Posted by EugeneTang on Jun 24, 2010 in
Thailand 
Ocean Tower (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower, Pattaya)
With an absolute beachfront location, the Amari Orchid Resort and Tower located in the quiet northern end of Pattaya Bay has been grasping the attention of business and leisure travellers from around the world. This popular Pattaya resort features the luxurious 5-star hotel ‘Ocean Tower’ and the idyllic 4-star ‘Garden Wing’, with a grand total of 525 luxurious rooms and suites.
Hotel Lobby (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
Opened in 2007, the luxury 20-story all-glass Ocean Tower houses 297 spacious contemporary guest rooms and suites with an open bathroom concept, featuring a bathtub, separate shower and double hand basins, as well as conference capacity for up to 550 people.
Garden View (Garden Wing, The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
Ocean View (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
All guest rooms are airy and bright, outfitted in modern Asian style, with private balcony overlooking the magnificent Pattaya Bay and garden views. The use of red and white combination really makes the rooms stunning and beautiful. Each room is tastefully decorated comes with excellent amenities supported by the latest audiovisual equipment and wireless high-speed internet access.
Executive Ocean Suite (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
The Executive Horizon Club (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
Located on the top floor, the exquisite Executive Ocean Suites are extremely spacious and offer one of Pattaya’s most spectacular views over Pattaya Bay. The executive Horizon Club located on the building’s 20th floors provides the perfect place to relax for the in-house guests of the Executive Club Rooms and Suites.
ICE Bar (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
Essence Restaurant (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
The hotel offers a superb collection of international restaurants and bars, with a wide choice of delicious cuisine. Located at the Lobby Level of Ocean Tower, ICE is the first international jazz bar in Pattaya, perfect for people watching or enjoying a delicious cocktail. The interior exudes spaciousness with its high ceiling and contemporary settings offering light refreshments and cocktails throughout the day and evening. Sumptuous daily breakfast is served in Essence Restaurant on the 3rd floor overlooking the pool and the garden. The vegetable juice station is a unique concept.
Mantra Restaurant & Bar (Amari Orchid Pattaya)
The Mantra Restaurant & Bar is the city’s most stylish restaurant bar located on the Beach Road in Pattaya offers several styles of dining options that enable a dynamic dining experience, featuring creative cuisines of pan-Asian, Mediterranean and Japanese. With its awe-inspiring architecture and eclectic and unique décor, the restaurant boasts 180 seats on two levels and dramatic towering treasure walls create focal points with an artfully placed eclectic collection of Chinese artefacts.
Mantra Restaurant & Bar interior (Amari Orchid Pattaya)
Sushi Bar (Mantra Restaurant & Bar)
Highlights include tandoori dishes, fresh from the oven and if you want, you can even sit in front of the sushi bar and watch the sushi being made. A walk-in glass wine cellar allows you to select from an impressive list of over 160 branded wines from all over the world, including bottles of rare Bordeaux. A table reservation is highly recommended.
Tavern by the Sea Sport Bar (Amari Orchid Pattaya)
A selection of Thai & Western Food (Tavern by the Sea Sport Bar)
The newly opened Tavern by the Sea Sport Bar is situated in front of the Ocean Tower offers live sporting events via satellite TV and a wide selection of meals and grills, as well as authentic Thai cuisine. The bar provides a lively and vibrant place to meet, unwind and enjoy a drink or bite with colleagues and friends. Happy Hours from 11a.m until 6p.m.
Sivara Spa (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
Infinity Swimming Pool (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower has two swimming pools, one with swim-up bar, two fitness rooms, Sivara Spa, with Sivara Salon and lush tropical gardens filled with majestic palms create a romantic, peaceful and exotic atmosphere for total relaxation.
The Aranda Ballroom (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
Business Center (The Amari Orchid Resort & Tower)
Besides pleasure, the Amari Orchid Resort and Tower is a superb venue for meetings and conferences. The Aranda Ballroom is a 500 sqm pillarless, hi-tech, multifunctional facility and is complimented by a suite of smaller rooms, located at both the Ocean Tower and the Garden Wing, ideal for break-out meetings. The beautifully manicured garden with party grounds is ideal for outside banquets, receptions, theme nights and weddings.
North Pattaya Beach (Chonburi, Thailand)
The Amari Orchid Resort and Tower is a comfortable base within walking distance of the beach, bars and shopping malls. The world-famous Tiffany’s Cabaret is just blocks away from the resort. There are many water-related activities such as windsurfing and parasailing outside of the resort. For golfers, there are a number of beautiful golf courses in the area to choose from. Check with the travel counter, some offer special rates or packages for nearby golf courses. Whether you are traveling for business or pleasure, you will love your stay at the Amari Orchid Resort and Tower.
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The Amari Orchid Resort and Tower – Mixing Business with Pleasure
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Posted by EugeneTang on Jun 19, 2010 in
Thailand 
Pattaya’s Best Keep Secrets – Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort
Located at kilometer marker 163 on Sukhumvit road in down South Pattaya, Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort is one of the best kept tourist secrets in Pattaya – truly a plant lover’s paradise. The Garden houses several individual gardens of different character such as The Fountain Garden, Bromeliad House, Clay Pot Garden Display, Thai Topiary Garden and Cactus and Succulent Garden and many more theme gardens; a large collection of rare and exotic palm and cycad species, trees and shrub vines collected from all over the world, are planted in the garden.
Bromeliad House (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
Stonehenge (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
Opened to the public in 1980, the garden was named ” Suan Nong Nooch” in honor of Mrs. Nongnooch. Inspired by the beauty of the world-renowned gardens, Mrs. Nongnooch Tansacha decided to turn the fruit orchard into a tropical botanical garden dedicated to preserving tropical plant diversity, education, research as well as the conservation of its vast palm collection (over 1400 species of palms).
Giant Ants Tower featuring 4500 ant sculptures (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
Garden sculptures (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden, Pattaya)
The Garden spans approximately 600 acres and is filled with beautiful gardens, sculptures, plant nursery, mini zoo, museum, traditional Thai style houses, cottages, villas, seminar halls, banquet halls, swimming pool, restaurants and as well as other facilties constructed for tourist’s convenience.
Flowering cactus (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
Cactus and Succulent Garden (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden, besides its fame as the biggest and the most beautiful botanical garden in Southeast Asia, the garden offer visitors a wide range of activities such as Thai cultural performances, elephant show and riding, Arapaima feeding, boating, cycling and interesting walkways connecting to all the facilities and attractions in the the garden.
Walkways connecting to all the facilities and attractions (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
The Garden offers many wonderful photo opportunities (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
The garden has recently won a Gold medal at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show 2010 in London, England. If you love the beauty of nature and have the means, Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden is worth visiting. Very amazing sight and truly a memorable experience!!!
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A mini bus using palm-oil bio-fuel (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
Getting There:
1.5 hours drive from Bangkok. A mini bus service is available to those who want to return back to Pattaya.
Overnight accomodation is also available from 1,100 THB onwards.
Admission Fee:
Adult tickets are 400 THB (12 US dollars), that gives you full access to the park and includes famous Amazing Thai Cultural shows and Elephant show
Open hours:
The entire park is open from 8am – 6pm 7 days a week with restaurants open until 10 pm 365 days a year – including public holidays.
Contemporary style accommodation overlooking the lake (Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
Contact information:
Nong Nooch Botanical Garden & Resort
34/1 Moo 7 Najomtien, Chonburi 20250
Thailand
Tel: 0-3870-9358-60
Fax: 0-3823-816
Website: www.nongnoochtropicalgarden.com
Khun Patita Pakdeeviset (Secretary of Managing Director, Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden & Resort, Pattaya)
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Posted by EugeneTang on May 9, 2009 in
Thailand 
Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments (Bangkok) - Your Home Away from Home in the heart of the city…
Looking for an alternative accommodation in Bangkok? Situated in Bangkok’s most vibrant commercial business district , shopping and entertainment areas , surrounded by lush parks dotted with lakes, Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments offers short and long term sophisticated stays in Bangkok’ s most exclusive neighbourhood . It is located at close proximity to the business districts (Sathorn), historical landmarks, a very popular recreational and jogging park (Lumpini Park), tourism spots such as Suan Lum Night Bazaar, shopping centres (MBK), entertainment centres (Silom) and is only 30 mintues from Suvarnabhumi International Airport and 100 metres from Ratchadamri BTS Skytrain station and only within walking distance to the famous shrine of the Four-Face Buddha.
Main lobby area at Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments (Bangkok)
Facing the private golf course of The Royal Bangkok Sports Club, Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments, the city hottest new serviced apartment, towers 14 storeys above the lovely canopies of rain-trees offers luxury, elegance, clam and plenty of space to both business and leisure travelers’s sheer comfort while visiting the city. It is a perfect union of modern furniture, interior design and architecture. The building’s curved artchitecture features 97 self contained spacious suites (One bedroom – 85 unites and Two Bedroom-12 units) with sliding glass doors opening to private balconies offers stunning views of the city and beyond.
Two bedroom deluxe suite (156 m2) at Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments
One bedroom superior suite (77 m2)
Fully equipped kitchenette
A selection of quality pillows for a good night sleep
There are about 10 rooms per floor and each suite combines stylish décor with the most up-to-date facilities, including a 32 inch LCD flat-screen TV in each room, mini Combo set and complimentary hi-speed Wi-Fi internet access. Grey trimmed with white gives the interior a classy touch. The wall is beautifully and uniquely decorated with contemporary artworks and custom silk wall coverings. One can select a range of quality pillows to ensure a good night’s sleep for oneself. The bathrooms are well equipped and aesthetically pleasing and a fully equipped kitchenette, work space, living and dining area give a real sense of home to these private urban retreats.
The Terrazz Cafe at Anantara Baan Rajprasong - a perfect stop for coffee break
Tetto Lounge at Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments overlooks the city skyline
The Terrazz Café located on the ground level offers a la carte breakfasts, affordable set lunches from Mon-Fri and an extensive menu of Thai and international cuisine and is the perfect place to stop by for coffee, freshly baked bread and the most delicious cakes and pastries around. Daily breakfast is served at the Tette Lounge set on the 12th floor with a wide balcony that boasts incredible views over the city skyline and the greenery of Lumpini Park and The Royal Bangkok Sports Club. The cozy, carpeted lounge incorporates a dining area, a library, business centre, executive meeting rooms and a wine bar. The covered balcony provides an ideal outdoor space for individuals to read or savour a cocktail as the sun goes down. Room service is available during normal restaurant hours.
The ultimate lifestyle and living at the Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments (Bangkok)
The state-of-art Fitness Centre at Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments (Bangkok)
On the second level, the apartment features a large free-form swimming pool and a beautifully landscaped garden studded with coconut palms, fragrant frangipani trees and rock formation that offers a very quiet and relaxing area to sun or soak in the Jacuzzi shaded by waterfalls. A session in the nearby steam or sauna room is sure to leave you feeling revitalized or simply pamper yourself with stress-melting spa treatments. The state-of art fitness centre comes complete with treadmills, exercise bikes and weights equipment. The Wilding Golf, an indoor golf stimulator offers 50 championship courses from around the world to perfect your swing. Cooking with a difference? Learn the fine art of Thai cooking or master the art of intricate fruit carving in the pool-side classes hosted in wooden salas includes a morning guided visit to the colourful fresh market.
Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments (Bangkok)- Your Home Away From Home
Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments scheduled to open officially on 14 May 2009 offers all the comforts of home combined with Anantara’s renowned facilities and hospitality. An ideal base for long-term corporate guests and larger families, as well as visitors to Bangkok wishing to explore city before they travel on to other Anantara resorts throughout Thailand and the region.
Contact Information:
Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments
3 Soi Mahardlekluang 3,
Rajdamri Road, Lumpini,
Prathumwan, Bangkok 10330 Thailand
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Anantara Baan Rajprasong Serviced Apartments (Bangkok) - Your Home Away from Home in the heart of the city…
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