The Empress Hotel CM
 

I just found out that when my wife will be in Chang Mai for work, they are putting her in the Empress Hotel, has anyone ever been there???? The pics look nice and TA has good things to say, just wondering what my friends here think????????


Jeffrey

lots of tatooed people hanging around that place...

The Empress is a rather large tourist class hotel at the far edge of the night bazaar area. Not a bad place really, for a large tourist class hotel.

Although, it does suggest that her company (or clients) are rather cheap. The Shangri-La or Le Meriden would probably be much nicer. ;-)

Then she will fit right in, Bob!

Michael, thanks! I wanted to make sure it was not a real dive, because I would of paid out of pocket to put her up someplace nice, but for free, I think it will do. They probably picked this place because its a really big convention that she is interpreting for so I am guessing they needed a big place.

Thanks again, jeffrey

Hello Jeff & April !

Stayed here for close to a week when we were in CM also for a company paid conference.

The standard rooms they gave us was overlooking a sludge covered building foundation that was "forgotten". The BR grout had deeply imbedded mildew that gave my son severe allergies ( imagine swollen & red eyes). After Housekeeping insisted that they had already bleached it, with nary a difference from how it previously was, our agent upgraded us to the deluxe rooms. These were on higher floors & were recently refurbished.
It may be worth spending a few dollars for the upgrade. I offered to pay for it but our agent realized we ended up in a real bad room.

Bmt, thanks! That is what I was looking for! I think I will work on the upgrade for her.

Does anybody know what,if any, hotel group this place is connected with?

My GF stayed in one of the suites & it was old but clean. Deluxe rooms looked like the best deal to me.
Food was surprisingly good considering we ate lunch there for almost 5 days.

The Empress is not affiliated with any group, hence the shoddy maintenance. You come to expect that with locally managed hotels in Asia.