L-Seven Hotel

This hotel has a large Chinese guest base, and Chinese is spoken everywhere. There are two main highlights. First, the hotel offers a 24-hour shuttle service. You can call or use WeChat to contact the bellhop, who will take guests to 7-Eleven, surrounding areas, and the MRT station. The service is excellent. Second, it's located in a quiet and safe Thai residential area with many local markets and stalls nearby. There are also three 7-Elevens, and the food is incredibly good and affordable. I highly recommend the grilled meats, the Tom Yum chicken feet soup from the chicken feet uncle, the dry-mixed Tom Yum instant noodles, the Thai tea stall in the alley, and the Indian roti (banana and egg) – they are absolutely delicious! Additionally, there's a lesser-known massage shop in the alley. It has very high Google ratings. The shop itself is simple, but the masseuses are experienced and far superior to the more commercial massage places we tried on other streets and alleys. It's 300 baht for a 1-hour full body Thai massage. For transportation, there's an MRT station nearby. I noticed that the Blue Line passes through many city attractions, so if you enjoy city walks, you can explore with the MRT. Getting to Sukhumvit and ICONSIAM is not very convenient; you'd typically take a motorbike or use Bolt, costing around 200 baht to reach the city center. Overall, the hotel is small but charming, similar to the facilities and environment of a Home Inn or Atour in China. The hotel charges an 8% commission for currency exchange and supports WeChat Pay, but if you walk a bit further, you can find other currency exchange places with decent rates, though you'll need to use Google Maps to find them. Avoid the pork knuckle rice at the market outside – it's sweet! F**k! The massage shop is called Aliss, I think.

The hotel's location is pretty good. After getting off the subway, you can walk down a small alley and call for a shuttle bus to pick you up. During the day, the shuttle also drops you off at the alley entrance. The staff all speak Chinese, and there's Chinese signage throughout the hotel and in the rooms, so communication is seamless. The room size is moderate, it's clean, and the bed is comfortable. However, the drain in the shower is incredibly slow. Halfway through a shower, water starts overflowing. After one person showers, the whole bathroom is soaked, and the next person has to wait half an hour before showering. We requested daily room cleaning, but for the last two days, they didn't restock toilet paper – neither rolls nor tissues. The shampoo and shower gel were travel-sized, and they were never refilled after we used them up. The first time we went to the front desk to ask for toilet paper, they said they'd send it but never did. We had to ask again the next day before it was delivered. These two points were quite disappointing.