Express heads for Bangkok’s Chinatown

SINGAPORE  InterContinental Hotels Group has signed a management agreement with Grand Uniland company to open a new Holiday Inn Express hotel in Bangkok’s Chinatown.
The 240-room Holiday Inn Express Bangkok Chinatown will join three Holiday Inn Express hotels in Thailand’s capital: Holiday Inn Express Bangkok Siam, Holiday Inn Express Bangkok Sathorn and Holiday Inn Express Bangkok Sukhumvit 11.
Slated to open in 2017, the hotel will be part of a mixed development offering retail shops, restaurants and bars catering to travellers attracted to one of Asia oldest Chinatowns, known locally as Yaowarat.
Located on Chareon Krung Road, the property is bang in the heart of a bustling street crammed with gold shops, restaurants and a maze of markets stretching for more than a block off the main Chinatown thoroughfare.
inside no 8The hotel is also close to a new Chinatown rail station, due to open in 2017 to ease traffic in the district that suffers from traffic gridlock most of the day.
Key tourist spots such as the Grand Palace and Wat Arun along the Chao Praya River are a short taxi ride from the new property.
IHG vice president, operations, Southeast Asia, Leanne Harwood said: “Our three Holiday Inn Express hotels in Bangkok have seen strong occupancy. We are very excited to be opening another Holiday Inn Express hotel in a new precinct in Bangkok.”
Grand Uniland is an affiliate of property developers, Imperial Real Estate Group.
Thailand is home to IHG’s largest number of hotels in Southeast Asia with 18 properties across five brands: InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express and the recently launched Hotel Indigo Bangkok Wireless Road.
The company has a further 11 hotels due to open in Thailand over the next three to five years.
Holiday Inn Express Bangkok Chinatown is the fifth hotel under the brand to be added to the company’s Holiday Inn Express pipeline.

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