Baan Chanasongkram

Baan Chanasongkram terletak di jalur strategis di Bangkok. Jaraknya hanya beberapa ratus meter dari salah satu destinasi wisata populer di Bangkok, yaitu Khaosaan Road. Hostel ini sangat murah, apalagi ketika saya menginap disini, pengelola sedang memberikan diskon khusus berupa potongan harga. Fasilitas yang ditawarkan oleh dormitory ini adalah AC, Free Wi-Fi dengan kecepatan diatas rata-rata, locker dan shower. Sayangnya, dormitory ini tidak memperhatikan kebersihan ranjang dan kasur. Ketika menginap di sini, banyak sekali binatang kasur yang menggigit badan saya sehingga sepanjang malam saya tidak bisa tidur akibat terus menerus diganggu binatang. Jelas saja kualitas liburan saya di Bangkok sedikit kurang nyaman akibat kurangnya jam istirahat saya.

great location, very near of Khaosan Road, but arround here so quite. wothed buat tinggal dengan suasa yang ala backpacker banget. buat temen-temen yang mau nyoba tidur di hostel, coba aja nginep disini 1/2 malam. i impressed with the staff. they are very kind, friendly, dan help full..and of course can speaks english. pernah suatu ketika saya dan teman saya ingin mengambil air panas tetapi ditermos (listrik) kosong, kami sebenarnya rela nunggu beberapa menit sampai air ditermos mendidih. tetapi staff yang sangat baik memasakan air untuk kami, sehingga tidak perlu lama menunggu. kejadian kecil yang membuat kami sangat terkesan.

Stayed here in a double private for 3 nights. Location is good, very near to khaosan road about 5 min walk, but away from the party noise. However, when we arrived the guy who worked at the hostel was sat outside, he took one look at our confirmation email and shook his head, and said no we were in the wrong place. He wasn’t very friendly and hardly looked up from the table. This confused us as it matched on the map, however the name on the door was slightly different and we wondered if we had made a mistake. When we walked away and did more mapping it was the right. We went back and told him that it was the right place and he just said 2oclock and walked away (we assumed this meant we had to just check in at 2 and no earlier). We were helped more by a fellow guest than the guy who worked there who went into the back and avoided contact with us. She said that bee would be in later to check us in. When we checked into the room, it is tiny, dark (only two small lamps to light the room) the bed was literally rock hard (to the point we couldn’t sleep) and I am not a light sleeper. The “window” had been blocked off with a mesh but this did nothing to keep the heat and noise out. The aircon wasn’t adjustable from 24 and the fan was noisy. There was no point paying the extra for the aircon room as it didn’t make a difference obviously because of the mesh the room just doesn’t cool down and when you’re from England 24 degrees is seriously warm! As soon as we got into the room I attempted to hang the towel on the towel rack and it literally fell off the wall, the screws were already loose. I went down and apoligised/informed the receptionist bee and I wasn’t 100% sure she understood but she gave us the impression it would get fixed the next day, nobody came to fix it but it wasn’t a big deal for us we just hung out towels on the curtain rail. I was more concerned that we were going to get charged for it when it was already broken to begin with (we didn’t which was good). There are only 3 bathrooms for a lot of bedrooms which I don’t feel is enough, also on our last night two of the bathrooms where randomly locked? I wanted to use the showers in one of these particular bathrooms because the only one open is always a cold shower. You can’t throw toilet paper down the toilet (this is fine it’s the same everywhere in Thailand) but in one of the toilets there was no bin provided!? Where are you meant to put dirty toilet paper if there is no bin to put it in? Only a bin outside the toilets in the common area. There was construction work at the back of the hostel which woke us up early every morning (not the hostels fault but annoying). Over all it’s okay for a very cheap private room near khaosan road and other attractions. It’s pretty clean but I personally felt it needs a lot of improvements. Having said that the dorms looked nice and clean very bright and airy. Much nicer than the private room we stayed in. Reading the comments people seemed to say that nip was the best thing about this hostel and she wasn’t there on our stay and I feel it made all the difference.

Lovely place with very friendly people. Location is awesome. A short walk to khao san and at night its quiet. Slept in a dorm with AC. The ac is operated from 5pm to noon so its nice and cold during the Night. Showers had hot water

Great stay! Clean rooms, hot showers, amazing staff. Kip went out of her way to help me. Express laundry!! Located off Rambuttri you are 2 mins from the action with a sweet relief from the noise. Can highly recommend.