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The Chedi Chiang Mai

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Just a hop from the Night Bazaar, sleekly stylish The Chedi Chiang Mai hotel is one for shopping fiends, as well as modern design fans. High, bamboo-clad walls hide a seductive luxury resort, with river-view rooms and pool, a fabulous spa and fine dining in the former British consulate-turned-restaurant.

Need to know

• Rooms 84, including 32 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $179.77 (THB5,550), excluding tax at 18.5 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (THB5,550) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Some rates include breakfast. Chedi Club Suite guests enjoy Club benefits: return airport transfers, private Club Lounge or in-room check-in, daily paper and fruit, Club Lounge champagne breakfast, evening cocktails and canapés, free minibar and laundry.
• Facilities Spa, gym, bikes, CD/DVD library, concierge, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, CD/DVD player, iPod dock, free broadband, minibar and local Soap-n-Scent toiletries. The Chedi Club Suites also have coffee machines.
• Poolside It's all about riverfront views at the 34-metre-long, streamlined outdoor pool, a stroll from the water's edge. Flanked by chargoal-grey modern loungers, white sun umbrellas, lily ponds and manicured reeds, it's a chill-out oasis.
• Check-out 12pm, or until 4pm for a half-day rate. Check-in 2pm, or earlier subject to availability.
• Children Welcome: baby cots are free and extra beds for older children can be supplied for THB3,500. Babysitting with staff is available with 24-hours notice for THB400 an hour, plus a THB100 charge after 10pm. More...
• Also Smoking is allowed in the Lobby Lounge and Terrace Bar & Cigar Lounge only. Pets are not permitted.

Food and drink at The Chedi Chiang Mai

• Hotel restaurant

  Occupying a restored colonial British Consulate building, the second-floor Restaurant and its tree-shaded deck bring a smart update to the hotel's heritage heart. Australian chef Chris Patzold (formerly of Ku De Ta, Bali) whips up Thai, Indian, Korean and global dishes including some intriguing east-west fusions. Sink into a cane seat on the veranda for afternoon high tea, an English spread with Asian twists (scones with oolong green tea, anyone?) Delicious watermelon sorbets are the perfect cool-me-down. Tapas are served from 6pm on the riverside terrace.

• Dress code Simple yet sophisticated. The Chedi's cool clash of contemporary and colonial design invites edgy, vintage or niche label threads.
• Top table Flaunting panoramic Mae Ping River views, the balmy balcony of the second-floor Terrace Bar & Cigar Lounge is hard to beat. Day-beds beckon for a champagne session. Come evening, the poolside lawn below is lit by torches.
• Last orders Dinner at the Restaurant is served from 6pm to 10.30pm; the bar keeps ticking over from 5pm until 1am.
• Room service In-room dining is available 24 hours a day, with a menu of treats spanning pad thai, tandoori lamb, tapas and juicy burgers. You can also order breakfast in bed, anything off the restaurant menu, children's meals and drinks.
• Hotel bar

  Perfect for pre-dinner drinks, the Bar, on the ground floor of the original colonial building, works a romantic retro look, with lashings of dark wood, earth tones and comfy high stools. It mixes a fine mojito should you fancy a Cuban moment. Indulge those Havana fantasies further in the Terrace Bar & Cigar Lounge, adjoining the second-floor Restaurant, where you can enjoy a tipple or puff of the good stuff out on the airy balcony. You can also order lime sodas or cocktails in the chic Lobby Lounge overlooking a calming pool.

Also worth knowing

• Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...

The Chedi Chiang Mai 123 Charoen Prathet Road T.Changklan, A Muang, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 50100