In October 2003, COMO Hotels and Resorts opened COMO Metropolitan Bangkok. It was the company’s second Metropolitan property (the first opened in London in 1997). COMO Metropolitan Bangkok is located at the city’s heart in the Central Business District, minutes from Bangkok’s major shopping areas and a 40-minute transfer to the International Airport. It is removed from Bangkok’s traffic but close to the city’s buzzing nightlife, tucked away on South Sathorn Road.
The resplendence hotel can accommodate up to 169 rooms. It includes of 160 rooms and 9 designated suites that consist of 4 Executive Suites, 4 Penthouse Suites, and 1 COMO Suite. Even the smallest rooms, the 28 City Rooms are at 26sq m to 39sq m each. They are generous, even the entry room type, the city room is generously equipped with ample space a key facet of the hotel’s design. This is achieved with a sleek, contemporary aesthetic created by Kathryn Kng, Singapore’s most innovative interior architect.
Kng’s past work includes fashion stores for Issey Miyake, Christian Dior, and Emporio Armani. More recently, she has worked on the interior conversion of the Four Season Island Explorer, a five-star dive-boat launched in December 2002 in the Maldives. Kng comes to COMO Metropolitan Bangkok as one of COMO Hotels and Resorts’ favorite designers. She also developed the interior aesthetic for COMO Uma Paro in Bhutan.
Through her craftsmanship, Kng creates sophistication through the unconventional combination of materials – fresh and original, acknowledging influences from both the East and West, using natural properties. At COMO Metropolitan Bangkok for example, the lobby uses Dark Emperador marble from Spain. These airy interiors are filled with light – the work of Isometrix, a London-based lighting company set up by architect Arnold Chan. In recent years, Isometrix has collaborated with major interior designers including Calvin Tsao, Christian Liaigre and John Pawson on hotels, boutiques and restaurants worldwide. The company’s architectural approach underlines the simple sophistication of a beautiful, well-conceived space.
The detailing is also poignant and includes carefully sourced Asian antiques. For example, the hotel’s four Penthouse Suites and COMO Suite share an 11th-floor corridor dressed with teakwood carving, Chinese ‘horseshoe’ chairs, and temple bells. Step aside, and the Penthouse Suites feature original Helen Yardley-designed rugs, Patricia Urquilo sofas, Artemide Melampo table lamps and bamboo coffee tables from northern Thailand. Highlights of the COMO Suite include a red lacquer cabinet and a custom-designed ceiling light in handblown red and orange glass.
All other rooms feature one-off pieces by Natee Utarit, a Thai artist considered to be among the country’s most exciting young talents. Utarit lives and works in Bangkok, and exhibits regularly, with a history of acclaimed solo shows across Asia.
Luxury details are felt thoroughly around the hotel's vicinity. From mosaic and limestone bathrooms to private terraces (selected suites only), to Thai silk cushions and curtains, as well as COMO Shambhala bathroom amenities.
But it is not just the design that has secured COMO Metropolitan Bangkok’s iconic status. Service is energetic, with consistent attention to detail. It has flair, with the hotel’s Concierge imparting a level of local knowledge that allows each guest to feel like a Bangkok insider.
Cuisine is one of the key elements of the hotel experience. For the six years, nahm, an award-winning Thai food restaurant, has consistently ranked in the top 10 restaurants in Asia in the annual San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna list. In 2017, in addition to gaining a coveted Michelin star, nahm was also voted number 28 in a list of The World's 50 Best Restaurants. nahm is helmed by Chef Pim, who is making news as this multi-award-winning restaurant's first female chef. Chef Pim upholds nahm's original roots in traditional Thai cuisine while also injecting her personal style and flavors.
Meanwhile, glow is an 82-seat restaurant serving fresh and healthy food only – rendered as light meals, energizing juices, and blends rich in living enzymes, vitamins, and minerals. This healthful slant is in line with the COMO Shambhala menus first developed at COMO Parrot Cay. Appropriately, glow is located adjacent to COMO Shambhala Urban Escape.
To provide a counterpoint to this urban energy, COMO Metropolitan Bangkok has a substantial 1,200sq m COMO Shambhala Urban Escape designed for guests seeking greater health through yoga and other related treatments. There is a yoga studio, a fully- equipped gym, a hydrotherapy pool, and a 25-m outdoor pool for the utmost leisure experience.
Guests can also take advantage of COMO Shambhala’s Asian-inspired therapies in the 10 treatment rooms. These range from specific body treatments to facials and massages, delivered by experienced practitioners who customize treatments according to individual needs.
For those in Bangkok on business, the hotel’s location puts it among the top venues for events, from formal events, and cocktail parties to private lunches, press days, TV screenings, fashion shows and interviews.
27 South Sathorn Road, Tungmahamek, Sathorn, Bangkok 10120, Thailand
Phone: +66 2 625 3333
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.comohotels.com/metropolitanbangkok