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Hotel Review: Anantara Siam, Bangkok

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Hotel review: Anantara Siam, Bangkok (Siam Suite) Bangkok, May 2018 Introduction After a beach holiday in Hua Hin I had booked a room for one night at Anantara Siam in Bangkok. I wanted to try a new hotel and this would be our second Anantara experience on this trip after checking out their sister property Anantara Riverside Resort about a week earlier. This time I booked a Kasara Club Room directly from the hotel's website. The price was pretty much the same everywhere, but booking directly got us an afternoon tea set for two at the lobby for free, and that sounded like a fun thing to try. Check-in and lobby We arrived at the hotel after 2pm, pretty close to a normal check-in time. Anantara Siam, The Lobby Our bags were immediately taken care of by the welcoming staff, and we were seen to the most luxurious lobby I'd ever seen. This really looked like a five star hotel to me! The hotel radiated elegance and style, and there...
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Review: Grand Hotel Mencey, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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Review: Grand Hotel Mencey, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Introduction We had a nice 9-day trip to Tenerife in early March 2016, staying six nights in Costa Adeje and three nights in Santa Cruz. After checking out of our hotel in Costa Adeje we took a taxi to Santa Cruz although we were thinking of going by bus from Costa Adeje bus station. Because of that we saved perhaps one and a half hours and arrived around noon at Grand Hotel Mencey. I had booked the hotel for three nights through Orbitz where I found a tempting price for three persons (a double room with breakfast and an extra bed included). Our room was not ready yet so we were asked to wait until 2pm which is the standard time for checking in. We left our luggage in a dedicated room and went outside to find lunch. It happened to be a day with very limited lunch options as most places were either closed or a few opening at around 1pm. Lobby and check-in We came back at about 2pm and received glasses of ca...
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