad news is guests have to bring a tent and camp there. Not a bad idea, but no ... I jest. The hotel's charming PR lady tells me that actually the hotel has rooms ... 612 of them, in fact.

Perfect if you need to be close to the airport ... or at least within 10.5 hectares of it. And don't forget with the new Airport Link (that's the new Bangkok airport train), you can be downtown in air-conditioned comfort within 17 minutes for less than 100 baht.

Website: www.novotelsuvarnabhumi.com

NewsFlash!!! New airport train up and running

It's been a loooooooooong time coming ... you've heard of slow boat to China, well this is a case of slow train to Bangkok.

It's not that the train is slow, it's just that the construction and testing seem to have gone on and on and on.

Anyway, good news is you can now step out of Suvannaporn Suvvanibom,  er, the airport in Bangkok, swish down into the train terminal, and be whizzing your way across paddy fields, through Starship Enterprise-like above ground stations, and into downtown Makassar station in just 15 minutes. Jing jing!

You can avoid those long delays on the expressway, the crawl into Sukhumvit Road traffic, etc, that used to be the usual part of arrivig in Bangkok.

And, like everything else in Thailand, the Airport Link is damn good value: just 100 baht. What's that ... about AUD$3.50!!!

From Makassar, you can then get BTS and MRT connections on to every other point of Bangkok.

It's now 'ALL ABOARD' compared to the long taxi ride which was 'all are bored'.